Privacy Policy

1. Overview

SnapSpots is an iPhone app for capturing and finding your way back to places — a car, a trailhead, a friend at the park. It is operated by SMPLPXLS LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”).

SnapSpots is built private-by-default. You do not create an account. You do not sign in. Your photos, videos, and the spots you save live on your phone — not on a server we control. We do not run analytics on how you use the app, we do not track you, and we do not sell or share your data with anyone.

This page describes the very small amount of data the app does touch, where it stays, and the few moments when anything ever leaves your device.

2. Information stored on your phone

When you save a spot, SnapSpots stores the following on your device only, inside the app’s private storage:

• The photo or video you captured.
• The location the capture was taken (latitude and longitude), so you can find your way back to the spot or share it later.
• The date and time of the capture.
• A place name for the spot (e.g. “Volunteer Park · Seattle”). This is produced by Apple’s reverse-geocoding service when you save the spot — see Section 4.
• Any custom name you give the spot.

This information is never sent to a SnapSpots server (we don’t operate one). It lives in Apple’s standard app-storage area on your iPhone, governed by iOS’s usual app sandboxing — only the SnapSpots app can read it.

iOS Spotlight indexing. SnapSpots also makes your spots searchable in iOS Spotlight (the search feature you access by swiping down on your home screen). Spot names and place names are indexed locally on your device only — nothing is sent to Apple or any other service for indexing purposes. The index stays on your phone and is governed by the same sandboxing as the app itself.

3. What we do not collect

To be explicit, SnapSpots does not collect, store, or transmit:

• Your name, email address, phone number, or any account information.
• Any advertising or device identifiers (no IDFA, no tracking ID).
• Usage analytics — we have no insight into which features you use, how often you open the app, or what your spots are.
• Crash or diagnostic data — except whatever Apple itself collects at the iOS level if you have opted in to share diagnostics with developers via Settings › Privacy › Analytics & Improvements. We can see anonymous aggregated crash counts through Apple’s standard developer dashboard; we cannot see your photos, spots, or location.
• Contacts, browsing history, or any data from other apps.

4. When data leaves your device

There are only three situations in which any information related to your spots leaves your iPhone — and all three are initiated by you, except the first, which is automatic and limited to a single coordinate.

Reverse geocoding (automatic, per spot). When you save a spot, SnapSpots sends the spot’s latitude and longitude to Apple’s built-in geocoding service so we can show a human-readable place name (e.g. “Volunteer Park · Seattle”) instead of bare coordinates. This is handled by iOS, not by a server we operate; the photo, video, and any other details about the spot are not part of this request. Apple’s handling of this lookup is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy.

Sharing a spot (only when you tap Share). If you choose to share a spot, SnapSpots hands the photo (or video) and a maps link for the location to the iOS system share sheet. You then pick the destination — Messages, Mail, AirDrop, another app, etc. — and that destination is who receives the photo and the link. SnapSpots itself does not transmit anything in this flow; iOS does, on your behalf, to the recipient you chose.

Saving to your Photos library (only when you opt in). If you ask the app to save a copy of a capture to your iPhone’s Photos library, iOS adds it to Photos. From that point the photo lives in your Photos library and is subject to whatever sync (e.g. iCloud Photos) you have configured for it. SnapSpots is not involved after the copy is handed off.

5. Permissions we ask for

Because SnapSpots is a camera-and-location app, iOS will ask for your permission for the following the first time the relevant feature runs:

• Camera. Required so you can capture photos and videos to save as spots.
• Microphone. Required to record the audio that accompanies a video capture. (No audio is recorded for photo captures.)
• Location (when in use). Required to tag each capture with where it was taken, so you can find your way back. We use only your current location at the moment of capture; we do not track your location in the background.
• Photo library (optional). Asked only if you choose to save a copy of a capture to your iPhone’s Photos library.

You can review or revoke any of these at any time in iOS Settings › SnapSpots. Revoking a required permission will disable the corresponding feature in the app.

6. Third-party services

SnapSpots intentionally avoids third-party SDKs — no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporters, no social-login providers. The only third parties involved in normal use of the app are:

• Apple. iOS itself provides reverse geocoding (Section 4), the system share sheet, the Photos library, and the App Store through which you obtain the app and any future updates. Governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy.
• Apple Maps and Google Maps. When you tap to open a spot in a maps app, SnapSpots hands the coordinate to the maps app on your device. That maps app (Apple Maps or Google Maps, depending on what you choose) then handles the request under its own terms.
• Cloudflare. Hosts snapspots.app (this marketing website). Cloudflare may receive standard web request information (e.g. IP address, browser type) when you visit any page on snapspots.app; this is unrelated to your use of the iPhone app. Governed by Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.

7. Data retention and deletion

Because your spots live on your phone, you control them:

• Delete an individual spot from within the app — both the record and the underlying photo/video file are permanently removed from the device.
• Uninstall the app to remove every spot SnapSpots has stored. iOS deletes the app’s entire private storage area when you remove the app, leaving nothing behind.

We have no copy of your spots, so there is nothing to delete on our end. If you have saved copies of captures to your Photos library, those remain in Photos until you delete them there.

8. Security

We rely on iOS’s built-in app sandbox to keep your spots isolated from other apps on your device. The data on your iPhone is also protected by the device passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID at the OS level, and by Apple’s on-device encryption when your iPhone is locked.

No system is perfectly secure, but because SnapSpots stores nothing on a server, there is no remote breach surface to compromise.

9. Children’s privacy

SnapSpots is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 — and because the app does not collect personal information from anyone, there is nothing to collect even if a child uses the app. Parents who do not want their children using a camera-and-location app should manage access through iOS’s Screen Time and Family Sharing controls.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the app’s behavior changes in a way that affects what data is touched. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Continued use of SnapSpots after a change is posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy or how SnapSpots handles your data? Reach us at contact@smplpxls.com.

SMPLPXLS LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States