Privacy Policy

1. App permissions

• Location. iOS may ask for location access while you use the app, including when you first open it. With your permission, the app can use your location to find nearby webcams, center maps, support the compass, or add a place and coordinates to a photo stamp. You can search for a place manually where that option is available.
• Camera. Geo camera uses the device camera to take photos. The optional augmented reality mode uses the camera to position an immersive scene. Via Scope processes those camera inputs on the device.
• Photos. The iOS photo picker gives Via Scope the photo you select for import. The app can request permission to add a copy to Photos when you choose to save one.
• Motion and heading. Supported devices can use orientation or compass readings to move an immersive view or display a bearing. Via Scope uses these readings on the device.

2. Information stored on your device

The Photo Journal stores your saved image, stamp style and date, plus the place and coordinates if you added them. The app also stores preferences, saved cameras and places, recent camera views, world clock selections, and caches used to load camera information and images.

Via Scope works without an account. The app keeps your camera photos and Journal entries in local storage. When you share a photo or save a copy to Photos, the destination you choose handles that copy. A visible stamp can reveal its place or coordinates to anyone who receives the image. Your iOS backup and Photos sync settings also apply to data handled by those services.

3. Requests to Apple and Windy

• Apple. Via Scope uses Apple services for maps, traffic, place searches, coordinate lookups and map previews on photo stamps. Those requests may include the place you searched for, the area on the map, or the coordinates needed for the feature. Apple also handles actions you choose to take in Apple Maps and the App Store. Apple Maps & Privacy
• Windy and webcam providers. Via Scope requests camera lists, metadata, images and players from Windy and its content providers. A nearby search can send the coordinates used for the search, such as a device location, chosen place or map center. Map browsing can send the displayed area, and opening a camera can send its identifier. Providers may process technical information such as your IP address. An embedded player can use its own web storage or show advertising from the provider. Windy Privacy Policy

Each provider describes its own processing, retention and choices in its privacy information. If you follow an external link or share a photo to another service, that destination’s policy applies to what you send it.

4. Your choices and deletion

You can change or withdraw app permissions in iOS Settings. Features that depend on a permission may become unavailable. You can delete individual entries from the Photo Journal and remove items from your saved lists in the app.

Use iOS’s Delete App action to remove Via Scope’s local app data. Copies in Photos, files or other destinations, and data in system backups remain subject to those services’ deletion controls. Local preferences and saved items stay on the device until you remove them or delete the app. Temporary caches can be refreshed or cleared as the app or iOS manages storage.

5. These pages and support

These policy pages contain static text and links. The pages themselves run without forms, analytics scripts or tracking cookies. The hosting service may handle connection and request information, such as IP address and request time, to deliver and secure the pages.

If you email us, we use your email address and the information you provide to respond and resolve your request. We keep that correspondence as needed for the request and any applicable recordkeeping obligations. Please share only information needed for us to help.

6. Privacy requests and updates

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information, object to or restrict its processing, or complain to a privacy authority. Contact us about information we handle. For information held by a third-party provider, use the contact or controls that provider offers.

We update the date at the top of this policy when we publish a revision. For privacy questions or requests, email 19353540212@163.com.