On iPhone and iPad, and only if you allow it, Nookfar asks the Health app
for your step count and your walking and running distance for the dates of
a trip, and shows those numbers on that trip’s screen. It fetches them
fresh each time you open the trip, displays them, and keeps nothing: not on
your device, and not anywhere else. It shares them with no one. There is no
other health data in Nookfar.
Who is responsible
Nookfar is published by Filip Racki, an individual developer, who is
the person responsible for this policy. Contact: nookfar@rackidev.com.
What health data is collected, and why
Two readings: your step count for each day a trip covers, and your
walking and running distance over those days.
One purpose: to show, on the screen of that trip, how far you walked
during it. The numbers are used for nothing else. They are not combined
with your photos, your location, or your travel history; they are not used
to profile you, to make any decision about you, or to suggest anything.
How they are handled: Nookfar reads them from the Health app when you
open a trip’s screen, shows them, and drops them when you leave. They are
never written to Nookfar’s storage, to a file, to the export in Settings
→ Data → Export All Data, or to any sync. This feature exists on iPhone and
iPad only; there is no Mac version of it.
Where it comes from
One source: the Health app on your device, through Apple’s HealthKit,
after you grant Nookfar read access in the system’s own Health sheet.
Nookfar never writes to Health.
What is shared
Nothing. No category of consumer health data is shared with anyone.
Who it is shared with
No one. There are no third parties, no affiliates and no processors, and
no reading ever leaves your device. Nookfar has no account, no analytics of
its own and no advertising, and makes no request of its own to any
server. Consumer health data is never sold, and never shared
for advertising. No one can collect consumer health data about you over time,
or across apps and websites, through Nookfar.
Your rights, and how to exercise them
Because Nookfar keeps no reading, every right you have over this data is
exercised on your own device, immediately, with no request to make:
To confirm whether Nookfar is collecting or sharing your health data,
and to see it: open the Health app → your profile → Apps and Services
→ Nookfar. Sharing is off unless you turned it on, and it lists exactly
what Nookfar may read. Nookfar shares nothing, so there is no list of
recipients to give you.
To withdraw your consent: turn Nookfar’s access off in the same
place, or turn off Health access for Nookfar in the system Settings.
Nookfar reads nothing from then on.
To delete your health data from Nookfar: there is nothing to delete.
Nookfar holds no reading at any time. Your readings stay in the Health
app, under its own controls.
If you have a question, a request, or believe this policy is not being
kept, write to nookfar@rackidev.com. You will get an answer within 45
days. If you are not satisfied with it, write again to the same address and
say so; the answer will be reviewed and you will hear back within 45 days.
If your appeal is turned down, the answer will include a link to the
Washington State Office of the Attorney General’s online complaint form,
https://www.atg.wa.gov/file-complaint. You can use it at any time.
Changes
This version of the policy is effective from 8 October 2026. If the app ever changes what health data it reads, why, or what it does
with it, this policy changes in the same release and the date at the top
moves. Before the app reads a new kind of health data, or uses or shares a
reading for a purpose this policy does not describe, it will tell you in
the app and ask for your consent. Until you agree, it does not. The app
will not keep or share a reading under a policy that says it does not.
Privacy policy
What Nookfar reads, what it stores on your device, and what never leaves it.
Nookfar draws a map of where you have been, from the photos on your
device. What it works out is stored on your device. It has no account and
no advertising, and it doesn’t send your photos, your travel history or
your health readings anywhere: it makes no request of its own to the
developer or to anyone else. What goes through Apple’s services is
described below.
Who is responsible
Nookfar is published by Filip Racki, an individual developer
established in Poland. He is the controller of the personal information
this policy describes, in the sense of the EU’s General Data Protection
Regulation, and the person in charge of the protection of personal
information, in the sense of Quebec’s privacy law.
Contact: nookfar@rackidev.com. Personal information reaches the
developer only when you choose to send it: an email to this address, or
something else you choose to send, such as an App Store review. Separately,
if you agreed in your device’s settings to share analytics with app
developers, Apple gives every developer crash reports and usage statistics
about their own apps, aggregated or otherwise in a form that does not
identify you (Apple’s
explanation).
You can turn that off at any time, under Privacy & Security → Analytics &
Improvements → Share With App Developers.
