Privacy Policy
Effective: November 6, 2026
Mapling records places you visit and turns them into a private map and timeline. This policy explains which data is handled and the choices available to you.
Location data and other information we handle
- Your Sign in with Apple identifier and the email address Apple provides, if any.
- Precise locations, arrival and departure times, accuracy, confirmed place names, and movement routes.
- Travel-mode evidence, step counts, notes, ratings, favourites, rankings, commute settings, and app settings.
- Only if you allow it in Settings, step counts recorded in Health (the time, the number of steps and the kind of device, such as Apple Watch, for each record). They are used only to tell stays and travel apart more accurately; no other Health data, such as heart rate, is read.
- Route-sync diagnostics, such as how many route sections could or could not be reconstructed. These counts do not contain the route coordinates themselves.
- The days you open the app, and which Mapling widgets you have placed on the Home Screen or Lock Screen. Only the date is kept: not the time, how often, or what you looked at.
- Photos you explicitly choose when publishing a shared history. Other photo-library matching stays on your device.
Why we use it
We use this data to record and sync your history, identify places, draw routes, estimate travel modes, provide search and rankings, send requested notifications, improve route-sync reliability, see whether the app is useful to the people who record with it, and let you export, share, or delete your data. We do not sell personal data, use it for advertising, or track you across other companies' apps and websites.
Device processing and retention
Recent movement samples used for detection are kept on the device for up to seven days. Confirmed visits and processed routes are stored on the service until you delete them or a retention period you chose removes them. Photo-to-place assignments and pin settings may sync through your private iCloud key-value store. Published photos and snapshots remain available to people with the link until you stop sharing.
Service providers
Sign in with Apple provides authentication. Mapbox provides map tiles and may receive de-identified location and usage telemetry under its terms. Mapbox telemetry choices are available from the Mapbox attribution control on the map. Each day's weather in Japan is taken from the Japan Meteorological Agency's published AMeDAS observations: the service reads the agency's website for the weather station nearest where the day was spent and that date. Nothing that identifies you, and none of your stays or positions, is sent. Only if you turn on “AI assist” in Settings, clues used to judge your stays and journeys are sent to Jev, an AI service provided by TypeSafe AI: times, durations, travel speed and similar movement clues, and the kinds and distances of nearby candidate places. Coordinates, place names and anything that identifies your account are not sent. It is off by default, and turning it off stops sending at once; while off, only the app and our own server make these judgements. Hosting and network providers process encrypted traffic and stored data only to operate the service.
Usage analytics and agreement
Usage analytics is optional. Mapling works fully without it, and it is off unless you turn it on, either on the agreement screen or later in Settings > Usage Analytics. Nothing is sent while it is off. While it is on, TelemetryDeck receives fixed app-opening and tab events, technical device, app and OS information, and a pseudonymous analytics-only installation identifier. We do not send locations, place names, search terms, recorded history, authentication tokens or account identifiers to TelemetryDeck. You can withdraw consent at any time by turning it off in Settings: sending stops at once and you keep using the app. Signals already transmitted cannot be recalled. See TelemetryDeck's privacy policy.
Your choices
You can correct or delete individual visits, choose automatic retention, export your data, stop a shared link, delete all recorded data while keeping your account, or delete the account itself from Settings. You can change location, motion, photo, and notification permissions in iOS Settings.
Contact
Contact the address below with privacy questions or deletion requests you cannot complete in the app.