MAPuPrivacy notice (GDPR)
The short answer
The MAPu program collects no data about you. It has no user account, registration, analytics, crash reporting, advertising, cookie, or tracking code. Your videos, your GPS tracks, and the finished recordings stay on your own computer at all times. The mapu.hu website measures visits only if you agree (Google Analytics) in the bar shown at the bottom of the page; if you don't, the website collects no data about you either. What does go somewhere is the IP address and the usual technical data of the network requests below, the website visit data if you accepted the measurement, and your message if you write to us — we describe that honestly. There is no automated decision-making, and the measurement is not used for advertising or profiling.
The website (mapu.hu)
The website is a simple static page: no embedded third-party service, no external fonts or content delivery network (CDN), and apart from the visit measurement described below, which starts only with your consent, no cookie or tracking code. What is unavoidable with any website: the web server of the hosting provider behind mapu.hu writes your visit — and the download of the installer — into its ordinary server log (IP address, time, requested file, and what your browser sends by itself: the browser identifier and the address of the referring page). We use that log only to operate and secure the server (legal basis: legitimate interest, GDPR Article 6(1)(f) — a website cannot be run or protected against attacks without it); we do not analyse it and do not pass it on to anyone. The hosting provider handles it on our behalf, as a processor (GDPR Article 28); the server is in the European Union. We keep the web server log in our hosting account for at most about one month (only the current month's log is ever there); after that it is deleted automatically. The hosting provider's own server-side logs fall under the provider's own policy. The page's language (Hungarian or English) is chosen from the language preference your browser sends (the Accept-Language header), which is not stored.
Visit measurement on the website (Google Analytics)
On your first visit, a bar at the bottom of the page asks whether we may measure
visits. Only if you choose "Accept" does the page load the Google
Analytics measurement code (from googletagmanager.com). If you choose
"No", or neither, no request goes to Google and no cookie is placed on your computer.
The purpose is to see how many people come and from where (which country, which
referring page), which pages they read and how many click the download — so we know
what is worth improving. Legal basis: your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). The
measurement code places two cookies in your browser (_ga and
_ga_<id>, for up to 2 years), which let Google tell a returning
visitor apart, and sends the usual technical data of the visit (the page viewed, the
referring page, the browser and device type, the screen size, the language).
According to Google's own description, Google Analytics does not log or store the IP
addresses of visitors from the EU: it uses them only to derive an approximate
location (country, city) and then discards them. The advertising and Google Signals
features are switched off: the measurement is not linked to advertising, to your
Google account or to other sites, and nobody is identified by name. Google (in the EU,
Google Ireland, Dublin) handles the data on our behalf, as a processor (GDPR
Article 28). Google may also process the data outside the EU, in the United States;
this relies on the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework, under which Google LLC is
certified, and on standard contractual clauses
(business.safety.google/adsdatatransfers).
The measurement data is kept in our Google Analytics account for at most 14 months.
The page remembers your choice in your browser's local storage (this is not a cookie
and is not sent anywhere); you can change it at any time with the "Cookie settings"
link at the bottom of the page, and if you withdraw your consent, the page also
deletes the two cookies. On Google's own data processing:
policies.google.com/privacy.
What happens with your videos
The program reads and processes opened recordings and their telemetry (GPS position, speed, acceleration, time) locally. The exported video goes into the folder you choose. None of this ever goes over the network — neither the files nor the GPS track; only the map requests described below reveal an area. The program neither modifies nor deletes your original files.
