Privacy policy

6 November 2026

Flight Map shows where you are on a flight using your phone's GPS. It is made by meadowSweet, an independent developer in the UK. Contact: [email protected].

What the app uses and where it stays

Your location. The app reads your phone's GPS while you track a flight (after you tap Start) and briefly when you open it. Positions, your route, your logbook and the flights you plan are stored only on your phone. Flight Map never sends them to us or to anyone else. One exception is outside the app: when the GPS has nothing recent (for example on the ground, or when you open the app), the app can ask Android for an approximate position from its network location service. To work that out, Android may send nearby Wi-Fi and mobile-network information to Google. That is Google's service, not Flight Map's, and it is covered by Google's privacy policy. Flight Map does not send your position anywhere, unless you send the debug log yourself.
Weather downloads. To show turbulence reports and the weather at your arrival airport, the app downloads public reports from NOAA's Aviation Weather Center (aviationweather.gov). These requests include the codes of the airports in your trip, not your position.
North Atlantic tracks. On a trip across the North Atlantic, with internet, the app downloads the day's published oceanic tracks from the US Federal Aviation Administration (notams.faa.gov), at most every 6 hours, and notes them in its log on your phone, so the route flown can be compared with them. The request is a plain page download: it doesn't include your position or the airports in your trip.
Satellite orbit data. The app asks Android to refresh the GPS's orbit data (provided by your phone's maker or Google) so the GPS finds you faster.
Plane Wi-Fi. While tracking, when you are in the air or your phone is in flight mode, and it is connected to a Wi-Fi network, the app checks about every 10 minutes whether the in-flight entertainment providers' flight-data pages answer (Panasonic Avionics, Gogo/Intelsat, United and Viasat), and notes the result in its log on your phone. This can't tell a plane's Wi-Fi from any other, so it also happens on other Wi-Fi if flight mode is on. Each request is a plain page request with no position, name or account in it, but the provider's server sees your phone's internet address.
Purchases. Unlimited and Pro are bought through Google Play, under Google's own terms and privacy policy. We never see your card or payment details. The app asks Google Play which of its products your Google account owns, so it can unlock them, and keeps the answer on your phone so it works offline. Google tells us about each order (an order number, the product, the price and the country) so we can handle refunds; we use that only to run the app's sales and for our accounts.
Invites. Your invite link (getflightmap.com/i/…) carries a short random code made on your phone. When a friend installs Flight Map from it, Google Play passes the code to their app so it can give them the extra free flight. The code stays on the two phones: it isn't linked to you, and we aren't told who invited whom.
Feedback. If you tell us how a flight went, the app opens your email app with your answers, the app version and your phone's model, and the debug log if you leave that ticked. It is sent only if you send the email, and it's private: it isn't a review and isn't published.
The debug log. The app keeps a log of its own activity on your phone for 7 days, including positions in the air (positions on the ground are rounded to about 1 km when you share it). It leaves your phone only if you send it yourself (More, Send flight log), by email or another app you choose.
Anonymous usage statistics (optional, off until you agree). The first time you open the app it asks whether to share anonymous usage, and you can change your answer any time with the switch "Share anonymous usage" in Settings. If you agree, the app counts which features are used (for example that the cities layer or the GPS page was opened, or that tracking was started or stopped), the app version, whether the phone is Android or iPhone, your plan, and the names of problems such as a failed weather download. It never includes your position, route, airports, flights, flight times, the debug log or anything you type. Each count carries only the day, and a random ID made on your phone: no account, name, email or advertising ID. The counts are kept on your phone and sent in a batch when it is online, to PostHog's servers in the EU (eu.i.posthog.com). Switching it off deletes the unsent counts and the ID. If you say no, nothing is kept or sent.

With each download and Wi-Fi check, the server you reach sees your phone's internet address, as with any app or website. We don't run any servers that the app talks to.

What we don't do

No accounts, no advertising, no tracking across apps, no selling of data. The only statistics are the optional anonymous usage counts described above, which are off unless you agree.

If you email us

If you write to [email protected], for example to join the test or to send a log, we use your email and what you send only to reply and to improve the app, and we don't pass it on. Ask and we'll delete it.

Deleting your data

Everything is on your phone, except anonymous usage counts if you agreed to share them. Because they carry only a random ID and no account, we can't tell which counts are yours; switching the setting off stops them and deletes the ID. Clear the route, log or logbook in the app, or uninstall it to delete everything.

Children

The app is not intended for children under 13.

Changes

Any change to this policy will be posted here with a new date.