BetterMaps privacy

• Your places, tags, layers, trails and saved routes, including any photos and notes you attach: Stored on your devices and synced through your own iCloud account, so your iPhone and Mac show the same map.
• Your location, if you allow it: Used on your device to show where you are and find places near you. It is not stored by me or sent to me. If you ask for directions from where you are, it is sent as the start point to the route services below.
• The start and end of a directions search: Sent to Transitous (public transport) or BRouter (cycling) to plan the route, and a rounded position to Open-Meteo for the rain hint. Nothing else about you is sent. These services keep the request in their server logs for a short time (see below); I never receive it.
• An optional Yelp API key, if you enter one: Kept in your device's Keychain and sent only to Yelp, when the app looks up details for a place.

• Location while using the app: To show where you are on the map and find places near you. Optional.
• Camera: To take photos to attach to your saved places.
• Photos: To attach photos from your library to your saved places.

• Apple iCloud (CloudKit) and Apple Maps: iCloud syncs your data between your devices under your own Apple Account. Apple Maps draws the map and finds places. Their policy (opens external site)
• Transport for Ireland, Luas and Irish Rail: Stops and timetables come bundled with the app. Opening a stop asks the Luas or Irish Rail service for live times at that stop.
• GitHub: Hosts the optional timetable download. Your device downloads the file; nothing about you is sent with it. Their policy (opens external site)
• Transitous: Plans public transport directions. A directions search sends its start and end points and time. Transitous keeps your IP address and the request in its server logs for up to 2 days, to fix problems and prevent abuse, and then deletes them. Their policy (opens external site)
• BRouter: Plans cycling directions, if you choose cycling. A search sends its start and end points. BRouter keeps your IP address and the route's coordinates in its server logs for two weeks (plus about 10 days in its host's backups), to keep the service running, and then deletes them. Their policy (opens external site)
• Open-Meteo: Rain forecast for the rain-aware hint in directions. Sends a position rounded to about 1 km. Open-Meteo keeps your IP address and the request in its server logs for up to 90 days, for maintenance and to prevent misuse, does not link them to any identity and does not share them. Their policy (opens external site)
• Yelp (optional): Only if you enter your own Yelp key. Looking up a saved place's details then sends its name and position to Yelp. Their policy (opens external site)

Your data is kept for as long as you keep it in the app. Nothing is kept anywhere else by me.

Delete places, trails or routes in the app and they are removed from your devices and iCloud. To remove everything, delete the app's data in Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Manage Account Storage, then delete the app.