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Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 10, 2026

HelioMaps is a hunting‑property mapping app made by HelioLogix LLC ("HelioLogix," "we," "us"). This policy explains what we collect, why, and the choices you have. We built HelioMaps to be useful offline and to keep your data yours. We don't sell your personal information.

What we collect

How we use it

Location, in detail

Location is used to center the map on you (which then decides the map area the lookups below send), to record tracks, to fetch weather and your county's rut dates when your ranch has no location of its own, and, only when you explicitly start it, to show your live position to others on the ranch you have open who are also sharing. Live sharing is off by default, is opt‑in each time, and stops on its own after 5 hours. You can revoke location access anytime in your device settings.

While the app is not in use. Two features keep using your location after you put the phone away: recording a road or a track, and live sharing. While either is running, the app collects your location with the screen locked or the app in the background, so the line you are recording is not broken and others on the ranch you have open who are also sharing can still see you. Your phone shows an ongoing notification or a location indicator the whole time, and collection stops the moment you stop recording or stop sharing. While a recording runs, and while the map follows you during a live share, the map keeps centering on you. The lookups the map makes each time it comes to rest (under "Moving the map", "All public land" and "Public access easements" below) wait while the app is out of sight, and run once for the view you come back to. The basemap, the Water detail layer, the roads overlay and the other layers drawn as map images (Soils, Crops, BLM land, and All public land whenever it shows as images), and property lines and terrain from our own tile service, may still load for the area around you with the screen locked, and while your ranch has no boundary, parcels or saved center point, so may the weather and rut‑county lookups, each sending your phone's location rounded to about a kilometer. Nothing else in the app uses your location in the background, except that once you have opened the 3D map, Mapbox's software may keep collecting de‑identified location data while HelioMaps has location access, until you close the app (turn it off with ⓘ on the 3D map).

Where your coordinates go. Your ranch's center is the middle of its boundary or, without one, of its parcels; for a ranch with neither, it is the ranch's saved center point, which can be an earlier location of your phone. Weather is requested for your ranch's center rounded to about 10 meters, and the county behind rut dates for the same place rounded to about a kilometer; when the ranch has no center, both use your phone's location rounded to about a kilometer (Best blinds, the Route report, Weather here and Plan approach add weather points of their own, set out below). Place searches send what you type or paste and, when the map is zoomed in closer than a view of several states, the middle of the map rounded to about 10 km, so nearby places come first; routing sends your start and destination. Loading the map sends the area you are viewing to the map services listed below, and property lines only to our own tile service. That area is usually the property you are looking at, but whenever the map is centered on you (you center it, it follows you or records a road or a track, or it opens on your location because nothing else is saved to show) it is the area around you. Which services receive that area or a point, and when, is set out in "What each action sends" below: some when the app opens or as you move the map, others only after you turn on a layer, tap the map, download an area, import roads, open a pin's card, open Best blinds, the Route report, Weather here or Plan approach, or ask for a Ranch overview. A Ranch overview sends Anthropic the ranch outline, its pins' coordinates, the paths of its trails, roads and fences, and the center of each named area; a Best blinds report or a Route report sends Anthropic none, though opening Best blinds can send the coordinates of a stand or other pin to USGS where our own terrain copy has no height for it.

What each action sends

Beyond the basemap, the Water detail layer (on by default), the roads overlay when you turn it on, and the property‑line and terrain tiles from our own tile service, which load for the area you view while they are showing, and the search, routing, road‑import, 3D‑map, connection‑check and firmware requests (see "Services we rely on"), here is what the app sends, and on what action. Most recipients are public‑records services run by government agencies. Each feature is labeled with the tier it comes with. A layer you turn on stays on, even after you close the app, until you turn it off. While you are signed in and the app has not yet confirmed your tier with our server, paid layers left on from an earlier Pro or Scout plan keep loading, and Best blinds and Plan approach can open and make their lookups.

Property lines come from our own copies. Parcel boundaries and owner names come from public government records, but the app reads them from copies we prepare and host, so drawing them sends the map area and your IP address, with no account information, only to our tile service, which runs on Cloudflare. No county or state server is asked for property lines. Other layers and map taps do reach government services, as set out above.

