Scuba Logger

Privacy Notice

Last updated: 25 May 2026

This Privacy Notice explains how Scuba Logger handles information when you use the Scuba Logger Android app. Scuba Logger is designed as an offline dive logging app. The app does not require an account or login, and your dive log data is stored locally on your device.

1. Who we are

Scuba Logger is the developer and publisher of the Scuba Logger Android app. For privacy questions, you can contact us at privacy@scubalogger.com.

If Scuba Logger is published on Google Play under a different developer name, that developer name should be considered the publisher of the app.

2. Information accessed and stored by the app

Scuba Logger may access and store the following information locally on your device, depending on how you choose to use the app:

  • Dive log information: information you enter about your dives, such as dive details, notes, locations, and related dive records.
  • Photos and media: photos you select from your device or photos you take directly using your device camera from within the app.
  • Location information: dive site location information you provide, either by selecting a pin on a map or by using your device GPS when you press the dedicated location button.
  • Generated images: images created by the app for a given dive, when you choose to save or share them.
  • Save or backup files: app save files that you choose to create from your locally stored Scuba Logger data.

3. Android permissions

Scuba Logger requests permissions only when needed for a feature you choose to use. You can deny permissions, but some related features may not work.

  • Camera: used only when you choose to take a photo for a dive.
  • Photos and media: used only when you choose to select, save, or attach images.
  • Location: used only when you press the location button to save your current coordinates for a dive site.

Scuba Logger does not access your location in the background and does not track your movement.

4. How your information is used

The app uses this information only to provide its dive logging features, including:

  • saving and displaying your personal dive history;
  • attaching photos to your dives;
  • showing or saving dive site locations;
  • creating images related to a dive;
  • creating save or backup files when you choose to create them;
  • allowing you to share dive information or images when you choose to do so.

5. Local storage

Scuba Logger stores your dive information locally on your device. We do not operate a Scuba Logger server for storing your dive logs, photos, or location information. The app does not require a user account and does not sync your dive data to a Scuba Logger cloud service.

6. Photos, camera, and gallery

The app may ask for access to your device camera or media, depending on the action you request. For example, you may choose to select an existing photo from your device or take a new photo from within the app.

Photos selected or taken for use in Scuba Logger are stored only in the app, unless you choose to save a generated image to your device gallery or share it through Android’s sharing feature.

Photos may contain metadata, such as image date, device information, orientation data, or location metadata if your device camera added it. Scuba Logger may read or preserve photo metadata as needed to display, crop, rotate, save, or manage images in the app.

7. Location information

Scuba Logger may use location information only when you choose to provide it. You can enter a dive location manually, select a location using a map, or press the dedicated button to retrieve your current GPS coordinates.

If you grant location permission, the app may access your precise or approximate location, depending on the permission you choose in Android. The app uses this only to fill in dive site coordinates when you request it and does not track your location continuously.

Location information is used to help you record dive site locations in your personal dive log. This information is stored locally on your device as part of your dive data.

8. Internet access and maps

Scuba Logger is designed to work offline for dive logging. Internet access may be used when you open map features, for example to load map tiles or related map data.

The app uses MapLibre to display maps. Map data may be requested from MapTiler. When map features are used, MapTiler or its infrastructure providers may receive technical information needed to provide and secure the map service, such as your IP address, request information, device or browser information, and map-related service usage. MapTiler handles this information according to its own privacy practices.

Scuba Logger does not send your saved dive logs, attached photos, or locally saved dive notes to MapTiler.

9. Third-party components

Scuba Logger uses third-party software components to provide app functionality, including local database storage, image loading, image cropping, photo metadata handling, location retrieval, map display, and save file protection.

  • AndroidX Room: local app database storage.
  • Google Play services Location: retrieving your device location when you request it.
  • MapLibre: displaying maps in the app.
  • MapTiler: providing map data when map features are used.
  • uCrop, Coil, and AndroidX ExifInterface: image selection, display, cropping, rotation, and metadata handling.
  • Google Tink: cryptographic functionality used to help protect app save files when you create a save or backup from the app.

These components do not mean that Scuba Logger operates a cloud account or uploads your dive logs to a Scuba Logger server.

10. Sharing and saving outside the app

Scuba Logger includes optional features that allow you to share or save content outside the app. These actions happen only when you request them.

  • Sharing: when you use the Android share function, the information or image you choose to share is passed to the app or contact you select.
  • Saving to gallery: when you choose to save a generated image, it may be stored in your device gallery.
  • Creating save or backup files: when you choose to create a save or backup file, the file may be stored in a location you select on your device or shared with another app if you choose to do so.

After information is shared with another app, service, or person, their own privacy practices may apply.

11. Data sharing

Scuba Logger does not sell your personal information. Scuba Logger does not use ads, analytics, in-app purchases, or a Scuba Logger cloud account system.

Your data may leave the app only when:

  • you choose to share content through Android’s sharing feature;
  • you choose to save generated images to your device gallery;
  • you choose to create, store, export, or share a save or backup file;
  • map functionality requires communication with a third-party map provider.

Scuba Logger does not sell, rent, or trade your dive logs, photos, location entries, or save files.

12. Data retention and deletion

Your dive data, photos, and location entries are stored locally on your device for as long as you keep them in the app.

You can delete data by deleting the relevant content in the app, clearing the app data from your Android device settings, or uninstalling the app. If you have saved images to your device gallery, created save or backup files, or shared content with another app or person, you may need to delete those copies separately.

13. Security

Scuba Logger is designed to keep your dive data locally on your device. You are responsible for protecting access to your device, including using your device lock screen and keeping your operating system up to date.

No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but Scuba Logger limits data exposure by avoiding user accounts, advertising, analytics, and cloud sync for dive data. When you create a save or backup from the app, Scuba Logger uses cryptographic functionality to help protect that save file.

14. Children and younger users

Scuba Logger is not directed to children under 13. If you are under the age required by the laws of your country to use apps without parental consent, you should use Scuba Logger only with permission from a parent or guardian.

Scuba Logger does not require an account and does not knowingly collect personal information from children on Scuba Logger servers.

15. Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes to the app or legal requirements. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

16. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Notice or how Scuba Logger handles information, contact us at privacy@scubalogger.com.