Privacy

Privacy notice

ShoalScope is published by Atlas Labs. This page says, in plain words, what we collect and why. Last updated 10 November 2026.

What we collect

• Your email address, when you create an account. We use it to send you one-time sign-in links and to tell you when an area you ordered is ready. There is no password.
• Your location, only if you tap the "my location" button on a map and your phone or browser asks you to allow it. It is used on your screen to show where you are; it is not sent to us.
• Your orders: the areas you asked us to map, when, and how they were paid for.
• Your routes: the start and end points, craft and draft you enter in the route planner, so the route can be computed and shared by link, and how many routes you planned today (free accounts have a daily limit).
• Technical logs (page requested, time, IP address) kept by our hosting provider for a short time to keep the service running and secure.

Payments

Purchases on ShoalScope are processed by Paddle.com, our online reseller and Merchant of Record. Paddle collects your name, e-mail, country, payment details and tax information to take the payment, issue the receipt, handle refunds and meet tax law, under its own privacy notice (paddle.com/legal/privacy). We never see card details. We receive from Paddle the order status, the products bought, your country and a Paddle customer id, linked to your ShoalScope account so that your plan and the areas you ordered are yours on every device.

Sign-in with Google

If you choose "Continue with Google", Google (through Firebase Authentication) tells us your verified e-mail address and nothing else; we create or open the account with that e-mail.

What we do not do

We do not sell your data, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not use it for anything other than running ShoalScope. Guides may contain links to a hotel booking partner; those links only carry the place you were reading about, never your account.

Cookies

One cookie keeps you signed in. Your unit and colour-map preferences stay in your browser. There are no tracking cookies.

Keeping and deleting your data

Your account stays until you ask us to delete it. Email wassim.ehtp@gmail.com from the address on the account and we delete the account, orders and routes within 30 days. Maps that were computed stay published, because they contain no personal data.

Not for navigation

ShoalScope depths are satellite estimates for planning and curiosity. They are not a nautical chart and must not be used for navigation. See the terms.

Contact

Atlas Labs · wassim.ehtp@gmail.com