Mine Hole
Privacy policy
Mine Hole is a map of abandoned mines made by Vagrant Digital LLC (“we”). This policy covers the Mine Hole app for Android and iOS. The short version: Mine Hole has no accounts, no ads and no analytics, and what you save stays on your phone. We can’t see your spots, your photos or where you go.
What stays on your phone
Your saved spots and dropped pins, notes, photos, trip tracks, offline map areas and settings are stored only on your device. We never receive them. Uninstalling Mine Hole deletes them. If your phone’s own backup (Google or iCloud) is turned on, it may include Mine Hole’s data under your backup settings; we have no access to those backups.
The mine and ghost-town records are public USGS data that ship inside the app, so browsing, searching and filtering them sends nothing anywhere.
Location
Mine Hole asks for your location only while you’re using the app, to show where you are on the map, sort sites by distance and record a trip track while you have the app open. Your location is saved only on your phone and is never sent to us or anyone else. Mine Hole doesn’t use your location in the background.
Camera and photos
The camera and your photo library are used only when you choose to add a photo to a saved spot. Photos are copied into Mine Hole’s own storage on your phone and aren’t uploaded anywhere.
Maps and overlays
To draw the map, your phone requests map tiles for the area on screen from public map servers. Those servers receive your internet address and which tiles were requested, as with visiting any website. No account, name, saved spot or location history is sent. The servers are:
- U.S. Geological Survey (basemap.nationalmap.gov) for satellite and topo maps. See the USGS privacy policy.
- Bureau of Land Management (gis.blm.gov, nlsdbpubgis.blm.gov) for the land-owner and mining-claims overlays, only when you turn them on. See the BLM privacy policy.
- OpenFreeMap (tiles.openfreemap.org) for the lettering used in map labels.
Areas you download for offline use are then stored on your phone and shown without a connection.
Directions and links
When you tap Directions, Mine Hole hands the site’s coordinates to your phone’s maps app (such as Google Maps or Apple Maps), which handles the route under its own privacy policy. Links to USGS records and safety pages open in your browser.
Purchases
Mine Hole Pro is a one-time purchase sold through Google Play or the Apple App Store. They handle your payment, and we never see your payment details. To check whether Pro is unlocked, Mine Hole uses RevenueCat, a purchase service. RevenueCat receives an anonymous ID created by the app, your purchase receipt and basic device information such as the platform and app version. It doesn’t receive your name, email, location or saved spots. See RevenueCat’s privacy policy.
What we don’t do
- No account or sign-in
- No ads and no advertising ID
- No analytics or tracking
- No selling or sharing of personal data
Children
Mine Hole isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone.
Your choices
You can turn off location, camera or photo access at any time in your phone’s settings; the map, search and filters keep working without them. You can delete any saved spot, photo or trip in the app, or uninstall it to delete everything. To ask us to delete the purchase record RevenueCat holds for your copy of Mine Hole, email us.
Changes
If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the effective date above.
Contact
Questions about privacy: craig@vagrantdigital.com