Privacy Policy — Lake Cumberland

Effective September 28, 2026

Lake Cumberland ("the app") is published by Valleyside Electronics LLC, a Kentucky limited liability company ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the app does with information about you. The short version: the app has no accounts, no ads and no analytics, and what it knows about you stays on your phone unless you choose to send it somewhere, such as a hazard report you share with other boaters.

Your location

The app asks for location permission so it can show how far away spots are, plan a route over water from where you are, and follow that route.

• Location is used only while the app is open. The app does not request background location.
• Your position is not sent to us or anyone else. The one exception is a spot you mark yourself in a hazard report you choose to share.
• When you follow a route, the track is saved on your phone as a trip in your trip log. You can delete any trip from the app, and uninstalling the app deletes all of them.
• Hazard reports you mark on the map are saved on your phone, and shared with other boaters only if you choose to share them (see below).
• A future version may let you share your position with a group you choose. If it does, sharing will be off until you start it, will say who can see you, and will stop on its own. This policy will be updated before that feature is released.

You can use the app without granting location permission.

Membership cards

If an organization that issues membership cards through the app (for example a towing service) sends you a card, the card is stored on your phone. It holds what the issuer put on it, such as your name, member number, plan and boat details. The app checks the card's digital signature on your phone; the card is not sent anywhere to be checked.

To learn about canceled cards, the app periodically downloads a list published by the card's issuer. That download does not include anything about you or your card.

Reports you share with other boaters

You can share hazard reports, ramp readings ("launched here at this lake level" or "too shallow"), votes on whether a hazard is still there, and events. Before your first shared report the app shows the rules and asks you to agree; if you don't, your reports stay on your phone only.

• What is sent: the report itself (for a hazard: its kind, the spot you marked on the map, your note and the lake level; for an event: the details you enter), the time you made it, and a random ID created when the app was installed. That ID is not linked to your name, phone number, or Google or Apple account.
• What other boaters see: the report's contents and time. Never the install ID, and never an event's contact details or your name.
• Where it goes: Valleyside Electronics LLC's own server on Amazon Web Services in the United States. We store the install ID only in scrambled (hashed) form, to limit how many reports one phone can send a day and to count one vote per phone.
• The location in a hazard report is the spot you marked. If you mark where you are, that position becomes part of the public report. The app never sends your location in the background.
• How long it's kept: hazard reports stay while they're still believable (7 days for floating debris, up to 10 years for stumps, and indefinitely for rocks) or until removed; ramp readings for 3 years; events until they end. Records used to prevent duplicates and limit sending delete themselves within 60 days.
• Moderation: events are reviewed before anyone sees them. Anyone can report a note or event as offensive, spam or personal information; reported content can be hidden or removed. Email us to have a report you made removed.

If a report can't be sent because there's no signal, the app keeps it and sends it later. If it can't be sent in time to still be useful, the app tells you and lets you send it again or discard it.

Information you choose to send

Some features hand information to another app on your phone, which you then send yourself:

• Float plans open your text messaging or email app with the plan filled in. You choose the recipient and press send.
• Contributor applications open your email app addressed to us. We receive only what you send, and use it only to review the application. Email us to have it deleted.

Information the app downloads

The app downloads public information from these services: lake level and dam release data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Geological Survey, weather forecasts from the National Weather Service, aerial imagery from the U.S. Geological Survey, and event listings from public event calendars.

As with any internet request, those services can see your device's IP address. The app does not send them your location. Weather is requested for a fixed point on the lake, and imagery is requested for the location of a ramp, not for where you are.

Purchases

If you buy the app's one-time upgrade, the purchase is handled by Google Play on Android or the App Store on iPhone. We receive confirmation that the purchase was made, not your payment details.

Backups

If backup is turned on for your phone (Google backup on Android, iCloud Backup on iPhone), the phone may include the app's saved data (for example, your settings, trips and membership cards) in its encrypted device backup. This is controlled by your phone's settings, not by the app.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date. Significant changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions or deletion requests: support@valleyside.dev. To remove a report you shared, tell us roughly when and where you made it.

Valleyside Electronics LLC · Russell Springs, Kentucky · valleyside.dev