SamoWalk Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how SamoWalk handles information when you use the app. SamoWalk is a self-guided city walking app that provides walking routes, free walk exploration, offline content, narration, maps, analytics, and advertising features.

1. Who This Policy Applies To

This policy applies to the SamoWalk mobile application and related content delivered through the app.

2. Information We Access Or Process

Location Data

SamoWalk requests access to your device location so the app can detect your position, guide you along routes, activate nearby points, and support Free Walk mode.

Location access is used only while you are using the app. The app is designed for foreground use and does not request background location access.

App Usage And Event Data

SamoWalk uses Firebase Analytics to measure a limited set of product events related to route usage, point activation, and offline package downloads. These events may include identifiers such as country, city, route, point, app language, activation source, text-to-speech status, and whether the event happened while the device was online or offline.

SamoWalk may also use Firebase Crashlytics to detect app crashes and serious runtime failures. Crash reports and related diagnostics may include technical information about the state of the app or device at the time of the failure so that app stability issues can be investigated and fixed.

Advertising Data

If advertising is enabled in the app build or configuration, SamoWalk may display ads using Google AdMob or related Google advertising services. Those services may process device and advertising identifiers, diagnostic information, and ad interaction data in accordance with Google's own policies.

Offline Content And Local App Data

SamoWalk stores some information on your device to support offline use and app behavior. This may include downloaded city packages, cached map tiles, cached images, route session progress, app settings, consent choices, selected language, and temporarily queued analytics events that are waiting for connectivity.

3. How We Use Information

• To provide route guidance, storytelling, and Free Walk functionality.
• To detect nearby route points and activate related content.
• To support offline city packages and map caching.
• To remember app preferences and consent settings on your device.
• To understand how core app features are used through limited analytics events.
• To investigate crashes, diagnose failures, and improve app stability.
• To display ads, where advertising is enabled.
• To improve app stability, usability, and content planning.

4. Analytics Details

SamoWalk is designed to log only a limited custom set of analytics events for product measurement. Examples include route start, route finish, route point activation, Free Walk point activation, and city offline package download.

If your device is offline, some analytics events may be temporarily stored locally and sent later when connectivity returns. In that case, the app keeps metadata showing whether the event originally happened online or offline.

Analytics and crash reporting are both gated behind the startup privacy policy consent flow. The app shows the privacy policy before Firebase Analytics or Firebase Crashlytics are initialized.

5. Crash Reporting

In supported native mobile builds, SamoWalk may use Firebase Crashlytics to collect crash reports and selected non-fatal diagnostic reports. This helps identify and resolve app stability problems affecting route guidance, offline content, narration, maps, and other core features.

Crash-related diagnostics can include technical metadata such as runtime environment, language context, stack traces, and app state information relevant to the failure. SamoWalk uses this information for debugging and stability improvement, not for advertising or user profiling.

6. Advertising

SamoWalk may display banner ads or interstitial ads depending on the app configuration, runtime settings, and product flows. Ads may be supplied by Google AdMob.

If Google Play, local law, or platform rules require consent for ad-related processing, SamoWalk may ask for consent inside the app before enabling related features.

7. Sharing And Third Parties

SamoWalk relies on third-party services and infrastructure to provide some functionality. These may include:

• Google Firebase Analytics for analytics measurement.
• Google Firebase Crashlytics for crash reporting and diagnostics in supported native app builds.
• Google AdMob for advertising, if ads are enabled.
• OpenStreetMap-based map tiles and related map delivery infrastructure.

These providers may process data under their own privacy terms and policies.

8. Consent And Your Choices

• You can choose whether to grant location access through your device permissions.
• You can review and change privacy-related choices inside the app settings, where available.
• You can disable or limit permissions through your device settings at any time.
• You can stop using offline downloads by removing offline content from the app.

9. Data Retention

Information stored locally on your device generally remains there until it is removed by the app, replaced by newer data, or deleted by you through app or device actions.

Data processed by third-party providers such as Firebase or AdMob is retained according to those providers' own retention settings and policies.

10. Children

SamoWalk is not specifically directed to children. If future versions are distributed to a child-directed audience, the app configuration, advertising behavior, and disclosures may need to change accordingly.

11. Security

We take reasonable steps to limit data use to the functionality described in this policy. However, no app, storage mechanism, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be fully secure.

12. Changes To This Policy

This policy may be updated from time to time to reflect product changes, legal requirements, or configuration updates. The latest version should be treated as the current version.

13. Contact

Email adress samowalk.pl@gmail.com can be used for addressing privacy-related questions.