Privacy policy
Geotack is a camera that stamps the date, time, address, coordinates and a small map onto your photos. This policy explains what stays on your phone and what leaves it.
Your photos stay on your phone
Photos you take are stamped on your phone and saved to your phone's Pictures/Geotack folder, where other apps you allow (like your gallery) can see them. Geotack also keeps copies of your most recent stamped photos (up to 60) in its private storage for the Recent photos screen and sharing. Geotack never uploads your photos. When you tap Share, a photo goes only to the app you pick.
To stamp older photos, you pick them with Android's photo picker, so Geotack only receives the photos you choose, never the rest of your gallery.
Location
Geotack uses your precise location only while the app is open, to put the coordinates, accuracy and altitude on the stamp and in the photo's EXIF data. It never uses location in the background and never stores a location history. Saved places (a name and coordinates you choose) are kept in the app's private storage.
Two features send an approximate position off your phone so the stamp can show an address and a map:
- Address lookup: your coordinates are sent to Android's built-in geocoding service (provided by Google on most phones) to get a street address. See Google's Privacy Policy.
- Map tiles: Geotack downloads small map images from OpenStreetMap's tile servers. Each request names the map square around your position (roughly 600 m across) and comes from your IP address. Tiles are kept on your phone for 30 days so the same area isn't downloaded again. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy. You can turn the map off or use the offline grid in the stamp settings.
Geotack itself (NK Tools) does not receive your location.
Camera
The camera is used only to take the photos you shoot. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.
What else is kept on your phone
Your stamp settings, note and project text, photo numbering, which layouts you unlocked, and a few counters (how many photos you saved, whether we asked for a review, whether ads may start) are kept in the app's private storage. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data removes them.
Advertising (Google AdMob)
Geotack is free and shows ads using Google AdMob (the Google Mobile Ads SDK). The ads SDK only starts after you save your first stamped photo or ask to unlock a layout. To show, measure and limit ads and to prevent fraud, Google may collect and process:
- your device's advertising ID and other device identifiers,
- your IP address and the approximate location derived from it,
- device and app information (for example device model, OS version, app version),
- ad interactions (for example which ads were shown or tapped), and crash or diagnostic data from the ads SDK.
The ads SDK never receives your photos or your GPS position. This data is collected by Google, not by NK Tools, and is handled under Google's Privacy Policy. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services. Where the law requires it (for example in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), Geotack asks for your consent through Google's consent message, and you can change your choice at any time from Settings › Ad privacy choices in the app. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings.
What we don't do
- No account or sign-in.
- No analytics or tracking SDKs besides the ads described above.
- No background location and no location history.
- No access to your whole photo library: no media or storage permission.
- We don't sell your data, and we never receive your photos.
Permissions
- Camera: to take photos.
- Precise and approximate location (while the app is in use): for the stamp and EXIF data.
- Internet: for address lookup, map tiles and ads.
- Network state, advertising ID, Android ad services, wake lock and foreground service (added by the ads SDK): used by the ads SDK as described above.
Children
Geotack is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above.
Contact
Questions or requests: anithabheesetty@gmail.com