Nothing about you. Your activities are your own again. Cherry Outside has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no server of its own. It does not collect your name, your email, your location history, your device identifiers, or how you use it.
What leaves your phone, and to whom
A visitor report or a short note about a place — only if you choose to post one. A few fixed choices — a trail muddy or clear, a lot nearly full, the surf small or big — and, if you like, a note of up to 140 characters. Never a photo, never your name, never a handle: it belongs to the place, not to you, and there are no profiles, followers or replies. It is posted only when you press SEND, only from within 2 miles of the place; your phone checks the distance itself and your position never goes with it. Links and phone numbers are taken out of a note, and a filter stops abusive words before it is sent. It is kept in the app's database in Apple's iCloud, where other visitors — in the app and on this website — can see it, for a week, shown with its age; then it is deleted. Delete your own sooner at any time under YOU › Your reports. Anyone can flag a report or note and flags come to us for review; you can hide a visitor's posts on your phone; we may remove any of them, and on tribal land they appear only as the Nation asks. Apple's iCloud handles the sending and stamps each post with an anonymous ID that only this app sees, which is how you can delete your own; we cannot tell who posted it. On the App Store's privacy label this is the one kind of data listed, under Apple's category "Other User Content", not linked to you and not used for tracking.
A coordinate, to the agency that publishes the data for it. To ask NOAA for a tide, the Weather Service for a forecast, or USGS for a river, the app sends that place's latitude and longitude to that agency. That is the request itself; nothing about you travels with it. When the WEATHER page follows you as you travel, it asks the agency for the forecast at your new position each time you have moved about a kilometre, and stops when you leave the page. No one keeps where you were.
Your position, to Apple's reverse geocoder, to name the spot you stand on and to find its postal code (the UV index is published by ZIP code). This runs under Apple's Maps privacy. Decline location and the app names the spot from its own catalogue instead.
The words you type when you look up a place by name, to Apple's Maps search, under the same privacy, with nothing about you attached.
A picture you take or choose to identify a plant, a tree or an animal, to Apple's Visual Look Up on your phone. Apple's own service reads the picture under Apple's privacy; the phone's own image classifier reads it too, on the device. The app keeps no copy of that photo, sends none, and never sees Apple's answer.
A tap on PLAY, to YouTube or Vimeo. A video you linked plays inside the app only when you tap PLAY, from YouTube's privacy-enhanced player or Vimeo's do-not-track player, and that service sees the play. When you first link a video, the app fetches its thumbnail from YouTube or Vimeo once. Nothing about you travels with either.
A spot you tap on the LAND map, to Washington's statewide parcel layer. When the LAND layer is on and you tap private ground, the app asks the State's parcel service (WaTech) what the land is used for and which county it is in — never the owner, the address or the value. The public land itself ships with the app.
The services agencies publish through. Some agencies host their data with Esri's ArcGIS, Amazon's open-data registry or Washington's open-data portal, and the fish counts come from the University of Washington's Columbia River DART. They receive the same request as the agency would, and nothing about you.
Two places, to Apple Maps, for a route or a drive time. When a trip shows the time between its stops, or the drive screen or planner finds a route, the start and the end go to Apple's Maps directions under Apple's Maps privacy, with nothing about you attached.
A trip you share, only when you share it. Sending a trip by AirDrop, a message or a post goes through Apple's share sheet to whoever you choose; the app sends it nowhere itself. A trip's reminder is a notification your phone schedules for itself.
The complications on your Apple Watch ask the same agencies for the same figures — the forecast, the tide, the current, the sun — for the place and stations your Watch shows, on their own schedule. Nothing about you travels with them.
Permissions, and what each is for
Location (While Using). To open the map near you, list the nearest stations first, offer the place you are standing at when you start a track, correct the compass to true north, calibrate the inclinometer's altitude, and record a track you start. The app works with location declined: the list follows the map.
Precise Location (temporary). Asked for a session only, when you choose it, so the map can open beside you.
Running in the background. While a track you started is recording, until you press STOP: its GPS, and the Bluetooth sensors you paired, keep working with the screen locked. iOS shows its location indicator the whole time.
Camera. When you tap TAKE ONE or VIDEO, to take a photograph or a video for a pin, a note or a track; in the live sky view, to draw the chart over what the camera sees (nothing is recorded there); and to take a picture you want identified, which is never saved.
