Big Bwain provides Gordie's Field Book, a private journal for hunting, fishing and maple sugaring. This policy explains what the app and its optional sync service handle, and the choices you have.
On your device
The app saves your trips, harvests, spots, visits, notes, photos and videos on your device. It works without an account or a connection. With your permission, it uses your location while the app is open to show where you are on the map and how far away your entries are, to place entries and to record a trip's route. It also uses the camera and microphone to take photos and videos. You choose which photos and videos to attach from your library. You can change these permissions in your device settings. The app has no voice notes or audio attachments.
If the earlier Gordie's Logs app was on your phone, Gordie's Field Book copies its entries into private trips once. It only reads the old files and never changes them, and imported trips sync only if you sign in. Export My Spots (GPX), Export Route (GPX) and Share send a file or text only where you choose. Your phone's own backup, such as iCloud Backup on iPhone and iPad, may include the app's data. On Android, the app is excluded from Google's cloud backup.
Maps, weather and directions
Maps come from Apple Maps on iPhone and iPad and from Google Maps on Android, so your device requests the map areas you view from Apple or Google. Your saved pins stay on the map offline. When you tap Weather, the app opens the US National Weather Service forecast page for that entry's exact coordinates, so the National Weather Service receives those coordinates and your device's IP address. When you tap Directions, the app opens Apple Maps or Google Maps with the coordinates and, on iPhone and iPad, the entry's name. These services handle that information under their own privacy policies.
Optional account and sync
You can sign in from More > Settings > Account with Google, or with Apple on iPhone and iPad. Google or Apple confirms who you are. Our server keeps a one-way (hashed) form of your Google or Apple account ID, which of the two you used, a random account number and the date the account was created. It does not store your name, email address or profile photo, and the profile you set in Settings stays on your device.
While you're signed in, the app syncs your entries with our server: trips, harvests and spots with their names, types, details, notes, dates and precise locations; spot visits with their activities and notes; the routes you record on trips; and your photos and videos with their file names. Entries you made before signing in become part of your account. Photos you take or pick in the app are saved without location metadata, and videos have location data removed before upload. Photos copied from Gordie's Logs keep the details they were saved with. Everything travels over HTTPS and is stored in private Microsoft Azure storage that is not publicly accessible. Your devices load photos and videos through signed links that expire. Sign Out pauses sync and leaves your entries on this device and in your account.
For Apple sign-in, the service stores an encrypted Apple authorization token so it can revoke the grant when you delete the account. It retries revocation for seven days after deletion if needed and clears the token on its next successful storage check.
Sharing
We don't sell your information, show ads, or use analytics or tracking tools, and we never make your entries public. Your information goes only to the services that run the features you use: Microsoft Azure hosts our server and storage; Google and Apple confirm your sign-in (Google's sign-in includes your name and email address, and our server uses only your account ID); and Apple Maps, Google Maps and the National Weather Service as described above. Our account deletion page uses Google Sign-In to confirm your Google account.
When you email support, we receive your message and email address. Send Feedback in the app adds your app version, device model and system version to the email, and Report a Problem offers to attach the app's error log. That log stays on your device unless you attach it. It holds the app version and error details, with email addresses, sign-in tokens and locations removed.
Deleting your account
In the app, open More > Settings > Account and choose Delete Account. If you signed in with Google, you can also delete your account online. Deleting permanently removes your account and everything stored with it: trips, harvests, spots, visits, notes, routes, photos and videos, plus any old Gordie's Logs cloud backup. The app also removes the account's entries from the device you delete on, and your other devices remove them the next time they connect. That includes entries you made before you signed in, because they became part of the account. GPX files you exported and text you shared stay wherever you saved or sent them. To stop syncing but keep your entries, choose Sign Out instead.
How long we keep data
Your synced entries, routes, photos and videos stay in your account until you delete them or delete your account. Deleting an entry removes it, its route and any photos or videos no other entry uses. Uploads that never finish are removed after seven days, and uploaded photos or videos that no entry uses are removed after 180 days. Deleting your account removes its data right away. If something interrupts the deletion, our server finishes it automatically, usually within minutes. Afterwards we keep only a small deletion record: the hashed account ID, which service you signed in with, a random account number and the dates the account was created and deleted, so an old sign-in can't restore deleted data. For Sign in with Apple, the encrypted Apple token is removed once Apple confirms the revocation, or seven days after deletion. Data on your device stays until you delete it, delete your account or remove the app. Files from the old Gordie's Logs app stay on your phone until you remove the app. To ask about, correct or delete your data, email support@bigbwain.com.
Children
Gordie's Field Book is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The app works without an account; signing in requires a Google or Apple account. If you believe a child under 13 has signed in and stored information with us, email support@bigbwain.com and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will post the new version here with a new effective date. If a change affects how we use information you have already given us, we will tell you before it takes effect, such as with a notice in the app.
Contact
For privacy questions or help, email support@bigbwain.com.