FindMyLocation-PrivacyPolicy-iOS

Privacy Policy for Find My Location — iPhone

Last updated: October 16, 2026
Developer: PlayMine
Bundle ID: net.playmine.findmylocation
Platform: iPhone (iOS)

What this policy covers

This policy covers the Find My Location app for iPhone. The section The Complete List of Services This App Contacts below states, in full, every service the app reaches and exactly what each one receives.

Overview

Find My Location (“the App”) is a utility that shows your current location, address, weather, travel speed, altitude and flight height, compass heading and steps — and keeps a short, on-device-only log of your recent trips so you can view the routes you travelled.

The App has no servers, no account and no sign-in. We receive nothing from it.

Data Collection

The App does NOT collect, store, or transmit any personal data to servers operated by us. We do not require an account, sign-in, or any personal details.

🔑 The iPhone app contains no analytics of any kind. There is no usage counting, no tracking SDK, no advertising SDK, and no crash-reporting service. Nothing measures how you use the App.

Location Data

Your position comes from iOS Core Location — GPS, Wi-Fi and cellular positioning, handled by the system on your device. It is used to show where you are, your address, local weather, your speed and altitude, and to record trips you have asked the App to record.

Coordinates leave your device only to answer a request you have caused, and only to the services listed in The complete list of services this app contacts below. Nothing else is ever sent, and your coordinates are never used for advertising or profiling.

Ground elevation needs no request at all, and sends nothing. Place names are asked of Apple’s geocoding service first (listed below), which receives your coordinates. When there is no connection, or Apple leaves part of the name blank, the App still fills in the town or city, and that sends nothing.

Background Location

The App offers Keep running in background, which is off until you turn it on. When it is on, the App keeps updating and announcing your location and recording your trip’s speed and distance while the screen is locked or the App is in the background. You start it yourself and can stop it at any time from the Location tab.

iOS shows its own indicator while an app is using your location in the background, so the system always tells you when this is active — independently of anything the App displays.
Background location is used only for the features you switched on: live location, address, voice announcements, and on-device trip recording. It is never used for advertising or profiling, and never shared beyond the services listed below.
Trip routes recorded in the background stay in the same on-device trip history described below and are never transmitted.
While — and only while — this is switched on, the App also asks iOS to tell it when you have travelled a significant distance (roughly half a kilometre). This is Apple’s own “significant location change” service, and it exists here for one reason: iOS can stop an app’s location updates, or shut the app down entirely, while you are parked — and without this the App could not notice you had driven away, so the return half of a journey went unrecorded. The positions it reports are far too coarse to record and are never written to your trip history; they are used only to start the App’s ordinary, accurate tracking again. Nothing is transmitted — the whole exchange is between the App and iOS on your phone.
Background location stops when you switch the feature off, and the significant-change service is torn down in the same breath.

Trip recording is a separate switch, also off until you turn it on, reachable from Settings or the top of the Trips tab. It saves your walks and drives to the on-device Trips tab and never announces anything. To label a trip with the towns it passes through — including while the screen is locked — it looks up place names in the same way as the rest of the App (see Location Data above). The recorded route itself is never transmitted.

Motion & Fitness

With your permission, the App reads your iPhone’s motion sensor (Core Motion) for two purposes:

to show steps, calories and distance walked on the Speed tab, and
to tell a walk from a drive in your trip list.

All of it stays on your phone. No motion data is transmitted anywhere. Refusing this permission disables only the step counter and the walk/drive distinction; everything else works normally.

Trips — Kept On Your iPhone

Trips are recorded and kept only on your iPhone, and are never uploaded.

The App keeps your 14 most recent travel days; older days are removed automatically.
You may bookmark up to 100 trips to keep. Those are exempt from the automatic pruning and stay until you delete them.
Nothing about a trip — the route, the place names, the times, the distance — is transmitted to us or to anyone else.

