Privacy Policy for PathXplorer

Introduction

PathXplorer ("we," "our," or "app") is built privacy-first: no account, no ads, no selling of data — ever. Your tracks, photos and statistics are recorded and stored on your device, and by default they stay there.

Some features do need to send data off your device to work — weather needs your coordinates, group tracking needs your position, an SOS alert needs to reach your contacts. This policy describes exactly what leaves your device, when, to whom, and how you control it.

Device Permissions

PathXplorer requests certain device permissions to provide its features. You control each of them and can revoke them at any time through your device settings; the app keeps working with reduced features if a permission is denied.

• Location (including background location): The heart of the app — used to record your route, show your position on the map, and compute your live metrics. Background access lets recording continue with the screen off or the app minimized. Your location leaves the device only for the specific features described below.
• Camera: Used only when you take geotagged photos while recording. Photos are stored on your device.
• Physical activity: Used on-device for step counting, cadence and stride metrics. Activity data never leaves your device.
• Storage / media access: Used to save your tracks, photos and generated videos on your device (and to your gallery when you share). We do not access, upload or analyze your other files.
• Notifications: Used to show the recording status while tracking in the background.

Data Stored on Your Device

PathXplorer stores the following locally on your device — and nowhere else:

• Your recorded tracks with all their metrics (speed, altitude, weather, lean angle, G-force, etc.)
• Geotagged photos taken while recording
• Videos, map snapshots and PDF reports you generate
• Automatically detected parking spots and their addresses
• Recently looked-up street addresses
• A short rolling log of your last few minutes of GPS positions (used only to include your recent trail in an SOS alert; it is capped at about five minutes and continuously overwritten)
• App settings and preferences
• Cached map tiles and recent weather data
• An on-device diagnostic log (never transmitted unless you explicitly choose to send it to us from Settings)

You can delete all of this at any time by clearing the app's data in your device settings or by uninstalling the app.

Features That Send Data Off Your Device

Each feature below sends only the minimum data needed, only while you use it. All connections are encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS).

Maps — OpenStreetMap

Map tiles are downloaded from OpenStreetMap servers as you pan and zoom. Standard network requests occur, but no personally identifiable information is sent. You can cache maps for offline use. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation Privacy Policy.

Weather — WeatherAPI.com

When weather features are enabled, your current coordinates (latitude and longitude) are sent to WeatherAPI.com to retrieve local conditions — roughly every 15 minutes while the app is active. No identifiers or personal data accompany these requests, and the weather data received is stored only on your device. You can disable weather in the app settings. See WeatherAPI.com's Privacy Policy.

Addresses, Destination Search & Routing — Nominatim and OpenRouteService

When you use the Nearest Address tile, search for a destination, or plan a route, your coordinates (and the search text you type) are sent to the OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoding service and/or OpenRouteService to resolve addresses and compute routes. These lookups happen only when you use those features, carry no identifiers, and their results are cached on your device so repeat lookups can be answered offline.

Live Group Tracking — our server

Group tracking is OFF by default. When you choose to join a group, the following is sent to our server over an encrypted connection: the group name, the nickname you picked, a random device identifier (generated by the app — not tied to your identity), and your live position while sharing is on. This is relayed to the other members of your group so you can see each other on the map.

SOS Emergency Alerts — our server

The SOS feature sends an alert only when you deliberately trigger it (press-and-hold plus confirmation — it cannot fire by accident). You choose in advance exactly what an alert may include:

• Your current location (with a map link) and nearest street address
• Streets you recently passed
• Your recent GPS trail (the last few minutes)
• Your most recent photos

To deliver the alert, the selected content and the email addresses of your chosen emergency contacts (up to three, entered by you) are transmitted to our server, which sends the alert email and then does not use this data for any other purpose. Your contacts' addresses are stored on your device, not on our server. If Wi-Fi is blocked, the alert automatically retries over your cellular connection. Once delivered, the alert lives in your contacts' inboxes like any email you might send them.

Google Play services

• Play Billing: If you purchase the Fun subscription, the entire payment is processed by Google Play. We never see your payment details — Google provides us only an anonymous purchase confirmation. See the Google Privacy Policy.
• Play Integrity: To protect the service from tampered or counterfeit copies of the app, PathXplorer may ask Google Play to verify that it is a genuine installation. This check involves Google and our server but carries no personal information about you.

Crash Reporting

PathXplorer uses Firebase Crashlytics (a Google service) so we can find and fix crashes. If the app crashes, a report is sent containing technical details (device model, Android version, app version, what the code was doing) and device identifiers used to group reports. These reports contain no tracks, no photos and no location history. Crash data is handled by Google under the Firebase privacy documentation and retained per its policy.

Separately, the app keeps a diagnostic log on your device. It is sent to us only if you explicitly choose to send it from the Settings menu — typically when we're helping you troubleshoot.

What We Never Do

• We never sell or rent your data to anyone.
• We never show ads or use advertising identifiers.
• We never upload your tracks, photos, videos or reports — sharing them is always your action, through the apps you choose.
• We never require an account, sign-in or profile.

Your Rights and Choices

• No Data mode: A single setting puts the app in fully offline operation — recording works completely, nothing is transmitted, and a built-in meter shows exactly how much data the app has used.
• Per-feature control: Weather, group tracking, parking detection and SOS can each be turned off independently in Settings.
• Right to delete: All your data lives on your device — clear the app's data or uninstall it and it's gone. Group-tracking data on our server is deleted automatically when you disconnect.
• Permission control: Every device permission can be revoked at any time in Android settings.

Because we hold no account or database about you, there is nothing for you to request a copy of and no account to delete — you already have direct control over all of it.

Children's Privacy

PathXplorer requires no account and collects no profile information, and is suitable for users of all ages. Parents should be aware that the group tracking and SOS features, when deliberately used, share the device's location as described above.

Changes to This Policy

When the app gains features that change how data is handled, this policy will be updated and the "Last updated" date at the top revised. Significant changes will also be highlighted within the app.

Contact Information

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact:

• Charles-Emmanuel Barcelo
• Email: pathxplorer@funapps.biz

This privacy policy reflects our commitment to transparency and to giving you control over your data while using PathXplorer.