Privacy Policy

Effective November 2, 2026

Glassing is a backcountry map. Where you hike and hunt is nobody's business but yours. This policy says what information Glassing handles, why, and what you can do about it.

It covers the Glassing app and the website glassing.app, including the map and Glassing Data. Both are run by Glassing, LLC, a Delaware company. Questions go to privacy@glassing.app.

The short version

• You don't need an account. Without one, what you record and save stays on your device.
• An account is for sync. Signing in keeps what you save on all your devices and at glassing.app.
• No ads, no tracking, no selling. Glassing doesn't sell your information, show ads, or use third-party analytics or tracking tools.
• Your places are yours. What you save is used to do what you ask, never to profile you, and never pooled with anyone else's, for heatmaps or anything else.
• Export or delete any time. Take your waypoints, routes, and tracks with you as GPX, or delete your account.

What Glassing collects

With an account, Glassing keeps:

• Your account: the identifier Sign in with Apple provides, your email address if Apple shares it (often a private relay address), the codes that keep you signed in, and one from Apple that lets Glassing revoke its access to your Apple account when you delete yours.
• What you save: waypoints, routes, tracks, trips, notes, and photos, and a list of the maps downloaded on or sent to your devices. Tracks are a detailed record of where you've been, and a photo can hold the location where it was taken.
• Share links you make.
• Your subscription: its plan, status, and renewal date, whether you've had a free trial, and the identifiers that tie a purchase to your account. Glassing never sees your card number.
• Ask the Map use: how many questions your account asks each month and what they cost to answer, and any answer you report.

When a feature needs a server, the app or website sends what that feature needs, such as the words of a search, a point on the map to name, a route to snap to a trail, or a question for Ask the Map. Glassing uses the request only to answer it, and keeps nothing of it beyond the technical information below.

Technical information. Glassing's servers and hosting providers receive your IP address and the details of each request, such as which page or map area was loaded, and when. Glassing uses this to deliver the service, keep it secure, and fix problems. Map data, including updates the app downloads on its own, loads without your account. Glassing also gets overall statistics from its hosting provider, such as how often pages are opened and from which countries. If you share analytics with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple sends Glassing crash reports and overall usage numbers.

When you write to Glassing, your email address and message are kept to answer you.

What stays on your device

• Your location. Glassing uses it on your device for the map, recording, and navigation. It leaves your device only inside something you sync or share, or as a point on the map that a feature sends.
• Motion and barometer readings, used to save battery and improve elevation.
• Your settings and recent searches, in the app and in your browser, and on glassing.app the place you last drove from.
• Voice search in CarPlay. Your iPhone turns speech into text itself, and no recording is kept.
• The app's crash and performance reports. They stay on your phone unless you send a diagnostics report from Settings. A report holds your saved places and tracks, so send it only to someone you trust.

Apple Health. If you allow it, Glassing saves each finished recording to Apple Health as a hiking workout. Glassing asks only to save workouts, never to read Health data. Health data never reaches Glassing's servers, and it's never shared or used for advertising, marketing, or data mining.

glassing.app doesn't use cookies. If you sign in, your browser keeps your session. On a first visit the map opens near the rough location your internet connection reveals, and that isn't stored.

How Glassing uses information

Only to:

• provide the features you use, such as sync, sharing, search, routes, Ask the Map, and your subscription;
• keep Glassing secure and working, and stop abuse;
• fix problems and improve Glassing, using reports you send and overall statistics;
• answer you;
• meet legal obligations.

A person at Glassing looks at what you've saved only when you ask for help with it, to stop abuse, or when the law requires it. Glassing doesn't use your information for advertising, doesn't build a profile of you, and doesn't use what you save to train AI. Your precise location is sensitive, and Glassing uses it only for the features you ask for.

Who else sees it

Glassing shares information only in these ways.

