Who this covers
This policy covers the Deatours app for iPhone, published by Deatours. It explains what the app collects, where that information goes, and what it never does. If anything here is unclear, the contact details are at the end.
Location
Deatours asks for the Always location permission. It needs that level because the whole point of the app is to alert you while it is closed and your phone is locked in your pocket. A permission that only works while the app is open on screen cannot do that.
Your phone uses your position to measure how far you are from the places you saved. That measurement happens on the device. Deatours asks iOS to watch a circle around each nearby saved spot, and iOS wakes the app when you cross into one so it can raise a notification.
Deatours never transmits your position.
There is no server that receives it, the app uploads nothing in the background, and no copy of it is created anywhere off your phone.
You can withdraw the permission at any time in iOS Settings. Arrival alerts and live distances stop working. Everything else in the app carries on.
What Deatours stores on your phone
- The spots you save: the name and address of the place, its coordinates, and any note you added about what to order.
- Your settings, such as the alert distance for each speed.
- A record of the most recent alerts, kept so the same place does not alert you over and over on one trip. Each entry holds the time, the place it was about, and where you were when it fired. The app keeps the last few hundred and discards older ones.
All of it lives in the app’s own storage on your device, and none of it is copied anywhere else. Deleting the app deletes every part of it.
What leaves your phone
Two things do, and only when you ask for them.
Place search
When you search for a place, the words you typed are sent to the Deatours search service, which looks them up with Google Places and sends back the matching places. Only the words are sent. Your position is not attached to the request, and neither is any identifier for you or your phone. Google handles that lookup under its own privacy policy.
Voice search
If you add a spot by speaking instead of typing, iOS converts your speech to text using Apple’s speech recognition, and Deatours then searches for that text. Depending on your device, your language and your settings, Apple may process the recording on its own servers rather than on the phone. That step is governed by Apple’s privacy policy. If you would rather nothing was sent to Apple, type your search instead of speaking it.
What Deatours does not do
- No account, no sign in and no email address. The app never asks who you are.
- No analytics, no crash reporting and no advertising identifiers.
- No selling or sharing of personal information with anybody.
- No tracking of you across other apps or websites.
- No notification server. Every alert you receive is created by your own phone, so there is no message to intercept and no list of who was alerted where.
Children
Deatours is not directed at children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect information from them. Because the app has no accounts and collects no personal details, there is no profile for it to build about anybody.
Your choices
- Location: iOS Settings, then Deatours, then Location. Deatours also links you straight there from its own Settings screen.
- Notifications: iOS Settings, then Deatours, then Notifications.
- Remove your saved spots: use Clear all spots on the Settings screen. This clears the spots and stops them alerting you.
- Remove everything, the record of past alerts included: delete the app from your phone.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. The current version is always the one published here.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does with your information, are answered on the support page.