Appventuring Privacy Policy
Your GPS history stays on your phone. No cloud, no server, no accounts, and no advertising or analytics SDKs.
App & Game Specific Declarations
Zero analytics SDKs, zero crash reporters, zero ad networks, and zero tracking identifiers. No personal data leaves your device.
Precise location (including background) solely while actively recording adventures to draw your track. Camera and photo library access to attach photos to spots along your path.
Everyone. Not directed at children; no personal account or profile required.
All journey data, waypoints, and photos reside exclusively in local on-device SQLite storage until you explicitly export or delete them.
1. Your adventures stay on your phone
Appventuring records where you go — a path, the places you stopped, photos you took along the way — and it is built so that record does not travel. There is no account, no sign-up, and no server of ours. Your paths, your photos, your chill spots and your statistics live in the app's own private storage on your device and are never uploaded to us. We cannot see them, because there is nowhere for them to go. Nothing backs up to a cloud unless you ask it to. By default the app opts out of Android's automatic backup to Google Drive, out of Android's device-to-device transfer, and out of iCloud and encrypted-iTunes backups on iPhone. If you want your adventures on a new phone, the app has its own export and import file, which you control and which never passes through us.
2. What the app sends, and when
Three features look something up on the internet. Each one sends only what that lookup needs — never your path, never your history, never a photo — and each can be switched off in Settings → Capture: • Weather at a chill spot: When you stop somewhere long enough for the app to mark a chill spot, it can record what the weather was like. To do that it sends that one spot's coordinates, rounded to about 11 metres, to Open-Meteo, a free weather service. No account, no identifier, and nothing that says which phone asked. • The name of a place: So a chill spot can say "Hoopes Park, Chandler" instead of a pair of numbers, the app asks the operating system to name the coordinates — Apple on iPhone, Google on Android. That is the same reverse-geocoding service the OS uses for its own Maps app. • Songs around you: If you turn this on, the app listens for about twelve seconds at a time and asks Apple's music-recognition service (ShazamKit) what is playing. The audio itself never leaves your phone — the app turns it into a short mathematical signature on the device and sends only that, which cannot be turned back into sound. This is off by default, and it only exists on iPhone. The map is the fourth thing, and it is not optional in the same way: showing a map means asking Apple Maps or Google Maps for the part of the world you are looking at. That is how every map app works.
3. What the app never does
• No account: Nothing to create, nothing to sign in to. • No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising: The app contains no analytics SDK, no crash reporter and no ad network. There is no tracking identifier and no advertising ID. • No selling or sharing: We have none of your data, so there is nothing to sell or share. • No profile: The app does not know who you are.
4. The permissions, and why each one is there
You can read the full list on the store page before installing, so we would rather explain it than have you wonder: • Location, including in the background: The core feature — recording your path while the phone is in your pocket and the screen is off. • Camera and photo access: Taking photos along a path, and saving one to your own photo library when you ask. • Microphone: Only for optional "songs around you", and only while that feature is actively invoked. • Notifications: The recording notification, and reminders you set up. • Internet and network state: The three lookups above and the map. • Run a foreground service, keep the device awake, vibrate: Keeping a recording alive and telling you about it. Android requires an app that records location in the background to show a permanent notification, which is why you see one. • Ignore battery optimisation: Asked once, and you can say no. Some phones aggressively stop background apps, which silently ends a recording; this is what stops that happening.
5. Children's Privacy
Appventuring is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect anything from anyone, including children.
6. Contact & Inquiries
If you have questions regarding this privacy policy or your local on-device adventure data, email support@drawcode.com.