Privacy policy

In short

• We only process the data needed for Nautilib to work.
• No ads, no advertising trackers, no selling of data.
• Your location is only recorded during a trip that you start yourself.
• The database is hosted in the European Union (Ireland).
• You can delete your account and all your data at any time, from the app.

Who we are

Nautilib is a digital logbook for recreational boaters, published by BILKA, SAS, 61 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris (SIREN 929 707 321), the data controller for the data described below.

Contact for any question about your data: contact@nautilib.com.

The data we process

Your account

• Email address, name, and profile photo if you add one.
• Sign-in method: email and password, Apple or Google. With Apple's "Hide My Email", we only receive a relay address.
• Technical account identifier.

Location

• The GPS track of a trip: position, speed and heading, recorded only during a trip that you start, including when the screen is locked or the app is in the background. On Android, a persistent notification shows this for as long as the trip is in progress. Recording stops when you end the trip.
• Positions you place yourself: the boat's position, fishing spots.
• The location read from a catch photo (EXIF data), if it contains one, to suggest where it was caught. This is read on your device.

What you add

• Boats: name, type, home port, photo.
• Trips: date, times, distance, number of people and crew names, notes, photos.
• Voice notes: the audio recording and its transcription. On iPhone, iPad and Mac, transcription happens on the device: the audio is not sent anywhere to be transcribed.
• How-to guides: text, photos and documents (PDFs, images).
• Maintenance: tasks, due dates and recurrences.
• Budget: amounts, dates, suppliers, categories and photos of receipts.
• Fishing: photos, species, size, weight, estimated value, position and date of the catch.
• Personal API keys: we only keep an encrypted fingerprint of the key, never the key itself.

Technical data

• IP address and technical logs from our hosting providers, for the security and proper running of the service.
• Usage counters for the photo analysis features, to prevent abuse.

We use no audience measurement tools, no advertising trackers and no advertising cookies. The website and the app only use the local storage needed to keep you signed in.

Why, and on what legal basis

This data is used only to make Nautilib work: signing you in, recording and displaying your trips, your map, your how-to guides, your maintenance, your budget and your catches, and sharing them with the people you invite.

Legal basis: performance of the service you request (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). For technical logs and abuse prevention: our legitimate interest in securing the service (Article 6(1)(f)).

Who this data is shared with

The people you invite

When you share a boat through an invite link, you choose what the person can do: see your trips or not, record their own, and access all, some or none of the documents. The budget is reserved for the owner. A guest's trips show their name and profile photo to the other people on the boat.

Our service providers

OpenAI does not use data sent by Nautilib to train its models. Transfers outside the European Union are covered by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

We do not sell or rent any data, and we do not share it with anyone else, unless required by law.

App permissions

• Location: recording a trip's track, centring the map, placing a catch. In the background, only during a trip in progress.
• Camera and photos: photos of trips, receipts, catches, how-to guides, the boat and your profile.
• Microphone: voice notes, only when you press the record button.
• Speech recognition (iPhone, iPad, Mac): transcribing your voice notes on the device.
• Notifications (Android): showing that a trip is being recorded.

You can withdraw these permissions at any time in your device settings.

How long we keep data

Your data is kept for as long as your account exists. When you delete a boat or your account, the corresponding data is erased immediately. Our hosting provider's technical backups are overwritten within 30 days at most.

Technical logs are kept for a few weeks at most.

Deleting your account

From the app or the website, in a few seconds: see the Delete my account page, which explains what is deleted.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to and port your data. Write to us at contact@nautilib.com; we reply within one month at most.

You can also lodge a complaint with the CNIL (French data protection authority) (cnil.fr).

Security

Communications are encrypted (HTTPS). Access to each boat's data is limited to its owner and the people it is shared with, according to the permissions chosen. Documents, private photos and voice notes are stored in a private space and can only be accessed through temporary links.

Children

Nautilib is intended for adults and is not meant for children under 15.

Changes

If this policy changes significantly, we will let you know in the app. The date of the last update is shown at the top of this page.

Nautilib is not a navigation instrument. The information displayed is for guidance only and does not replace official nautical charts and documents.