Thicket Privacy Policy

Effective November 8, 2026.

Thicket ("Thicket: Hunting Map & Log" on the App Store) is made by 910 Labs, LLC. "We" and "us" in this policy mean 910 Labs. You can reach us at hunt@910labs.dev, or by mail at the address at the end.

This page says what the app keeps, where it keeps it, what leaves your iPhone and who gets it, what you control, and how to delete it.

The short version

• Your hunting records are stored on your iPhone. We have no accounts and no server of our own. The app does not send us your waypoints, routes, sightings, harvests, journal, photos or locations.
• To show weather, place names and maps, the app sends locations to Apple. To fill in the weather on a sighting or a harvest, it sends a rounded location, never the exact spot, to the National Weather Service.
• If the app crashes, it sends a crash report to a crash-reporting service called Rollbar. The report is built to leave out your locations, your routes, your photos and anything you typed. You can turn crash reports off.
• We do not show ads. We do not sell your personal information or share it for advertising. We do not track you across other apps or websites.

What the app stores on your iPhone

Everything you record in Thicket is kept in the app's own storage on your iPhone:

• Waypoints: the name, type, location, notes and photos, and for a stand the directions and winds you noted.
• Hunt areas you draw.
• Routes you record: the path as a series of GPS points, each with its time and the altitude, speed, heading and GPS accuracy your iPhone reported.
• Sightings and harvests, with their place, time, weather and notes, and anything else you enter, such as a tag number.
• Journal entries, with the place an entry was written if you leave Capture Location on.
• Hunt plans and gear checklists.
• The hunting licenses you list: type, state, number and dates.
• Weather: the reading saved with a sighting or a harvest, which is a National Weather Service station's reading or the weather you entered yourself. Apple's forecasts are kept for at most a day, so they can be shown again, and then deleted. A hunt plan does not keep its forecast. The National Weather Service's answers are kept only as long as the service says they stay current, and a note of the records it had no reading for is kept until each is a week old.
• Your settings, such as the temperature unit and the map style.
• If Apple tells the app that a state law, such as Texas's, covers your Apple Account, the app asks Apple for your age range. Once you have answered, it keeps only a note that you were asked, so that it does not ask again; it does not keep your age range. The note never leaves your iPhone, not even in a backup.
• A history of changes. The app keeps a record of each thing you add, change or delete, and of your settings, gear checklists, licenses and saved weather places. See "Changing and deleting your records" below.

Photos. You choose photos with the iPhone's own photo picker, so the app sees only the photos you pick and has no access to the rest of your library. The app keeps its own copy of each one. A photo you take with Take Photo is kept in the app and, if you allow it, also saved to your photo library, so it stays yours if you stop using the app. The copy in your library carries the date it was taken but not the place. The app can add photos to your library but cannot see what is in it. If you say no, the photo is still kept in the app.

Like most apps, Thicket writes technical log lines to the iPhone's own system log. The app does not send them to us.

Thicket does not put a lock of its own on your records. Anyone who can unlock your iPhone can open the app and read them.

If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or to a computer, Thicket's records are part of that backup, like the data of your other apps. That is between you and Apple, or you and your computer. We cannot see it.

What leaves your iPhone, and who gets it

Apple. Thicket uses Apple's services for weather, place names and maps. To use them it sends Apple:

• For the forecasts and current conditions on Home, Hunting Conditions, the forecast screens and hunt plans: the place the weather is for, and the time. The place is where you are, a place you picked, a waypoint's place or a hunt plan's place. Apple says of its weather service: "Location information is used only to provide weather forecasts, is not associated with any personally identifiable information, and is never tracked between requests."
• For place names: the location to be named, so the app can show a town's name instead of numbers. This happens when the app fills in a location for you, and again each time it shows a saved record's place.
• For place search: the words you typed, and your last known location, so that nearer places come first.
• For maps: the area of the map you are looking at.

Where a state law requires it, the app also asks Apple for your age range, and Apple may show you its own screen to share it. Apple answers from your Apple Account.

Apple handles what it receives under its own privacy policy, at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/. We do not receive any of it.