Microphone. Only while you are filming with VIDEO, for the video's sound. It goes with the video into your Photos.
Photos. To save the full-size original of a photograph you take, and to save a video you take and play it back from there. With "Limit Access" the app sees only what it saved itself. Choosing a photograph or a video from Photos uses Apple's own picker and needs no permission.
Motion & Fitness. The inclinometer's tilt and altitude; during a track, steps, cadence and floors, airs and turns on a ride or a board, and stumbles on foot; and the barometer's height for counting climbs.
Bluetooth. To connect the heart-rate strap, watch, power meter, cadence sensor or smart trainer you pair in Prefs › SENSORS. Their readings come straight to your phone and stay with the track.
Notifications. Only for a trip's reminder, the evening before it starts, to keep its data for offline. The phone schedules it itself; nothing is sent.
Apple Health, on Apple Watch. A track recorded on the Watch runs as a workout, which is what keeps its GPS on with your wrist down. The workout is saved to Health with its distance, route and active energy; the app reads back that workout's heart rate and active energy to show them and keep them with the track, and reads nothing else.
Every permission is asked on the screen that uses it, with the reason stated, and each can be withdrawn in Settings at any time.
What stays on your phone
Your chosen stations, favourites and picks; your tracks, pins and notes; the photographs, video thumbnails and drawings you keep with them; your sensor readings, and the weight you enter for a calorie estimate; the app's own map data — trails, ski runs, Nordic trails, place names — read on your phone and never asked of anyone; and whatever you keep for offline use — all of it is stored on your phone only, and is yours to clear at any time. Nothing is synced to us because there is no us to sync to.
Back your phone up. We hold no copy of anything you make, so a lost phone or a deleted app takes it all unless the phone is backed up (iCloud Backup, or a computer). The app shows you how, under YOU › BACK IT UP. Photographs and videos saved to your Photos stay there whatever happens to the app.
Third parties
The public agencies named on the Partners page, and the services they publish through, receive the place you asked about and nothing else; each publishes under its own terms, listed there. Apple's Maps services receive what is described above under Apple's own privacy policy. There are no analytics providers, advertising networks or other third-party SDKs in the app.
This website
cherryoutside.com sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from Google or any other service; its fonts are its own. Like every web host, ours (Hostinger) keeps standard server logs of each visit — the address a request came from, the page and the time — for security and running the server; we don't use them to follow anyone.
Children
The app's age rating is the one on its App Store page. It collects nothing about anyone, of any age. The reports and short notes you can choose to post carry no name, no handle and no photo.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with its date, and the Terms shown in the app are re-presented for acceptance.
The app has no accounts and collects nothing about you, except the visitor reports and place notes you choose to post (section 8). It runs no analytics, shows no ads, sells nothing, and has no server of its own. Your location, motion, camera, microphone, Photos, Bluetooth sensors and, on Apple Watch, the heart rate and active energy of a workout you started are used on your devices only, when you allow them, and never reach us. While a track you started is recording, the app keeps its GPS and your paired sensors running with the screen locked, and stops when you press STOP. The only thing ever sent to an agency is the coordinate of the place you chose to look at, which is how a forecast is asked for. Two exceptions, so they are said: to name the spot you stand on, the app asks Apple's own geocoder for a name at your position, under Apple's Maps privacy (you can decline location and the app names the spot from its own catalogue instead); and when you type a place's name to look it up, the words you typed go to Apple's Maps search to find it, under the same privacy, with nothing about you attached. A third, for a picture: when you take or choose a photo to identify a plant, a tree or an animal, the picture is read on your phone by Apple's Visual Look Up and by the phone's own image classifier; the app keeps no copy of that photo, sends none, and never sees Apple's answer, which is Apple's own service under Apple's privacy. A fourth, for video you link: a YouTube or Vimeo video plays inside the app only when you tap PLAY, from YouTube's privacy-enhanced player or Vimeo's do-not-track player, and that service sees the play. Some agencies publish through services that host their data (Esri's ArcGIS, Amazon's open-data registry, Washington's open-data portal), the fish counts come from the University of Washington: each receives the place you chose and nothing about you. The map's trails and names are read on your phone from the app's own data and are never asked of anyone. Anything you keep for offline use stays on your phone until you clear it.