MAPuPrivacy notice (GDPR)
The short answer
The MAPu program and the kotysoft.com/mapu website collect no data about you. There is 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. What does go somewhere is the IP address and the usual technical data of the network requests below, and your message if you write to us — we describe that honestly. There is no automated decision-making or profiling.
The website (kotysoft.com/mapu)
The website is a simple static page: no cookies, no tracking code, no analytics, no embedded third-party service, no external fonts or content delivery network (CDN). What is unavoidable with any website: the web server of the hosting provider behind kotysoft.com 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.
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 and weather requests described below reveal an area (the weather request also the recording's date). 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://kotysoft.com/mapu/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 kotysoft.com 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. - Weather — when a recording has a GPS position and its exact
time is known from the GPS or the data file, the program asks Open-Meteo's
free weather archive for the weather at the time of the recording (rain,
snow, cloud cover, temperature, wind), at
https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive. The request carries only this: the recording's date (the day of the recording and the two days before it; the answer comes back hour by hour), and an area of about 10 km around the recording: its place rounded to 0.1 degree (about 11 × 7.5 km in Hungary), together with the 8 neighbouring points rounded the same way. The exact route, the video and the file names do not go out. No name, account, key or other identifier goes with it; your IP address and the usual technical data (the request's browser identifier is "MAPu-weather") reach the operator of Open-Meteo, who handles them as an independent controller under its own terms (open-meteo.com/en/terms; server logs are deleted after 90 days). The answer stays on your computer, in the%APPDATA%\mapu\weather-cachefolder, so the same day and area is never requested again (for recordings younger than a few days the archive is still being refined, so there it is fetched again at most once every 6 hours). If a recording has no GPS position, or its time is known only from the camera's clock, no request is made; without a network the program simply continues without weather.
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.%APPDATA%\mapu\weather-cache— the downloaded weather data (one small file per area and day). 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 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 kotysoft.com/mapu.
The program shows the same text (Help → About).