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Your World Hunt app

The app's privacy policy follows. It's the same policy linked from Google Play.

App: Your World Hunt AI (shown on Google Play, the Apple App Store and your home screen as “Your World Hunt”)

Package: com.yourworld.hunt

Last updated: 2026-10-24

This is a plain-language privacy policy for Your World Hunt AI on Android and iPhone (iOS). Sections marked Android describe the Google Play version; the iPhone (iOS) section below describes what differs on iPhone.

Hunting / maps — not legal or safety advice

Map layers (including public-land / parcel-style overlays), property boundaries, GPS return, weather, and alerts are informational guides only. They are not a legal survey, not a guarantee of access rights, and not a substitute for official regulations, landowner permission, or emergency services. Always confirm access and follow your state wildlife agency and local laws.

Freemium + add-on subscriptions (Android: Google Play)

The app is freemium. Core hunting map features work without a purchase (including 1 stand, moon phase and sun/moon rise-set times). Premium (a subscription; the current price and any free trial for eligible new subscribers are shown in Google Play before you confirm) unlocks map power features, including unlimited stands and marks, trail cams (placing cams, linking cell-cam accounts, photo sync and Hunt AI ID), deer feeding times, the live US public-land overlay, track history / GPX export, Close-Buddy live GPS, and extended weather/notify options. Land Packs, Dog Pack and Sharp Shooter are separate add-on subscriptions. Optional cosmetic add-ons (avatars and skins only — not firearm sales) are also available. Google Play Billing processes payment; we do not store full card numbers. Manage or cancel in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions.

iPhone (iOS) version

  • Purchases. Premium (a subscription; the current price and any free trial for eligible new subscribers are shown in the App Store before you confirm) and add-ons (Land Packs, Dog Pack, Sharp Shooter subscriptions; Avatars Pro, Arsenal, Outfitter one-time purchases) are sold through the Apple App Store using StoreKit. Apple processes payment; we never see your card details. Manage or cancel subscriptions in Settings → your Apple Account → Subscriptions.
  • Location. Used on your iPhone for map, GPS return, tracks and nearby weather. Your position is not sent to us. To show weather, public-land information and area details, coordinates of the map spot are sent to the public data sources involved (Open-Meteo, U.S. government and county GIS map services, FCC area lookup).
  • Place search. Searches use Apple's geocoding service (Apple privacy policy applies).
  • Photos. Only a photo you pick (for a harvest record) is read; it stays on your phone.
  • Ask Hawk. Answers on your iPhone from your own trip data. If you choose to add your own API key for an AI service in Settings, your question and trip context are sent directly from your phone to that provider.
  • Close-Buddy. Works on this phone only unless you enter a sync relay URL; then your buddy code position, name, avatar and meet note are sent to that relay you chose.
  • No tracking or analytics. The iOS app has no ads, no advertising identifier, no analytics or tracking SDKs, and does not track you across other apps or websites.

What stays on your device

  • Hunt marks, tracks, and settings are stored locally.
  • Close-Buddy data stays on device unless you enable optional live sync for mutual GPS.
  • Avatar / cosmetic choices stay on device.

Location

The app uses approximate / precise location (when granted) for map centering, GPS return, tracking, lean weather/alerts, and optional Close-Buddy live sharing. Sharing publishes your position to paired buddies only when you turn it ON. Foreground tracking may show a persistent notification while active.

Set location (manual). At any time (for example, if GPS isn't available), you can search for a city, ZIP code or address and set it as your location. You can also type latitude/longitude coordinates into the search, or tap Weather Here on a mark's long-press menu to use that mark's position. These are all handled the same way: the place you pick (name and coordinates) is saved only on your device until you tap "Use GPS", and weather, wind and barometric pressure are fetched from public weather providers for that point (moon/sun and feeding times are shown for it too).

Search queries. Place names and ZIP codes you type into location search are sent to Open-Meteo's geocoding service (https://open-meteo.com/en/terms). For street addresses (or when Open-Meteo finds nothing), the text is sent to your phone's built-in Android geocoder (run by Google on most phones, https://policies.google.com/privacy). Latitude/longitude you type is read on your device and is not sent to a geocoding service.

Last known location. The app saves your most recent GPS position on your device so it can show local weather when GPS can't get a fix. It is not uploaded anywhere by the developer.

Camera and on-device AI (rangefinder, Blood Trail and Trail Lens)

Camera. The Sharp Shooter camera rangefinder uses your phone's camera to show a live preview so you can bracket a target and estimate its distance. The app asks for camera permission only when you open the rangefinder or Trail Lens (the Blood Trail camera view), or choose to take a harvest or trail-cam photo. Rangefinder camera frames are processed on your device only. They are never saved, recorded, or uploaded, and they are not shared with us or anyone else. Photos you choose to take for a harvest or trail-cam mark are stored with that mark as before.