The National Weather Service. The weather saved on a sighting or a harvest comes from the National Weather Service, part of the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). When you log a sighting or a harvest, the app asks the service which weather stations are near the record's place, then asks the nearest of them for what it measured around the record's time. Only the first request carries a location: the record's place rounded to two decimal places of latitude and longitude, which can be up to about half a mile from the actual spot. The others carry a station's identifier and a time. If you log a record without signal, the app asks when signal is back, for up to a week. Every request names the app and gives our website and email address, as the service asks; nothing in it names you. The National Weather Service says it records, for each request, the date and time, the internet address it came from, the kind of device and software, and what was asked, and that it may keep these logs indefinitely. Its privacy policy is at https://www.weather.gov/privacy. We do not receive any of it.

If you use the Add Waypoint shortcut with Siri or the Shortcuts app, Siri handles what you say under Apple's terms. The app saves a waypoint where you are, named for its type, the date and the time. If you set a name or a type for the shortcut in the Shortcuts app, the app receives those and saves the waypoint with them.

Rollbar (crash reports). If Thicket crashes, the next time you open it the app sends a crash report to Rollbar, Inc., whose service we use to find and fix crashes. A report holds:

• what the app was doing when it crashed: the names and addresses of the pieces of code that were running, and the type and message of the error;
• your iPhone model, your iOS version, your language setting, and the app's version;
• the date and time;
• an identifier for this copy of the app on your iPhone. It is not your name, your phone number, your Apple Account or an advertising identifier, and we have no way to tell from it who you are;
• how long and how many times the app has run since its last crash.

There is one other report. If the app's database will not open, the app sends the error's code and the database's version number, so that we know it happened.

A report is built to leave out your locations, your routes, your photos and anything you typed. Before a report is sent, the app removes the parts of it that are copies of the app's memory. It also tells Rollbar not to record the internet address the report came from. A crash report is still a snapshot of a failing program, and we cannot promise that an error message will never quote something it should not.

Crash reports are on when you install the app. You can turn them off: Home, then App Settings, then Send crash reports. The change applies the next time you open the app.

We use crash reports only to find and fix faults in the app, and we do not try to work out whose iPhone a report came from. Rollbar handles them only on our behalf, under a data processing agreement that limits its use of them to providing its service to us and requires it to keep them secure, so they have the same protection this policy describes. Rollbar deletes a report 30 days after it arrives. Rollbar's own policy says it stores and processes information in the United States and in other countries where it operates.

What you choose to send.

• Export & Import (on Home, under Your Data) makes a file on your iPhone and hands it to the share sheet. The file goes where you send it, and from then on it is yours to look after. We never receive it. The app deletes its own copy when you have finished with the share sheet, or at the next launch if the app was closed first. There are three kinds: - Your Records is a zip of your places, routes and hunt areas as maps (GPX, KML and GeoJSON); spreadsheets of your sightings, harvests, routes, hunt plans, gear, licenses and saved weather places; your journal as a text file; your settings; and one file that Thicket can read back in. Every place, time and note is in it, and so is every point of every route with its time. - Full History is the same zip with one more file: every change you made, including records you deleted and the details they had, their locations among them. - Map File Only is one GPX or KML file of your places, stands, routes and hunt areas, with their locations and every point of every route.
• Photos are not in these files. License numbers are left out unless you switch on Include license numbers on that screen. If you do, they are in the files and, in Full History, in the history of every license you ever entered, deleted ones included.
• These files show where your stands, sightings and harvests are, and a file has no password: anyone you give it to, or who finds it, can open it. Keep it where you would keep your map.
• Import a File reads the file you pick, on your iPhone, and sends it nowhere.
• Sharing a route makes a GPX file of it: every point recorded, with its time, and where your iPhone measured them its elevation, speed, heading and accuracy, together with the route's name, when it was recorded, its distance and its notes. It goes to the app or place you pick.
• Sharing a journal entry hands its title, date and text to the app you pick. It does not include the entry's place.
• Send Feedback opens an email to hunt@910labs.dev from your own mail account, so we see your email address and usually your name. If Mail is not set up on your iPhone, the message goes through whichever app you choose, and we see the address or phone number you send from. The message holds what you wrote and, unless you switch it off, your iPhone model, your iOS version, the app's version and the date and time. Your locations and your records are never attached. We use feedback only to answer you and to fix the app, and we keep it only as long as we need it for that.

