Compasgo privacy policy
- Compasgo has no accounts and no advertising, and nothing you create in it is ever sent to us. We never receive your trips, so we cannot sell them, share them or lose them.
- The Android and iOS apps count nothing. The website counts visits, without cookies and without identifying anyone; what that involves is listed below.
- Your trips, notes, photos, budget and checklists are stored only on your phone.
- To show maps, places, photos, weather and exchange rates, the app downloads them. Those requests are listed below, with exactly what they contain.
Who is responsible
Compasgo is published by Aitor Morales. For anything about this policy, write to privacy@compasgo.com.
What stays on your phone
Everything you create in Compasgo is kept in the app's private storage on your device and is never sent to us:
- your trips, day plans and the settings you chose while planning them;
- favourites, shopping wishlist, budget and expenses, checklists and journal notes;
- photos you add to your trip journal;
- your language, home country, currency and display preferences;
- reminders you set, which are scheduled by your phone itself;
- copies of place data, map images, weather and translations the app has already fetched, kept so it keeps working offline.
Uninstalling the app deletes all of it. On the web, the same things are kept in your browser's storage for this site, and clearing the site's data in your browser deletes them. We keep no copy, because nothing was sent to us.
One exception is under your control, not ours: if your Android phone's own device backup is switched on, Android may include Compasgo's stored data in the backup it keeps in your Google account, so it can be restored on a new phone. You can turn that off in your phone's backup settings.
What the app sends, and to whom
Like any app that shows a map or a photo, Compasgo fetches them over the internet. Each request reveals your IP address and basic device information to the service that answers it, as any web request does. Compasgo adds nothing that identifies you.
| Service | What it receives | When |
|---|---|---|
| Compasgo's travel data and, on the web, the app's own files, stored with Cloudflare | Requests for the place details, street networks and routes of the regions in your trip. They are downloaded once and kept on your phone. We do not switch on request logs, so we never learn who downloaded what. | When a region of your trip is first opened, or downloaded for offline use |
| Map tiles | Requests for the map images of the areas you look at. The provider is OpenStreetMap unless the app states otherwise under Settings → Where this comes from. | When a map is on screen |
| Wikimedia Commons | Requests for the photographs of places you view. | When a place photo is shown |
| MET Norway | The coordinates of places in your trip, for the forecast of the next nine days. Not your own location. Typical weather for later dates is built into the app and sends nothing. | When a day within the next nine days shows its weather |
| ExchangeRate-API | The code of your home currency, such as EUR. | When prices are converted |
| Translation service | The words you ask to translate, sent to the service you choose in Settings (DeepL, Google, MyMemory, or a translation server you enter yourself), with your own key if you added one. | Only when you use Translate |
| GoatCounter, on the website only | That the page was opened, the site that linked to it, and your browser, screen size and country. No cookie is set and your IP address is not stored. Nothing you plan, type or share is included. | When compasgo.com is opened in a browser. Never in the Android or iOS app |
| Google Places | The names and locations of places whose Google ratings you ask to see, sent with the API key you entered. | Only if you add your own key |
Each service handles what it receives under its own privacy policy, linked above. Links you choose to open, such as directions in Google Maps or a place's official website, take you to other apps and sites under their own policies.
Your location
Compasgo asks for your location only when you ask for something near you: sorting places by distance, the map's locate button, or finding the nearest hospital. It is used on your phone to measure distances and is never stored or sent by Compasgo. When the map centres on you, the map provider receives requests for the map images of that area, as it would for any area you view. You can refuse or withdraw location access in your phone's settings at any time; everything else keeps working.
Notifications
If you set a reminder, your phone schedules it and shows it. Compasgo asks for permission the first time you set one, and does not use notifications for anything else.
Sharing and backups
When you share a trip or export a backup, Compasgo creates a link or a file containing that trip's data and hands it to the app you choose. Where it goes from there is up to you and the app you used. Backups can include your journal notes and photos.
Children
Compasgo is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly process children's data. It processes no personal data on our side at all.
Your rights
Because Compasgo holds no data about you, there is nothing for us to access, correct, export or delete on your behalf: your data is on your phone, under your control. You can export it (Settings → Backup), delete individual items in the app, clear stored data (Settings → Data & storage), or remove it all by uninstalling. For requests about data held by the services above, contact them directly.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at the same address and in the app, with a new effective date. If a change ever meant data leaving your phone in a way it does not today, the app would ask you first.