Privacy policy

Detecting Log & Finds (com.veltislabs.detectinglog), published by VELTIS LABS LLC, 30 N Gould St Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA.
Contact: contact@veltislabs.com
Last updated: 22 October 2026

The short version

The app keeps your sites, hunts, finds, notes and photos on your phone. We run no server and no account system, and we never see your logs. We use no advertising and no analytics SDK.

What stays on your phone

Sites: names, landowner, permission dates, notes and an optional photo of the signed permission.
Hunts and finds: dates, detector settings, depth, target ID, category, era, weight, notes and photos.
Location: only when you tap "Take GPS fix" or "Use my current location". The fix (latitude, longitude, accuracy) is saved with that find or site, on the phone. It is not sent anywhere by the app.
Photos: chosen with the Android Photo Picker and copied into the app's private storage. The app never reads your whole gallery.

None of this is collected by us and none of it is shared. It leaves the phone only if you export a file, make a backup or share a find, and then it goes where you choose to save it. Android's own device backup may copy the database and photos to your Google account if you have that turned on; our backup rules include only the finds database and photos.

What is collected

Data	Collected	Shared	Why
App info and performance: Diagnostics	Yes, required	No (not shared)	Google Play Billing sends purchase and licence diagnostics to Google so Pro purchases work.
Everything else (location, photos, notes, contacts, identifiers)	No	Not shared	-

Purchases are handled by Google Play. We do not receive your payment details. Google's privacy policy applies to Play Billing.

Notifications

If you turn on permission reminders the app asks for notification permission and posts a local notice shortly before a permission you entered ends. Nothing is sent to a server.

Your choices and deletion

Settings > "Delete all data" removes every site, hunt, find, photo and setting from the phone and restarts the app as new. Uninstalling the app also removes them. Because we hold no copy of your data, there is nothing for us to delete on a server; to ask a question write to the contact address above.

Children

The app is for adult hobbyists and is not directed at children under 13.

Use the app responsibly

Always detect with the landowner's permission and follow local law. The app does not map protected or scheduled sites. The Finds Liaison Officer export is a working list, not an official Portable Antiquities Scheme form, and this is not legal advice.

Changes

If this policy changes the new date appears above and the new text is published at this address.