Privacy Policy for FieldWave

FieldWave has no sign-up and no backend of its own. The developer cannot see your log, your location or your callsign. Everything below describes data that either stays on your device or goes directly to a third party you have chosen to use.

Contacts you log: callsign, frequency, mode, signal reports, park or summit reference, timestamp, and — when a QRZ lookup succeeds — the operator's name and email address as published by QRZ.com.

Your own station details: callsign, operator name, chosen region and appearance settings.

The offline reference database of parks and summits, which ships inside the app and is imported locally when you tap Load Internal Database.

If iCloud is enabled on your device, your log syncs through your own private iCloud database so it appears on your other devices. This uses Apple's CloudKit and is governed by Apple's privacy policy. The developer has no access to it. Signing out of iCloud stops the sync and leaves the local copy intact.

With your permission, FieldWave uses your location to find the nearest park or summit and to show the distance to it. That calculation happens entirely on the device.

Your coordinates leave the device in exactly one case: when you tap SELF-SPOT. Self-spotting publishes your callsign, frequency, mode and position to the public APRS-IS network so other operators can find you. This is inherent to how spotting works — an APRS spot is a public broadcast. Nothing is sent unless you tap that button.

Denying location permission leaves the logbook, band plans, ADIF import and export and eQSL features fully usable. Only self-spotting and nearest-park detection require it.

QRZ.com — optional. If you enter your QRZ credentials, the app queries the QRZ XML API to fill in operator names and email addresses for the callsigns you log. Your QRZ username and password are stored on the device and sent only to QRZ.com. The callsign being looked up is sent with the request.

POTA.app — the live spot list is read from the public POTA API. No personal data is sent; it is a read-only request.

APRS-IS — used only for self-spotting, as described above.

Each of these is operated independently of FieldWave and by its own terms and privacy policy.

ADIF exports and eQSL images are written by you, to wherever you choose to send them — Files, Photos, email, a messaging app, or a logging service such as LoTW, QRZ or Club Log. Once shared, that copy is outside the app and governed by whatever service you sent it to. ADIF exports contain your logged contacts, including any operator names and email addresses QRZ supplied.

• No analytics, telemetry or crash reporting SDKs.
• No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
• No tracking across apps or websites.
• No selling or sharing of data with data brokers.
• No account, no email collection, no newsletter.

Deleting a contact in the app removes it, and the deletion syncs through iCloud. Clear Database in Settings removes the imported reference data. Deleting the app removes its local storage; to remove the synced copy as well, delete FieldWave data from iCloud in the iOS Settings app under your Apple Account.

FieldWave is a tool for licensed radio amateurs and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information for the developer at all.

Material changes to this policy will be published on this page with a new date. For questions about privacy in FieldWave, contact Adrián García Caballero on X/Twitter at @techywater.