AI reports: Ranch overview, Best blinds and Route report

On a paid tier (Pro or Scout), three features are written by Claude, an AI model run by Anthropic: the Ranch overview, a standing write‑up of one ranch; the Best blinds report, which explains your phone's own ranking of your stands for the next 24 hours; and the Route report, which explains your phone's own ranking of the walking routes to the stand, blind or elk pin you are navigating to. Nothing is sent to Anthropic until you tap Write overview (or Write again), Get report (or Get a new report) on Best blinds, or Get route report (or Get a new report) on the Route report; the app never asks for any of them on its own. The request goes from your phone to our server, which passes it to Anthropic. The other lookups each feature makes, including the ones that go out when you open Best blinds or the Route report, are set out under "What each action sends" above.

What Anthropic receives for a Ranch overview, for the ranch you chose: its name, outline, acreage, center point and bounding box, the state and county it is in, and the coordinates of its pins, with the pin names and types; your pin notes, unless you switch "Include my pin notes" off; trails, roads and fences, with their paths, and named areas, with their center points (a walk you saved as a trail or road is sent as one); how many tracks you have recorded and their total length, never their paths; the dates and times of stand assignments, without the names of the people assigned; feeder schedules, feed logs, battery readings, firmware versions and last sync times; trail‑camera photo counts by hour, never the photos; the county rut phase and deer season; your ranch's time zone, which your phone works out from where the ranch is, or your phone's time zone where the app cannot tell the ranch's; and the public land, soil and elevation lookups for the property, plus the crop lookup. It sends no weather forecast. Right after an overview is written, "Export the data sent" on the overview screen shows you the exact file; the button is gone once the app restarts.

What Anthropic receives for a Best blinds report. Your phone ranks the stands itself. For the top five stands in each sit window, it sends the window's times, each stand's name and place in the ranking, and up to six short lines the phone wrote about it: the forecast wind and where your scent drifts, the names of nearby pins with their distance in yards and compass direction from the stand, feed times and how each feeder has been running, the walk in from its parking pin, fog, low sun, how far a pin lies above or below the stand, and how often it was hunted in the days before. With these goes the time zone the times it sends are on: your ranch's, which your phone works out from where the ranch is, or your phone's where the app cannot tell the ranch's. It sends Anthropic no coordinates, no ranch name or outline, and no notes.

What Anthropic receives for a Route report. Your phone ranks the routes itself, by how much each would disturb the ground you hunt. It sends the name of the pin you are walking to and the animal you chose (whitetail or elk). For each route it sends its name (such as Route 2), how its length compares with the most direct route, and up to six short lines the phone wrote about it: the hour the forecast wind carries your scent onto the hunting area or, when your scent stays off the hunting area, which way it drifts; the hour that, in light wind, rising or sinking air carries your scent to a spot of the hunting area, and how many feet above or below the path that spot is; how close the route passes to pins where animals are likely then, and to funnel, water and sign pins; how many yards of it run close to the hunting area; and, on Scout, how many yards of it are in view of the pin, or of a pin near it, on bare ground. With these go a few lines about the whole report: the time the walks are timed from (when you tap), with the time zone of the pin you are walking to, which your phone works out from where that pin is, or your phone's time zone where the app cannot tell the pin's; the pins around the one you are walking to; and what the report could not check. Wherever these lines name another pin, they give its name with its distance in yards and compass direction from the pin you are walking to. It sends Anthropic no coordinates, no route paths, no ranch name or outline, and no notes.

What is never sent, by any of the three: your name, email address or account identifier; feeder or timer serial numbers; camera labels; the names on hunt assignments; your photos; and the names or addresses of any landowner, yours or your neighbours'. Anthropic receives only a one‑way hash of your account as an abuse‑prevention identifier.

How Anthropic handles it. Anthropic acts as our service provider under its commercial terms: it processes the request to write the overview or report, does not use your data to train its models, and deletes inputs and outputs within 30 days, except where longer retention is required by law or to enforce its usage policy. Our server does not keep what was sent: it keeps a usage record of each request (which feature, when, how many tokens it used and Anthropic's reference number for it), to count the AI reports on your account in each allowance period (your plan's billing month or year, the monthly period a redeem code sets, or otherwise the calendar month, in UTC) and for billing, and deletes that record with your account, apart from the daily counts described next. The finished overview or Best blinds report is saved on your phone; a Route report is not saved: it is kept only while the app is running, and is cleared when you sign out.

