Oldstone – Privacy Policy

Who we are

Oldstone is an app for finding, reading about and visiting castles, operated by Norse Ventures LLC (“we”, “our”, “us”), based in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. This policy explains how information is handled when you use Oldstone.

What stays on your phone

Oldstone does not require an account. Your lists (Want to see, Been there), your Index, your games and the covers you have seen are stored on your device only. We cannot see them, and uninstalling Oldstone deletes them.

Your location

If you choose Near me, Oldstone asks iOS for your approximate location and uses it on your device to put the castles near you first and to show how far away they are. Your location is never sent to us or stored by us. You can turn location access off at any time in the iOS Settings app.

Photos, articles and translations

The castles, their articles and their facts ship inside the app. Their photos load from our own copies on Cloudflare, which serves them as it would any website’s; we do not keep a record of who loaded which photo. When you ask Oldstone to translate an article on your device, Apple’s Translation framework does it on your device, and iOS may download a language for it.

Anonymous usage statistics

Oldstone sends a few anonymous events to PostHog, our analytics provider, so we can see whether people use it: the app was opened, and Share was tapped on a castle’s page. Each event carries the app and iOS version, whether the app came from the App Store or TestFlight, and a random identifier created on your device.

The events never include your location, your lists, which castles you look at or share, your name, email, Apple ID or advertising identifier. PostHog discards IP addresses and does not build a profile of you. The data is not used for advertising or shared with data brokers, and is kept for up to one year. Deleting Oldstone removes the random identifier.

Sharing a castle

Sharing a castle sends a link to its page on norseventures.co, through the app you pick. When someone opens the link, our site records that the castle’s page was opened, and nothing about who opened it.

Sharing and sale of information

We do not sell your information or share it with third parties for advertising. Oldstone contains no advertising or tracking.

Changes

We may update this policy as Oldstone changes. The effective date above shows when this version took effect.

Contact

Norse Ventures LLC
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Email: support@norseventures.co