Your hunts stay on your phone.

Who we are

Fox Pursuit is made by Andrew Lindsay, amateur radio operator WAØMCS, in Missouri, USA. Questions about this policy go to the address under Contact.

When you buy

Purchases are handled by Gumroad, under Gumroad's own privacy policy. Gumroad shares the details of your purchase with us, including your email address and any optional information you choose to add at checkout, such as your callsign. We use them to support your purchase and, now and then, to email you news about Fox Pursuit through Gumroad. Every such email has a link to unsubscribe. We never sell or share these details.

What stays on your phone

Solo keeps these in your phone's own storage, for the app's use only:

• your hunts — their names, your bearings, and the positions you took them from;
• the map you chose and any map areas you downloaded for offline use;
• your site key — the license that unlocks the app (it begins FP1.);
• the free-trial clock and a few small settings.

None of this is sent to us or to anyone else.

Your location and compass

Solo asks for your phone's location so it can show where you are on the map and draw your bearings from that spot, and it reads the compass so it can measure a bearing. It uses them only while you are using the app, and only on your phone. Your location is never sent to us. You can turn either permission off in your phone's settings at any time; you can still enter bearings by hand.

What goes over the internet

• Map pictures. The map is downloaded in small pieces from our map service, maps.foxpursuit.com. A request for a piece of map shows which area is being looked at, as any online map does.
• Activation, once. When you activate, the app sends the Gumroad license key from your purchase receipt, and the name of the website the app runs on, to our license service. The service checks the key with Gumroad, where you bought it, and sends back your site key. It keeps a record of that purchase — the email address Gumroad has for it, the website name, the date, and which site key was issued — so that the same site key can be given back if you activate on a new phone. Your Gumroad license key itself is stored only in a scrambled, one-way form. After activation the app does not contact the license service again, unless you activate again — for example on a new phone or tablet, or after the app's data has been cleared. You then get the same site key back.
• Cloudflare. Our map service and license service run on Cloudflare, which handles the requests and may keep short-lived technical records as part of running its network. We do not keep request logs ourselves or use them to identify anyone.
• Fonts and the map program. When the app first loads, it fetches its lettering from Google Fonts and its map program from unpkg.com, a public library service. Like any web request, these show the service your phone's internet address and browser type. We receive nothing from them.
• Choosing your map. The coverage page you use to pick your map draws its background map from OpenStreetMap's own servers, and fetches the same map program from unpkg.com. Those servers see your internet address and the area shown, as any online map does. Its "Check my location" button uses your location in the page only; it is not sent anywhere.
• Our web server. Like every website, foxpursuit.com keeps standard server records — internet address, page requested, time — which our web host uses to run and protect the site. We do not use them to identify or track anyone.

When you leave the app

These links take you to other services, and only when you tap them:

• Drive opens directions to the estimated position of the fox — in Apple Maps on an iPhone or iPad, and in Google Maps everywhere else (its app if you have it, otherwise its website). That service receives the fox's estimated position so it can plan the route.
• Buy opens our store on Gumroad, which handles the purchase.
• WAØMCS links open the QRZ.com amateur radio directory, and the map's credit links open OpenStreetMap and Protomaps.
• Setup video. The Getting Started page links to a video page on foxpursuit.com that plays the video from YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode. YouTube sees the visit when that page opens, but says views in this mode aren't used to personalize your YouTube experience or the ads you see.

Those services have their own privacy policies.

What we don't do

• No accounts or sign-in, and the app never asks for your name or email address. (The only email address we hold is the one Gumroad confirms with your purchase.)
• No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
• No analytics or tracking of how you use the app or this website.
• No selling, renting or sharing of your information with anyone.

Keeping and deleting your information

Everything Solo keeps on your phone stays there until you delete it. Inside the app: Delete or Delete all in the map-download panel removes downloaded map areas; delete beside a bearing removes it; Close Hunt deletes that hunt's bearings from the phone, and starting a new hunt replaces the old one. To remove everything, uninstall the app and clear the stored data for foxpursuit.com in your browser (in Chrome: Settings → Site settings → All sites → foxpursuit.com → Delete data). If you remove your site key, you can get the same one back by activating again with the Gumroad license key from your receipt.

The license service keeps its record of your purchase for as long as Fox Pursuit runs, so you can always recover your site key. If you would like that record, including the email address, deleted, write to us; afterwards your site key can no longer be recovered from your receipt. To stop our occasional emails, use the unsubscribe link in any of them.

Security

Every connection the app makes uses an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Your site key is checked mathematically on your device itself, without using a network.

Children

Fox Pursuit is made for amateur radio operators and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top.

Contact

Andrew Lindsay, WAØMCS — hello (at) foxpursuit.com