Last updated: 2026-10-20.
Summary: InfoSpot does not send your data to anyone, including the author. Everything stays on your phone (and in your own Android backup, if you use it).
| Permission / data | Purpose | Where it is stored |
|---|---|---|
| Location (precise) | Show your position on the map, mark fishing spots, navigate to them and record tracks; on Home and Weather, the weather, moon and municipality where you are, and the distance to each reservoir (turn it off in Settings → Use my location) | On the phone only (database). The municipality is worked out on the phone from bundled boundaries |
| Location in a foreground service | Keep recording a track with the screen off, with a visible notification | On the phone only |
| Internet | Download reservoir levels and map tiles, and check for updates | — |
| Notifications | Daily reservoir summary, weather alerts (moon, pressure, rain) and the “Recording track” notice | — |
| Camera and photos | Photos of a reservoir or of a catch, chosen or taken by you | Phone gallery (Pictures/FishingApp); the database keeps the reference, date and note |
| Install apps | Install the updates you confirm | — |
| App log | Find the cause of a failure: starts, syncs, errors (no coordinates, no personal data) | On the phone only, at most about 2 MB; you can share or clear it from Settings → Help and feedback |
If Android backup is on for your phone, the app’s database and settings are included in it (Google Drive, encrypted with your screen lock) so they come back when you change phones. The debug log is never backed up, and neither are the offline map areas (they can be downloaded again). You control this in Android Settings → Google → Backup.
In-app backup file. Settings → Backup saves your favourites, settings, readings, spots, tracks (with their exact positions) and photos to a ZIP file in the place you choose. The app does not upload it anywhere; keep it somewhere private.
Nothing is shared unless you tap Share on a spot. Then the message you send (through the app you
choose, such as WhatsApp) carries the spot’s name, type, position, weight and date, its photo if it
has one, and a link to a static page on the app’s website (infospot.es, hosted on GitHub Pages).
Whoever opens the link loads that page from GitHub, which sees their IP address like any website;
the page only reads the link and sends nothing. Notes are never shared.
The app connects to these services. Like any connection, they can see your phone’s IP address:
apambiente.pt): the weekly bulletin with the level of the
Portuguese reservoirs (at most once a week).www.ign.es): map tiles.www.ign.es/wms/pnoa-historico): historical aerial photos, only while one is shown on the map
or being downloaded. The requests carry the map area, not your GPS position.cartografia.dgterritorio.gov.pt): orthophotos of Portugal, the same way as the IGN’s
historical photos.tiles.maps.eox.at): Sentinel-2 satellite tiles of Portugal, while the map shows Portugal.
The requests carry the map area, not your GPS position.api.open-meteo.com): weather forecast, at most once an hour per place. For a
reservoir the request carries the reservoir’s location. For Home and Weather it carries the area
where you are: your position rounded to a grid of about 5 km (0.05°), never the exact position.
With Settings → Use my location off, only reservoirs are asked for. The weather alerts check the
favourite reservoirs’ forecasts in the background every six hours, the same way.github.com, its download servers and, as a fallback, api.github.com): check for and download
updates from the public downloads page of the app (not in the Google Play version), and the depth
map of a reservoir the first time it is shown. No account or token is used.Android Settings → Apps → InfoSpot → Storage → Clear data, or uninstall the app. Photos stay in your gallery until you delete them there.
Write to soporte@infospot.es, or open an issue at https://github.com/Danii204/FishingApp-releases/issues.