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Cookies are used on the T:UK website in order to allow user sessions to persist, without requiring users to log in every time. This behaviour can be switched off by unticking the "Remember me" box on the login screen.
Any advertising on T:UK is explicitly chosen by the admins as being relevant to the trigpointing community. No payments are received by T:UK admins for the placement of any such ads.
Any advertising is displayed to all users of the site, independent of their previous activity.
There is currently no advertising, or marketing of any kind, on the android application.
This application is not intended to invade its users' privacy. The developer has no ulterior motives, nor any wish to explicitly collect personal information about users. There is no user-targetted advertising on T:UK.
All source code is freely available, enabling this claim to be verified (if you trust that the published app was compiled from this code).
However, it is a location-enabled application, with immature code, and still in alpha test phase. There are therefore potential privacy breaches, both explicit and implicit, which users should be aware of.
An account on TrigpointingUK is not required to use this app. However, it is expected that most users will provide one, as it will unlock greater functionality. Providing this will enable the T:UK admins to link your activity on this app with your personal data and activities held on the T:UK website. This includes, but is not limited to, your name and email address registered on T:UK.
The application does not explicitly track your location history on the T:UK website. For example, the "Nearest" screen works from a database stored locally and does not continually tell the website where you are. However, implicit information, such as which trigpoints you look at, or which map tiles you request, may enable your movements to be pieced together. And, obviously, if you log a visit to a particular trigpoint at a particular time...!
The app does not (knowingly) obtain or record your phone number.
While the application is in the alpha test phase, it is expected that there will be widespread bugs in the code. In order to help the developer fix these as easily as possible, users' privacy has been compromised somewhat. In particular, in the preferences screen, there are various options for sending reports to the developers whenever the application crashes. These contain as much information about your phone as the application can find, including location, network names etc. These reports may also include debug logs from other apps which may, in turn, contain additional personal data beyond the control of T:UK.
Crash reports are stored in Google Docs, and are available only to T:UK admins.
Eventually crash reporting will be switched off by default. However, during the testing phase, users especially concerned with their privacy should switch them off in the preferences screen and restart the application. Users who are somewhat concerned with their privacy, but who wish to help the developers fix bugs, may wish to leave crash reporting enabled, but switch off "Include syslog", to prevent the possibility of non-T:UK data being exposed.
In order to install this app, the following permissions are sought from users:
- Coarse Network Location
This shows roughly where you are, based on the mobile phone coverage.
- Fine Network Location
This shows exactly where you are, based on the GPS in your phone.
- Full Internet Access
This is used to download trigpoint information from www.trigpointinguk.com, and mapping information from OSM and Bing.
- Modify/delete USB storage contents modify/delete SD card contents
This enables the app to cache trigpoint information and map tiles.
- Read Logs
This enables the crash reporting system to access the system logs to gain more information about the problem. This information is only used if "Include syslog" is ticked in the Preferences.
- Control vibrator
Provides haptic feedback during single-finger zooming of photos
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View Wi-Fi state
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View network state
The data in this site were put together from a number of sources, each of which were themselves inaccurate or incomplete. In addition, this site allows people to update the database with new locations. We have no way of vetting people's integrity, so these locations should be treated with extra suspicion. Existance of an entry in this database does not mean that anything remains at the location, or indeed, that anything ever was there!
Trigpoints, by their very nature, are often located at the most elevated and exposed locations in the vicinity. Especially in upland areas, this in itself represents a danger. Before attempting to visit any location, you must ensure that you have both the necessary skills and equipment for the terrain you must cross. Land use also changes, so what once was home to a triangulation pillar may now be a chemical factory, or worse. Existance of an entry in this database does not mean that it is safe to approach that location!
Many trigpoints are located on private land. Often permission must be obtained before entering this land. You must seek permission from any land owner whose land you cross. Where information is available to us, we will indicate when access permission is required. However we only have this information for a small fraction of the database, so you must take responsibility for finding the land owner and gaining permission. Existance of an entry in this database does not imply that you have permission to approach that location!
Much of the data on this website came from the Ordnance Survey, and remains under Crown Copyright. It is a condition of use of this site that, apart from photos, all data entered by users may be used by the site administrators for any purpose they choose. This may include, but not be limited to: informing the Ordnance Survey and other trigpoint enthusiasts of the contents, both statistical and detailed, of people's logs; and providing bulk downloads of sections of the database to people who run similar sites.
Photographs uploaded by users of this site remain under their copyright, though there is a checkbox to allow them to be placed in the public domain. If photos are placed in the public domain, they may be used by anyone at all for any purpose they choose. This may include, but not be limited to: forwarding photos of passive stations to the Ordnance Survey for use in their passive station database.