This document describes the XCSoar privacy policy for an application operated and provided by the current project maintainer (Max Kellermann). It describes what personal information we may be gathering from you, who can see this information, and what options you have for controlling this.
For the protection of the XCSoar and other users, if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you may not use the application.
Development of XCSoar is a community effort, with many developers involved and work taking place on many separate components. Generally XCSoar operates offline and only logs the data needed for purpose of competition soaring. The following descriptions are a de facto accumulation of this into a 'privacy policy' describing how we work with the data.
You should always view the XCSoar application with a questioning mind, and feel free to raise any concerns you have about matters of privacy by contacting us via GitHub issue tracker.
XCSoar is an offline logging app. We don't collect any information from your usage of the app.
XCSoar can download additional resources from a central repository This includes:
- waypoints
- airspace files
- maps
Accessing the 'File Manager' service will log your IP Address on the web server in the log. Resources contained in the File Manager Repository may be hosted by 3rd Parties. Downloading these Resources will result in log entries at these sites.
XCSoar does log sensor information while the app is running, even when in the background. Depending on the attached sensors this may include:
- location information (GPS)
- pressure sensors such as true air speed, or barometric
- system information such as battery voltage or airframe switches
- nearby traffic information from collision warning systems such as FLARM
- gyro and accelerometer data
XCSoar logs this data offline in IGC (and optionally NMEA) files and does not send this information anywhere.
For location data there are online tracking functions that have to be registered / enabled and configured explicitly:
For information on their Privacy policy please see the respective service.
Your location information is recorded into an Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Gliding Commission standard log file, short (IGC).
This happens offline and unless you share this file from your device, your location data is not sent anywhere.
We don't have your information and therefore cannot access or share it.
We don't have your information and therefore cannot access or share it.
We don't have your information and therefore cannot access or share it.
We are a Free Software Project. As such there is no interest in your data. Therefore we do not collect it or send it anywhere.
Your data is saved on the device you run XCSoar on. The logs are not erased unless you do so.
The text of this Privacy Policy is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and was adapted from the Wikipedia Privacy Policy.