Waypoint : Privacy Policy
Effective date: 26 October 2026
App: Waypoint (Android package name: app.abilash.waypoint)
Developer: Abilash A R
SUMMARY
Waypoint is a location alarm that works on your device. There are no servers, accounts, ads, or analytics. Your exact location and your alarms never leave your phone, and are never collected, sold, or shared by us. The only location-related information that leaves your device is an approximate position (rounded to about 1 km), sent to a place-search service while you type a search so it can show nearby results first.
1. WHO WE ARE
Waypoint ("the app") is developed and published by Abilash AR, an independent developer ("we", "us"). For any privacy question or request, contact arabhilash01@gmail.com.
2. HOW THE APP USES YOUR LOCATION
Waypoint's single purpose is to ring an alarm when you arrive at a place you chose. To do this, it:
- reads your device's precise location while the app is open, to show your position on the map and measure the distance to your alarms;
- monitors your location in the background, using operating-system geofences and, while an alarm is armed, a foreground tracking service, so the alarm can ring even when the screen is off or the app is closed.
Your precise location is processed on your device, in memory, to check the distance to your alarms. We never receive it, store it on any server, log it, sell it, or share it. Background monitoring runs only while you have an armed alarm; disarming all your alarms stops it.
3. DATA STORED ON YOUR DEVICE
Your alarms (place name, address, coordinates, radius, alert style, chosen alarm sound and similar settings) and your recently picked places are saved in the app's private storage on your device, so they survive a restart. This data is never uploaded anywhere. Deleting an alarm removes it, and uninstalling the app permanently deletes all app data.
4. WHAT WE DO NOT COLLECT
- No accounts, sign-ins, names, email addresses, or contacts.
- No analytics, crash reporting, tracking, or advertising SDKs.
- No advertising identifiers, device fingerprints, or usage profiles.
We do not operate any servers, so we receive no personal data from the app.
5. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES YOUR DEVICE CONTACTS
Like any app that shows a map, Waypoint fetches some content over the internet. These requests go directly from your device to the services below, over encrypted connections (HTTPS). We do not receive, store, or use this information.
a) Photon place search, by Komoot (OpenStreetMap data)
What is sent: the text you type in the search field, your IP address, and your position rounded to roughly 1 km.
Why: to show place suggestions as you type, nearest first.
b) Your device's built-in geocoding service (Google on Android, Apple on iOS)
What is sent: a place name you search for, or the coordinate of a pin you drop on the map.
Why: to turn a search into map coordinates, and a dropped pin into a readable address.
c) OpenFreeMap (OpenStreetMap data)
What is sent: standard web request data (your IP address and the area of the map being viewed).
Why: to download the map shown in the app.
These providers' own privacy policies apply to those requests:
- Komoot (Photon): https://www.komoot.com/privacy
- Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Apple: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
- OpenFreeMap: https://openfreemap.org
6. PERMISSIONS THE APP ASKS FOR, AND WHY
- Precise and approximate location (while in use): show your position and measure the distance to your alarms.
- Background location ("Allow all the time"): ring the alarm when you arrive while the app is closed or the screen is off. This is the app's core feature.
- Foreground service (location, Android): keep a visible "tracking active" service running while an alarm is armed, so the system does not stop location monitoring.
- Notifications: show the arrival alarm and the ongoing "tracking active" notice.
- Full-screen alerts (Android): wake the screen and show the ringing alarm over the lock screen.
- Exact alarms (Android): run a precisely timed backup check on your armed alarms, so arrival is still detected when the phone is in a power-saving state.
- Change audio settings: raise the alarm volume when an alarm rings, so you hear it even if your phone's volume is turned down.
- Vibration: vibrate when an alarm rings, if you chose a vibrating alert.
- Run at startup (Android): re-register your armed alarms after the phone restarts.
- Ignore battery optimisations (Android, optional): stop the system from pausing location monitoring, so alarms fire reliably.
- Internet access: download the map and look up places (see section 5).
7. DATA SHARING
We do not share, sell, rent, or disclose any user data. The only information sent to third parties is what is described in section 5, sent directly from your device to provide the feature you are using.
8. DATA RETENTION AND DELETION
Everything the app saves stays on your device. Delete an alarm in the app to remove it, or uninstall the app to permanently erase all app data. We hold no data about you on any server, and there is no account to close.
9. SECURITY
Your data is kept in the app's private, sandboxed storage provided by Android, which other apps cannot access. All network requests the app makes use encrypted connections (HTTPS).
10. CHILDREN
Waypoint is not directed at children under 13. Because it collects no personal data, it does not knowingly collect personal data from children.
11. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
If the app's data practices change (for example, if a future version adds optional analytics or in-app purchases), this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the effective date above will change.
12. CONTACT
For questions or requests about this policy or your privacy, contact Abilash A R at arabhilash01@gmail.com.