What Apple tells us. If you have agreed in your iPhone's settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple gives us figures and crash reports for the app. They do not identify you.

What the app does not do

• It has no account, no ads and no advertising identifier.
• It does not read your contacts, your calendar, your health data, your microphone or your photo library. (It can add the photos you take with Take Photo to your library, if you allow it. It cannot see anything there.)
• It does not send us a record of what you tap or how you use the app.
• Thicket is not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA or the National Weather Service.
• It does not track you over time or across other apps and websites, and it does not let anyone else do so. Because there is no such tracking, the app has nothing to change when it receives a "Do Not Track" signal.
• We do not sell personal information. If you want to tell us not to sell yours, as some states allow, write to hunt@910labs.dev and we will record it.

Permissions

• Location, While Using the App. It shows where you are on the map, records the routes you walk, marks waypoints, sightings and harvests where you stand, and gets the weather and sun times for your spot. A route you are recording carries on with the screen locked, and your iPhone shows its location indicator while it does. The app never asks for Always. Without location the app shows no sun times and no weather for where you are, and it cannot record a route. You can still keep your records, and set a record's place by searching for it.
• Precise Location. Recording a route and following one need it.
• Camera, only when you tap Take Photo.
• Add to your photo library, asked the first time you take a photo with Take Photo. This lets the app save the photos you take to your library. It does not let the app see your library. Without it, photos you take are kept in the app only.
• Notifications, only for the Sunset Alert. The alert is set on your iPhone. Nothing about it is sent to us.

You can change any of these in Settings, under Apps, then Thicket.

Changing and deleting your records

• Changing a record. Your records are on your iPhone, and you can change them in the app. To ask about what we hold about you, which is feedback you sent us, write to us.
• One record. Delete it in the app. It leaves the app's screens, and a deleted waypoint's photos are erased from the app. A photo you took with Take Photo and let the app save to your photo library stays in your library; delete it there, in the Photos app, if you want it gone.
• The history stays. Thicket keeps a history of changes so that an update or a fault cannot quietly lose your records. For most kinds of record - waypoints, routes, sightings, harvests, journal entries, hunt plans, hunt areas, gear checklists, hunting licenses and saved weather places among them - a deleted record stays in that history, on your iPhone, with the details it had, its location among them. A deleted license keeps the number it had. So does a weather reading you later changed or cleared. No screen in the app shows it, and it is never sent to us. It leaves your iPhone only if you choose Full History on the Export & Import screen and share the file it makes.
• Everything. Delete Thicket from your iPhone (Delete App, not Offload App). That removes its records, photos and history from the phone. Photos it saved to your photo library are yours and stay there. A copy can remain inside an iPhone backup made before you deleted the app, until that backup is replaced or you delete it.
• Files you exported and things you shared are wherever you put them. We never had them. The app deletes its own copy of an export when the share ends.
• Crash reports. Turn the switch off to stop them. Rollbar deletes each report 30 days after it arrives. A report carries no name and no address, so we cannot pick out yours to delete it sooner.
• Feedback. Write to hunt@910labs.dev and we will delete your messages.

Security

Your records stay in the app's own storage on your iPhone, under the iPhone's own protection. A file you export leaves that protection when you share it. What we hold - feedback mail and crash reports - is kept in accounts that only we can sign in to, with two-step sign-in. If a breach ever exposes information we hold about you, we will tell you as the law requires.

Children

Thicket is a general-audience app for hunters. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has sent us personal information, for example through Send Feedback, write to us and we will delete it.

In some states, including Texas, Apple asks a parent's consent before a minor can download an app, and a parent can withdraw it in Apple's settings. When a parent withdraws consent for Thicket, Apple stops it from opening on the child's iPhone. We hold nothing of the child's to delete beyond any messages the child sent us, which we delete on request.

Where this applies

Thicket is offered in the United States, and this policy is written for United States law.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will post the new one at this address and change the date at the top. If a change affects what the app collects or shares, we will also say so in the app's update notes before the update that makes the change.

Contact

910 Labs, LLC
201 Brookview Dr, Decatur, TX 76234
hunt@910labs.dev