Privacy at MyFootprints

Last updated: 31 October 2026

1. Controller

The controller responsible for this website and the processing of personal data in connection with MyFootprints is:

2. Visiting this website

This website is provided through OpenAI Sites. When you visit, the hosting service processes technical connection and usage data that may be necessary to deliver, operate and protect the website. This may include your IP address, time of access, requested address, browser and device information, referrer, response status, and technically necessary log or security data.

Processing serves the reliable and secure provision of this website and is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is in providing a secure, uninterrupted information and support service. MyFootprints does not use its own analytics, advertising or profiling functions on these pages.

For published Sites, OpenAI processes hosted data to provide, maintain and support the service and may use subprocessors. Details are set out in the ChatGPT Sites Data Processing Addendum . For processing outside the European Economic Area, OpenAI identifies adequacy decisions and EU standard contractual clauses in particular as transfer safeguards.

3. Email support

If you contact us by email, we process your sender address, the message content, its time and any attachments you voluntarily include in order to answer your request. The support mailbox is hosted by IONOS. Please send only information needed for your request, without unnecessary location data, photos or complete backups.

Depending on your request, processing is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR for pre-contractual or contractual enquiries, or Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is in responding to support and contact requests. Messages are retained only as long as necessary to handle and document the request; statutory retention duties and the establishment or defence of legal claims remain unaffected. Information about processing by IONOS is available in the IONOS privacy policy .

4. The app’s principle: your content stays with you

Your recorded paths, footprints, travel trails, notes, photos and videos are managed on your device. They are not automatically transmitted to us or to a MyFootprints server.

When you start a backup, video, export, sharing or support function yourself, you decide which content is passed to which app or storage location.

5. What data does the app process locally?

• Location data and timestamps for footprints and travel trails when you use tracking
• Movement classes such as walking, travelling by vehicle or being stationary, and brief step evidence if you allow access to physical activity. This information helps assign your footprints and travel trails correctly.
• Manually placed footprints, notes and related settings
• Local references to selected photos and views generated from them
• Local settings, timeline selections, display and backup information

6. Background location

To capture complete trails, MyFootprints can collect location data even when the app is closed or not actively used. Android requests separate location permission for this. You can stop or change tracking and permissions at any time in the app or Android settings.

Where the provider is responsible for processing and the GDPR applies, processing to provide the app features you requested is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. Where explicit consent is required, Article 6(1)(a) GDPR applies. You can withdraw consent with effect for the future; Android permissions can be changed in system settings.

6a. Motion recognition and step signals

MyFootprints uses a Transistorsoft software component embedded on your device for location recording. If you grant the Android “Physical activity” permission, the app uses recognised movement types and, where your device supports them, step signals. This helps it distinguish walking, travelling by vehicle and being stationary. With background recording enabled, this also applies when the app is not open.

This information is processed on your device and may be stored locally with temporary recording data. No automatic upload of this location and movement data is configured for Transistorsoft recording. The app does not use it to produce a health assessment or training profile. You can change the permission at any time in Android settings. The legal bases described under “Background location” also apply. Online maps, optional place-name lookups and exports or support functions you start yourself are described separately and remain unaffected.

7. Mapbox maps

MyFootprints loads the online map and associated map resources from Mapbox. This creates technical connections to Mapbox. For provision, usage billing and security, Mapbox processes, in particular, IP addresses, randomly generated billing and session identifiers, technical device and app information, and the requested map resources or map areas.

Additional Mapbox telemetry is disabled in MyFootprints. The app does not use Mapbox map matching, route calculation or address search. The following also applies: Mapbox privacy policy .

7a. Optional city and country names

This feature is initially off. You enable it under Statistics after reading the notice there. With your consent, MyFootprints uses individual coordinates from existing footprints to fill in missing cities and countries through your device’s location service. Lookups take place only while the app is open and location permission is granted.

The location service may transmit coordinates and technical connection data to its provider. The provider and processing depend on your device and its privacy information. This lookup does not use Mapbox. MyFootprints retains only city and country names and stores them locally. A complete route, photos and note text are not transmitted. Internet access and an available location service may be required; results are not guaranteed.

The legal basis is your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You can withdraw it under Statistics at any time for future lookups. Previously added place names remain stored locally. An individual request already handed to the location service may no longer be cancellable; any late result is discarded after you switch the feature off.

7b. Google Play and access verification

The app uses Google Play for purchases and restoring purchases. Google processes product and purchase identifiers, purchase status and technical connection data. The app receives proof of purchase and stores it encrypted on your device to verify access. Your recorded paths, photos and notes are not transmitted for this purpose. You enter payment details with Google.

Local proof of access is updated when checked again or removed when app data is deleted. It is not part of the MyFootprints data backup. After reinstalling, valid purchases can be checked again with the same Google Play account. Separately issued access codes are verified locally and stored securely; you may need to enter them again. Google’s processing is also subject to its privacy policy: Google privacy policy.

8. Android system backup and your own backups

MyFootprints excludes its internal app data from automatic Android cloud backup and Android’s transfer of app data to a new device. To change devices, create a MyFootprints backup yourself, keep it in a location you choose, and import it on the new device.

Separately, you can create, save, import or share backup files within MyFootprints. Content stored or shared externally is also subject to the privacy rules of the storage location or recipient you choose.

9. Retention and deletion

Temporary recording and processing aids are distinct from your permanently stored footprints and travel trails. They may include location and movement information. Fully processed temporary data is automatically cleaned up after the defined retention periods. Data not yet safely incorporated and the associated evidence may be retained longer to prevent recordings being lost. This automatic cleanup does not delete footprints or travel trails already stored.

Permanently stored footprints, travel trails and other user content remain stored until you delete them using MyFootprints, remove the app data through Android or uninstall the app. Delete externally stored backups and exported content at the respective storage location.

10. Recipients and external services

Data is transmitted only to the services needed for the feature in use: OpenAI and its subprocessors for website hosting; IONOS for support emails; Mapbox for online maps; Google Play for purchases and access verification; your device’s location service if you voluntarily enable the feature described in 7a; and an app or storage provider you choose for your backups, exports or sharing. MyFootprints does not sell personal data or use it for personalised advertising.

11. Your privacy rights

Where the legal requirements are met, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection. You can withdraw consent with effect for the future. To exercise your rights, send a message to support@myfootprints-in-this-world.de .

The provider has no remote access to MyFootprints content stored exclusively on your device and therefore cannot view or delete it remotely for you. You manage this content directly in the app or through Android.

You also have the right to complain to a data-protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible for the controller’s registered location is the Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information .

12. Changes to this policy

• We update this privacy policy when features, services used or legal requirements change.
• Each published version carries a last-updated date.