Privacy Policy — Timeline Exporter

Last updated: 2026-05-27

Summary

Timeline Exporter does not collect, transmit, or store any personally identifying information on remote servers. Everything you do in the app happens on your device.

What the app processes

The Timeline.json file you choose. The app reads it locally to extract GPS points. The file is never uploaded anywhere.
The exported file you save. Saved via Android’s Storage Access Framework to the location you pick (local storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.). The app writes the file there and forgets about it.
Map tile requests. To render the in-app map preview, the app fetches map tiles over HTTPS from tiles.openfreemap.org (a free, donation-funded OpenStreetMap tile service). These requests are standard web requests containing only the tile coordinates and the device’s IP address as visible to any HTTPS server. No user account, no device ID, no Timeline data is sent. See OpenFreeMap’s policy for what they log on their end.

What the app does NOT collect

No analytics
No telemetry
No advertising IDs
No user accounts
No location tracking (the app reads your existing Timeline; it does not collect new location data)
No crash reporting beyond what you may have enabled at the OS level

Permissions

INTERNET — used only to fetch map tiles from tiles.openfreemap.org.

The app does not request location, storage, contacts, camera, microphone, or any other runtime permission. File picking uses Android’s Storage Access Framework, which doesn’t require app-side permissions because the user explicitly grants per-file access through the system file picker.

Open source

The source code is available at github.com/NikkittaP/timeline-exporter. You can verify any of the above claims by reading it.

Contact

For questions about this policy or the app’s behavior, contact nikitapetroff@gmail.com.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be published in the same location with an updated “Last updated” date. The repository’s git history records the diff.