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Permissions

What each LawFive app asks your phone or watch for: what it's for, when it's asked, and what still works if you say no. None of it is used for ads or tracking, and saying no never stops you running a match. What LawFive keeps is in the privacy policy.

Phone

Android

The app asks only when you turn on something that needs it, never when it first opens. Scanning a QR code uses Google's code scanner, taking a photo uses the phone's camera app, and choosing one uses the system's photo picker, so LawFive itself needs no camera or photos permission.

Notifications POST_NOTIFICATIONS

For
Match reminders before kickoff and on the day. Where your server offers them, also weather risks to your matches, and matches added or changed by an app that sends your assignments.
Asked
When you turn one of those on, in Settings under Match day, or from Get ready. On Android 13 and later; before that, notifications are allowed unless you turn them off.
If you say no
LawFive sends no notifications. Everything else works, and your calendar can still remind you of matches through LawFive's calendar feed.

Alarms & reminders SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM

For
So match reminders arrive on the minute.
Asked
When you turn on match reminders, if the phone doesn't already allow it: LawFive says why, then opens Android's Alarms & reminders page for it.
If you say no
Reminders still come, but can be a few minutes late.

Nearby devices ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK

For
Reaching a LawFive server on your home network. From Android 17, the phone counts anything on the local network as a nearby device.
Asked
Only on Android 17 and later, when signing in to a server on your local network can't reach it without this. Once allowed, the app tries again.
If you say no
Servers on the internet, including the hosted service at app.lawfive.app, work as before. A server at home can't be reached until you allow it in the phone's settings for LawFive.

Health Connect health.WRITE_EXERCISE health.WRITE_EXERCISE_ROUTE health.WRITE_HEART_RATE health.WRITE_DISTANCE

For
Saving each match from your Wear OS watch to Health Connect as a soccer exercise, with its route, heart rate and distance, as Wear OS watches have no Health Connect of their own. LawFive only writes these; it reads nothing from Health Connect.
Asked
When you turn on Save Wear OS matches, or tap Allow in Health Connect beside it, in Settings under Your watch. It's shown only with a Wear OS watch linked, on a phone that has Health Connect.
If you say no
Your Wear OS matches still sync to LawFive with their tracks; they just aren't copied to Health Connect. Allow everything but the route, and they're saved without it.

Also, without asking

Android allows these when the app is installed. Google Play lists them under the app's other permissions.

Phone

iPhone

The app asks only when you first use something that needs it. Photos come through the system's photo picker, which needs no permission. You can change any answer later in the iPhone's Settings, under LawFive.

Notifications

For
Match reminders before kickoff and on the day.
Asked
When you turn on Remind me of matches, in Settings under Match day, or from Get ready.
If you say no
No reminders; the switch says notifications are off, with Open Settings to allow them. Your calendar can still remind you through LawFive's calendar feed.

Camera NSCameraUsageDescription

For
Scanning a LawFive QR code, to sign in from the website or to take up an invitation, and Take a photo for a match, venue or referee.
Asked
The first time you scan a code or take a photo.
If you say no
Choose Enter a code instead of scanning, and add photos from your library.

Local Network NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription

For
Reaching a LawFive server on your home network.
Asked
By the iPhone, the first time the app reaches a server on your local network.
If you say no
Servers on the internet, including the hosted service at app.lawfive.app, work as before. A server at home can't be reached until you allow it in Settings, under Privacy & Security, Local Network.

Bluetooth NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription NSBluetoothPeripheralUsageDescription

For
Talking to your Garmin watch, so it gets its matches and sends the ones you referee through this phone, even without signal at the ground.
Asked
Only once you share a Garmin watch with LawFive through Garmin Connect, from More → Link a watch. Never when the app opens, so people without a Garmin aren't asked.
If you say no
Your Garmin syncs straight with your server through Garmin Connect instead, which needs signal when it syncs. You can still link it with the code it shows.

Also, without asking

Watch

Garmin

A Garmin watch doesn't ask one by one: the Connect IQ Store shows what the app uses before you install it, and installing allows all four. The watch doesn't ask again, but you choose what reaches LawFive.

Communications Communications

For
Syncing with your LawFive server through Garmin Connect on your phone, and talking to the LawFive phone app, which can sync for the watch.
Asked
At install.
If you'd rather not
Don't link the watch: quick matches run with no phone or account, and nothing is sent.

Fit Fit

For
Recording each match as a soccer activity, with a lap for each period, saved to Garmin Connect at full time like any other activity.
Asked
At install.
If you'd rather not
Delete a match's activity in Garmin Connect, as you would any other. A canceled match saves none.

Positioning Positioning

For
GPS during a match: the activity's route in Garmin Connect, your track in LawFive for its distance, speeds and heatmap, and the corners when you mark a pitch.
Asked
At install.
If you'd rather not
Turn Record track off in LawFive's settings on the watch, and no track is sent to LawFive. The Garmin activity keeps its route, as any activity does.

Sensor Sensor

For
Your heart rate during a match, and the compass for the kickoff direction.
Asked
At install.
If you'd rather not
Record track off keeps the heart rate out of LawFive too.

Watch

Wear OS

The first time you open LawFive on the watch, it says what it will ask for and why, then the watch asks for them together, or you choose Not now. It never asks at Quick match or the kickoff. Settings → Permissions in LawFive shows what's allowed, and allows the rest.

Location ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION

For
GPS: your track during a match, for its distance, speeds and heatmap, and the corners when you mark a pitch. Only precise location will do; an approximate one is too far out for a track.
Asked
When the app first opens, and again by Mark pitch if it's still off.
If you say no
The match still runs, with no track. The kickoff direction's compass works without it.

Heart rate health.READ_HEART_RATE BODY_SENSORS

For
Your heart rate during a match, kept with its track. Before Wear OS 6, the watch calls this Body sensors.
Asked
When the app first opens.
If you say no
The match still runs, with no heart rate.

Physical activity ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION

For
The distance you run in a match, as the watch measures it.
Asked
When the app first opens.
If you say no
The match still runs, with no distance.

Notifications POST_NOTIFICATIONS

For
The match clock in the watch's notifications while the screen is off.
Asked
When the app first opens, on Wear OS 4 and later.
If you say no
The match still runs and alerts still vibrate, with no clock in the notifications.

Also, without asking

Watch

Apple Watch

The first time you open LawFive on the watch, it says what it will ask for and why; then Apple asks, Health first and then Location. It never asks between Start match and the kickoff. You can change either answer in the watch's Settings, under Privacy & Security.

Health NSHealthShareUsageDescription NSHealthUpdateUsageDescription

For
The match runs as a soccer workout, which keeps it going with the screen off so alerts still vibrate. LawFive reads your heart rate, distance and active energy during it, and at full time saves the workout with its route to Apple Health, so it shows in Fitness. Save to Health, in Settings → Account, stops the saving.
Asked
When the app first opens.
If you say no
The match still runs, but its alerts stop when the screen goes off, and there's no heart rate. The kickoff screen says so, and how to allow it.

Location NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription

For
While the app is in use: your track during a match, for its distance, speeds and heatmap, and the corners when you mark a pitch. Only precise location will do; an approximate one is too far out for a track.
Asked
When the app first opens, after Health, and by Mark pitch if it hasn't been asked yet.
If you say no
The match still runs, with no track. The kickoff direction's compass works without it.

Also, without asking

A question about any of these? Write to support@lawfive.app.