Aleksander Jałtuszyk

Take Me Somewhere Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 2026-06-06
Version: 1.0.0

This Privacy Policy explains how Take Me Somewhere handles personal information when you use the Take Me Somewhere iPhone app, the Take Me Somewhere pages on alekjaltuszyk.xyz, support channels, App Store surfaces, and related services that link to this policy.

Take Me Somewhere is designed as a lightweight local exploration companion. The privacy direction is simple: use location only when it is needed to create or follow a route, keep preferences and optional history local-first, avoid accounts and background tracking unless clearly introduced later, and never rely on AI for route geometry, distance, ETA, bearing, or location truth.

This policy is intended to support transparency obligations under applicable privacy laws, including the GDPR in the EEA, the UK GDPR, the Swiss FADP, and applicable U.S. state privacy laws such as the CCPA/CPRA where they apply.

1. Who Is Responsible For Take Me Somewhere

Take Me Somewhere is provided by Alek Jałtuszyk, legally Aleksander Jałtuszyk.

Contact:

Where applicable data-protection law uses the term “controller,” the controller for information controlled by Take Me Somewhere is Aleksander Jałtuszyk.

2. Quick Summary

3. Information We Handle

App Location And Route Information

If you allow location access, the app may use your current location while you are creating or following a route. Depending on the feature you use, the app may process:

Take Me Somewhere should not use your location for background tracking, friend sharing, cloud route history, advertising, or analytics unless a future version clearly introduces a new feature and updates this policy before using it.

Local Preferences And Optional Local Memory

The app may store settings locally on your device, such as default time budget, default travel mode, destination visibility preference, route-picking preference, guidance mode preference, and recent destination memory settings.

Recent destination memory is intended to help avoid repeating nearby places. It is local-first and can be disabled. If disabled, the app should stop saving recent destination identifiers and clear the local recent-destination list.

Support And Contact Information

If you email support or otherwise contact us, we may receive your email address, message, screenshots or attachments you choose to include, device and OS details, app version, rough route context, and any other information you voluntarily send.

Please avoid sending highly sensitive personal information in support messages unless it is necessary for your request.

Website Technical Information

The Take Me Somewhere website pages are informational and support-oriented. Ordinary hosting, browser, and security infrastructure may process technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, requested URL, referring URL, timestamps, and server logs to deliver the site, prevent abuse, diagnose reliability issues, and maintain security.

App Store And Platform Information

If you download or update Take Me Somewhere through the App Store, Apple may process App Store account, download, purchase, refund, crash, diagnostics, review, and device information under Apple’s own terms and privacy policy. Take Me Somewhere does not receive full payment-card numbers from Apple.

If Take Me Somewhere adds paid features later, the app may receive transaction or entitlement information needed to unlock access, restore purchases, prevent fraud, and provide support.

4. Map, Place, And Routing Providers

Take Me Somewhere depends on real map and routing systems for spatial truth. The app may send route-related requests to configured providers so those providers can return real places, route geometry, ETA, map tiles, directions, or external map handoff.

Provider roles may include:

Those providers may process information under their own terms and privacy policies. Take Me Somewhere should send only what is reasonably needed for the selected feature, such as a route start area, destination or candidate places, travel mode, and route request parameters.

Take Me Somewhere should not invent location facts, distance, ETA, bearing, or route geometry with AI. If optional AI assistance is introduced later, it should be limited to intent parsing, candidate explanation, or recommendation among already app-scored options, and this policy should be updated if that changes what data is sent.

5. How We Use Information

We may use information for the following purposes:

Where applicable law requires a legal basis, the basis may include performance of the service you request, consent for location permission or optional features, legitimate interests in operating and securing the app and website, legal compliance, and, where needed, your explicit consent.

6. Sharing And Disclosure

We may disclose or make information available to:

We do not sell personal information. We do not currently share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and the app is not currently ad-supported.

7. Cookies And Similar Technologies

The current Take Me Somewhere website is a static informational website and does not intentionally set our own non-essential analytics cookies, advertising cookies, browser local storage, or session storage on Take Me Somewhere product, support, or legal pages.

Hosting providers, browsers, operating systems, App Store links, map providers, email providers, and other third-party destinations may use their own cookies, local storage, sessions, pixels, logs, or similar technologies under their own policies when you use those services or click external links.

8. Retention

Local app preferences and local recent-destination memory remain on your device until you change settings, clear local data where available, or delete the app.

Support messages may be kept for as long as reasonably needed to respond, maintain support records, resolve disputes, improve reliability, protect against abuse, and comply with legal obligations.

Website technical logs are kept by hosting and infrastructure providers according to their operational retention settings.

When the app checks the hosted legal manifest, the website host may receive ordinary technical request metadata as described above. The manifest does not require an account and does not include your location or route history.

Map, place, routing, App Store, and platform providers may keep information according to their own policies.

9. Security

We use reasonable measures intended to protect information we control, but no method of storage, transmission, or processing is perfectly secure. Location and route information can be sensitive because it may reveal where you are, where you went, or what kind of outing you wanted. You should protect access to your device, think carefully before sending route screenshots or location details to support, and use the app with ordinary awareness of your surroundings.

10. Your Choices

You can usually:

If you revoke location permission, route creation, route following, Compass Mode, and related features may stop working or become limited.

11. Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, withdrawal of consent, or information about how personal information is used and disclosed. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data-protection authority.

California residents and residents of other U.S. states with applicable privacy laws may have rights to know, access, delete, correct, opt out of certain selling or sharing, limit certain sensitive personal information uses, and not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights. Take Me Somewhere does not sell personal information and does not currently use personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

To exercise rights for information we control outside your device, contact alekgameshelp2@gmail.com or use the support page. We may need to verify your request before acting on it. Privacy rights are not absolute; we may keep limited information where required or permitted for legal compliance, security, fraud prevention, dispute handling, support records, or to complete a transaction or service you requested.

12. Children

Take Me Somewhere is not directed to children under 13, and it is not intended for the Kids Category unless separately stated in App Store metadata. Do not use Take Me Somewhere if you are not old enough to consent to app terms and location use under the laws that apply to you, unless a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and allowed your use.

If you believe a child provided personal information to us through support or another channel, contact us so we can review and respond appropriately.

13. International Processing

Take Me Somewhere may be operated from Poland and may use providers in other countries. Support, hosting, platform, map, routing, and App Store providers may process information in countries different from where you live. Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, we rely on appropriate legal mechanisms provided by the relevant provider or available under applicable law.

14. Changes To This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as Take Me Somewhere changes. The policy version and effective date appear at the top of the page. If changes are material or if an app version needs renewed acceptance, the app may require you to review and accept the current legal documents before continuing.

Your continued use of Take Me Somewhere after an updated policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the updated policy, unless applicable law requires a different form of notice or consent.

15. Contact

Questions or requests about this Privacy Policy can be sent to: