Your records, explained.

VI Atlas keeps core tracking on your iPhone. Online features are optional and send only the data needed for the action you choose.

On your iPhone

Tasks, discoveries, selected screenshots, map-find positions, guide bookmarks, vehicles, private drafts, deletion history and local profile/settings are stored on the device. The system photo picker shares only images you select. Imports are resized and re-encoded without embedded GPS metadata. Backup exports create a file wherever you choose to save it. Protect that file: it can contain your notes and private drafts.

Accounts and cloud saves

Creating an account sends your email and authentication details to VI Atlas’s separate Supabase service. Sessions are stored in the iPhone Keychain. Choosing synchronization sends your tasks, discoveries (including attached screenshots and map positions), vehicles, private drafts and deletion history to a private account backup. Other players cannot read that backup. Profile display text, appearance and reminder preferences currently stay on the device.

Community

A local draft is private until you submit it. Submitted finds send their title, body, spoiler status and any chosen map position or screenshot for review. Forum topics and replies send their text, game category and spoiler status for review. Approved forum topics and replies become public. Approved find markers are visible, while their details and images are available to the author, moderators, accounts that spent a free reveal on that find, and accounts with verified active Pro access. Public author labels use a shortened account identifier, not your email. Reports and block records are sent to the service; reports are available to authorized moderators. Internal security audits record operation metadata rather than submission content. Pending screenshot evidence is readable by its owner and authorized moderators; it is not public before approval. Moderators inspect evidence before approving a find.

Guide updates

Choosing Get latest guide information requests a reviewed guide file from VIAtlas.app. The hosting provider receives ordinary connection information such as your IP address. The request sends no player records or account credentials. Guide bookmarks stay on your iPhone.

Purchases and notifications

Apple handles purchases and payment details. VI Atlas reads verified StoreKit transactions to grant or remove Premium access; payment card details are not collected by the app. Optional local reminders use iOS notification permission. You can turn them off in Settings.

Banner advertising

The free app is configured for Google AdMob banner ads, subject to Google’s app readiness review and ad availability. When ads are available, Google may process IP addresses and approximate location inferred from them, app/device identifiers, advertisements viewed, ad interactions, performance data and crash diagnostics for advertising, fraud prevention and measurement. The app requests non-personalized ads, disables Google’s publisher first-party ID and device-location collection, and does not request Apple tracking permission. Your tasks, discovery notes, private drafts and cloud backup contents are not provided as ad targeting data. Non-personalized ads can still involve device information and storage.

Where required, an in-app Google consent form appears before ads can load. Required privacy options are available in Settings → Ad privacy choices. Pro removes banner requests. If an ad cannot load, the app remains usable. Read Google’s privacy policy and how Google uses information for advertising.

Providers and retention

Supabase hosts account, backup and community data. Apple provides purchase and device platform services. Resend processes authentication emails and support messages sent to support@viatlas.app. This support website uses hosting and network providers that can process ordinary request information, such as IP addresses and access logs. Hosting providers may use essential security cookies. The website adds no advertising or analytics scripts. Google approved the AdMob publisher account on November 14, 2026. VI Atlas’s separate app readiness review and public-store linking remain pending, so ad serving is currently limited and banners are not guaranteed. Development testing uses Google’s clearly labeled test advertisements.

Cloud records remain until removed by you, moderation or account deletion. Deleting a cloud account removes associated account records and owned uploads. Security audit metadata, service logs and provider backups may persist under provider retention practices. Removing an account does not remove records on your iPhone or cancel/revoke Apple purchases.

Your controls

Use Settings for backup export/import and reminder preferences. Use Account & cloud to sign out, recover access or delete your cloud account. Keep a backup before removing the app or replacing a device. For account or privacy questions, email support@viatlas.app. Do not send passwords or private authentication links.

Community reveals and purchase verification

Signed-in community access stores the find IDs you reveal and their reveal times with your VI Atlas account. This enforces the five-per-week allowance and preserves earlier unlocks across devices. Markers can be browsed without revealing their titles, details or screenshots.

When you link Pro community access, the app sends Apple-signed transaction information to VI Atlas for verification. Verification uses Apple’s certificate chain and checks the app, product, environment, expiry and revocation information. We store the Apple original transaction ID, product ID, environment, signed time, expiry or revocation time and the VI Atlas account link. Signed subscription notifications from Apple update these facts. We do not receive your card or bank details, and purchase history is not used for advertising or cross-app tracking.

Deleting your VI Atlas account removes its reveal history and the account link from verification records. Transaction verification and anti-replay records can remain without that VI Atlas account link. Your Apple purchase remains managed by Apple. Revealed contributions may become unavailable if their author removes them or moderation withdraws approval.