Your observations.
Your choices.

Permissions and connection choices

The app uses operating-system access to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and network information. Windows may require location permission for Wi-Fi scanning. You can control observation in Options and permissions in your system settings.

Automatic Wi-Fi connection and switching are enabled by default. Secured networks with saved credentials are eligible. Starting with version 5.7.0.0 beta, open networks, including saved open networks, are excluded unless you enable Allow open Wi-Fi networks for automatic connection in Options. This option starts off for new and existing settings. You can also turn automatic connection and switching off. Manual selection remains available. A recommendation rating does not establish that a network is secure or that its operator is trustworthy.

When the app goes online

News, update checks and installer transfers contact online services. After license acceptance or an update, the app opens a website confirmation page; an update page can include the previous and current app versions.

Network tools send requests to the test service, resolver or destination involved. Speedtest sends and receives substantial test data. DNS, latency and route investigations disclose the query or destination needed to perform the test. Receiving services can see your public IP address and ordinary connection information.

Automatic translation of online content sends the text and requested language to a translation service. If you create a translation with your own API key, that key is sent to the translation service, kept in memory by the app and excluded from the saved catalog. Online catalog submission is optional; submitted translations may be included in future releases.

Website visits and browser storage

The website uses cookies and similar technologies to understand visits, improve usability and assess promotion. Information can include IP address, approximate location, browser and device details, referral information, pages visited and interactions such as clicks, scrolling and video use. Page interactions may be recorded for usability review.

Browser storage also remembers choices such as continuing to explore on a handheld device and whether feedback has been submitted. Hosting, security, measurement and other online service providers process information needed to deliver their services. External links and services have their own privacy practices.

You can manage cookies, site storage and content blocking in your browser. Blocking these may affect feedback, remembered choices or other website features. Clearing browser data does not erase information already received by an online service.

Feedback and information you share

Structured feedback submits your selected answers and any supplied app and operating-system versions. Written reports remain in the page until you copy them or open an email draft; they are not included in the structured submission. Email is sent only when you send it from your email app.

If you email a report or attachment, the recipient receives the content you include and your email address. Remove private network names, device identifiers, personal paths and notes that are not needed to explain the issue. Shared exports and copied data are under your control.

Keeping and removing information

Activity history follows your persistence and retention choices in Options. Connection-session history is retained for 90 days; notes, personal ratings and preferences are kept separately. Exception diagnostics may be saved even when ordinary history persistence is off so failures can be investigated.

Place definitions, notes, hashed recognition fingerprints, locally observed access-point names and addresses used to label them, per-place checked fingerprint choices, legacy mobile-network exclusions and statistical mobility evidence are preferences in options.json. Mobility evidence records sustained presence counts and local Wi-Fi context signatures; it does not request GPS coordinates or send extra scans. Automatic estimates can be turned off; custom place fingerprints remain under your control. Location labels and segment IDs also occur in activity-log.json and connected-networks.json. Resetting preferences alone does not remove location labels already retained in those records or in exported reports. Exit the app normally before copying or removing its local files, and keep a backup when moving your history.

Use the app’s deletion controls to remove records, reading each confirmation to understand its scope. Exports, copies, backups and recovery files may remain separately. Uninstalling the app or clearing one view should not be treated as proof that every copy has been erased. See the data and support guidance before removing saved files.

For information already sent online, contact the publisher about access, correction or deletion. Include enough context to locate your request, without sending unnecessary observation data. Retention and available remedies also depend on the receiving service and applicable requirements.

Contact and changes

For privacy questions or requests, email Vitalie Vrabie at [email protected]. Explain the information or activity your request concerns so it can be reviewed.

This statement describes current behavior and may change as the app and website develop. The date above identifies the latest revision.