This is the one part of the App where your data can leave the protection of your phone, and only you can decide that. The App still never uploads anything, and we still have no servers and receive nothing — but a copy you create is yours to look after, and what happens to it afterwards is outside the App’s control.

Back up (Settings). Writes your trips, their routes and your step history to a single file, at a location you choose through the iOS Files interface — on your iPhone, in iCloud Drive, or in another provider you have connected. If you choose a cloud location, that file is then held by that provider under their privacy policy, not this one.
Restore (Settings). Reads a file you select and adds its trips to this phone.
Share or save a trip. Hands one journey to whichever destination you pick from the iOS share sheet. Whoever receives it can see everywhere that journey went.
Nothing leaves your phone until you choose a destination. No backup or file is created or sent in the background, on a schedule, or without you asking for it.
A copy you have made is not covered by the App’s own deletion. Deleting the App removes everything the App keeps, but it cannot reach a file you saved elsewhere or a trip you already sent to somebody. Treat a backup file as you would a diary of where you have been.

Voice Announcements

The App can read your current place name aloud using your iPhone’s own speech synthesiser. No audio, and no location text, is sent off the device for this feature.

The Complete List of Services This App Contacts

Service	Purpose	Data Sent	Privacy Policy
Apple — Core Location	Your position (GPS / Wi-Fi / cellular)	Handled by iOS on your device	https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
Apple — Maps, place search and geocoding	The map itself; nearby fuel, EV charging, food and medical results; turning coordinates into a street address and the place names shown on screen and in your trips, and text you type into the Map search box into a point on the map	Lat/Lon coordinates, the search radius, and the text you type. Apple states that this is not tied to your Apple Account	https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
Attractions and landmarks	Notable places to explore	Nothing — no service is contacted, and nothing leaves your device	—
Town and city names (GeoNames, CC BY 4.0)	Town/city/region/country name when there is no connection, or when Apple leaves it blank	Nothing — no service is contacted	https://www.geonames.org/
Ground elevation	Ground elevation for “flight height”	Nothing — no service is contacted	—
OpenWeatherMap	Weather where you are	Lat/Lon coordinates, IP	https://openweather.co.uk/privacy-policy
Open-Meteo	Weather (fallback only)	Lat/Lon coordinates, IP	https://open-meteo.com/en/terms
Apple — App Store ratings prompt	The occasional “rate this app” prompt	None (system-level)	https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

That is the entire list. There is no other outbound connection in the iPhone app.

What Works With No Connection

Your position, speed, altitude, compass and step count all work with no data connection, because they come from your iPhone’s own sensors. Attractions and landmarks — over half a million notable places to explore — also work with no connection and never involve a network request. So do:

naming the town or city you are in; and
the ground elevation behind “flight height”.

Looking up nearby places through Apple’s search, and fetching weather, need a connection.

Advertising

The current version of the App does not display advertisements, and contains no advertising SDK. If ads are introduced in a future version, this privacy policy will be updated before that version ships.

Permissions

Permission	Purpose	Optional?
Location — While Using the App	Your location, address, weather, speed, altitude, and the on-device trip log	Required for the App’s core purpose
Location — Always	Only if you turn on Keep running in background, so announcements and trip recording continue while the screen is locked	Yes — off until you switch it on
Motion & Fitness	Steps, calories and distance walked; telling a walk from a drive	Yes — denying it disables only those features

Each is explained on screen at the moment iOS asks, and you can change any of them at any time in the iOS Settings app under Privacy & Security, or under Find My Location in the app list.

Data Storage

Everything the App writes to disk is in the App’s private, sandboxed container, which iOS prevents other apps from reading, and all of it is removed when you delete the App:

the on-device trip history described above;
your step history; and
app preferences — the voice-announcement setting, voice, speed and volume, the announcement interval, the keep-screen-awake setting, the preferred speed unit (mph/km/h), the preferred temperature unit (°F/°C), the on/off setting for keeping the Map’s nearby-places list open and a count of how many times that list has shown itself briefly, and counters used to decide when to show the ratings prompt.

