Privacy
policy

The one-minute summary

LightGPX records your location while you shoot so your photos can land on the map later. Your trips sync across your devices through your private account. That is the whole app.

• Your trips are stored on your device and in your private account, so your Mac can see what your iPhone recorded.
• We never sell, rent, or share your location or account data. We do not run ads.
• No analytics SDKs. No ad SDKs. No advertising identifier.
• We use Sign in with Apple or Google only to identify you and to show your name and photo inside the app.
• Delete your account from inside the app and your data is permanently inaccessible.

Who we are

LightGPX ("the app", "we") is a product operated by Valentino Zegna, an individual developer. For data-protection purposes, we are the data controller.

Contact

privacy@lightgpx.com

What we collect

Exactly four categories of data:

1. Location data. Your recorded GPS trips.
2. Account data. An account identifier, email address, name, and profile photo (when shared) from Sign in with Apple or Google.
3. Diagnostics. Anonymous crash reports.
4. Device metadata. An anonymous per-install identifier and the app version, so we can tell your devices apart on a single account.

We do not collect: your camera photos, the EXIF inside them, your contacts, calendars, microphone audio, the names of other apps you use, your advertising identifier, fingerprints, voiceprints, or any biometric.

Location data

Location data is why the app exists. This section is the one to read.

What we record

While a trip is active, the app records GPS points: timestamp, latitude, longitude, altitude, accuracy, speed, and heading. Points belong to a trip.

Where it lives

Recording happens on your device first. Your device holds the original. The app does not need an internet connection to record a trip or to read one back.

Sync

Once you sign in, your trips sync to your private account on our encrypted servers so they appear on your other signed-in devices. Only you can read them. If you are offline, recording continues on your device and syncs the next time you are online.

What we do with it

We sync it across your devices and back it up. That is the only purpose. We do not aggregate it, analyse it, build heat maps, combine it with anyone else's data, or share any part of it with any partner, broker, or advertiser. There is no "anonymised" location product. We do not operate one.

Account data

You sign in with Apple or Google so the app knows which trips belong to you. Without it, your Mac and iPhone could not share the same trips.

From your identity provider we receive: a stable identifier for you, your email address, your name (if shared), and your profile photo (if shared). The email can be Apple's private relay address if you prefer. Your name and photo are used as your account display inside the app. We do not receive your contacts, friends list, calendars, or social graph.

Your email is used only for account-critical messages (for example, a deletion confirmation) and to help you recover access if something goes wrong. We do not send newsletters.

Diagnostics

The app sends crash reports and error logs so we can fix bugs. A report contains the technical details of the crash, your device model, your operating-system and app version, and an anonymous installation identifier.

If you are signed in, a report also carries your account identifier and email so we can follow up if you write to us about a problem. A report never contains your trips or any latitude or longitude, and your IP address is stripped before it leaves your device.

If you would like diagnostics turned off for your account, email us and we will set it.

Service providers

A small number of service providers help us run the app. Each one only sees the data it needs to do its job, and none of them may use your data for their own purposes.

• Apple and Google. Sign-in. They confirm it is you, and pass us your email and an account identifier.
• Our cloud sync provider. Stores your trips and account record on encrypted servers in the European Union. They cannot read your data. Only you can.
• Our diagnostics provider. Receives crash reports as described above, including your account identifier and email when you are signed in, so we can follow up on support questions.
• Our website host. Serves this website. They see standard request metadata (browser, country) and nothing from inside the app.

We do not use any analytics, advertising, attribution, or ad-measurement SDKs.

Retention and deletion

On your device

Your device's copy of your trips stays on the device until you delete the app, at which point your operating system removes it.

In your account

Synced trips are kept for as long as your account exists. The data in your account is yours. You can delete individual trips from the app at any time, and the deletion reaches your other devices so nothing is left behind.

Account deletion

You can delete your account from Settings inside the app. On confirmation, your account and all of your data become permanently inaccessible: to you, to us, and to anyone else. If you also want the underlying records destroyed outright, email us and we will do it within 30 days.

Your rights

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, California, or another jurisdiction with comparable legislation, you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you.
• Correct inaccurate data.
• Request deletion.
• Object to processing and request restriction.
• Port your data in a machine-readable format (the in-app GPX export covers this for your tracks).
• Lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

The simplest way to exercise any of these is to email us. We reply to every message.

Children

LightGPX is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a minor has created an account, email us and we will delete it.

Changes

If we change anything material on this page, we will update the effective date at the top and, where we have your email, send you a short note describing what changed and why. Clarifications that do not change behaviour may ship silently; the version line tracks those.

Contact

Questions, requests, corrections, or complaints go to privacy@lightgpx.com. A real person reads every message.