Introduction
Atlas: Photo Travel Map (“Atlas”) is made by VTX Labs. This policy explains what Atlas does with your information. The short version: your photos and their locations never leave your device.
What Atlas reads
With your permission, Atlas reads the location and date stored in the photos and videos you allow it to access. You choose the access level in the iOS permission dialog (all photos, selected photos, or none), and you can change it at any time in iOS Settings. You can also use Atlas without library access by picking individual photos.
Atlas uses this information only on your device to draw your globe, find your trips, and build your recaps and city map.
What Atlas stores
Atlas keeps a small index on your device: for each photo with a location, its identifier, coordinates, date, and whether it is a video. No copies of your photos are made, except temporary thumbnails in the app’s cache.
You can delete this index at any time in Settings → Delete everything Atlas: Photo Travel Map knows. Deleting the app also deletes it.
What leaves your device
- Nothing about your photos or places, unless you choose to share. Atlas has no accounts, no servers of its own, and no analytics or advertising SDKs.
- When you share a recap poster, the image goes wherever you send it via the iOS share sheet.
- When you share your Atlas with a friend, the link contains your chosen display name, the countries you have visited, rough areas (about 50 km across), the years you have photos from, and totals (photos, trips, distance). It never contains photos, exact locations, or dates.
- Purchases. If you buy Atlas Pro, the purchase is made and processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. Atlas checks whether you own Pro on your device using Apple’s StoreKit; we never receive your payment details, name, email or Apple ID.
Maps
The city map uses Apple Maps. Map tiles are requested from Apple for the area shown; Apple’s privacy policy applies to those requests. Atlas does not send your photo locations to Apple.
Children
Atlas is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with an updated date.
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