Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 September 2026

GPS Map Camera (“the app”, “we”, “us”) is an Android camera app that adds location details to your photos and videos. It is built so that your photos, videos and saved places stay on your phone. This policy explains what the app uses, which outside services receive data, and the choices you have.

1. The short version

• No account and no sign-up. We have no server that stores your photos, videos or places.
• The app uses your camera and location on your phone, and your microphone only for features that need it.
• To show an address, a map, weather or ads, the app contacts the services listed in section 3.
• We never sell personal information.
• An email reaches us only when you choose to send one from your own email app.

2. Information the app uses

Camera and microphone

The camera takes the photos and videos you ask for. The microphone records sound in videos when “Record video with voice” is on. If you add the sound-level item to the stamp, the app briefly measures how loud it is when you capture; that sound is not recorded or kept.

Location

With your permission, the app reads your precise location through Google Play services while you use its camera and location features. It uses it to put coordinates, address, altitude, accuracy and a map on the stamp, to write GPS data into the photo’s EXIF information, to show your photos on a map, and to check whether you are inside the range of a manual location you saved.

Motion sensors

Compass direction, magnetic-field and orientation readings come from your phone’s sensors and are only used on the phone.

Photos, videos and files

Photos and videos are saved on your phone in DCIM/GPS Map Camera, and optionally to an SD card or to a folder you pick with the Android file picker, such as a Google Drive folder. The app reads the photos it created to show previews, map pins and reports. A logo for reports or a file of manual locations to import is read only when you choose it.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the app uses them to show saving progress.

Settings on your phone

Your settings, stamp choices, report details and manual locations are stored only on your phone.

3. Services that receive data

Some features need information from outside services. When the app contacts one, the service receives what the request needs plus normal connection details such as your IP address, and its own privacy policy applies.

• Address lookup. Your coordinates are sent to Android’s geocoder, provided by Google, or, when that has no answer, to OpenStreetMap Nominatim, to turn them into an address.
• Maps. Map images come from OpenStreetMap (normal view) and Esri World Imagery (satellite view). A map request reveals the area being shown.
• Weather and air quality. Your coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo for the temperature, humidity, pressure, wind, elevation and air-quality values a stamp can show.
• Advertising. The free version shows ads from Google AdMob. AdMob may collect your device’s advertising ID, an approximate location based on your IP address, device information and how you interact with ads; see how Google uses data from apps that use its services. Where the law requires it, the app asks for your consent through Google’s consent message before personalised ads are shown. Premium removes ads.
• Purchases and ratings. Purchases are handled by Google Play. We only learn whether a purchase is active, never your payment details. Rating the app uses Google Play’s in-app review.
• Links that open other apps. QR codes and location links on stamps open Google Maps, and video tutorials open YouTube. When you share a photo or report, the app you share it with handles it under its own policy.

4. Emails you send us

You can contact us from the app with Report a Problem and Send a Suggestion. If the app closes unexpectedly, it keeps an error report on your phone and asks the next time you open it whether you want to email it to us. Each of these opens your own email app with a message addressed to us, and nothing is sent until you send it.

Besides what you write, these emails include the app version, your phone model and your Android version, and a crash report also includes the time and technical details of the error. We use them only to reply, fix problems and improve the app, and delete them when they are no longer needed or when you ask.

5. What we don’t do

• We don’t sell or rent personal information.
• We don’t upload your photos, videos or saved places to servers of our own.
• We don’t add analytics or tracking tools of our own to the app.

6. Keeping and deleting data

What the app stores stays on your phone until you delete it. Clearing the app’s storage or uninstalling it removes its settings and manual locations. Photos and videos stay in your gallery until you delete them there. To have an email you sent us deleted, write to us from the same address.

7. Your choices

• Turn camera, location, microphone and notification access on or off at any time in Android Settings. Features that need them stop working while they are off.
• Change your ad consent choice in the app under Settings › Ad privacy options (shown where consent rules apply), and reset or delete your advertising ID in Android Settings.
• Buy Premium to remove ads.
• Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete information about you. Email us and we will help.

8. Children

The app is not directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has sent us information, email us and we will delete it.

9. Security

The app connects to the services above over encrypted HTTPS. Because your data stays on your phone, a screen lock on your phone protects it too.

10. Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. We may also point out important changes in the app or on its store listing.

11. Contact