Privacy policy

Who we are

SkyGuess is made by Illia Panasenko in the Netherlands, who is responsible for your data. Questions about privacy: privacy@skyguess.app.

SkyGuess has no accounts and no ads. We don’t track you across apps or websites, and we never sell your data. This website uses no cookies. Your Spotter Book, stats and camera picture stay on your iPhone. If you use iCloud, your game history syncs through your own iCloud account; we can’t see it.

What we collect and why

Usage data and crash reports, only if you turn them on. They help us fix crashes and see what to improve. They never include your name or location, and the game works the same without them. They carry a random ID made just for SkyGuess, not linked to you or your Apple Account. Turn them on or off at any time in About in the app; turning both off deletes the ID.

Your location, for Live and Follow me. To find the planes near you, the app sends our server a rough location, rounded to about 1 km. For Live, it isn’t stored. Follow me keeps it, with your phone’s notification token, only while Follow me is on, and deletes it when Follow me ends. If you don’t share your location, you can pick a city instead.

Daily reminders. Your phone schedules them itself. Their settings and times stay on your iPhone and nothing about them is sent to us. With usage data on, we only learn that a reminder was turned on or off, and that the app was opened from one.

Feedback. When you use the feedback form or email us, we get your message, your email address and your name if you give it, so we can reply.

Server logs. Our server and this website don’t store request addresses or positions. Error reports carry no player data.

Legal basis

Your consent for usage data and crash reports. For everything else, providing what you ask for and our legitimate interest in running a safe service.

Who else receives data

• PostHog stores usage data and crash reports on its EU Cloud in Frankfurt, under PostHog’s data processing agreement. It discards your IP address.
• Cloudflare hosts our server and this website, delivers our email and runs the spam check on the feedback form.
• Apple handles purchases and delivers Follow me notifications.

Some of this may be handled outside the EEA. Those transfers are covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and Standard Contractual Clauses.

How long we keep it

• Usage data and crash reports: 1 year.
• Feedback messages and emails: up to 2 years.
• Follow me location: until Follow me ends.

Children

SkyGuess isn’t aimed at children under 13. If you’re under 16, ask a parent before you turn on usage data or crash reports.

Your rights

You can ask us to:

• show you the data we have about you, or send you a copy;
• correct or delete it;
• stop or limit how we use it.

You can withdraw your consent at any time with the switches in the app. Write to privacy@skyguess.app and we’ll answer within a couple of days, usually within hours. The Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, supervises how we handle personal data.

Finding your random ID

We don’t know who you are, so to find your usage data we need your random ID. In the app: About → Usage data → “Copy my analytics ID” (coming in the next app update). Until then, email privacy@skyguess.app from your iPhone and we’ll help you find it.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. For big changes, we’ll also tell you in the app.