If you choose to enter your body weight — used only to estimate calories from your steps — it is stored on-device only and never leaves your phone.

Files you create yourself are the exception, and are not in the App’s private container. A backup file, or a trip you saved or shared, sits wherever you chose to put it. The App cannot read, manage or delete it afterwards, and deleting the App does not remove it.

No personal information is collected by us.

Data Retention

We operate no servers and retain no user data of any kind on our side. All data the App uses lives only on your device, with these retention periods:

Data	Where it is kept	How long
Trip history (routes, place names, times)	App’s private on-device container	Your 14 most recent travel days
Trips you chose to keep (bookmarked, max 100)	App’s private on-device container	Until you delete them — exempt from the automatic pruning, never transmitted
Step history	App’s private on-device container	Your 30 most recent days
Backups, and trips you saved or shared	Wherever you chose to put them — not the App’s container	Until you delete them. The App cannot reach them, and deleting the App does not remove them
Current location, address, weather, speed, altitude, compass	Device memory only	Discarded when tracking stops or the App closes
App preferences (units, voice settings, optional body weight)	App’s private on-device container	Until you delete them or delete the App

The third-party services listed above receive coordinates transiently to answer each request; we do not control their retention, which is governed by their own privacy policies linked in the table above. Ground elevation involves no third party. Place names are asked of Apple’s geocoding service when there is a connection, as described above.

Data Deletion

Because we never collect or store your data on any server, there is no data for us to delete — everything is on your device and under your control.

Delete everything the App holds: delete the App from your iPhone. This permanently removes the trip history, the step history, all preferences, and any stored weight.
⚠️ Copies you made yourself are not included, and you must delete them yourself. A backup file, a saved trip, or one you shared is wherever you put it — on your iPhone, in iCloud Drive, or on somebody else’s device. The App has no way to reach it, and deleting the App will not remove it. Remember that anything already sent to somebody else cannot be taken back.
Trip history also prunes itself automatically: only your 14 most recent travel days are kept, apart from trips you bookmarked to keep. You can un-bookmark one at any time to hand it back to the automatic pruning.

If you have any questions or requests regarding your data, contact us at playmine.support@gmail.com and we will respond promptly.

We do not sell, trade, or share your data with any third party beyond the services described above, each of which receives only what it needs to answer the request. The App itself never shares a trip with anyone. The one way a journey reaches another person or service is if you send it — through the backup, save or share actions described above — and then only to the destination you pick, at the moment you pick it.

Data Security & Handling

Location is processed on your device. Everything the App writes to disk is stored in its private, sandboxed container. A backup or shared trip that you create is deliberately outside that sandbox, because the point of it is to survive the App being removed; from that moment its safety is in your hands.
All network communications use HTTPS/TLS encryption and carry only coordinates and the text you type into search — never your name, contacts, identifiers, or anything else, because the App never has such information.
No personal data is ever transmitted to servers operated by us; we have no servers and no user database.

Respecting Other People’s Privacy

The App records the movements of the iPhone it is installed on, and keeps that record on that iPhone. It has no way to show one iPhone’s location or trips to another, and nothing it records reaches us.

Please use the App on your own iPhone — or, if you set it up on an iPhone that somebody else uses, make sure that person knows it is there and is happy for it to run. You are shown this reminder the first time you switch on trip recording, and it stays available in Settings and in the in-app Help guide.

Laws about recording a person’s movements differ from one country, and one state, to another. Complying with the law where you are is your responsibility as the person who installs and runs the App.

Children’s Privacy

The App does not knowingly collect data from children under 13. The App does not require account creation or personal information.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date above. Continued use of the App constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, contact us at:
📧 playmine.support@gmail.com

By using Find My Location on iPhone, you consent to this privacy policy.