Pinmoir Privacy Policy

Last updated: 9 November 2026

Pinmoir ("the app") is made by Driftbit ("we", "us"), based in Japan. This policy explains what information the app uses, where it goes, and the choices you have. Questions and requests: support@driftbit.studio.

In short

• Your photos, videos and notes stay on your phone. We never upload them and never see them. Nothing is sent unless you choose to share a photo or export a file yourself.
• The app has no account, no advertising and no analytics, and we don't sell or share your information.
• A few things leave the phone so that the app can work: map requests, place-name lookups, skin pictures and fonts (Premium), purchases and updates through Google Play, and a daily update check. Each is described below. We don't keep any information about you on our own servers.

1. Information that stays on your phone

Photos and videos. With your permission, the app reads the photos and videos on your phone, including the location and date stored in them, to show them on the map, in the photo grid and in My Pinmoir. This happens only on your phone. We never upload, copy or analyse your photos or videos on any server.

Notes and the journal. The calendar, day pages and notes you write in My Pinmoir are stored only on your phone. They are not included in Android's cloud backup. If you use Export, the app writes a file to the place you choose (for example your phone's storage or a cloud folder you pick); what happens to that file is up to you and the service you saved it to.

Your current location. If you tap the locate button and allow location access, the app uses your phone's location to centre the map. It is not stored or sent to us. The app asks for this permission only when you tap the button.

Settings, purchases and the free trial. Your settings (language, skin, filters and similar), a record of what you have bought, and the date your free week started are kept on your phone (and, like other app settings, in your own Android backup if you use one). None of this is sent to us.

Trial reminder. If you start Premium's free trial, the app can show you a notification on the day before the first charge. It is created on your phone; nothing is sent.

2. Information that leaves your phone

Maps. To draw the map, the app downloads map images and data from a map provider. This request includes your phone's IP address and the part of the world you are looking at, as with any web request.

• Free, the free trial and Standard (Plain map): map data from OpenFreeMap (openfreemap.org), based on OpenStreetMap.
• Premium, including its free trial (Mapbox 3D map and map skins): maps from Mapbox (mapbox.com). For Premium users, the Mapbox software in the app also sends usage and performance information to Mapbox (including a random identifier that the Mapbox software creates for this installation of the app, your phone's model, and the versions of Android, the app and the Mapbox software) and, if you have allowed location access, location information, to help Mapbox improve its maps. You can turn this off at any time: tap the (i) button on the map and choose not to share. See Mapbox's privacy policy: https://www.mapbox.com/legal/privacy. The Mapbox software is not started at all unless you use Premium. In the photo viewer, Where was this? (Premium) loads satellite imagery of the place where the photo was taken from Mapbox, so Mapbox sees the map area that is requested; the photo itself is not sent.

Place names. If "Place names" is on in Settings, the app sends the coordinates of your photos (never the photos) to your phone's own location service (on most phones, provided by Google) to find the city and country. You can turn this off in Settings.

Skin pictures. If you use Premium and open the Skin shop, the app downloads pictures and descriptions of the skins from pinmoir.driftbit.studio. Like any web request this includes your IP address; nothing else about you is sent.

Skin fonts. If you use Premium, the fonts of the map skins are downloaded when needed through Google Play services, a service of Google, so Google can see which fonts your phone asks for. The app sends no photo and no personal data with these requests.

App updates and the Premium maps download. Google Play delivers app updates (including an update that the daily check below may ask for) and the Premium maps add-on that the app downloads the first time you use Premium maps. These go through Google Play under Google's policy; the app sends no personal data with them.

Daily update check. Once a day the app downloads a small file from pinmoir.driftbit.studio to see whether this version still works or must be updated. The request sends nothing about you beyond what any web request includes (your IP address).

Purchases and Premium's free trial. Subscriptions, one-time purchases and Premium's free trial are handled by Google Play. We never see your card or payment details, name or email address. Google Play tells the app what you have bought so it can unlock it. See Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Crash reports. If the app crashes, Android may send a crash report to Google Play, depending on your phone's settings. We see these reports in Google Play Console without any information that identifies you.

3. What we don't do

• No account or sign-in, no advertising, the app itself collects no advertising ID or other device identifiers (for what Mapbox's software sends for Premium, see section 2), no analytics or tracking tools, no crash-reporting tools of our own.
• We don't run servers that store information about you. (Our website, pinmoir.driftbit.studio, is hosted on Cloudflare and serves the update-check file, the skin pictures and descriptions, and these pages; like any website it sees your IP address when you visit.)
• We don't sell, rent or share your information with anyone for their own purposes.

4. Why we use information (legal bases)

• To provide the app you asked for: maps, place names, the update check, purchases (performance of a contract).
• Mapbox's usage information: Mapbox's legitimate interest in improving its service, which you can opt out of as described above.

5. How long we keep it

• On your phone: until you delete it or uninstall the app.
• Information held by Mapbox, OpenFreeMap, Google and Cloudflare: according to their own policies.

6. Your choices and rights

• Turn off Place names in Settings, and Mapbox's data sharing through the (i) button on the map.
• Deny or remove photo and location permissions in Android's settings (the app needs photo access to show your photos).
• Uninstalling the app deletes everything it stored on your phone.
• Depending on where you live (for example the EU, the UK or Japan), you have rights to access, correct or delete your information, to object to its use and to complain to your data protection authority. We hold no personal information about you on our side; information held by Mapbox or Google is covered by their policies. Contact us with any request and we will help.

7. Children

The app is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them.

8. International transfers

The map providers and our website host (Cloudflare) may process requests in countries other than yours. They protect this information under their own policies and applicable law.

9. Changes

If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this page with a new date. If a change is significant, we will also say so in the app.

10. Contact

Driftbit, support@driftbit.studio Postal address: available on request.