What the app reads, and why
Your photos. With your permission, Nookfar reads the dates and
locations saved in your photos to match each photo to the trips in your
travel history, which is how it shows the countries and regions you have
visited. Opening a place’s or a region’s photos also reads where each photo
was taken, to show the ones taken there. If you turn on trip suggestions
(Settings → Trip Discovery → Suggest Trips from Photos), it also reads them
to suggest trips; they are off until you turn them on, and nothing is saved
until you accept a suggestion. Nookfar shows the photos themselves in its
gallery. If you choose to favorite or delete a photo from inside Nookfar,
it does that in your photo library. The app never copies a photo on its
own; choosing Share makes a temporary copy to hand to wherever you send it,
and Nookfar deletes that copy once the share is done, or at the latest the
next time it opens.
Your steps and walking distance. With your permission, Nookfar asks the
Health app for two numbers — step count, and walking and running distance —
for the dates of a trip, and shows them on that trip’s screen. These
numbers are fetched fresh each time you open the trip, only displayed on
screen, and never stored by Nookfar — not on your device and not anywhere
else. This feature exists on iPhone and iPad only. How Nookfar handles
these two readings, and nothing else, is also set out in a separate
Consumer Health Data Privacy
Policy, which
has its own page.
Your location. With your permission, Nookfar shows where you are as a
dot on the map. Your position is not saved and is never added to your
travel history, and the picture of the map Nookfar keeps to open on is
never one that shows the dot.
You can withdraw any of these permissions at any time in your device’s
Settings; Nookfar stops reading from then on.
Your App Store region. Whenever the map perspective or the starting
place has not been set — on first launch, and after you erase all travel
data — Nookfar checks which App Store region your device is signed into,
and uses it to pick the map perspective for contested borders and where the
globe first opens. You can change either in Settings at any time. With no
App Store account, the perspective is the default one, “Widest
international agreement”, and your device’s region setting picks where the
globe opens.
Your age range, where a law requires it. Some US states have laws that
require apps to check the age range that the app store or the device holds
for the person using them. On each launch, Nookfar asks your device’s
system whether such a law applies to you; only where it does, Nookfar asks
Apple for your age range: whether you are 18 or older, or which younger age
group you are in. The answer is used only to follow that law. It is never
stored and never reaches the developer.
What the app stores
On your device: your trips with their notes, the places you lived, the
places you added yourself, your settings, and the map perspective you
chose. This is derived from your photos and from what you enter, and it
stays in the app’s own storage on the device. If that storage cannot be
opened — a damaged file, or one a newer version wrote — Nookfar sets it
aside on the device rather than deleting it, so nothing is lost; Settings →
Data → Set-Aside Data lists these copies.
Beside these, the app keeps working copies it can make again, also on your
device:
Photo descriptions for VoiceOver. When VoiceOver or another
accessibility feature reads a photo, Apple’s Vision framework describes it,
on the device: what it recognizes in it, and how many people. Nookfar keeps
each description so it is not made twice, and removes it once the photo is
no longer in your library, or no longer among the photos you let Nookfar
read.
Other caches. From your photos: which place each trip photo was taken
at, the last scan behind trip suggestions, a blurred impression of each
photo, and which photos were already checked for a copy in iCloud Photos
and have none, so they are not checked again for a week. From your trips:
the names and regions of their places, the lines your routes follow, and
your visited places as the map draws them, including the picture of the map
it opens on. From your settings: a copy of your perspective choices as this
version last read them, so it still has something to show if a newer
version of Nookfar ever saves them in a form this one cannot read. From the
app’s own data: the list of places you can search for, and the letter
shapes the map’s names are drawn with.
Nookfar never sends any of these anywhere. Settings → Data → Stored on This
Device lists them, grouped by what they are for, and can clear each group;
the app makes them again when they are needed. Erase All Travel Data clears
them all.
Your device’s own backup, such as iCloud Backup, includes your trips,
places, settings and any set-aside copies, as it does any app’s data; with
iCloud Backup on, Apple holds that copy. The caches are left out: the ones
slow to rebuild are marked to be excluded from backups, and the rest are
kept in the system’s cache folder, which iPhone and iPad backups and Time
Machine on a Mac skip.
What leaves your device
The app sends nothing to the developer, and makes no request of its own to
any server. The whole world map, and the list of places you can search for,
is built into the app; a place the list does not have is one you type in
yourself, under Settings → Your Places, and it is stored on your device
like any other.
Three things involve Apple’s services, the same way they do in any app: a
photo kept only in iCloud is fetched from Apple when the app needs it (to
show it, to share it, or to describe it for VoiceOver); the App Store
region check above asks Apple’s App Store when the perspective or the
starting place has not been set; and the age-range check above asks your
device’s system whether an age law applies and, where one does, asks Apple
for your age range. Nothing else about you goes with any of them. Apple’s
privacy policy covers what Apple does with these requests.
