Overview

Forager's Field Notes ("Forager's Field Notes," "the App") is developed by Adelyons Software LLC ("we," "us," or "our"). Forager's Field Notes is a private, local-first, no-account foraging field journal. It lets you log your own finds, save secret patches with on-demand GPS pins on an offline map, work through a confirm-don't-identify safety checklist, and view deterministic seasonality forecasts and patch-return reminders built from your own history. This policy explains how the App handles your information.

Information Stored On Your Device

The following is created and stored locally on your device only, in a private database (SQLite) within the App. It is not transmitted to us or to any server:

• Finds: Your own common name (free text), category, quantity or yield, habitat, notes, photos you add, and the date for each logged find.
• Patches & pins: Your secret spots and the on-demand GPS coordinates you capture for them. Pins are captured only when you choose to, and they never leave the device.
• Safety records: The confirm-don't-identify checklist answers and acknowledgments you make, and which of your finds you have marked self-confirmed — decisions made by you.
• Insights: The seasonality forecasts, patch-return reminders, and foraging-year recap computed on-device from your own logged finds.
• Photos: Any photos you attach to a find or patch, stored locally with that entry.
• Exports: Any export files you create yourself and choose to save or share.
• App settings & preferences: Your in-app preferences and display choices.

Because this data lives only on your device, it is removed when you delete an entry in the App, clear the App's data, or uninstall the App.

No Account, No Cloud, No Server

• Forager's Field Notes does not require you to create an account, sign in, or provide an email address, phone number, name, or any other identifier. There is no contacts grab.
• We do not operate a server that receives, stores, or backs up your data. There is no backend anywhere in the App.
• Your data is not synced between devices by us. If your device's operating system backs up app data (for example through iCloud or Android backup that you have enabled), that backup is controlled by you and your platform provider under their policies — not by us.
• Your secret patches and the pins for them stay on the device. Because there is no account and no server, your spots are never uploaded, shared, or aggregated.

Location — On-Demand Only, Never in the Background

Forager's Field Notes uses location only when you tap to capture a pin for a find or a patch. There is no background location, no continuous tracking, and no location history beyond the pins you deliberately save. Those coordinates are stored only on your device, are never transmitted to us or to any server, and never leave the phone. The patch map is a tile-free, schematic, fully offline view — it does not stream map tiles or your position to anyone.

Insights Are Deterministic & On-Device — No AI Model

Every insight in Forager's Field Notes — seasonality forecasts, patch-return reminders, and your foraging-year recap — is produced by deterministic, rule-based logic that runs entirely on your device. Identical input always produces identical output. There is no language model, no AI model, and no model download anywhere in the App, and these features require no network connection and no API key. Nothing about your finds or patches is sent anywhere to compute an insight. The App does not identify species and does not determine edibility.

Optional Purchases (Forager's Field Notes+)

Forager's Field Notes's core is free, with an optional Forager's Field Notes+ upgrade. Purchases are the only feature that involves any data leaving your device, and they are handled by trusted providers:

• Apple App Store / Google Play: When you subscribe or make the lifetime purchase, the transaction is processed entirely by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies. We never receive or store your payment-card details.
• RevenueCat: We use RevenueCat to validate and restore your Forager's Field Notes+ entitlement. RevenueCat receives a purchase token, an anonymous app-generated user identifier, and basic device and purchase metadata needed to deliver and restore your purchase. It does not receive any of your foraging data — no finds, patches, pins, photos, or notes. See RevenueCat's privacy policy.

If you never make a purchase, no purchase-related data is sent. Subscription terms (including the 7-day annual trial and auto-renewal) are described in our Terms of Service and EULA, and are also governed by Apple's Media Services Terms and Google Play's Terms of Service.

What We Do NOT Collect

• We do not collect, upload, or store your finds, patches, pins, photos, or notes on any server.
• We do not require an account, email address, phone number, name, or login, and we do not request access to your contacts.
• We do not collect location data on our servers, and we do not use background location or any continuous tracking. Pins are captured on demand and stay on the device.
• We do not use advertising identifiers or any cross-app tracking, and we do not show ads.
• We do not use third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDKs in the App that send your usage or personal data to us.
• We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone. There is nothing for us to sell — your data stays on your phone.

Data Retention & Deletion

Because your finds, patches, pins, photos, and notes are stored only on your device, you control them directly and they are kept for as long as you keep them:

• Delete in-app: Remove individual finds or patches at any time, or clear the App's data from within the App or your device settings.
• Uninstall: Deleting the App from your device permanently removes all of its locally stored data. Because there is no server, there is no server-side copy to delete and no account to close.
• Purchase records: Subscription and purchase records held by Apple, Google, or RevenueCat are retained under their respective policies. You can manage or cancel a subscription from your device's store settings.

Security

Your data stays within the App's private storage on your device, protected by your device's operating system. Communication with the App Store, Google Play, and RevenueCat for purchase handling uses encrypted (TLS) connections. No system can guarantee absolute security, but keeping your data on-device means there is no central database of your finds or secret patches to breach.

Children's Privacy

Forager's Field Notes is a general-audience journaling and outdoor-safety tool and is not directed to children, and it does not request that children provide information to us. Because everything is local and there is no server, we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone — there is nowhere for such data to be sent to us. If you believe information somehow reached us (which our architecture is designed to prevent), contact us using the details below and we will help.

Your Rights

Privacy laws such as the GDPR (EU/EEA/UK) and CCPA/CPRA (California) give you rights to access, correct, delete, and port your personal data, and to opt out of its sale. Because Forager's Field Notes does not collect or store your personal data on our servers, we hold nothing about you to disclose, correct, or sell. You can exercise full control over your in-app data using the deletion and export options above. For any purchase data held by Apple, Google, or RevenueCat, contact those providers or reach us using the details below and we will help.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as the App evolves. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Effective date" above and, where appropriate, through an in-app notice. Continued use of the App after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

Questions about this policy or your data? Email dev@adelyons.com.

Adelyons Software LLC
https://adelyons.com