Privacy Policy
Rochester Skyways — app and website · Effective 2026-08-01
No ads. No tracking. No accounts. No analytics. Ever.
Android beta volunteers
If you volunteer for the Android closed test, we collect the Google account email you enter and your confirmation that you can remain enrolled for at least 14 days. We use the address only to administer the private Google Play test and tester list. It is not published, sold, used for advertising, or added to a general mailing list. Standard server metadata (IP address and received time) is retained for abuse protection. You may ask us to remove your signup at any time using the contact address below.
Location
If you grant location permission, your location is used on your device to show where you are on the map and to start routes. Ordinary map and routing use does not transmit your location to us or to anyone else. Location permission is optional — you can plan routes by picking a start point instead. The only exception is when you deliberately include an approximate pin in an optional map contribution, as described below.
Map data downloads
The app periodically downloads map data and advisories from our server. Like any web request, our server transiently sees your IP address in order to respond. We do not use these requests to identify, profile, or track you.
Contributions you choose to send
The map and the apps have an optional “improve map” feature for correcting a location, adding a missing one, or telling us anything else the map gets wrong. If — and only if — you submit something, we receive what you chose to include:
- your note text, and the name and level of any place you propose adding or correcting,
- your approximate location and the nearest mapped point (so we can find what you are describing),
- any photos you attach,
- technical context: the map dataset version and the feature the contribution refers to.
Photos are resized and re-encoded on your own device before they are sent. That step strips embedded camera metadata, including the GPS coordinates most phones write into a photo file — so the only location we receive is the one you deliberately submitted. Camera and photo-library access are requested only at the moment you choose to attach a photo, and declining them does not stop you sending everything else.
Contributions include standard server metadata (IP address, received time), which we keep only for moderation and abuse protection. Everything you send is reviewed by a person and used solely to improve the map. Nothing you submit — text or photo — is shown to other users, published, sold, or shared.
What we don't do
- No advertising, ad SDKs, or ad identifiers.
- No analytics or tracking SDKs.
- No app accounts; beta volunteer emails are used only to administer that test.
- No selling or sharing of any data with third parties.
Children
The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children, except the optional suggestion submissions described above.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date. To request deletion of a contribution, email us with enough detail to identify it; we will delete any matching submission and attachments. Questions and deletion requests: ops@68degrees.app.