Exporting your data
Settings → Data → Export All Data writes your travel history — your trips
with their stops, their notes and the journeys between them, the places you
lived, places (the ones you added included, with their coordinates), the
photos you added to or took out of each trip (named as your photo library
and iCloud Photos name them, with when each was taken), the suggestions you
dismissed, and any territory rules you wrote — to a plain text file. The
file is readable by anyone who has it, in any text editor, because it is
meant to be a backup you own, and one you can take to another device. It is
written only when you ask, to the place you choose, and never anywhere
else. The file contains no photos, no health readings and no settings.
Deleting your data
Settings → Data → Erase All Travel Data removes from Nookfar every trip,
place and setting, the set-aside copies, the caches and any temporary
copies made for sharing or exporting. Your photos are untouched. On
iPhone and iPad, deleting the app removes everything else. On a Mac,
deleting the app leaves what it stored on the Mac: erase it first with
Erase All Travel Data.
What the app never does
No advertising. No tracking. No accounts. No third-party analytics. No
selling of personal information, and no sharing of it for advertising;
apart from Apple and Zoho, for the reasons this policy gives, no one
receives any. No other company can collect information about what you
do across apps or websites through Nookfar. Nookfar analyzes the dates and
places in your photos only on your device, and only to build your travel
history; it never uses them, or anything else about you, for advertising,
to score you, or to make decisions about you. Neither the app nor the
developer collects, uses or sells personal data to train large language
models.
Because the app tracks no one and sells nothing, a Do Not Track or Global
Privacy Control signal from your browser or device changes nothing: there
is no tracking or sale for it to turn off.
If you email the developer
When you write to nookfar@rackidev.com, the developer receives your
email address, your name if your email shows it, and whatever you write or
attach.
Why. Only to answer you, and to fix what you report. The legal basis is
the developer’s legitimate interest in answering the people who write to
him (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). Writing is up to you: if you don’t, the only
consequence is that the developer cannot answer you.
Who holds your emails. The mailbox is hosted by Zoho Corporation B.V.,
in Zoho’s data centers in the European Union, which store the emails on the
developer’s behalf. In rare cases, Zoho’s support staff in India may access
them, under the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses. No one
else receives them.
How long. Up to 12 months after the last message in a conversation;
then the whole conversation is deleted. Keeping it that long lets a problem
reported twice be matched to the first report.
Where your information is held
Support emails are held in the European Union, and may be reached from
India as described above. For readers in Quebec: your emails are therefore
communicated outside Quebec. Nothing else about you leaves your device for
the developer.
Your rights
Apart from an email you send, or anything else you choose to send, such as
an App Store review, no personal information reaches the developer.
Everything the app keeps is on your own device, and every right you have
over it is exercised there, with the export and erase controls above.
If you have written to the developer, you can ask at the same address for
access to your emails and a copy of them, for them to be corrected or
deleted, or for their use to be restricted. You can also object at any time
to the developer keeping your emails for his legitimate interest; on
request, he explains how he weighed that interest against yours. You will
have an answer within one month, and within 30 days in Quebec. If you have
a question, a complaint, or believe this policy is not being kept, write to
the address at the top.
If the developer refuses a request, the answer gives the reasons, and you
can appeal by replying to it: you will have a written answer, with its
reasons, within 60 days. If the appeal is refused, the answer says how to
complain to your state’s attorney general, where your state provides for
it, or to one of the authorities below.
You may also complain to a data protection authority: in the European
Union, in the country where you live, where you work, or where you believe
the infringement took place. The developer is established in Poland, where
the supervisory authority is the President of the Personal Data Protection
Office (Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych, UODO,
https://uodo.gov.pl/en), which takes complaints in Polish; in France, for
example, it is the CNIL. In Quebec, you may ask the Commission d’accès à
l’information du Québec (https://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca) to examine a refusal
within 30 days of it, or complain to it. Elsewhere in Canada, you may
contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and in Australia
the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Children
Nookfar is not directed at children. Nothing the app reads, on anyone’s
device, ever reaches the developer.
Changes
This version of the policy is effective from 8 October 2026. Any change to
it moves that date and the one at the top. If the app ever changes what it
reads, stores or sends, this policy changes in the same release, and that
release’s notes, which the App Store shows, say so. The app will not start
sending data anywhere under a policy that says it does not, and where a
change needs your consent, it asks for it first.