Account
None
Your outings
On your phone
Weather
If you agree
Compaddle records your paddle board, kayak, canoe, packraft or surfski outings on your phone.
There is no account and no Compaddle server: we never receive your tracks, your location or your
identity. This page says exactly what the app keeps, what leaves your phone, and how to erase
everything.
Last updated: 10 November 2026 · first public version of the app and website
Who is responsible
The app is published by [publisher name or company],
[country]. For any question about this policy or your data, write to
[contact email address].
What stays on your phone
Everything you create is saved in a local database on your device:
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your craft: type, brand, model and the name you give them;
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your outings: GPS positions, times, distances, speeds and pauses;
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your outing notes: label, the text you type, time and position on the trace;
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the conditions at the start of each outing, when the weather and the
“Conditions of each outing” option are on;
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the latest weather forecast, cached so the app works offline;
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your preferences: theme, language and feature switches.
We have no access to this data. It is neither synced nor backed up to any server.
Your location
Compaddle asks for your location to record the track of an outing you start. “Always” access
keeps recording while the screen is locked or the app is in the background; on Android, a
notification stays visible while recording. Your location is only followed between the moment
you tap Start and the moment you end the outing.
Recorded positions stay on the device. Only a position
rounded to about 1 km may be sent for the weather, if you agreed to it (see
below).
What leaves your phone
Nothing leaves without an action or an agreement from you. Here is each case, in detail.
Weather, from MET Norway
Off by default
- Recipient
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The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), which provides the forecasts. Its
terms of service
apply to these requests.
- What is sent
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Your position rounded to about 1 km, and the technical name and version of the app. As
with any exchange over the Internet, MET Norway also sees your IP address. Your identity,
tracks and outings are never sent.
- When
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Only after your explicit agreement: when the home screen opens and the latest forecast has
expired (about once an hour at most), and at the start of an outing if no recent forecast
is available.
- To stop it
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Settings › Features › Weather on the home screen. Turning it off
erases the latest forecast. Conditions already kept with your outings stay on the device,
hidden, until you erase your data.
Summary map, from Apple or Google
When you open it
- Recipient
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Apple Maps on iPhone, Google Maps on Android, which provide the base map. Their policies
apply:
Apple
,
Google
.
- What is sent
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To show the map, the app loads the map images of the outing’s area: the map service
therefore receives that area and your IP address. The track itself is drawn by the app.
- When
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When you open an outing summary while connected. Offline, the track is drawn without a
base map and nothing is sent.
Files you export
When you ask
- What is sent
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A full backup, GPX tracks or CSV statistics, created from
Settings › Your data
or from an outing summary.
- Recipient
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Whoever you choose in the system share sheet (email, messaging, cloud storage…). Their own
policy then applies.
- Good to know
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Backups and GPX files contain your precise positions. CSV statistics contain none. Keep
these files somewhere safe.
Partner links
When you tap a link
- What is sent
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The Gear tab may show an offer from a partner, labelled as such. It is chosen on the
device, from your craft types, without sending anything. If you open the link, your
browser opens the partner’s site; the link only says where in the app you came from, never
who you are.
- To stop it
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Settings › Privacy › Partner suggestions.
What we don’t do
- No account, no sign-up, no email address requested.
- No advertising, no ad tracking, no selling of data.
- No crash reports sent to a third-party service.
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No usage analytics in this version. The “Behavioral analytics” setting exists, but no
destination is configured: nothing is sent, even when it is on. If this changes, this page
will be updated first, and analytics will stay off until you allow them.
Retention and erasure
Your data stays on the device for as long as you keep it. You can erase it at any time in
Settings › Privacy › Local data (preferences, craft and outings, each
separately), or by uninstalling the app. As we hold no copy, there is nothing to delete on our
side. Files you exported stay wherever you sent them.
MET Norway, Apple and Google keep the data of their requests under their own rules, set out in
their policies.
Your rights
You have the right to access, correct, erase and object, and you can withdraw your agreement to
the weather at any time. Because your data is on your device, you exercise most of these rights
directly in the app. For any question, write to
[contact email address]. You can also contact the data protection authority of
your country (in France, the
CNIL
).
Sending your approximate position to MET Norway relies on your consent, which you withdraw by
turning the weather off. Loading the map only serves to show the summary you open.
Children
Compaddle asks for no identity information and is not aimed specifically at children. The rules
above apply to everyone.
This website
This website sets no cookies, does not measure its audience and loads nothing from another
service: typefaces, images and styles are served from the website itself. Its host, Cloudflare,
processes the technical data of each visit (IP address, browser, requested page) to deliver the
pages and protect the website against abuse. We do not use it to track you.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page will be updated. Any new feature that
would send data off your phone will be off by default and ask for your agreement before the
first transfer.