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Privacy and support

Remko Welling edited this page Aug 14, 2026 · 1 revision

Privacy, and how support works

Privacy, in short

The app collects nothing. No analytics library, no account, no advertising, and nothing sent to its developer. It has no server.

What it transmits, it transmits to the caster you configure, because that is what connecting to a caster means:

  • your credentials, as the NTRIP protocol specifies;
  • a position, but only when the mountpoint asks for one — and in the free edition only the position you set yourself, never the phone's.

Your credentials are stored encrypted on the device. They travel as NTRIP specifies, which is base64 over a plain connection, so anyone able to observe the network path can read them. That is a property of the protocol rather than of this app, and the app says so where you type a password. Encrypted transport is planned, and when it arrives it arrives in both editions on the same day.

Location permission is asked when you first open the analysis views, and in the free edition it is used on the device only, to place satellites in the sky view.

The full policy is at https://pe1mew.github.io/NTRIP-Analyser/privacy-policy.

The caster is somebody else's service. What it logs about your connection is governed by its own terms, not by this policy, and having permission to connect is yours to hold — see Getting started.

Support, honestly

This is a personal project, held to professional standards but built in someone's own time. There is no help desk, and the contact address the Play listing requires is not one.

What there is:

  • This wiki. If something is unclear, it is a page here that should change. Questions asked more than once become documentation rather than a queue of replies.
  • The GitHub issue tracker — public, searchable, and answered when there is time. Search before opening; include what the eight rows said.
  • The app itself. Every check states its own verdict and the number behind it, so a failing station tells you which part failed and why. That is deliberate: you should rarely need to ask anyone, and when you do, the person to ask is usually the operator of the station rather than the author of this app.

If the station is at fault

That is the normal outcome of a failing check, and the app is built to give you something to hand over: which check failed, the measured value, and what it means. Send that to whoever runs the station — they can fix it, and nobody else can.

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