• Service providers. Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare run Glassing's servers, storage, and website. Anthropic answers Ask the Map and suggests icons for the place names in files you import on glassing.app. An email provider holds mail you send. Each may use your information only to provide its service to Glassing, and must protect it at least as well as this policy does.
• Ask the Map. Your question goes to Anthropic with what's needed to answer it, such as the names of places in view and of saved items that match. Neither your location nor the location of anything you've saved is sent. Anthropic doesn't train its models on what it receives.
• Payments. Apple handles App Store purchases. Stripe handles card payments on glassing.app, and Glassing gives Stripe your account ID and your email address, if it has one, for receipts. Apple and Stripe keep their payment records under their own privacy policies.
• Public map sources. Some map data may load straight from sources such as government agencies or public datasets on Amazon Web Services. They see your IP address and which map tiles you load.
• People you share with. Nothing you save is public unless you share it. A share link shows what you chose, with its names, notes, and locations, to anyone with the link until it expires or you turn it off. An app you paste a link into may open it to show a preview.
• When the law requires it. Glassing discloses information when the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety. If Glassing, LLC is ever sold or merged, this policy keeps applying to your information.

Links to other websites, such as a land manager's page, follow those sites' own policies.

Land ownership

The Ownership layer shows county records about private land, including the names of companies and organizations that own it. Where a person owns the land, Glassing leaves their name out and may show the street address instead. A business named after its owner still shows that name, and the filter that removes people's names isn't perfect. To have a name or address taken off the map, email privacy@glassing.app.

How long it's kept

• What you sync stays while your account exists. Deleting something removes it from your devices, but Glassing's servers keep its details, marked as deleted, until you delete your account. A deleted photo's image file is erased within 30 days.
• Questions to Ask the Map aren't kept. A reported answer is kept for up to 90 days.
• Server logs are deleted automatically as newer ones replace them.
• Backups are overwritten on a rolling basis, so deleted information is gone from them within 30 days.

Deleting your account

Delete your account in the app under Settings → Account, or under Account on glassing.app. It immediately deletes your account and everything stored with it on Glassing's servers, cancels a subscription bought on glassing.app, and revokes Glassing's access to your Apple account. Copies in backups and server logs clear as described above. It doesn't cancel an App Store subscription; do that in your Apple account settings. What's on your phone stays until you delete the app, and workouts stay in Health.

Your rights

• Export your waypoints, routes, and tracks as GPX at any time, with or without an account.
• Change or delete anything you've saved, sign out to stop syncing, or delete your account.
• Turn off location or Health access in your iPhone's Settings at any time.
• Email privacy@glassing.app to get a copy of what Glassing holds about you, or to correct or delete it. Glassing answers within 30 days and may ask you to confirm the request is yours. Someone you authorize can ask for you. If Glassing turns a request down, reply to appeal.

These rights are for everyone, wherever you live, and using them never changes how Glassing treats you. Glassing doesn't sell personal information or share it for targeted advertising, so there's nothing to opt out of. Glassing doesn't track you across other sites or apps, so there's nothing for Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control to turn off.

Outside the United States. Glassing is run from the United States, and your information is stored and processed mainly there. Where laws like the GDPR apply, Glassing relies on what's needed to provide the service you asked for, its legitimate interest in keeping the service secure and working, its legal obligations, and your consent where it asks for it, such as location access. You can withdraw consent at any time, and you can complain to your local data protection authority.

Security

Information travels encrypted between your devices and Glassing, and access to Glassing's servers is restricted. What you sync isn't end-to-end encrypted, so those safeguards protect it rather than a key only you hold. No system is perfect, and if a breach affects your information, Glassing will tell you as the law requires.

Children

Glassing isn't directed to children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect their information. If you think a child under 13 has an account, email privacy@glassing.app and it will be deleted.

Changes

When this policy changes, the date at the top changes, and an important change is noted there. Glassing won't collect new kinds of information, or use it in new ways, without updating this policy first. Earlier versions are available on request.

Contact

Glassing, LLC · privacy@glassing.app