Powerboat Training NZ respects your privacy. This policy explains what information may be collected when you use the Skipper IQ / Powerboat Captain Quiz app, including quiz features, boating tools, leaderboards, community features, and Message in a Bottle.

Information We Collect

The app may collect or store the following information, depending on which features you use:

- App activity, such as quiz progress, scores, badges, feature usage, and app interactions.

- Display names you choose to use for leaderboards or community features.

- Location information when you use location-based boating tools, anchor monitoring, waypoints, community maps, or Message in a Bottle.

- Message in a Bottle content, including written bottle messages, replies, optional voice notes, approximate launch/found/reply locations, report information, moderation status, and anonymous device identifiers used for blocking, moderation, rate limiting, and abuse prevention.

- Reports submitted by users, including the reported content preview, report reason, optional details, reporter identifier, and author identifier.

- Purchase and subscription status provided by Apple.

- Diagnostic or analytics information used to improve the app and identify problems.

How We Use Information

We use this information to:

- Provide app features such as quizzes, training progress, badges, leaderboards, boating tools, maps, notifications, and Message in a Bottle.

- Store and display user-generated bottle messages and replies.

- Allow users to report content, block senders, and help us moderate community content.

- Prevent abuse, spam, harassment, and unsafe use of community features.

- Send relevant app notifications where you have allowed notifications.

- Improve app performance, reliability, content, and user experience.

- Verify purchases and provide access to paid features.

User-Generated Content and Moderation

Message in a Bottle allows users to submit messages and optional voice notes that may be visible to other app users. Users can report bottles or replies and block senders. Reported content may be reviewed, hidden, removed, or used to restrict abusive users.

Do not include private, sensitive, identifying, offensive, illegal, unsafe, or inappropriate information in bottle messages, replies, or voice notes.

Location Information

Some features use your location to provide boating-related functionality. Message in a Bottle may store approximate locations connected with bottle launches, finds, replies, and drift behaviour. Location information is used to make the feature work and is not intended as a safety, navigation, or tracking service.

Storage and Third Parties

App data may be stored on your device and in Apple iCloud/CloudKit. Purchases are handled by Apple. We do not sell your personal information.

Some app content or configuration may be loaded from Powerboat Training NZ or related web services.

Data Retention and Deletion

Some information is stored locally on your device and can be removed by deleting the app. Community content, leaderboard entries, reports, and moderation records stored in CloudKit may remain after app deletion where needed to operate the service, maintain community safety, investigate abuse, or comply with legal obligations.

You may contact us to request help with privacy questions, deletion requests, or concerns about community content.

Contact

For privacy questions, support, or to report concerns, contact:

info@powerboat-training.co.nz

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time as app features change. The latest version will be made available through the app or on our website.