GPS Logger — Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 27, 2026

In short: GPS Logger has no user accounts and no advertising or analytics. Your recorded tracks stay on your phone. Your precise (GPS) location and a hashed anti-spam token leave your device only when you turn on the optional Live reports feature described below, and they are always sent over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. Map tiles are loaded from OpenStreetMap, which sees your IP address and the map area you view.

Location while recording

GPS Logger uses your device's GPS to record a track (position, altitude, speed, time) while you use the recording feature. While a recording is running, location is collected even when the app is closed or not in use (for example with the screen off), so the track is not interrupted. This background access is requested only when you start a recording and only after an in-app explanation, it is shown by a persistent notification the whole time, and it stops when you stop recording.

Recorded tracks are stored only in a local database on your phone. They are never uploaded, backed up to a server, or shared with anyone. Deleting a track or uninstalling the app removes it permanently — there is nothing to delete from our side, because we never had a copy.

You can export a track as a GPX file at any time; where that file goes afterward (email, cloud storage, another app) is entirely up to you and outside this app's control.

Speed limits, speed cameras and railway crossings

Speed-limit, fixed speed-camera and railway-crossing data comes from downloadable, per-country database files derived from OpenStreetMap. Downloading one of these files is a plain file request to GitHub — it does not include your location, and nothing about which country you downloaded is linked to you personally.

Speed-camera and railway-crossing warnings (including the optional voice announcement) are off by default and only work if you turn them on in Settings. Once the database is downloaded, these warnings run fully offline on your phone and send nothing to any server.

Live reports (optional, off by default)

GPS Logger can optionally show and let you submit live reports (mobile radar, police, accidents, traffic jams, hazards) shared by other users nearby. This feature is off until you turn it on in Settings. When it is on:

• Viewing reports: the app periodically asks our server what has been reported near you. This request contains your current precise (GPS) coordinates but nothing that identifies you, and the server does not keep a record of who asked.
• Submitting a report: the report contains only the report type and your current precise (GPS) coordinates. No account, name, device ID or advertising identifier is attached to it.
• Anti-spam token: a random token is generated on your device once, at install, purely to limit how many reports one device can submit per hour. It is hashed on your device before it is sent, it is never stored together with a submitted report, and it cannot be used to link separate submissions back to a person.
• Retention: reports expire automatically — typically within 45 minutes to a few hours depending on type — and are then deleted from the server entirely.

All communication with our server uses an encrypted HTTPS connection. You can stop all of this at any time by turning Live reports off in Settings. Because nothing is tied to an identity, there is no "delete my data" request to make for this feature — an expired report simply ceases to exist.

Map display

The live map and replay screens load map tiles from OpenStreetMap's tile servers as you pan and zoom. Like any map based on live tiles, this means the tile server sees your device's IP address and the map area you are currently viewing while the map is open — the same way it would for any website with an embedded map. GPS Logger does not send anything else to the tile servers.

What GPS Logger does not do

• No user accounts or sign-in of any kind
• No advertising, no ad identifiers, no third-party trackers
• No analytics or usage tracking
• No data sold or shared with third parties — there is no data collected about you to sell in the first place

Children's privacy

GPS Logger is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from them beyond what is described above (which, again, is not tied to any identity).

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date at the top will change accordingly. Material changes (for example, if a future feature started collecting something new) will be reflected here before that feature ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the app: gpslogger72@gmail.com