When a purchase moves between accounts. AI reports are counted for each Apple or Google purchase as well as for each account: our server notes which purchases each account has held, by the store’s reference number for the purchase, and if an account that used AI reports is deleted we keep, for up to 12 months and with no name or email, how many reports it used on each day together with the deleted account’s random ID and the store’s reference numbers for its purchases, so that restoring a purchase on another account carries its count over.

An overview or report is generated text based on the data above. It is not a prediction, it is not legal or regulatory advice, and it can be wrong. Verify locally.

Services we rely on

These providers process what's needed for their function.

We do not sell your personal information. We never give advertisers your GPS location, your coordinates, your map content or your photos; AdMob does receive your IP address, which indicates your approximate area (see "Advertising" above).

Property records and landowner names

This section is for landowners, whether or not you use HelioMaps.

HelioMaps displays property boundaries drawn from public county and state records, and — where that government publishes it as part of the same public record — the name on the parcel, along with the parcel number, acreage, situs address and land use. We do not create this information, we do not buy it from data brokers, and we do not combine it with anything else. It is shown as reference for someone working out where a boundary runs.

We prepare our copies from official government publications whose terms allow redistribution — statewide programs such as the Texas Geographic Information Office's StratMap land‑parcels dataset and North Carolina's NC OneMap — and the app reads those copies from our own service so the map works quickly and offline. It is the county's record, published through that government's own program, and it is public whether or not HelioMaps exists.

Where a county withholds an owner name — several states exempt law‑enforcement officers, judges and domestic‑violence survivors from disclosure — HelioMaps shows the name blank, and we never fill a blank name in from another source.

If you want your name removed, the county is where that happens. We are not the source of the record and cannot change it: your county assessor or appraisal district holds it, publishes it, and is the only place it can be corrected or restricted. Many counties have a process for this, and several states have a statutory exemption you may qualify for. Once your county updates its record, HelioMaps picks up the change when we next refresh that county's data.

Something wrong? If the information we show does not match your county's record — a stale name, the wrong parcel, a boundary in the wrong place — email [email protected] with the county and the parcel number or address and we will look into it.

Your choices & rights

Data retention & security

We keep your synced content while your account is active, except backed‑up photos on your own ranches that a drop in your plan puts over its limit (see "Trail‑cam photos" above), and delete it when you delete your account or ask us to. We use reputable providers and reasonable safeguards to protect your data, though no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. Ranch overview, Best blinds report and Route report requests are deleted by Anthropic within 30 days, with the exceptions described above; we keep only a usage record of each request, which is deleted with your account, apart from the daily counts described under “When a purchase moves between accounts”. We also keep daily counts of your 3D map sessions and road imports, and a history of your plan, to enforce limits and for billing; these are deleted with your account. We also keep one record for your account of when its latest 10‑minute period of subscription checks (when the app asks our server to re‑check your plan) began and how many checks were counted in it, to limit how often they can run; it is deleted with your account. Short‑lived rate‑limit records, which can include your IP address, are deleted within about three hours. Supabase, which runs our sign‑in service and database, also keeps its own service logs of requests, which include IP addresses, for up to a week before deleting them.

Live location. While you share your live location, our server keeps only your phone's latest position on the ranch you have open, the time your phone took that position and the time our server last heard from your phone, with a random number the app makes each time it starts and a counter; the app shows that position, with your display name, to others on that ranch who are also sharing. If your phone stops reaching our server, our server stops sending that last spot to others 30 minutes after it last heard from your phone, and a phone that has itself lost touch with our server can keep showing the last spot it received. The position is deleted when your stop reaches our server or you delete your account, and otherwise 30 to 35 minutes after your phone last reached it. A stop leaves a note that you stopped, with no position, which is deleted 30 to 35 minutes after the stop or with your account.

Children

HelioMaps is intended for adult hunters (18+) and is not directed to children. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18.

Terms

Your use of HelioMaps is also governed by our Terms of Service, which include important safety, boundary‑accuracy, and liability disclaimers.

Changes

We may update this policy as the app evolves. We'll post the new version here and update the date above.

Contact

Report a problem, in the app, opens an email to [email protected] in your own mail app, filled in with your phone's system and its version, the app's version, your account identifier and the time. You can edit or delete any of it before you send it, and nothing is sent unless you send that email.

Questions, or want your data deleted? Email [email protected].

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