Last updated: 23 October 2026.
LottoHawk has no accounts with us, runs no analytics of its own, carries no advertising, and sends us nothing. There is no server of ours for it to talk to: it downloads published lottery results, and contacts a lottery about one of your tickets only when you ask it to.
What is stored, and where
Everything LottoHawk keeps is kept only on your device, in the application's own data area:
- the tickets you add: the game, the numbers played, the drawings, where the ticket was bought, and what it cost;
- the published results it downloads, and whether each of your lines won;
- which prizes you marked as claimed, and which wins it has already notified you about;
- your pools (a name and the tickets you put in them) and your preferences;
- the result packs installed in the app, and any access key you enter for one;
- photos of tickets, only if you turn on Keep scan samples, and a short record of failed checks, only if you turn on Keep check failures.
Scanning a ticket
When you scan a ticket with the camera or choose a photo of one, the text and barcode on it are read on your device. The photo is not uploaded anywhere and is not kept, unless you have turned on Keep scan samples. What the scanner read is always shown to you to correct before anything is saved.
The reading is done by Google's ML Kit, the text and barcode recognition library Google provides for Android apps. ML Kit sends Google diagnostics about its own use: the device model and Android version, LottoHawk's name and version, how long a scan took, error codes, and an identifier for this installation that Google says is not meant to identify you or your device. It does not send the photo, the text it read, or anything about your tickets. This is Google's collection, not ours: we never receive it. Google describes it in ML Kit's data disclosure, and the Google Privacy Policy applies to it.
Where it connects
To check your tickets, LottoHawk downloads the winning numbers each lottery publishes, from that lottery's own website or from a public data service that republishes them. These requests ask for a game's results; they carry nothing about your tickets. Like any request on a network, those sites see your device's address and what it asks for, and their own terms apply.
For a few games the lottery itself offers a ticket checker (Puerto Rico's Loteria Tradicional, the US Virgin Islands). When you tap Ask the lottery about this ticket, the app first shows you exactly which site will be contacted and exactly what will be sent: the numbers played and the drawing, never a serial number. Nothing is sent until you confirm.
Links to a lottery's own pages (to check a result, to read how to claim, to find a retailer) open in your browser.
Sending us a report
If a scan reads a ticket wrong, or a check fails, the app can prepare a report for you to send: a draft e-mail, or the system's share sheet. You decide whether to send it and to whom. A failed-check report says which results source failed and why, and nothing about your tickets; a scan report contains the scan samples you kept, which are photos of your tickets, and only ever leaves when you send it.
Pools
In this version a pool stays on your device: nothing about it, or about the tickets in it, is shared with anyone. If a later version lets you share a pool with other people, this policy will say so, and what is sent, before that version does.
Permissions
Network. To download published results, and to contact a lottery when you ask it to check a ticket.
Camera (optional). To scan a ticket. Asked for only when you open the camera; typing the numbers works without it.
Notifications. To tell you when a ticket wins and when a claim deadline is near. Asked for only from Settings.
Running after a restart, and, if you allow it, an exemption from battery optimisation. So the scheduled checks keep running after the device restarts and while the app is closed.
The app does not ask for your location, microphone or contacts.
Children
LottoHawk is for adults 18 and over and is not directed at children. It asks nobody for personal information, children included.
Deleting your data
Deleting a ticket in the app removes it. Clearing the app's data, or uninstalling it, removes everything it stored.
There is no copy of ours to ask us to delete: we hold none of your data.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.
Contact
Write to contact@boriken.dev.