Atlas · Groove · Ledger · Dome · Workshop | Last updated: 09 Sep 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Cottage Compass (the "Application" or "Service") handles information when You use Our mobile app. We designed the Application to work primarily on Your Device, with a focus on quiet country loops, ledger plates, groove passes, and the enamel dome.
By using the Service, You agree to the practices described in this Policy. If You do not agree, please discontinue use of the Application.
Pocket instrument. Cottage Compass is a mobile experience for winding a country loop in a brass bowl: drawing lanes on the Atlas, driving the Groove without haste, pressing silence and wind into the Ledger, keeping hours on the Dome, and calibrating the instrument in the Workshop. Loops, stations, plates, runs, stars, hour presets, wind logs, and bezel settings are intended to stay on Your Device unless You choose to contact Us by email or export a copy Yourself. Where We rely on third-party SDKs (for example attribution analytics or push delivery), they process data as described below and under their own policies.
Application means Cottage Compass, the software program provided by Us.
Company ("We", "Us" or "Our") refers to Cottage Compass.
Country refers to: United Kingdom.
Device means any device that can access the Service (for example a smartphone or tablet).
Personal Data (or "Personal Information") means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service Provider means third parties that process data on Our behalf to facilitate the Service, analytics, attribution, notifications, or related technical functions.
Usage Data means data collected automatically when You use the Service (for example diagnostics, session length, or technical identifiers).
You means the individual using the Service, or the legal entity on whose behalf that individual uses the Service, as applicable.
Your loops and station pins, ledger entries and generated plates, groove runs and needle marks, named stars, hour presets, wind logs, instrument metal and enamel, needle tension, magnetic silence, sound and haptics, default dusk, horizon calibration, freeze-scene preference, and similar app data are stored locally on Your Device.
We do not require an account to use the Application. Unless otherwise stated in this Policy, this local archive is not transmitted to Our servers as part of normal use. The Metal scene is rendered on Your Device and does not leave the phone. We do not collect GPS or location coordinates, camera images, photo-library contents, or microphone audio.
Device motion (on-device): The Application may read Your Device's motion sensors (pitch, roll, yaw, and stillness) so the needle can seat the horizon, hold a quiet approach, and catch a wind azimuth. These readings are used only on Your Device for the current ritual. We do not send motion data to Our servers and we do not use GPS.
Generated plates: Ledger plates and brass rubbings are drawn by the Application from Your loop and hour. They are not photographs from Your camera or library.
Export and import (optional): From the Workshop You may lift the archive as a local JSON sheet, or lay a sheet back in, using the system share sheet or file picker. Sharing is under Your control and governed by Apple's policies for those surfaces.
Notifications (optional): If You allow push messaging, the Application may request notification permission. Push messages may be delivered through Our messaging partner as described below.
Usage Data. Usage Data is collected automatically when You use the Service. It may include, for example, Your Device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, diagnostic data, and timestamps or engagement signals related to the Application.
Product configuration. The Application may make limited network requests needed to operate the Service (for example to retrieve configuration). Such requests may include technical identifiers such as Your application bundle identifier together with identifiers associated with Our attribution and measurement partners, solely as needed for those technical purposes.
We use third-party providers to understand how the Application is discovered and used, to measure campaign effectiveness, to improve stability, and to deliver notifications. Depending on Your settings and applicable law, these partners may process identifiers associated with Your Device or install.
We may use Personal Data to provide and maintain the Service, monitor usage, respond to Your requests, send service-related communications (including via push where You allow it), analyze and improve the Service, and support attribution and measurement as described above.
We may share information with Service Providers who process it on Our instructions and for the purposes described in this Policy, as well as where required by law, to protect rights and safety, or with Your consent where applicable.
You can stop much of the Application's on-device data collection by uninstalling the Application using Your device or store standard uninstall process. Some data may already have been processed by partners according to their policies and retention practices.
We retain Personal Data only as long as needed for the purposes in this Policy, legal obligations, dispute resolution, and enforcement of agreements. Retention details for partner-processed data are governed in part by those partners' policies.
Your information may be processed in locations where We or Our partners operate, which may be outside Your jurisdiction. Where required by law, We take steps designed to ensure appropriate safeguards for international transfers.
You may reset a single loop's progress from the Atlas, which clears arrival marks on that lane. You may melt the whole archive from the Workshop ("Melt Everything Down"), which clears loops, plates, runs, stars, hour presets, and wind logs on the Device subject to iOS behaviour, then reseeds an empty bowl. Onboarding completion may remain so the first ritual is not forced again. You may contact Us to request access, correction, or deletion of Personal Data You have provided, subject to legal retention requirements.
No electronic transmission or storage is completely secure; We strive to use commercially reasonable safeguards for Your Personal Data. Data stored on Your Device is also protected by Your device's operating system and any security features You enable (such as a passcode or biometric lock).
We may disclose Personal Data if required by law or in good faith where disclosure is necessary to comply with legal process, protect Our rights or safety, investigate fraud, or respond to lawful requests by public authorities.
Our Service is not directed at anyone under 16. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 16. If You believe a child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us and We will take steps to remove it where appropriate.
The Service or Our communications may contain links to third-party sites (for example partner privacy pages). We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content or practices. Please review their privacy policies.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated Policy in the Application or on this page and revise the "Last updated" date above. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance unless applicable law requires additional steps.
If You have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact Us by email:
Cottage Compass Support
Email: [email protected]