On-device AI fit. The optional "AI fit" feature uses Google ML Kit on-device object detection and on-device image labeling, which run entirely on your device with models bundled in the app. Object detection finds the main object in the live preview and places the measuring brackets. When you tap an object, a crop of that live frame is labeled on the phone only to suggest a size preset. No images, camera frames, or crops are sent to Google or to us, and none are saved, recorded, or uploaded. As with other Google ML Kit features, the ML Kit library may send Google anonymous usage and performance diagnostics (for example, which API was used and how long processing took), which never include images or your location. See https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/terms.

Rangefinder settings. A per-device calibration number for the rangefinder is stored locally in the app's settings and is not uploaded.

Accuracy. Rangefinder distances are estimates based on an assumed target size and are not a substitute for a laser rangefinder. Map distances (long-press the map or pick a mark) come from your phone's GPS and show a ± range from its reported accuracy.

Blood Trail and Trail Lens. Trail Lens, the Blood Trail camera view, uses the camera to show a live preview and, if you turn on the Premium highlight, makes blood-like colors stand out. All of this runs on your phone: the color analysis, the “tap a known blood drop” calibration, and the optional AI ASSIST on supported phones, which uses a model built into the app to help cut false highlights and does not download anything. Trail Lens camera frames are processed on your phone only. They are never uploaded, never sent to us, Google or anyone else, and are not saved, except a photo you choose to take with MARK + PHOTO, which is stored in the app's private storage on your phone only and is deleted when you delete that pin. Trail Lens does not use the network. If you export a Blood Trail as GPX or KML, the file goes only where you send it from your phone's share menu. Blood Trail is a visual aid, not a blood detector: red leaves, berries and wet soil can look similar, real blood can be missed, and it is not a guarantee of finding blood or an animal.

Blood Trail pins. A Blood Trail pin (MARK BLOOD) stores your GPS position and the time on your phone, and pins from one session are joined into a trail on your map. Blood Trail pins are shared with Close-Buddy partners only while you have Close-Buddy sharing turned on (the same switch that shares your position and meetup mark), and then only their positions and times — never photos.

Ask Hawk (planner assistant) — on your device

What Hawk uses. Ask Hawk answers from information already in the app on your phone: your expeditions (species, dates, base camp), hunt-day scores, the forecast the app has already fetched, your map marks, the LAND layer if it is loaded, your LAND pack coverage, saved lodging, kit and budget. Your questions and Hawk's answers (typed, or spoken and turned into text as described under Microphone and voice) are processed on your device. They are not sent to us or to any AI service, and the chat is not saved after you close it. (Anonymous usage reports, described below, only note that a question was answered, never what was asked or said.) Changes Hawk suggests (for example adding a stand to a day or setting base camp) are applied only when you tap them.

Optional on-device model. With Premium or the Expedition Pack you can turn on "On-device Ask Hawk (~557 MB download)" in Settings. The app then downloads Google's Gemma model file once from our release page on GitHub (github.com). It downloads over Wi-Fi and asks before using cellular data. Like any download, GitHub's servers see your IP address and the request (https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement). The model is stored in the app's private storage, is excluded from backups, runs entirely on your phone, and can be deleted in Settings at any time. Chats with the on-device model are processed on your phone: no chat text is uploaded to us, to GitHub or to any AI service. Phones that can't run the model keep using Hawk's built-in field rules, also on the phone. Gemma is provided under and subject to the Gemma Terms of Use found at ai.google.dev/gemma/terms.

Microphone and voice. The app asks for microphone permission only when you tap the mic in Ask Hawk, and listens only until you finish speaking. Your speech is turned into text by your phone's speech recognizer: on-device when your phone offers an on-device recognizer (Android 12 and later on supported phones); otherwise the app asks your phone's speech service to prefer offline recognition, and that service (Google's on most phones) may process the audio under its own privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). The app itself does not record, save or upload audio. Hawk's spoken replies use your phone's text-to-speech engine and play only when you used the mic or tap the speaker button.

Plan a Hunt (trip planner)

  • Stored on your device. Expeditions, itinerary, kit, budget, crew names, journal entries, saved lodging and tag/draw deadline reminders are stored only on your phone.
  • Deadline reminders are local notifications scheduled on your phone from the dates you enter. They are not uploaded.
  • Trip forecast. When an expedition's dates fall within the next 10 days, the trip spot's coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo (api.open-meteo.com, https://open-meteo.com/en/terms) to get the daily forecast, which is cached on your device.
  • Links to other sites. Find Lodging, shop, outfitter and military-resource links open third-party websites or apps (lodging searches include the trip area, dates and party size so the results match your trip). Those sites have their own privacy policies; the app does not receive your searches or bookings.
  • Sharing and PDFs happen only when you tap Share or Export.
  • Kits & Gear. Your My Gear list (items you check off or add) and dismissed gear tips are stored only on your phone, separate from your expeditions. Shop buttons open the retailer's own search in your browser only when you tap them; Amazon links carry our Associates tag. Ask Hawk's packing answers come from the app's built-in kit lists and your trip's forecast, on your phone.

