Safety & privacy
Hunter safety, without tracking anybody.
Back by Dark shares a member’s location with their club only between checking in to a stand and checking out of it. That window is enforced by the server, not by a setting.
When location is shared
A start, an end, and nothing either side.
Sharing off
Before you check in
Nothing is shared. The app can be open on the map and your club still cannot see where you are.
Sharing on
You scan the stand’s tag
Check-in opens. From this moment your position is shared with the active members of your club.
Sharing on
While you hunt
You appear on Who’s Out with your stand and the time you went in. Nobody outside your club can see it.
Sharing off
You check out
Sharing stops in the same request. Nothing is recorded on the walk out or the drive home.
How that is enforced: a stored position has to belong to an open check-in, and the server refuses a position from anyone who is not checked in. There is no switch a club can flip to see members outside a hunt.
If someone does not come back
Overdue, escalated automatically.
A member’s expected check-out is the end of their stand booking. If that time passes, Back by Dark escalates in three steps without anybody having to notice first.
+30 min
We ask you
Thirty minutes past your expected check-out, Back by Dark sends you a notification asking whether you are still out. Most of the time you are dragging a deer.
+45 min
Managers see a flag
At forty-five minutes you are flagged red on Who’s Out, and the club’s managers are alerted.
+60 min
Your emergency contact is released
At an hour, the emergency contact you gave is shown to your club. Before that, the club can see only that you provided one.
Escalation never stops a late member from checking out. The moment they do, it ends.
What Back by Dark does not do
The short list of things we will not do.
No tracking outside a hunt
No location before check-in, after check-out, or while the app is closed.
No advertising
There are no ads in Back by Dark, and none are planned.
No selling data
Member data, including location, is never sold or shared with advertisers.
No sharing across clubs
A club you hunt with cannot see anything you gave a different club — including your emergency contact.
The full detail — what is collected, how long it is kept and how to delete your account — is in the privacy policy.