GPX Track Editor privacy policy

Explanation

Google requires that the GPX Track Editor app have a privacy policy, because this app has access to the user's location.

How this app uses location information

GPX Track Editor obtains the user's location, primarily through GPS, which can often have an accuracy as fine as 3 meters.

This location is used for the following purposes:

• When the user enables the settings to display the location on the display: the app uses the user's location to position the blue dot that indicates the user's location.
• When the user invokes the "record track" feature: the app, from time to time (by default, about every 5 seconds) records the user's location, together with a timestamp, in a (GPX format) file on the Android device, the name of which file is chosen by the user. In addition, the app periodically makes a backup copy of this file on that same Android device.

  The app stops using the user's location in this manner when the user stops recording.

• When the user invokes the "create waypoint" feature (if the user selects the default option to base the waypoint on the user's current location): the user's location is stored in the same (GPX format) file on the Android device that the user created to store recorded tracks.
• When the user invokes the "navigation information" feature: the app, from time to time (by default, every 5 seconds), displays, in a dialog box, information that is derived from or calculated from the user's location. This information may include the nearest waypoint to the user's current location and/or the nearest track, the distance from the user's location to the indicated waypoint and/or the indicated track, and the distance to both ends of the indicated nearest track.
• The app stops using the user's location in this manner when the user dismisses the "navigation information" dialog box.
• With the exception of the (GPX format) file that the user creates to store tracks and waypoints, the app does NOT otherwise store the user's location, let alone transmit it or share it or make it accessible to any other app, device, system, person, or entity.

Other privacy non-issues

Names of tracks and waypoints: GPX Track Editor allows you to define tracks and waypoints and give them descriptive names. These descriptive names could include personal information, such as a waypoint named "home". These names, along with the associated location data, are stored solely in the (GPX format) file that the user creates.