Privacy Policy — Logbook Flight Hours

Last updated: 21 October 2026

The short version. Logbook Flight Hours has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no servers of ours. Your logbook is stored on your device and, if you have iCloud switched on, in your own private iCloud database that only you can read. We cannot see any of it.

Who this is from

Logbook Flight Hours is an iOS app published by Hugo Molin ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the app does with information. It covers the app only.

Information the app stores

Everything you enter stays on your device, and is synchronised to your private iCloud database if iCloud Drive and iCloud are enabled for the app on your Apple device. This includes:

Flight records: dates, times, airports, aircraft type and registration, flight numbers, logged hours, take-offs and landings, duty times and your own remarks.
Names of other crew members you choose to add to a flight.
Certificates and licences you choose to track, including licence or certificate numbers and expiry dates.
Photographs you attach to a flight, and a profile photograph if you set one.
Your name and licence number, if you enter them for the printed logbook export.
A device identifier supplied by Apple (identifierForVendor) and your device's name, so the app can show you which of your own devices are syncing. This identifier is specific to this app on this device and cannot be used to identify you elsewhere.

We have no server and no copy of any of this. Data held in iCloud is stored under your own Apple Account, governed by Apple's Privacy Policy. If you turn iCloud off, the app keeps working and stores everything locally.

What leaves your device

The app makes requests to exactly two outside services, and only to look up aircraft and route information. Neither request includes your name, your logbook, your location or any identifier for you.

Service	When	What is sent
adsbdb.com	While you are typing an aircraft registration or a flight number into a flight	The registration or flight number, and nothing else
planespotters.net	When an aircraft photo is shown	The aircraft registration, and nothing else

As with any internet request, these services necessarily see the IP address the request came from and the app's identifier (Logbook/1.0 (iOS)). We do not control what they log; their own privacy policies apply. Responses are cached on your device to avoid asking again.

What the app never does

No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or usage tracking of any kind.
No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
No third-party tracking SDKs. The app contains no tracking code.
No accounts, no sign-in, no password.
No selling or sharing of information, because we never receive any.
No tracking across other apps or websites.

Permissions the app may ask for

Face ID or Touch ID — only if you switch on the app lock. Biometric data is handled entirely by iOS and is never available to the app; the app is told only whether the check succeeded.
Photos — the app uses Apple's photo picker, so it receives only the individual photographs you select. It has no access to the rest of your library.
Notifications — only if you switch on expiry reminders. Reminders are scheduled on your device. There is no push server and nothing is sent anywhere.
Files — when you import a roster or a logbook file, the app reads the file you choose and nothing else.

Information about other people

If you record the names of colleagues you flew with, you are entering another person's information into your own records. That information stays in your logbook on your device and in your private iCloud database. You are responsible for what you choose to record about other people, as you would be with a paper logbook.

Exporting and sharing

You can export your logbook as a PDF, a CSV file or a full backup. Exports happen only when you ask for them, and the file goes wherever you send it using the standard iOS share sheet. Nothing is uploaded automatically.

Keeping and deleting your information

Individual flights, aircraft, certificates and photographs can be deleted in the app at any time.
Deleting the app removes everything stored on that device.
Data synchronised to iCloud is removed by deleting it in the app, or through Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage on your Apple device.
Cached aircraft photographs and lookups sit in the app's temporary cache and are discarded by iOS as needed, or when the app is deleted.

Your rights

If you are in the UK, the EU or another region with data protection laws such as the GDPR, you have rights to access, correct, export and erase your personal information. Because we hold none of it, you can exercise all of these yourself inside the app: your records are visible and editable, the export feature gives you a complete copy in a portable format, and deletion is immediate. If you believe we hold information about you, contact us using the address below and we will respond.

Children

Logbook Flight Hours is a professional tool for pilots and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone, children included.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new "last updated" date. Material changes affecting how information is handled will also be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about privacy in Logbook Flight Hours: hugomolin.mail@icloud.com