Privacy
TLDR: JVFR needs a free account and stores your email address. Your position, your routes and your logbook stay on your device.
Your account
You need an account to use JVFR. It's free, and the only thing stored about you is your email address. No name, phone number, address, payment details, IP address or anything else about you. We only need the account to keep track of your aircraft profiles.
That account is used for exactly three things:
- Signing you in.
- Storing your aircraft profiles so they follow you from one device to another.
- Counting how many individual pilots use JVFR. I spend a lot of time making this thing, I want to know how much use it gets.
It is not used for marketing, it is not used to build a profile of you, and your email address is not passed to anyone else.
What stays on your device
Your GPS position, your planned routes, your logbook and any map data you download are stored locally. They are not uploaded anywhere and are not visible to anyone but you.
What leaves your device
JVFR is not much use without live data, so the app requests it as needed. This means some external services are contacted:
| What | Where from | What it reveals |
|---|---|---|
| Map and airspace tiles | openAIP, Protomaps, OpenStreetMap, jvfr.net | The map area you are looking at |
| Weather (METAR/TAF, radar) | AVWX and Rainviewer | The station or area you asked about |
| NOTAMs | FAA | The airfield, FIR or route you asked about |
| Traffic | ADS-B and MLAT aggregators | The area you are viewing |
| Offline packages | jvfr.net | Which regions you downloaded |
Those requests reach third-party services and, like any web request, carry your IP address. Each of those services has its own privacy policy. JVFR does not send them your identity.
What is not done
- No advertising, and no advertising or tracking networks in the app.
- No analytics following you around: the only figure kept is a count of unique accounts.
- No selling or sharing of your data with anyone.
- No (external) flight tracking service: your track is logged on your device, for you.
- No payment details, because there is nothing to pay for.
Syncing your profile
Aircraft profiles are held against your account so you can set an aircraft up on the laptop and have it there on the tablet. Your aircraft profiles are stored on our server, but can only be accessed by someone logged into your account (which, hopefully, is just you). They are not shared with anyone else, and they are not used for any other purpose.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you want to know exactly what a particular feature requests, ask: info@jvfr.net.