Privacy Policy
Turkey Finder · turkeyfinder.com · Version 0.9.5 (interim) · Effective October 22, 2026
This follows the one template shared by every Finder app from Northwoods Investment LLC. It is an interim document for the free-account launch, written without an attorney, and will be replaced by the attorney's final text.
Northwoods Investment LLC collects as little about you as the app needs. We don't sell your information, and we don't share it for advertising.
What we collect and why
| What | Why | Where it's kept | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your email address, the name you give, and your password in scrambled form that can't be turned back into the password | To sign you in and link your Finder apps | Our servers (Cloudflare) | Until you delete your account |
| Record that you accepted the Terms, the access disclaimer and the responsibility box (date, time, version, account) | To show the terms you agreed to | Our servers (Cloudflare); before you sign in, under a random device ID in a cookie (up to 5 years), copied to your account when you sign in | For as long as the account exists and as long afterwards as we may need it to show what was agreed (period to be confirmed with our attorney) |
| Address or map point you search | To return spots near it | Sent to our servers to run the search and not stored with your account. It goes back to your phone in a sealed pass that expires after 20 minutes. What you type also passes through our server to the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder and OpenStreetMap Nominatim. | Not kept. A free account keeps only the count of searches used (5 for the life of the account). |
| Tracks, waypoints, field-log pins and notes, and your hunt journal | Your own records | On your phone, and backed up to your account while backup is on (below) | Until you delete them |
| Backup of your places, trails, field log and hunt journal. Backup is on by default for every account; you can turn it off in the map's Places tab, and turning it off offers to delete the copy | So a lost or replaced phone, or a computer, gets them back when you sign in | Our servers (Cloudflare), encrypted at rest. Visible only to you and the Northwoods Investment LLC admin, and to members of a Hunt Party you join, only for the places you tick to share with it. Never public, never shared with anyone else. You can download it (Places tab, "Download my data") or delete it at any time | Until you turn backup off and delete the copy, or delete your account |
| Field-log pins you choose to share to test the maps (if you tick "Share my pins, without my name or email, to help check and improve the maps."), without your name or email in what we use | To test and improve the maps | Our servers (Cloudflare) | Until you untick the box (that deletes them from our servers) or delete your account |
| Your answer to "Did it find a spot you know?" (Yes, No or Not sure), if you tap one after a search | To check how well the map does | Our servers (Cloudflare): only the answer, the app and the date. Never your account, email, location, search point or IP address. So the same place isn't counted twice, a one-way marker made from your account (or, signed out, the search) and the searched area to about two-thirds of a mile is kept for a year; it can't be turned back into either and is never linked to your answer. | As running totals, for as long as the app runs |
| A photo you choose to add with that answer (optional) | To check how well the map does | Our servers (Cloudflare), stored privately under your account with only the date. Before it leaves your phone, the app redraws the photo, which removes its location (GPS), camera and time data; our servers refuse any photo that still carries such data. Only you and the admin can see it. It is never shown publicly or used in marketing unless you give separate, explicit permission. | Until you delete it (Account panel) or delete your account |
| Where you came from, if you arrived through a link that names its source or page (for example ?src=club-handout, a /go/ link, or ?from= on a link from gamefinder360.com or another Finder app) | To know which channels bring people in | Cookies on your phone for 30 days (the first source kept); with your account when you sign up; and with your payment record at Stripe if you buy a plan | Until you delete your account; at Stripe, as long as Stripe and tax law require |
| Subscription status (once paid plans open) | To unlock your plan | Stripe and our servers | As long as Stripe and tax law require |
| Technical logs, such as IP addresses, and daily usage counts that stop the map being copied wholesale | To run and protect the app | Cloudflare and our servers | Cloudflare's standard retention; daily counts for one day, and a note of an account or IP address that went over a daily limit for 14 days |
What sign-up says: "Backup is on: your places, trails, field log and hunt journal are saved to your account, so a lost or new phone, or a computer, gets them back when you sign in. Only you and the Northwoods Investment LLC admin can see them. Turn backup off any time in the map's Places tab."
Location
The app uses your phone's location only on your phone, for features like Guide me in, field-log pins and track recording. Your live location is not sent to us. Places, trails and pins you save are sent to us while backup is on (the default) or if you turn on pin sharing, as above.
What we don't do
- We don't sell, rent or trade your information or your spots.
- Account and plan details are visible to the Finder apps' administrator on a private admin page; your pins, routes, logs and photos are not.
- We don't show your pins or spots to other users. If you join a Hunt Party, the pins and places you choose to share are visible to its members. (Hunt Party is part of Pro: members see the places you tick to share with it, and your field-log pins only while backup is on and you leave party sharing on; never your journal or harvest pins.)
- We don't use advertising trackers or advertising cookies. The app sets cookies to keep you signed in, to remember a subscription bought on this phone, a short-lived one (30 minutes) so the map loads faster with full access, and the random device ID used for disclaimer acceptances before you sign in. It also saves your settings, last search, pins and map tiles in your phone's browser storage.
- We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and doesn't track you across sites. It counts pages viewed, rough location (country), browser and referring site, as totals.
Who else handles your information
- Cloudflare hosts the app and stores account data.
- Stripe processes payments, once paid plans open. We never see or store your full card number.
- Resend sends password-reset and sign-in emails, when they're switched on.
- Your phone asks these services directly for what it shows: the National Weather Service (forecast, Starter and Pro), USGS (base map imagery), and unpkg, cdnjs and Google Fonts (map library, solunar library, typefaces). Like any website they see your IP address. Solunar times are worked out on your phone.
We may also share information if the law requires it, or to protect our rights or someone's safety.
Your choices
- Turn backup and pin sharing on or off at any time in the app. Backup starts on; pin sharing starts off.
- Download everything we keep for your account, and what's on your phone, as one file: "Download my data" in the map's Places tab.
- Delete your account from the app's Account panel (or email us from your account's address). That deletes your email, backups, shared pins, hunt journal, check-in photos and settings. We keep only the acceptance record above (and Stripe keeps payment records as financial law requires).
- Ask us what we hold about you, or to correct or delete it, at [email protected].
- If you ask to be notified when another Finder app opens, we keep your email only to send that one email.
Children
The app is not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you think a child under 13 has an account, tell us and we'll delete it.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the version and date above and tell you in the app before your next search.
Contact
[email protected] · Northwoods Investment LLC, New Hampshire.