Hexstamp Privacy Policy

Hexstamp (“the app”) helps you log the countries you’ve visited and keep a record of your trips — the dates, the people you were with, places, journal notes, and photos. Your privacy is built into how the app works: Hexstamp has no server of its own and is designed so that your information never reaches the developer or any third party.

What data the app stores, and where

Hexstamp stores the information you choose to enter about your travels — for example the countries you’ve visited, trip dates, the trip type, places (cities, regions, landmarks), journal entries, the people you travelled with (a name and an optional link to your Contacts), and any photos you add to a trip or a companion.

This information is stored:

• Locally on your device, in the app’s on-device database; and
• In your private iCloud account (Apple’s CloudKit private database), if iCloud is enabled on your device, so it can sync across your own devices.

The developer has no access to your iCloud data. It is stored under your Apple ID, governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy and iCloud terms. Hexstamp never transmits your data to the developer or to any other party.

Location

With your permission, Hexstamp can use your location while the app is open to detect the country you’re currently in and offer to log a trip. This uses Apple’s “when in use” location — Hexstamp never tracks your location in the background. The location is used on your device to work out the country and is not stored as coordinates or sent to the developer. This feature is optional and can be turned off in Settings.

Photos and camera

You can add photos to your trips and a single reminder photo to each companion. Photos are stored in your app data (on your device and in your private iCloud, as above). If you take a photo inside the app using the camera, the full-resolution original is also saved to your Photos library so you keep it — you can turn this off in Settings. Photos you pick from your library are not duplicated. The camera is used only while you are actively taking a photo.

Contacts

When you tag a travel companion, you can optionally pick or create a person from your Contacts. Hexstamp stores a snapshot of the name and an optional reference to the contact so it can open their contact card later. Contacts are accessed only when you choose to pick, create, or view a contact — never in the background — and your contacts are never uploaded anywhere.

Home-screen widget

The optional Hexstamp widget shows your next trip and travel stats. It reads a small summary the app saves into your device’s shared storage; it involves no server and sends nothing externally.

Biometric lock

You may optionally require Face ID or Touch ID to open the app. This is handled by iOS; Hexstamp never receives or stores your biometric data.

Purchases

Hexstamp offers an optional one-time in-app purchase (“Pro”) that unlocks extra features. Purchases are handled entirely by Apple’s App Store and StoreKit; Hexstamp receives only whether the purchase is active, and never sees your payment details.

Information the developer receives

None from the app itself. If you contact the developer by email for support, the developer will receive whatever you choose to include in that message, and will use it only to respond to you.

If you download Hexstamp from the App Store, Apple may provide the developer with aggregated, anonymous statistics (such as download counts and crash summaries). This data is collected and anonymised by Apple and does not identify you. See Apple’s privacy information for details.

Children’s privacy

Hexstamp is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from children.

Your control over your data

Because your data lives on your device and in your own iCloud account, you are in control of it:

• Delete a trip or country in the app to remove it from your device and your iCloud.
• Manage or remove the app’s iCloud data through your device’s iCloud settings.
• Deleting the app removes its local data from that device.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.