Privacy Policy

Last updated 10 June 2026

Summary

Bramble is local-first: your hikes, photos and memories are stored on your device. We collect no advertising identifiers and run no third-party analytics. The app talks to a small number of services, listed below, only to do what you asked it to do.

Location

Your position is used during a hike to draw your route, match you to the trail, and pin photos to the map. It is processed on your device. Location is never collected in the background outside an active hike, and the privacy setting “hide hike start & end” trims your route ends before anything is shared.

Photos & camera

Photos you capture or pick stay in your scrapbook on your device (and in your account if you enable sync). We never scan your photo library.

Apple Health

With your permission, finished hikes are written to Apple Health as workouts (with route). We only write; we read nothing. Health data never leaves your device via Bramble.

On-device AI

Caption and subtitle suggestions use Apple's on-device Foundation Models. Your prompts and photos are processed on the device and are not sent to us or to Apple's servers by Bramble.

Accounts & sync (optional)

If you create an account (email, or Sign in with Apple), your email address and synced content (hikes, memories, reports) are stored with our database provider, Supabase, in the EU. Sign in with Apple lets you hide your real email. You can delete your account and synced data from Profile at any time.

Purchases

Subscriptions are processed by Apple and RevenueCat (our subscription manager). RevenueCat receives a random app user id and purchase receipts — never your name or email from us.

Other services

Map tiles come from OpenFreeMap; weather from MET Norway; trail and amenity data from OpenStreetMap; trail photos from Wikimedia Commons. These requests include your approximate area of interest (e.g. the trail's coordinates) but no identity.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can access, correct, export or erase your data. Most of it is already in your hands — on your device, with GPX export built in. For anything account-related, contact karlhfr@gmail.com. You can complain to the ICO (ico.org.uk) if you're unhappy with our handling.

Children

Bramble is not directed at children under 13. Family mode is a display setting and creates no child accounts.