Privacy

Last updated 12 November 2026

This notice explains what details BWLS Competitions collects, why, and what you can ask us to do with them. BWLS runs this site.

If you're just looking

You can browse competitions without an account. We don't use advertising or tracking cookies. The site remembers a few things on your own device, such as whether you prefer the list or the calendar and, once you've signed in, your email address so you don't have to type it again.

To see how many people use the site, we count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It doesn't use cookies or store anything on your device, and it doesn't tell us who you are. We only see totals, such as how many visits each page had, whether people used a phone or a computer, and which site sent them here.

If you sign in

We ask for your email address so we can send you a sign-in link. We use it only to sign you in, and to link your account to:

• the competitions you mark as going to (My list), which only you can see
• any competitions you add, so you can change them later
• any results you save, so we can put things right if they're wrong
• the bowler you say you are, if you tap This is my name – link it to me. Only you can see that link. If you add your club, it's shown publicly next to that name in the rankings

If you open your sign-in link on a different phone or computer from the one you asked on, the link is passed back to the one you asked on through our database. It doesn't include your email address, it can only be used once, and it stops working after an hour.

BWLS admins can see a list of the email addresses of everyone who has signed in, with the date each person first signed in and the date they last used the site. Admins use it only to run the site, for example to help someone who can't sign in or to put right a mistake. Nobody else can see it.

We don't share your email address.

The weekly email

If you tick Email me the weekly BWLS round-up, we send you one email a week. It lists the competitions on your list, what's on this week, new competitions and results. We only send it if you tick the box, and we never send anything else to that address apart from sign-in links.

To stop it, use the Stop these emails link at the bottom of any weekly email, or sign in and untick the box at the bottom of the page or on My list. We keep a note of your choice and of the last week we sent it to you.

The weekly email and the sign-in email are sent for us by Brevo, an email company in France, which is given your email address and the email itself to deliver it. Brevo also records whether each email was opened and which links in it were tapped, so the links in our emails pass through Brevo on their way to BWLS. We can see this in our Brevo account, and we use it only to check that emails are arriving, not to advertise to you. We don't give Brevo anything else.

If you add a competition

Everything you enter is shown publicly so bowlers can find and enter the competition. That includes the contact name and phone number. Only enter someone else's name and number if they've agreed to it being shown.

If you add results

Results are shown publicly, including the names of the players. We keep a note of which account saved them, but we don't show it on the site. If you're named in a result and want your name taken off, message BWLS on Facebook and we'll remove it.

Don't want to appear in the rankings? Message BWLS on Facebook and we'll take you off. Your player page closes too. Your name still shows in the draws and results you played in.

If you fill in results from a photo of the sheet, or a competition from a photo of its poster, the photo is sent to Google's Gemini service to read the names, scores or details. We don't keep the photo. Google keeps a record of what it's sent for a limited time, only to check its service isn't being misused. We keep a count of how many photos each account has read that day, which is cleared the next day. We also keep daily totals for the site's admins (how many photos were read, how many didn't work, how many people used it, and the cost), with no names or email addresses, for about two months.

Where your details are kept

The site runs on Google Firebase. Competitions, My list and the record of who has signed in are stored in Google's London data centre. Sign-in is handled by Google's Firebase Authentication service.

How long we keep them

Competitions stay on the site until they're removed. Your account, My list and the record of when you signed in stay until you ask us to delete them.

Your rights

You can ask to see the details we hold about you, correct them, or delete them. To do that, or to ask anything about this notice, message BWLS on Facebook.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your details, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.