What data myJikita holds
The Privacy Policy is the binding text. This page says the same thing in ordinary language, organised by what it is for rather than by legal category.
Who you are
Your name and email address, and an account identifier.
Your name is not decoration: it is what your contacts see beside your position, and what a rescue team is given if it comes to that.
We never see your password. You type it into Alpik's identity service in your phone's own browser, not into the app. That is why signing in opens a browser.
Where you have been
The heart of it, and the most sensitive thing we hold.
For each position: latitude, longitude, how accurate the fix was, and when it was taken. Plus two things that are less obvious and matter more than they look:
- Whether your phone had a network connection at that point. This is how the app knows where your coverage gaps are and shows them to you afterwards. See Coverage and white areas.
- When the position arrived, separately from when it was taken. A batch of positions arriving at once after a valley is a completely different situation from three hours of genuine silence, and anyone reading your track needs to be able to tell them apart.
Positions are recorded only while you have deliberately started an outing. Nothing is recorded between outings. The app does not run a background location service when you are not out.
What you were doing
Your plan: activity, place in your own words, expected return time, planned route, who was with you, and when the outing started and stopped. Plus whether you went off route, and whether you raised an SOS.
Who you share with
The contacts you created inside myJikita, whether they accepted, and which of them each outing was shared with.
We never touch your phone's address book. The app does not ask for it and could not read it if it wanted to. That is why adding contacts is manual.
What you said
The messages in each outing conversation, and when they were sent.
They are stored so that a message can be delivered to somebody whose phone was off or out of coverage. They are not end-to-end encrypted — see Messages.
Your Jikita tags
Which tags are registered to you, what you named them, their battery level and when they were last heard.
Separately: sightings of any tag your phone hears, including tags belonging to strangers. What that involves and why is in Who can see your position.
Your phone
Model and OS version; a device identifier, used to enforce one active device per account; a push notification token, so we can reach you; connection metadata such as IP address and timestamps; and error logs when something goes wrong.
What we do not hold
Worth stating explicitly, because people assume otherwise:
- Your phone's contacts. Never requested, never uploaded.
- Photos, camera, microphone. The app does not ask for any of them.
- Advertising identifiers. There is no advertising in myJikita.
- Third-party analytics or tracking. There is none in the app.
- Health data. Not requested, not collected.
- Your password. It goes to the identity service, not to us.
- Your position between outings. Not recorded at all.
What is on your phone rather than on our servers
| On the phone only | Also on our servers |
|---|---|
| Downloaded map areas | Positions and tracks |
| Your GPX route files | Outing plans and metadata |
| Your language and interval preferences | Contacts and sharing |
| The local copy of your outings, used offline | Messages |
| Queued positions waiting for coverage | Tag registrations and sightings |
Signing out erases the personal data on the phone. Downloaded maps are kept — they contain nothing about you, and re-downloading them is slow and expensive.
How long it is kept
Proposed retention periods are in the Privacy Policy. They are marked as proposals pending confirmation.
Seeing all of it, for real
This page is a description. If you want the actual contents rather than a summary of them, the app will hand you the whole lot as a file: Settings → Your data → What do you know about me. See What do you know about me.
Getting rid of it
See Delete your account and your data, and Your rights over your data.