Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 28, 2026

THE SHORT VERSION

Your logbook stays on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud. FlightMark has no account system, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party tracking of any kind. The only outside services it uses are Apple's: Apple Maps and iCloud.

NOT A PATIENT RECORD

FlightMark is your logbook, not a medical record. Don't enter patient names, ages, addresses, dispatch numbers, outcomes or anything else that identifies a patient — the app has no fields for them and notes shouldn't hold them. If you work for a healthcare provider, its privacy policies govern what patient information you may keep.

WHAT IS STORED ON YOUR DEVICE

Flights, duty periods, custom locations, training and certification records, regular routes, and your profile — including your name, role, aircraft, certificate details and any profile photo you add.

Patient-related details — patient category, procedures, procedure counts and flight notes — are kept in a separate file that stays on this device and is never synced to iCloud. Deleting a flight on this device deletes them with it. If a flight leaves this device some other way — it was deleted on another device, or iCloud was turned off — they are kept for 30 days in case the flight returns, and then removed.

ICLOUD

If you are signed in to iCloud, your logbook syncs through your own private iCloud database so it is available on your other devices. That data belongs to your Apple Account; we cannot see it. Patient-related details are never included, so they appear only on the device where you entered them.

You can turn iCloud off for FlightMark in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud. When you do, or when you sign out of iCloud, iOS removes the synced logbook from that device. The copy in your iCloud is kept, and the logbook returns when iCloud is turned back on. Export a backup first if you want a copy that stays with you.

APPLE MAPS

Maps, map images and place search come from Apple Maps. When you search for a place or the app looks up a location you typed, that text is sent to Apple to find it. Apple's privacy policy covers those requests. Typed locations and their coordinates are also cached on your device so they don't have to be looked up again.

LOCATION

FlightMark does not ask for your location. If you have allowed it in iOS Settings, it is used only on your device, to match the in-app sky to your local sunrise and sunset. It is never sent anywhere.

FRIENDS, BASES AND THE US BOARD

Each of these is off until you turn it on, and each is separate.

Friends. FlightMark stores a small profile in its public iCloud database: your display name and role, your total hours, hours in the last 30 days, total flights and number of badges. Other FlightMark users who have your six-character code can read it. An invite link you send contains that code. Friends you accept can also see your flights from the last 30 days, as soon as you log them: for each one, the date and time, the airport, heliport, hospital or base at each end, the aircraft type and tail number, the mission type and the time flown. Where a scene or landing zone was is never shared; it is shown only as "Scene". Patient details, procedures, crew and notes are never shared. Your flights are encrypted on your device with a key that only friends you have accepted are given; anyone else, including the developer, sees only unreadable data. When you remove a friend, a new key is made so the old one opens nothing you share afterwards. Turning Friends off deletes your profile, your shared flights and the friend links you created, and gives you a new code. A friend's own link to your old code stays on their side until they remove it, but it shows nothing once your profile is gone. If you block someone, their code is remembered on your device only, so they stay hidden; they are not told. Friends is set up on each device separately: another device has its own code and its own list.

The US board and your base. If you join the US board, or choose to be shown at your base, FlightMark stores one entry in its public iCloud database: the name you choose for boards, your role, the same four figures as above and, if you are shown at a base, which base. Anyone using FlightMark can see it. It uses its own random identifier, not your share code, so it can't be used to find your Friends profile or your flights. Leaving the board and your base deletes the entry. Entries not updated for 90 days are no longer shown.

Bases. A base you add (its name and map position) can be seen by everyone using FlightMark, and stays after you leave so others can keep using it. Write to the address below to have one removed.

Reports. If you report a name or a base, it is hidden for you at once, and a report naming it is stored for the developer to review. Your report does not identify you to the person reported.

EXPORTS AND BACKUPS

Exports and backups leave out patient details, your date of birth, FAA certificate number and employee ID unless you turn them on for that export. Exported files are not encrypted. The app deletes its own copy when you finish sharing; the copy you send is then wherever you sent it.

PHOTOS AND NOTIFICATIONS

FlightMark never reads your photo library. A profile picture is one you pick yourself, and it is stored in your logbook. If you choose Save Image when sharing a badge or summary, that one picture is added to your library. Notifications, if allowed, are scheduled on your device to remind you of upcoming expiries. None of this involves a server.

YOUR CHOICES AND DELETING YOUR DATA

Because your data is on your device and in your own iCloud, you can see, correct, export and delete all of it yourself, at any time, without asking anyone.

Settings → Legal & Data → Delete All Data permanently removes your flights, profile and records, the patient-details file, your settings, the widget's data, scheduled reminders, cached locations and any leftover export files, and deletes your Friends profile, shared flights and board entry. If iCloud sync is on, the deletion is carried to iCloud and to your other devices. Deleting the app removes only what is on that device; to remove the iCloud copy without the app, delete FlightMark's data in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud.

CHILDREN

FlightMark is a professional tool for aircrew and is not directed at children or teenagers. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

OPERATOR AND CONTACT

FlightMark is published by Dalton Underwood.

For any question about this policy or your information, to report another person's profile or name, or to have a base removed, write to flightmarkapp@icloud.com.