Privacy Policy

1. Information We Do Not Collect

peaks does not require an account and does not collect, sell, or use your personal information for advertising, analytics, profiling, or tracking.

The developer does not operate servers that receive or store your:

• Saved peaks or ascent history

• Notes or selected photos

• Health and workout information

• Current location or movement history

• Favorites, settings, or statistics

2. Information Stored on Your Device

The following information may be stored locally on your device:

• Saved peaks and their coordinates

• Ascent dates, durations, distances, and elevation gains

• Notes associated with ascents

• Photos you explicitly select

• Favorites and app preferences

This information remains under your control. It may also be included in device or iCloud backups depending on your Apple backup settings.

You can delete individual entries within the app. Uninstalling peaks removes its locally stored app data, subject to any device backups maintained by Apple.

3. Permissions We Request

Location

peaks may request access to your location while the app is in use to:

• Display your position on the map

• Find nearby peaks and trails

• Center map searches around your current area

Your location is not stored as a movement history or sent to servers operated by the developer. Map-region coordinates may be included in requests to Apple Maps or OpenStreetMap services.

You can revoke location access at any time in your device’s Settings.

Health

With your permission, peaks can read hiking workouts from Apple Health, including:

• Workout dates and durations

• Walking or running distance

• Active energy

• Average heart rate

• Workout routes

This information is used to enrich your saved ascents and is processed on your device. peaks does not write information to Apple Health and does not transmit Health data to the developer or use it for advertising.

Health integration can be disabled in the app or through Apple Health and device Settings.

Photos

peaks uses Apple’s system photo picker. The app can access only the photos you explicitly select.

Selected photos are stored with your ascent records on your device. They are not uploaded to servers operated by the developer. Removing a photo from peaks does not delete the original from your photo library.

4. Maps and External Services

Some features require network requests to third-party services. These requests may expose standard technical information such as your IP address, device network information, requested coordinates, search terms, article titles, and the app’s user-agent identifier.

peaks uses:

• Apple Maps and Apple geocoding for maps, satellite imagery, and place information. See Apple’s Privacy Policy.

• OpenStreetMap Nominatim and Overpass services for peak, elevation, and trail information. Requests may contain search terms, map regions, or peak coordinates. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation Privacy Policy.

• Wikimedia and Wikipedia APIs for peak descriptions. Requests may contain the requested article title and language. See the Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy.

Some Overpass requests may be handled by independently operated community servers. Their operators may maintain technical server logs according to their own policies.

The developer does not control how these third parties process their server logs.

5. Third-Party Websites

Peak information may contain links to Wikipedia, mountain websites, or other external pages. When you open such a link, the destination website’s own privacy policy applies.

6. Analytics, Advertising, and Tracking

peaks does not use:

• Advertising networks

• Analytics providers

• Cross-app tracking

• Marketing SDKs

• User profiling services

• Third-party crash-reporting services

The developer does not sell or rent personal information.

7. Data Retention and Deletion

Locally stored information remains on your device until you delete it or uninstall the app.

Information processed by Apple, OpenStreetMap, Wikimedia, or independent Overpass providers may be retained according to those providers’ respective policies.

8. Security

peaks relies on Apple’s platform security and permission systems. Sensitive information is accessed only after you grant the corresponding system permission.

No method of electronic storage or network communication can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

9. Children’s Privacy

peaks is not specifically directed toward children under the age of 13. The developer does not knowingly collect personal information from children or other users.

10. International Users

peaks is designed with privacy principles under applicable laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation where it applies.

The developer does not receive or centrally process your locally stored ascent, location, photo, or Health data. Third-party network providers may process technical request information in other countries under their respective privacy policies.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when the app’s features or data practices change. Updates will be reflected by revising the Effective Date.

12. Contact

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact vie the contact site