The long version

Everything we took off the main page so it would stay short. Nothing here is new, it is just the detail behind the promises.

Your spot stays your spot

We publish the results of this season. We never publish your ground.

Never your location. Not your pin, not your property lines, not your stands, not where your cameras hang, not a screenshot with a map in it. What we publish is totals and averages, and there is not a coordinate anywhere in it.
No other hunter sees your ground. It is locked to your account in the database itself. The only exception is one you control: if you choose to share a property with a crew you invite, those people see it. Off unless you turn it on, and you can turn it back off.
Never sold, ever. Not your location, not your photos, not your phone number.
Your photos stay yours. We never publish a trail-cam picture off your ground.
Your name is your call. Handle, first name, or not at all. Nobody is listed by default.
Public ground, especially. A private spot that leaks costs you a season. A public spot that leaks is gone for good. We treat a public-land pin exactly like a deeded one.

Where your coordinates do go

Your coordinates are used to return weather, county-area context, terrain, environmental context, maps, and imagery for the ground read. Address and place search may use Google Geocoding or OpenStreetMap Nominatim. They are never shown to another hunter, placed in anything we publish, or sold as a list.

The learning shared across the app is coarsened to a broad grid with the who and where stripped out. Your pin is never in it, and you can switch that contribution off in Account center under Data and privacy.

Delete a photo, a property, or the whole account whenever you want. The full policy is at rackiq.ai/privacy.

How every call gets graded

Hunting is messier than a scorecard. You kill at a different stand. A camera six hundred yards off photographs the buck you sat all evening waiting on. You bump one walking in and the sit is over before it started.

So we set the rules down before the season, while we still do not know the answer. The one that governs all the others: a call is never scored differently because you followed it or ignored it.

What happened	How it counts
Called good, you sat the called stand in the called window, saw movement	hit
Called good, you sat it, nothing moved	miss
Called poor, you sat anyway, nothing moved	hit, a correct no is still correct
Called poor, you sat anyway, saw movement	miss
You did not hunt	untested, and untested never counts as a miss
You hunted a different stand	untested for the stand call, still graded for the timing call
You killed at a different stand	untested for the stand call. A kill is not evidence about a stand nobody sat
Sit cut short, you bumped one walking in	ungradable. A lost sit is not a failed call
A camera caught the deer elsewhere on the property	counted separately, on the camera side. It speaks to whether deer moved, not to whether the stand was right
You sat, saw nothing, and no camera was running	ungradable for movement. No chance to observe is not the same as nothing happening

Anything genuinely arguable goes to ungradable rather than to a hit, and we publish the ungradable count right alongside everything else. A high one would be a finding about our own method, and hiding it would be the easiest way to flatter the number.

If a situation comes up that this table does not cover, the new rule and the date we added it appear in Field Evidence before that kind of result is scored, never after.

The consent you will be asked to sign

It shows up in the app, once, and it is the only paperwork in this. Here it is in advance, word for word.

Before you join: what happens to what you log

You are joining a test whose aggregate results we are going to publish. So you should know exactly what that means.

What we use. Your camera photos and when they were taken. Which cameras were running and when. The hunts you log, and what you saw or did not see. Basic facts about your ground like acreage and cover.

What we publish. What we learned at the cohort level, in totals and averages. Whether RackIQ's calls were right or wrong across the group, and by how much.

What we never publish. Your property location or boundaries. Your pins, stands, cameras, access routes, photos, individual sit logs, or named bucks. Your identity stays private unless you separately choose public acknowledgment.

We publish either way. If the results make us look good, we publish them. If they make us look bad, we publish those too. That is the entire point of this.

You still own all of it. Every photo, every log. Yours.

You can quit anytime. Tell us and we remove your data from any analysis that has not been completed. Once cohort-level totals have been published, an individual contribution cannot be separated from the already-published aggregate.

What the season looks like

Now through opener: get your ground in, connect your cameras, poke around. Ask us anything.
Before the data starts: we publish the scoring rules above and freeze them, so we cannot move the goalposts afterward.
All season: the call comes before the hunt, you log what happened. That is the rhythm.
After: cohort-level results publish, whatever they say.

The Twelve

Later in the season, twelve of the fifty meet monthly with the product team on what gets built next. Those seats rotate, so it never turns into a clubhouse.

Put my ground in →

Questions first? Email info@rackiq.ai.