Privacy policy

What the app collects

• Sign-in: your Google account name and email address.
• Location: only during a hike or a recording. While a trip plan is running, the app can send your last-known position every few minutes. Your contact sees it only if you're overdue, and group leaders only if you agree for that hike.
• Trip plans: the trail, your start and back-by times, and your contact's name and phone number.
• Recordings: the GPS track of a hike you record. It stays private unless you make it public or share a private link.
• Posts and photos: condition reports, photos, comments and logged hikes you choose to share, with the name you choose. Location data (EXIF) is removed from photos on your phone before upload.
• Groups: the groups you join, the hikes you register for and your messages in group chat.
• Notifications: a push token so the app can send you reminders and updates. It's removed when you sign out.
• Contact taps: counting WhatsApp and Call taps is off unless you turn it on in Settings. The counts hold no account or device details.

What this website collects

This website doesn't use cookies, analytics or tracking scripts. Our web host may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses, for security.

Why we use it

• To run the app: showing trails, sending your plan to your contact and letting them know if you haven't checked in, recording hikes, posts and groups.
• We don't sell your data, and we don't share it with advertisers.

Who can see it

• Your contact: your trail and times, and your last-known position only if you're overdue.
• Group leaders: your registration details for their hikes, and your position only if you agree for that hike.
• Other hikers: what you post publicly, with the name you choose.
• Service providers that host and run Denai for us: [List to confirm: database hosting, sign-in, push notifications, message delivery].

How long we keep it

• Location history is deleted 30 days after you check in.
• Everything else is kept until you remove it or delete your account. [Final retention periods to be confirmed.]

Your choices and rights

• In the app's Settings you can export your data and delete your account.
• You can turn off location sharing and contact-tap counting at any time.
• You can ask us for a copy of your data, or to correct it, by email.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll post the new version here with its date.