Panorama — Privacy Policy
Panorama is a location intelligence app for macOS and iPhone. This policy explains exactly what data Panorama collects, what leaves your device, and what is stored locally.
Summary
Panorama does not collect personal data. It has no account, no analytics and no advertising. Your saved locations, profiles and reports are stored only on your Mac. To fetch figures for a place, Panorama sends that place's name or coordinates to public data services; a few of those requests pass through a small DataIsland relay, described below, which forwards them and keeps nothing.
Location Searches
When you search for a place, Panorama sends what you type to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoding service to find the place and its coordinates. Nominatim's own privacy policy governs that request.
Fetching Data for a Location
When you add or refresh a location, Panorama sends only what each data service needs — coordinates, a place or country name, a state or province code, or a county code — directly from your Mac to the services listed below. No personal information is included.
Requests to a few US government services (the Census Bureau geocoder, FEMA hazard and flood data, EIA, BEA, FBI and city police crime data) and air-quality lookups (OpenAQ) go through a relay that DataIsland runs on Cloudflare Workers, because those services often fail behind VPNs and network filters, and so the OpenAQ key stays private. The relay receives the same parameters (for example a location's coordinates for the flood-zone lookup), forwards the request, and returns the answer. It does not store requests or keep logs of them, and it cannot tell who you are. Cloudflare processes the traffic under its own privacy policy.
Saved Locations
Saved locations, the figures fetched for them, notes and AI summaries are stored locally on your Mac, in Panorama's own container. They are not uploaded to DataIsland or synced to any cloud service.
AI Summaries
Apple Intelligence (on-device)
When you use Apple Intelligence, all processing happens on your Mac. No location data or profile content is sent to Apple or to DataIsland.
OpenRouter (optional cloud model)
If you choose to use OpenRouter, Panorama sends a summary of the location's figures (the assembled facts, not raw data) and your question to OpenRouter using your own OpenRouter key, which is stored in your macOS Keychain. OpenRouter's privacy policy and that of the model provider you select govern this. DataIsland does not receive it.
Data Services
Panorama fetches figures from the following public services. Each provider's privacy policy governs its handling of requests:
- US Census Bureau — census.gov
- FEMA (National Risk Index and flood zones, via Esri ArcGIS) — fema.gov
- CDC PLACES — cdc.gov
- FBI Crime Data Explorer — api.usa.gov
- City police open data (Socrata) — for 8 large US cities
- BEA — bea.gov
- BLS — bls.gov
- EIA — eia.gov
- USGS — earthquake.usgs.gov
- Statistics Canada — statcan.gc.ca
- UK police data — data.police.uk
- Eurostat — ec.europa.eu/eurostat
- World Bank — worldbank.org
- IMF — imf.org
- OECD — oecd.org
- WHO — who.int
- NASA POWER (climate) — power.larc.nasa.gov
- OpenAQ (air quality, through the DataIsland relay) — openaq.org
- Wikipedia — wikipedia.org
- Apple Maps (nearby places) — apple.com
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim (search) — openstreetmap.org
Network Interference Detection
When a government service fails with a secure-connection error, Panorama may contact Cloudflare's trace endpoint (cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace) to detect whether Cloudflare WARP is active, and Apple's egress list (mask-api.icloud.com) to detect iCloud Private Relay, so it can show you a specific fix. No personal data is included in these requests.
Crash Reports
Panorama uses Apple's MetricKit to keep crash and hang reports in a folder on your Mac so you can send them to us if you ask for support. Nothing is sent automatically. If you have chosen to share analytics with developers in macOS settings, Apple also provides anonymous crash reports to DataIsland through App Store Connect.
What Panorama Does Not Do
- Does not send your searches or saved locations to DataIsland
- Does not keep any record of requests on the relay
- Does not require an account or login
- Does not use advertising SDKs or share data with advertisers
- Does not collect analytics or usage statistics
- Does not read or transmit your contacts, photos, or other personal files
Children's Privacy
Panorama is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes to This Policy
If we make material changes to this policy, we will update the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of Panorama after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact
Questions about this policy:
[email protected]
DataIsland Software LLC