Who this policy covers
This policy covers the Enchantments Traverse Planner iPhone app and this product website, operated by MileCheck LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. The mobile app has no user accounts, third-party advertising or third-party product analytics. Nothing you enter leaves the phone unless you post it to the trail feed. The map, route, zones, trail facts, GPS orientation and trip recording all work with the radios off.
Nine features reach the internet, and none sends your location or anything you have entered. Opening Plan or Forecast and fires requests the National Weather Service forecast for one fixed grid square over the core lakes, and its active alerts for two fixed points, Aasgard Pass and Lake Viviane (api.weather.gov), the same square and points for every user. Forecast and fires, and the map's Wind layer while it is on, request the NWS hourly forecast for seven fixed squares the route crosses, the same seven for every user. Opening Forecast and fires also requests the Northwest Avalanche Center's zone ratings from avalanche.org, the same request for every user. Opening See it in 3D, or saving it for offline, loads map tiles and terrain for the Enchantments area from Mapbox. Mapbox receives your IP address and an anonymous device identifier to deliver the tiles and count monthly users. Its usage telemetry is turned off in the app, and your GPS position stays on the phone. Opening the map or Forecast and fires requests the current wildfire list from MileCheck's fire feed for a fixed box covering the trail, Leavenworth and the access roads, and each fire's distance from the route is worked out on the phone. At the same moment the app downloads a small advisory file of current closure and fire-restriction orders from this website, and opening Forecast and fires downloads a small file of NOAA's modeled snow depth from this website. Both files are requested with no parameters. These answers are cached, so the last check still shows, with its age, once you lose signal. Only if you turn on the Satellite layer, the app requests aerial tiles from Esri's World Imagery service, and those requests reveal the map area you are viewing. Turning on Precipitation in the same panel requests radar frames and tiles from RainViewer, and those requests reveal the map area you are viewing too. Both layers are off by default. Like any internet request these carry ordinary connection information (IP address, time and default user-agent) to whichever host serves them. There is no account to attach it to and no profile is built. Offline, none of these requests happens and the app still works.
Trail feed
A post you write in the Feed is sent to a small service MileCheck runs for this app: the post text and category, the place it is about, and your first name if you typed one. It is tied to a random id created on your phone, never an email, phone number or account. You can delete your own posts. Posts can be hidden by a moderator. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone else.
Location in the app
If you enable location, the app asks iOS for foreground access and uses the coordinate, reported accuracy and timestamp on your device to draw your position along the route. Foreground fixes are not kept as a history unless you separately start Trip Recording.
Background trip recording
Trip Recording is off by default and starts only when you tap Start. The app then asks for background (“Always”) location access and may store precise coordinates, timestamps, accuracy, altitude, speed, heading and mock-location flags while the app is in the background or the screen is locked. Recording continues until you stop it or iOS interrupts it.
Tracks are stored locally and are not uploaded to MileCheck. You can export a track as a GPX file through the iOS share sheet or permanently delete it in the app. A recipient or app you select through the share sheet has its own privacy practices.
What is stored on your device
Display, units, direction and Trail Mode preferences; saved permit details; journal entries; and trip recordings are stored in the app’s local storage. A photo of your permit, if you add one by taking it with the camera or choosing it from your photo library, is copied into the app’s own storage on the phone; the app never writes to your photo library and never uploads the photo. The offline map and trail data ship with the app. The app does not sell this information or send it to MileCheck for advertising or analytics.
Depending on your iPhone and iCloud settings, Apple’s device-backup service may include locally stored app data. Those backups are controlled by Apple and your device settings, not by a MileCheck account.
Local service listings
A paid local-service listing, if shown, is bundled directory content and is clearly labelled “Sponsored.” The app does not report listing views, calls or website taps to the listed business.
This website
This product site has no account form and does not set advertising cookies or run product-usage analytics. A support or launch-update link opens your own email app; the site does not collect the message first. The homepage's weather section requests the National Weather Service's forecast for one fixed grid square over the core lakes and any active alerts for two fixed points, Aasgard Pass and Lake Viviane (api.weather.gov), the same requests for every visitor, directly from your browser — it sends ordinary web-request information such as your IP address, never your location or anything you have entered. It also requests the Northwest Avalanche Center's rating for East Slopes Central (api.avalanche.org), the same zone the app shows, and only displays it while the center has a real rating out. Our hosting and security providers may process ordinary web-request information such as IP address, browser type, requested page and request time to deliver and protect the site. MileCheck does not use that information to build an advertising profile.
Links to Recreation.gov, the Forest Service, Apple, OpenStreetMap or MileCheck’s live-closures page take you to sites with their own privacy practices.
Your choices
- You may use the offline map without starting Trip Recording.
- You can change location permission at any time in iOS Settings.
- You can delete saved permits, journal entries and recorded tracks in the app.
- You choose whether and where to export a GPX file.
- Deleting the app removes its locally stored data from the phone, subject to any device backup you control.
The app is a general trail-planning tool and is not directed to children under 13. It does not knowingly collect children’s personal information.
Questions or corrections
Email support@enchantmentstraverse.app. If the app’s capabilities change, this policy will change with them and the date at the top will be updated.