ShturmanPrivacy policy
Effective date: 9 October 2026
In short. Shturman has no server and no account system. Your positions, trips and settings are kept on your phone only and are never sent to us. To make the map, search, routing and alerts work, the app sends requests to a few third-party services, with no account and no device identifier. We do not sell data, show ads or track you.
1. Who is responsible
The Shturman app for iOS and Android is developed by Alex Atamanskyi, an individual based in Ukraine. For privacy questions, write to oleksandr.v.atamanskyi@gmail.com.
2. What stays on your phone
This data is processed on your device only and is never sent to us:
- GPS and network positions;
- motion-sensor data;
- activity type (driving, walking, still);
- the estimated position while GPS is unavailable;
- trip history and tracks;
- Home and Work, recent places and search history;
- downloaded offline maps;
- settings.
We have no server, so we could not see this data even if we wanted to.
3. Third-party services
To make certain features work, the app sends requests to the services below. Requests carry no account, no device identifier and no advertising ID. Like any website, each service sees the request itself and your phone’s IP address. Each service handles requests under its own policy.
| Service | What it receives | Why |
|---|---|---|
| OpenFreeMap (tiles.openfreemap.org) | The map area you are viewing | Show the map |
| Photon by komoot (photon.komoot.io) | Your search text and an approximate position; the point you press and hold on the map | Find places and rank nearby results first; look up the address of a point |
| Valhalla on the FOSSGIS public server (valhalla1.openstreetmap.de) | Start and destination coordinates of the route | Build the route |
| Public air-raid alert feed (ubilling.net.ua mirror) | No data about you: the app only downloads the list of oblasts under alert | Show air-raid alerts |
| Apple App Store / StoreKit (iOS) | Purchase data, handled by Apple | Buy and restore the subscription |
| Google Play Billing (Android) | Purchase data, handled by Google | Buy and restore the subscription |
Voice guidance and activity recognition use the phone’s own system services (Apple on iPhone, Google Play services on Android).
If we change the alert source (for example to alerts.in.ua) or any other service, we will update this policy.
4. What we don’t do
- We don’t sell data or share it for advertising.
- We don’t track you across apps or websites.
- We don’t use advertising, analytics or tracking SDKs, accounts or social login.
5. Permissions
- Location: while using the app, and on iPhone also in the background during navigation, so guidance continues with the screen locked.
- Motion & Fitness (iOS) / Physical activity (Android): to know you are driving and to count steps when GPS is unavailable.
- Notifications (Android): for turn-by-turn guidance in Android Auto.
You can revoke any permission in your phone’s settings; the features that depend on it will stop working.
6. Subscription and free-time counter
Purchases go through Apple. So that reinstalling does not reset the 10 free hours, the counter of time used is stored in your iCloud Keychain. On Android, purchases go through Google Play and the counter is stored only on your phone.
7. Children
The app is rated 4+ / Everyone and contains no objectionable content. We collect no personal data from anyone, including children.
8. Deleting your data
Because the data lives only on your phone, deleting the app deletes it. The free-time counter in your iCloud Keychain remains. There is nothing to delete on our side: we don’t store your data. If you have questions, write to oleksandr.v.atamanskyi@gmail.com.
9. Changes to this policy
If the app starts handling data differently, we will update this page and the effective date at the top.
10. Contact
Alex Atamanskyi, Ukraine — oleksandr.v.atamanskyi@gmail.com.