Privacy Policy

AtlasCam is designed to put useful context - maps, speed, altitude, weather, ride telemetry, and more - on your camera view. This policy describes what information AtlasCam may access on your device, how it is used, and the specific features that send information off your device.

Summary

• AtlasCam does not require an account.
• AtlasCam does not sell your personal information, and does not integrate advertising SDKs.
• Photos, videos, routes, and telemetry you capture stay on your device unless you export them, save them elsewhere, or turn on one of the broadcasting features described below.
• Three optional features send information off your device while they are switched on: live streaming and watch links, the AI voice copilot, and the local network HUD overlay. All three are off by default.
• When you use weather, map, Health Connect, or subscription features, Apple and Google platform services may process related data under their own policies.

Information AtlasCam accesses

Depending on the features you use, AtlasCam may request access to camera, microphone, location, photos or local files, Bluetooth, workout and heart-rate data, device motion, depth sensors on supported devices, and folders you select.

How information is used

• Camera and microphone: used to preview and record photos, videos, and audio.
• Location: used for speed, altitude, heading, coordinates, route maps, and weather context. If you allow Always access, AtlasCam can keep logging a telemetry ride, and keep a broadcast running, after you leave the app. Your device shows its own indicator whenever this is happening.
• Photos and files: used only when you choose media to edit, export, save, or manage.
• Ride telemetry: used to show and save ride stats, overlays, maps, and exports.
• Health and Bluetooth metrics: used to include workout context such as heart rate, calories, distance, and board telemetry when you choose those features.

Live streaming and watch links

AtlasCam Live is off until you turn it on. It has two independent parts, and each sends different information to a different place.

Watch links

A watch link lets someone follow your ride in a browser. While a broadcast is running, your phone sends ride telemetry - which can include your live position, speed, altitude, heading, route, and board metrics - to a relay operated by AtlasCam and hosted on Cloudflare Workers, which forwards it to whoever has the link.

• Telemetry only. No video, audio, or camera imagery is sent to the relay. The viewer's browser draws its own map.
• Anything you hide is never sent. Fields you switch off in AtlasCam's streaming privacy settings are removed before the data leaves your phone, so they cannot be recovered from the feed by the relay or by a viewer.
• Anyone with the link can watch. There is no sign-in and no viewer list. Treat a watch link as public, and share it only with people you want following your location.
• What the relay keeps, and for how long. While a broadcast is live the relay holds your most recent readings and a simplified version of your route, so someone opening the link partway through sees the ride already in progress. Both are deleted when the broadcast ends, and the link stops working - it cannot be reopened.
• Starting away from where you are. An optional setting withholds your position until you are a distance you choose from where the broadcast began, so a link does not draw a line to your front door. It is off by default; you turn it on in the streaming settings.
• The viewer's browser. The watch page loads map tiles from OpenFreeMap and its map library from unpkg. Those services receive the viewer's IP address, as any website's would; they receive nothing about you beyond the telemetry drawn on the page.

Broadcasting to your own channel

If you stream to Twitch, YouTube, or another RTMP destination, you supply the address and stream key, and AtlasCam sends video and audio directly to that service. Your video does not pass through AtlasCam. Because the HUD is drawn into the video, anything on screen - including your location, speed, and route - is part of what you publish there. What that service then does with your broadcast is governed by its own privacy policy. Your stream key is stored in your device's Keychain and is not sent anywhere except to the destination you entered. When you use Twitch, AtlasCam asks Twitch for its list of ingest servers to pick a nearby one.

If you paste your channel's public watch page into AtlasCam, that address is forwarded to your watch-link viewers so their browser can embed your stream. It is the only thing about your channel the relay receives.

AI voice copilot

The voice copilot is off by default and does not work until you paste your own OpenAI API key into Settings. While it is switched on, your microphone audio is streamed in real time to OpenAI, along with context needed to answer you: your ride readouts, and the names of places you are passing. Usage is billed to your own OpenAI account, and OpenAI processes that data under its own terms. Your API key is stored in your device's Keychain, on that device only, and is sent to no one but OpenAI.

Turning the copilot off in Settings stops the audio stream. Removing your API key disables the feature entirely.

Local network HUD overlay

The OBS overlay serves your live HUD readings as a web page to your Wi-Fi network, so streaming software on a computer can display them. While it is on, any device on the same network can open that page - there is no password. It is off by default, is reachable only from your local network, and never leaves it. The same privacy settings that redact watch-link fields apply here.

Third parties

AtlasCam uses platform services such as Apple Maps, WeatherKit, Photos, HealthKit, StoreKit, Google Maps, Google Play Billing, Health Connect, and system file or backup features where enabled by your device settings. Those services are governed by the applicable provider's privacy terms.

Beyond those, AtlasCam contacts the following, each only when the relevant feature is in use:

• OpenAI - microphone audio and ride context, when the voice copilot is on. See above.
• The AtlasCam Live relay (operated by AtlasCam on Cloudflare Workers) - ride telemetry, while a watch link is broadcasting. See above.
• The streaming service you choose (Twitch, YouTube, or another RTMP destination) - your video and audio, while you are streaming. See above.
• MLB Stats API and ESPN - public schedules and scores for the sports scoreboard overlay. AtlasCam asks only for a league and a date; your location is not sent, and the nearest venue is worked out on your device.
• atlascam.app - the catalog of downloadable HUD looks and overlay packs. No personal information is sent.
• TelemetryDeck - optional anonymous usage analytics, sent only if you agreed during setup or switched them on in Settings.

As with any internet request, these services can see your device's IP address. AtlasCam does not integrate advertising SDKs and does not share your data with advertisers or data brokers.

Subscriptions

AtlasCam Pro is purchased and managed through the store provided by your platform. Apple or Google processes purchase and subscription management information; AtlasCam receives only the entitlement needed to unlock Pro features.

Your choices

• Revoke camera, microphone, location, photos or files, Bluetooth, and health permissions at any time in your device settings.
• End a broadcast at any time. Ending it retires the watch link and deletes what the relay was holding.
• Choose what a watch link and the OBS overlay may show, in AtlasCam's streaming privacy settings - hidden fields are never transmitted.
• Turn the voice copilot off, or delete your API key, in Settings.
• Turn optional analytics on or off in Settings, and manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account or Google Play subscription settings.

Contact

Email: privacy@atlascam.app