Hunt AI (optional, uses your own AI key)

Ask Hunt AI and Hunt AI trail-cam ID are optional and work only after you add your own API key for an AI provider (OpenAI, xAI Grok, Anthropic, or a custom endpoint you choose) in Settings. When you tap them, the app sends the request directly from your phone to that provider: Ask Hunt AI sends the land unit or parcel details shown for that spot (such as unit name and owner/manager fields) to draft a permission call/text script, and Hunt AI trail-cam ID sends the trail-cam photo you chose to identify. The provider handles that data under its own terms and privacy policy, not ours; we do not receive it. Your key is stored only on your phone and is excluded from backups. Ask Hawk does not use this key and never sends your chats to an AI provider.

Contacts (Close-Buddy — Premium)

Uses the system contact picker (no blanket address-book read). Optional text opens Messages with a draft — you tap Send (no SEND_SMS).

Product Pulse (on-device)

Optional on-device product signals only; no PII / GPS / tokens. Export is user-chosen. Nothing uploaded to the developer by default.

Anonymous usage and crash reports (Firebase) — Android

The Android app (from version 0.1.92) sends anonymous usage and crash data to Google Firebase (Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics). Google handles it as our service provider. We use this data only to find crashes and improve the app. Sending is on by default, and you can turn it off at any time in Settings → General → Privacy → “Share anonymous usage & crash reports”. When it's off, the app stops sending usage events and crash reports, and deletes crash reports that haven't been sent yet.

  • Usage events. Which features are used, recorded with fixed labels only: an Ask Hawk question was answered (by the field rules or the on-device model, typed or spoken — never the words), a map layer was switched on or off, a trip was saved (trip type, first species from the app's built-in list, number of days, and whether it came from the planner, Hawk or a website link), the Packs screen was opened (which part of the app it was opened from), a Google Play purchase was started (product id and plan, e.g. monthly), completed (product id), canceled, or failed (Google Play's numeric error code only), a shop, lodging or partner link was tapped (which site and category, not your search), Trail Lens was opened or a Blood Trail pin was dropped (where it was opened from and whether the highlight was on — never the location or any image), and how a rangefinder session ended (one of: ok, no lock, target too small, too dark, map distance — never the distance or location). Firebase also records standard app events such as first open, sessions, app updates and in-app purchases (product, price and currency).
  • Device and app info. App version and build type, device model, Android version, and language. Google may infer an approximate region (such as country, region or city) from your connection's IP address; Google Analytics doesn't store the IP address itself. Events are tied to a random app-instance ID, not to your name, email or the advertising ID.
  • Crash reports. When the app crashes or hits a serious error: the error and stack trace, app version, device model, Android version, memory/disk state, and a random installation ID.
  • Never included. Your GPS position or any coordinates, place names, marks, tracks, trip names, notes or crew, Ask Hawk questions or answers, anything you type or say, photos, PINs, email addresses, or trail-cam logins. The app does not collect the advertising ID and turns off ad personalization.
  • How it's used. Only to find crashes and improve the app. It is not used for ads (the app has no ads and does not collect the advertising ID), not sold, not shared for marketing, and not used to personalize the app or ads. Google processes it on our behalf as a service provider. Crashlytics keeps crash reports for up to 90 days; analytics data is kept under Google Analytics' retention settings. See Firebase privacy and Google's privacy policy.

What we do not do (current build)

  • No ads / no advertising ID
  • No sale of personal data
  • No cross-app tracking: no advertising ID, and the app doesn't track you across other companies' apps or websites. The only third-party analytics are the optional, anonymous Firebase usage and crash reports described above.
  • No sale of real firearms or ammunition (Arsenal is cosmetic only)

Network calls go to public map/weather/land sources, location-search (geocoding) services when you search for a place, Open-Meteo for trip forecasts, GitHub for the optional Ask Hawk model download, optional buddy sync you enable, and Google Firebase for anonymous usage and crash reports (unless you turn them off). If you connect a SpyPoint or Reveal trail-cam account, your login is stored on your phone and sent only to that company's sign-in service (for Reveal, its Amazon Cognito login) to fetch your cam photos.

Contact

Contact: support@yourworldapps.si, the contact page, or the developer contact on the Google Play listing (Android).

Changes

If we add other analytics, cloud accounts, or ads, this policy will be updated first.