Dawnbite Privacy Policy

Dawnbite is made by Glintside. Last updated: 1 November 2026.

No account. No tracking. Your spots and catches stay on your devices. Weather and maps come through Glintside's relay, which keeps nothing.

What stays on your devices

Your sessions, catches, photos, spots, baits, notes and settings are stored only on your phone and watch. They sync with each other through Wear OS's own connection, and none of it reaches Glintside. There is no Dawnbite account and no Dawnbite server that holds your data. Your watch never uses the internet for Dawnbite.

What leaves your phone

• Weather. To show conditions and forecasts, the app sends a position rounded to 2 decimal places (a cell about 1 km across) to Glintside's relay. The relay asks MET Norway for the forecast for that cell. MET Norway sees only the rounded cell and the relay's own address, never your IP address or anything about you or your device. You can turn weather off in Settings.
• Maps. Map tiles and fonts come from the same relay, from Glintside's own storage. A map request contains only the tile's address. You can turn maps off in Settings.
• Purchases. Dawnbite Pro is bought through Google Play. Google handles the payment, and Google Play's billing library may send Google its own diagnostic information under Google's privacy policy. Dawnbite only learns from Play whether Pro is owned.
• Sharing you choose. A catch card, a CSV export, a season PDF or a backup file goes only where you send it. Catch cards and PDFs never include coordinates or maps.

The relay keeps nothing

Requests are handled in memory and not logged or stored. There are no cookies and no user, device or install identifiers. Your IP address is used only for a short-lived rate-limit counter at the edge and is never stored or passed on. Answers are cached by weather cell and tile, which holds no personal data.

No tracking

Dawnbite contains no analytics, crash reporting, advertising or attribution software, and no Firebase or Google Maps SDK.

Permissions

• Location, while using the app: to put catches and spots where they happened. Never in the background.
• Notifications (optional): only for reminders you turn on, at most one a day.
• Biometrics (optional): for the app lock.

Photos are taken with your phone's camera app, so Dawnbite has no camera permission. Location and other metadata are removed from photos it keeps.

Backups

A backup file is encrypted with a passphrase only you know. Glintside can't open it. Android's own backup is off unless you turn it on in Settings. When on, Google stores it under your Google account according to Google's terms.

Deleting your data

Everything is on your devices, so uninstalling Dawnbite from your phone and watch deletes it. Backup files you saved stay wherever you put them.

Children

Dawnbite is for adults (18+) and collects no personal data from anyone, including children.

Credits

Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Species names from Wikidata (CC0).

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@glintside.com. If this policy changes, the new version will be on this page with a new date.