Privacy Policy
Effective 5 August 2026
- Application
- Oh Yeah, That Place
- Package
com.codexofplanes.ohyeahthatplace- Platform
- Android
- Developer
- Codex of Planes
Your saved places and notes never leave your device. There is no account, no server, and no analytics. Everything the app remembers is stored locally, and there is no copy of it anywhere else. Two things do reach third parties — searching for a place, and drawing the map — and both are described in full below.
What the app stores on your device
All of this lives in a local database on your phone. None of it is transmitted anywhere.
| Data | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| Places you save — name, address text, coordinates, reminder distance, arrival and departure settings | To know where to remind you |
| Notes attached to a place, and any per-note settings | To show you what you wanted to remember |
| Whether you are currently inside a place's reminder zone | To avoid repeating a reminder you have already had |
| Diagnostic records when something goes wrong | To help fix bugs — see Diagnostics |
Uninstalling the app deletes all of it. There is nothing held elsewhere for us to delete on request.
Your location, and why the app needs it in the background
The app asks for location access all the time, not only while you are using it. That is not incidental — it is the entire feature. A reminder attached to a place can only reach you if your phone is able to notice you have arrived there while the app is closed and your screen is off. Without background access the app cannot do the one thing it exists to do.
This monitoring is performed by the Android operating system on your device. You give Android a list of places and how close you want to be; Android tells the app when you arrive or leave. Your position is not uploaded, not recorded as a history, and not shared. The app has no ability to see where you have been.
What is sent to third parties
Mapbox — only while you are searching
Typing in the search box sends your search text and an approximate position to Mapbox, which returns matching places. The position is deliberately rounded before it leaves the device — to about 100 metres — because search only needs a rough area to return useful results, and there is no reason to send more than that.
Nothing is sent when you are not actively searching. Mapbox handles what it receives under its own privacy policy.
Google Maps — while the map is on screen
The map is drawn by the Google Maps SDK, so Google receives the requests needed to render the area you are looking at, and supplies the place information shown when you tap a labelled location. This is covered by Google's privacy policy.
Your phone's own address lookup
If a search looks like a street address and finds nothing, the app falls back to the address-lookup service built into your phone's operating system. On most Android devices that service is provided by Google.
Diagnostics
When something fails, the app writes a diagnostic note on your device so the problem can be understood later. These notes are redacted as they are written: place names and precise coordinates are stripped out before anything is saved, so the record cannot identify where you were or what you had written.
They stay on your phone and are never sent automatically. If you choose to tap “Share details”, you decide where that redacted text goes.
What this app does not do
- No accounts, sign-in, or profiles
- No advertising, ad identifiers, or tracking
- No analytics or usage telemetry
- No selling or sharing of personal information
- No location history
Permissions
| Permission | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
| Location (approximate and precise) | Show where you are, and bias search toward nearby places |
| Background location | Notice arrivals and departures while the app is closed — the core feature |
| Foreground service (location) | Required by Android to keep watching places while the app is closed |
| Notifications | Deliver your reminders |
| Internet | Load map tiles and run searches |
| Vibration | Vibrate when a reminder arrives |
Children
This app is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the effective date above changes with it and the updated version is posted at this address.
Contact
Questions about this policy: privacy@codexofplanes.com