Sunset Map
Privacy Policy
Effective 13 July 2026 · Last updated 17 July 2026
The short version. Sunset Map has no account and collects no personal data. Your location stays on your iPhone, where it is used to show tonight's light around you. The app downloads map data and spot photos, like every map app, and it sends anonymous usage counts that nobody can link to you. We still run no server of our own.
Who we are
Sunset Map is an iPhone app published by Sullivan Thimotée, Switzerland. Questions about this policy: hello@sunset-map.com.
Data we collect
No personal data. We do not collect, store, sell or share anything that can identify you. The app has no user accounts and no advertising code. It never talks to a server of ours, because we do not have one. The only thing the app sends is anonymous usage statistics, described below.
Anonymous usage statistics
To see which features help, the app counts how they are used. We use PostHog for this, an analytics tool running on servers in the European Union.
These events are simple counts, like "opened the best-spots list", with basic device facts: iPhone model, iOS version and app version. They travel with a random ID that identifies nobody.
The app never sends your name, email or Apple Account, because it does not know them. It never sends your coordinates or your searches. It records nothing on your screen and uses no advertising ID. Nothing is sold or shared, and deleting the app resets the random ID.
Your location
The app asks for your location while you are using it. That is the only permission it needs. Your iPhone uses it to center the map on you, to calculate how much golden light your spot gets, and, on the free plan, to unlock points within 10 km of you. Your location never leaves your iPhone and is never sent to us.
One option: if you turn on the trial reminder when you subscribe, the app also asks permission to send you one local notification, planned on your device. No server is involved and nothing leaves your iPhone.
If you say no, the app still works: you move the map yourself and check spots with a membership.
What the app downloads
Sunset Map calculates everything on your iPhone. But like every map app, it has to download the map itself. These are its only connections:
- Elevation tiles from Terrain Tiles on AWS Open Data (the Tilezen/Mapzen dataset), used to know where mountains and hills are.
- Building and landmark tiles from VersaTiles, © OpenStreetMap contributors, used for the street-level heatmap and the camera pins.
- Photo spots and their photos from Wikimedia Commons. The app asks where many photos were taken in the map area you look at. When you open a spot, it also downloads real photos of that place. Every photo is freely licensed, and the app shows each photo's author and license. These requests are anonymous.
- Apple Maps for the base map, place search, and finding the name of a saved spot from its position (this is called reverse geocoding).
- Apple Weather gets the coordinate of the point you check, and sends back the cloud forecast for its golden window.
These downloads are anonymous: the servers see an IP address and the map area asked for, like with any map app. We do not run any of these servers. Tiles are saved on your device, so areas you already loaded make no request at all. Apple's services are covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.
Purchases
Apple handles memberships and the lifetime purchase through the App Store. We never see your name, email, payment details or billing address. The app only checks with Apple, on your iPhone, that a valid purchase exists. That check unlocks any date, any point on Earth, and saved spots. The payment itself is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.
Stored on your device
Your saved spots, your settings (like the sunrise/sunset mode) and the saved map tiles live only on your iPhone, in the app's private storage. Nothing is synced or uploaded. Deleting the app deletes all of it.
This website
sunset-map.com is a static website. It sets no cookies, loads no fonts, scripts or trackers from other companies, and does not watch its visitors. Our host (Infomaniak, Switzerland) keeps standard server logs, including IP addresses, for security and to fix problems. Every web host does this.
Children
Sunset Map is suitable for all ages and collects no personal data from anyone, including children under 13 (or 16 in the EEA).
Your rights
Because we hold no data that can identify you, there is nothing for us to show, correct, export or delete. Deleting the app removes every setting and saved spot on your device. Questions? Write to hello@sunset-map.com.
Changes to this policy
If this policy ever changes, the new version will appear on this page with a new "last updated" date. Big changes will also be listed in the App Store release notes.