The program's network connections
The current version of the program reaches out to exactly three places:
- Update check — on startup, a single short HTTPS request to
https://mapu.hu/version.json, to find out whether a newer version exists. This request carries no data along with it: not your computer, not your videos, not even your own version number — the comparison happens on your own machine; the request's browser identifier is simply "MAPu-update-check". What the request does reveal, like any internet request, is your computer's IP address and the time of the request. The web server of the hosting provider behind mapu.hu writes this into the same ordinary server log as a visit to the website — with the same purpose, legal basis and retention as above. If there is no network, the app silently continues. - Map tiles — the map gauges download the tiles they need
from
https://tiles.openfreemap.org/. This means the tile provider receives your IP address and learns which area you requested a map for — roughly speaking, the route you're traveling —, together with the usual technical data (such as the identifier of the program's built-in browser engine, which may reveal the program's and Windows' version). No name, account, key, or other identifier goes with it, and we have no access to these requests: the operator of OpenFreeMap handles them as an independent controller, under its own privacy policy (openfreemap.org/privacy). Downloaded tiles stay on your computer, in the%APPDATA%\mapu\tile-cachefolder, so the same area renders without a network the second time. The map's labels (fonts) and icons are bundled with the app, so no request is made for those. - Terrain tiles — with terrain switched on, the "3D vehicle on
the map" gauge downloads elevation tiles from
https://tiles.mapterhorn.com/, the same way as the map tiles: the provider receives your IP address and the requested area, with no name, account or key. The operator of Mapterhorn handles these requests as an independent controller, under its own policy (mapterhorn.com/privacy-policy; the tiles are served by Cloudflare, and request data is kept for at most 30 days). Downloaded tiles stay on your computer, in the%APPDATA%\mapu\tile-cache\demfolder. With terrain switched off, no such request is made.
Aside from this, the app calls no other server. Clicking the "download" link opens your system browser on the release page — from there on, your browser's own rules apply.
What it stores on your computer
%APPDATA%\mapu\last-project.json— your gauge layout (including any captions you typed), export settings and — if you set them — the place of your start/finish and sector lines (geographic coordinates), so it starts the same way next time. The list of videos is deliberately not remembered.%APPDATA%\mapu\ui-settings.json— the interface settings (language, theme, window positions and sizes).%APPDATA%\mapu\capabilities.json— what your graphics card and the bundled encoder can do (the result of the startup test encodings).%APPDATA%\mapu\tile-cache— the downloaded map tiles. It can be deleted at any time; the program will download whatever it needs again.- In the same folder, the usual caches of the program's built-in browser engine (Chromium); and while encoding, temporary working files in the Windows temporary folder.
- Next to each exported video, a small technical report
(
<video name>.report.json): the settings, file names and timings — for troubleshooting. - The Log visible on screen is a text trace of the app's run (it is not written to a file). It goes nowhere; if you report a bug, it's your choice whether to send it.
These files exist only on your computer; the program sends them nowhere. They can be safely deleted when the program is uninstalled (the installer does not delete them by itself, so your settings survive an update).
If you write to us
If you send an e-mail (a question, a bug report), we use your message and your e-mail address to reply and to fix the reported problem (legal basis: legitimate interest, GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). We keep it only as long as needed to close the matter. The correspondence is stored by Google's Gmail service, under Google's own privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy). If you also send the Log, it may contain file names and folder paths — send only what you want to.
Children, your rights, contact
Neither the program nor the website is specifically directed at children, and we do not knowingly process data about children. What we process about you is the server-log entry above, the website visit measurement data if you accepted it, and — if you wrote to us — your message: under the GDPR you may ask for access to it (information about it), have it corrected or erased, have its processing restricted, or object to it; we reply within one month. An IP address in the log cannot be tied to you by name, so a request about the log needs to state when you visited or when the request was sent from your computer. The controller is not a company but a private individual: Kotysoft (Tibor Kovacs, an independent developer), Ireland — "Kotysoft" is the publishing name; e-mail: kotysoftc@gmail.com. You may lodge a complaint with the controller's supervisory authority, the Irish Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.ie), or with the data protection authority of your own country.
Changes
This notice describes how the program and the website work now. If that changes (for example because of a new feature or a new service), the notice changes too, with the date above; the current version can always be read in the program (Help → About) and on mapu.hu.
The program shows the same text (Help → About).