Privacy Policy

Last updated: 28 October 2026

Overview

Viatrail ("the app") is an offline-first hiking map application. There is no account to create and no sign-in. The app does not collect personal information, it has no analytics or advertising, and the routes, tracks and waypoints in your library never leave your device.

The only personal information we hold is what you give us if you ask for a beta invite on this website. See Beta sign-up on this website.

Data stored on your device

Everything you create or import stays on your device. None of it is sent to us:

To delete this data, delete it within the app or uninstall the app.

Location

The app uses your device's location for map display, navigation, and track recording. Location is processed entirely on your device. We do not collect, transmit, or store it.

Track recording continues while the app is in the background, so that a recording is not lost when your screen locks or you switch apps. The recorded track is written to your device's local library, and nowhere else.

Map tiles

When you view or download an area of the map while online, the app requests map tiles from our tile server at tiles.viatrail.app, which is served through Cloudflare. As with any request to any website, that server receives your device's IP address and the identity of the tiles requested, which indicates the map area being viewed. We do not associate these requests with an identity, build profiles from them, or combine them with anything else.

Map tiles downloaded for offline use are stored on your device, and viewing them later requires no network request at all.

Search

Searching your library runs entirely on your device against locally stored data. Search queries are not sent to us.

Beta sign-up on this website

If you ask for a beta invite on viatrail.app, we store what you enter in the form: your email address, the type of phone you use, and the reason you give. If you sign up on the creators page, we also store the route you tell us you work on, and that you signed up as a creator. We also store the date and time you signed up.

We use this only to choose beta testers, to send you a beta invite, and to tell you about Viatrail. Every email we send tells you how to stop further emails. We do not sell your sign-up or share it with anyone else. We hold it because you gave it to us for these purposes, and you can withdraw that at any time.

Viatrail is run by Dave Brophy. Cloudflare hosts this website and stores sign-ups for us in a database in Western Europe. We do not store your IP address with your sign-up. Like any web host, Cloudflare sees your IP address when you load a page or send the form. We use it for a few seconds to stop automated sign-ups, and Cloudflare keeps it in request logs for up to 7 days.

We keep your sign-up until you ask us to delete it, or until we no longer need it for the beta. To see, correct or delete what we hold about you, email support@viatrail.app. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Visits to this website

To count visits to viatrail.app we use Cloudflare Web Analytics. For each page view it records the page, the site that sent you here, your country, your browser, operating system and type of device, and how fast the page loaded.

It does not use cookies or other storage on your device, it does not keep your IP address with these records, and it does not follow you to other websites. We see only totals, not individual visitors.

This website has no advertising. Cloudflare hosts it, and its fonts and images are served from viatrail.app itself, so loading a page contacts no other company.

What we do not do

Children's privacy

The app is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated date.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, contact us at support@viatrail.app.