Privacy Policy

This policy covers The Cutdown, an iOS app published by Jim Thompson. It describes what the app collects, what stays on your device, which third parties receive data, and the controls available to you.

Summary

• The Cutdown has no accounts. There is nothing to log into. If notifications are on, we store a push token and the follows needed to send that notification; otherwise we hold no record tied to your device.
• Your followed teams and players, listening history, and settings are stored on your device.
• The app collects anonymous usage analytics to help improve the app, which you can turn off in Settings.
• We do not sell personal information, serve advertising, or track you across other apps or websites.
• We do not collect your name, phone number, location, contacts, or advertising identifiers.

Data stored on your device

The following is held in the app's own storage on your device. Followed teams and players are the exception: they are also sent to us when the app requests your playlist, and to our push backend if you enable notifications, as described below.

• The teams and players you follow.
• Settings: which shows are enabled, their order, playlist length, playback speed, and theme.
• Clips you have played and when, retained for approximately two weeks and then removed.
• Pinned clips and your playback position within a clip.
• Cached playlists and podcast artwork. Podcast audio is not stored on our servers; it streams from the publisher's own hosting server. To keep playback smooth, the app downloads a window of upcoming clips and keeps that audio in local storage, up to 1GB, clearing the oldest clips automatically as space is needed; it is never uploaded anywhere.

Erase everything and start over, at the bottom of Settings, deletes all of the above, including the analytics identifier described below.

Analytics

The app sends anonymous usage events to PostHog, an analytics provider: things like the app was opened, setup was completed, a playlist was played or finished, a clip was shared, and whether a clip started at the right point. Events are tagged with a random identifier created on your device, not your Apple ID or the advertising identifier. Nothing in them identifies you, and we have no way to connect them to you. As with any internet service, PostHog receives the IP address your device connects from.

Analytics can be turned off under Analytics in Settings. Erasing all app data creates a new random identifier.

Updated 9 September 2026: analytics moved from TelemetryDeck to PostHog. What is collected did not change.

Notifications

If you enable the daily notification, we store the push token issued by Apple for your device, the teams and players you follow, and the delivery time you selected, so that the correct notification is sent at the correct hour. No analytics identifier is stored alongside it. Disabling notifications, erasing all app data, or deleting the app ends this.

Clip reports

When you report a clip, we record the clip, the show it came from, and the reason you selected. No identifier for you or your device is stored with the report, so reports cannot be attributed to an individual. The alternative email option opens a draft in your own mail app; if you send it, we receive your email address as the sender.

Next-sport votes

If you vote on which sport we should add next, we store the sports you picked and anything you type in the box. No identifier for you or your device is stored with the vote, so votes cannot be attributed to an individual. Please do not put personal details in the box.

Podcast audio

The Cutdown does not rehost podcast audio. When you play a clip, your device streams that audio directly from the publisher's own servers, as any podcast app does. The publisher therefore receives a request from your device, governed by that publisher's privacy policy rather than this one. To keep playback smooth, the app may keep a window of upcoming clips on the device, up to 1GB, oldest cleared first. That audio stays on the phone and is never uploaded or rehosted by us.

Our servers

The website and the app's backend are hosted on Netlify. A request for your playlist identifies the teams and players being requested, and Netlify records incoming requests — including the IP address your device connects from — as part of operating the service. We do not build user profiles from those records.

Third parties

• Netlify. Hosting for the website and the app's backend.
• PostHog. Usage analytics, as described above.
• Expo. Delivers app updates and receives basic installation and version information when the app checks for one.
• Apple. Delivers push notifications and serves podcast artwork lookups.

The third parties listed here provide the same or equal protection of user data as stated in this policy and required by Apple's App Store Review Guidelines.

The app contains no advertising SDK, no social login, and no attribution or install tracking.

Children's privacy

The Cutdown isn't made for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from them.

Your choices

• Disable analytics in Settings.
• Disable notifications in Settings or in iOS Settings.
• Erase all app data from the bottom of Settings.
• Contact us with any other request concerning your data.

Because the app has no accounts, we cannot look up an individual user. If you want something removed that the controls above do not cover, email us and describe the request.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially, we will update the effective date above and describe what changed.

The Cutdown · Published by Jim Thompson