Privacy Policy

The short version

Map Wanderer has no user account, no ads, and no tracking or analytics. Everything you create — recorded tracks, hand-built trails, markers, and photos — is stored on your device. If you choose to, you can sync it to your own iCloud Drive or Google Drive. PowerSlave Developments runs no server that receives your data and never collects it.

Data we collect

None. The app has no account of its own, includes no advertising, and contains no analytics or tracking SDKs. The only sign-in is the optional Google one described below, which connects the app to your own Google Drive and nothing else. PowerSlave Developments operates no back-end server that receives your personal information, location, or usage, and therefore does not collect, store, sell, or share any of it.

What the app stores on your device

Content you create stays on your device, under your control: recorded GPS tracks and their statistics, hand-built trails and saved routes, map markers and waypoints, photos you attach to a track, and your app settings. This data is never sent to PowerSlave Developments. Removing the app from your device deletes it.

Location

With your permission, the app uses your device location to show where you are, centre the map, and record a track as you move. This happens on your device and is not sent to PowerSlave Developments. To draw the map and plan routes, coordinates are sent to the third-party services below so they can return the right map tiles and routes. While a track is recording on Android, a notification stays on screen for as long as the app is using your location. You can revoke location access at any time in your device's Settings app.

Camera and photos

The camera is used only when you choose to scan a QR code to import a shared trail or play area, and the image is decoded on your device. Photos you attach to a marker or trip stay on your device; the app reads a photo's location tag only to place it on the map. Neither is sent to PowerSlave Developments.

Optional cloud sync and backup

Sync is off unless you turn it on. When you do, your tracks, routes, markers, trips and attached photos are copied to storage in your own account, so the same data can appear on your other devices. PowerSlave Developments has no access to it.

• iCloud Drive (iPhone and iPad) — stored in the app's container in your iCloud account under Apple's privacy policy. No separate sign-in.
• Google Drive — you sign in with Google, and the app asks only for access to its own hidden app-data folder (the drive.appdata scope). It cannot see or change any other file in your Drive. Your Google account's email is shown in the app's settings and stays on your device. Stored under Google's privacy policy.

Turning sync off stops it. To remove the copy, delete the app's data from your iCloud settings, or in Google Drive under Settings › Manage apps. Backup works the same way without any account: it writes one file that you choose where to put, and restoring reads it back.

Third-party services

To function, the app fetches maps and route data over the internet. When it does, those providers necessarily receive requests that include your device's IP address and the coordinates or map area being requested. That data is handled under each provider's own privacy policy, not ours:

• MapTiler — map styles, terrain/relief data, and address look-ups (reverse geocoding). See MapTiler's privacy policy.
• OpenRouteService (HeiGIT) — walking, cycling, and driving route calculation. See OpenRouteService's privacy policy.

These providers are used only to deliver the map and routing features you request. The app does not share your saved tracks, trails, markers, or photos with them or with anyone.

Apple operates the App Store and Google operates Google Play. Each may collect its own data around downloads, purchases and crash reports under Apple's privacy policy or Google's privacy policy. That relationship is between you and the store; any crash reports we can see through them are aggregated and do not identify you.

Children's privacy

The app is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children under 13.

Your rights

Privacy laws such as the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR give you rights over personal data a company holds about you — to access it, correct it, delete it, or object to its use. PowerSlave Developments holds no personal data about you, so there is nothing on our side for those rights to apply to. Removing the app from your device deletes everything it stored on the device; anything you synced stays in your own iCloud or Google account until you delete it there.

The map and routing providers named above handle the requests they receive under their own policies and their own retention periods. Any rights you wish to exercise over that data are exercised with them directly, using the links in the previous section.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@powerslave.dev.