Privacy policy

The short version

• The Geovoya desktop app has no telemetry or analytics.
• Without an account, your saved places, routes, device identifiers and session data stay on your computer.
• An account is optional. If you create one, we store your email address, your plan and the computers you sign in on. With Pro cloud sync, we also store the data you choose to sync.
• Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see your full card number.
• This website uses no analytics, advertising or third-party scripts.

1. The desktop app

Data stored on your computer

Geovoya stores its settings on your computer: your chosen computer and phone setup, saved and recent places, your route library, connected phone identifiers, Wi-Fi pairing records needed to reconnect your phone, and a recovery record for active location sessions. Uninstalling the app and deleting its data folder removes it.

Data sent to third-party services

• Map tiles: viewing the map requests tiles from OpenStreetMap’s tile servers, which see your IP address and which map areas you view.
• Place search: the text you search for is sent to a Photon geocoding service (the public demo server by default; you can change it in Settings).
• Route planning: planning or re-planning a route sends the stop coordinates to a public OSRM routing service. No device identifiers are sent. Route playback itself doesn’t contact the service.
• First iPhone setup: preparing an iPhone downloads Apple developer support files.

These services are run by third parties under their own privacy policies.

Data on your phone

On Android, Geovoya installs the Appium Settings helper app and makes it the mock-location app. On iPhone, it uses Apple’s developer services. Geovoya doesn’t read your contacts, messages, photos or other personal content.

2. Geovoya accounts

You only need an account for Geovoya Pro. When you have one, Geovoya Cloud stores:

• Account: your email address, when you created the account and your email preferences.
• Sign-in: the name and operating system of each computer you sign in on, when it was last seen and last synced, and browser sessions for this website. Sign-in links are single use and expire.
• Subscription: your plan, billing period and status, received from Stripe.
• Cloud sync (Pro): saved places, recent places, your route library, play history and shared preferences. Phone sessions, phone identifiers and live locations are never synced.
• Security logs: limited technical logs, such as IP addresses for rate limiting and abuse prevention.

From your account you can download your cloud data, delete it, sign out of computers and browsers, and delete your account. Deleting your account cancels any subscription, signs out your computers and deletes your synced data.

Email

We send sign-in links and messages about your account and billing. Product news is only sent if you turn it on in Security settings, and you can turn it off at any time.

3. Payments

Checkout and the billing portal are provided by Stripe, which processes your payment details under its own privacy policy. We receive your subscription status and limited billing details (such as the plan and renewal date), not your full card number.

4. This website

geovoya.com loads no analytics, advertising or third-party scripts. When you sign in, Geovoya Cloud sets two cookies: gv_session (keeps you signed in, HttpOnly) and gv_csrf (protects forms against cross-site requests). They are strictly necessary and aren’t used for tracking. The site also stores your theme choice and a “signed in before” hint in your browser’s local storage. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs for security and operations.

5. Retention

We keep account data while your account exists. Deleting your cloud data removes it from the sync service, but computers with sync still turned on upload their local copy again. When you delete your account, we delete its data, except records we must keep for legal, tax or fraud-prevention reasons.

6. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, or to object to how we use it. Most of this is available directly in your account; otherwise, contact us.

7. Children

Geovoya isn’t aimed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their data.

8. Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected]