fjell collects almost no data.

Who this covers

fjell ("I", "me") publishes 15 apps on the Garmin Connect IQ Store and three apps for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch: Maiden, Summiter for iPhone and iPad, and Right Seat. This policy covers all of them and this website. fjell is based in Washington state, USA. Contact: fjell@ballangrud.com.

Garmin Connect IQ apps

What the apps read, and why

Connect IQ apps declare the permissions they need, and Garmin shows you those before installation. Across the Garmin catalogue, these are the ones used:

Background

Permission to run briefly in the background so milestone alerts arrive at the moment you reach one.

Used by: Summiter, Summiter Free

Complication Publisher

Progress values published for other apps to display. The data stays on the watch.

Used by: Summiter, Summiter Free

Complication Subscriber

Complication values published by other Connect IQ apps, read so they can be shown in a data field.

Used by: Bloom Noir, Alpenglow, Nordlys Fjell, fjell: analog, Runner Performance, SUMMIT, Manga Focus, Fibonacci

Positioning

The last GPS fix the watch already holds, read to work out the local sunrise time and compass heading. No location is stored or sent anywhere.

Used by: Alpenglow, SUMMIT

Sensor

Used by: ROLLWERK

Sensor History

On-watch sensor history such as heart rate and barometric pressure, read to draw current values and trends.

Used by: Bloom Noir, Alpenglow, Shodo, Nordlys Fjell, fjell: analog, SUMMIT, Manga Focus, Harmony of Japan

User Profile

Age, gender, VO2 max and recent activity history, read from the watch to render fitness and running figures.

Used by: Alpenglow, Nordlys Fjell, Runner Performance, Harmony of Japan

In every case the value is read from the watch, drawn on the screen, and discarded. It is not stored off-device, not logged, and not sent anywhere. The apps have no networking code for it to travel through, and there is no analytics, telemetry, advertising or crash reporting in any of them.

Settings you configure

App settings — chosen data fields, colours, units — are stored by Garmin, on your watch and in your Garmin Connect account, so they survive a reinstall. That storage is Garmin's, governed by Garmin's own privacy policy. I have no access to it.

Purchases

Paid apps are sold by Garmin through the Connect IQ Store. Payment details are handled entirely by Garmin; I never see your name, card, or billing address — only anonymous sales totals.

Maiden for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

Maiden has no account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking and no third-party SDKs. fjell collects no data from it, and its App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”.

Where your data is kept

Everything you enter in Maiden is stored on your device. If iCloud is turned on, it syncs between your devices through your own private iCloud database, which I cannot see.

Your iPhone and Apple Watch talk to each other directly to keep the flight timer in sync.

What Maiden asks for, and why

Each permission is used only for its feature:

Camera and photo library

Wing and plan photos for outline measurement, and aircraft photos.

Motion sensors and barometer

The bench tools, and air pressure for engine tuning.

NFC

Reading and writing tags, on iPhone.

Microphone and speech recognition

Only when you ask: hands-free checklist commands, spoken flight notes and aircraft details, and engine RPM from its sound. Recognition runs on the device.

On-device features

The Apple Intelligence features run on your device, using Apple's Foundation Models. Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight use a local index on the device.

NFC tags

A tag written by Maiden holds only a link with a random ID, and no personal data. On a phone without Maiden, that link opens a page on this site. Those /t/ pages, and the app-site association file iOS uses to open the links in Maiden, do not log or store tag IDs.

Summiter for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

Effective September 27, 2026

Summiter for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, including its widgets and complications, is made by Eirik Rude in Camas, Washington. It has no servers, no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. I never receive, store, see or sell your data. Everything the app knows about your climb is kept on your own devices.

Washington's My Health My Data Act gives you rights over your consumer health data. See the Summiter Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.

Flights Climbed from Apple Health

With your permission, Summiter reads Flights Climbed from Apple Health on your iPhone or iPad. It uses them to:

• calculate your floor total and where you are on the route
• show today's flights, your recent pace, and when you are likely to reach the next landmark
• mark landmarks as reached and send summit notifications
• power the widgets, complications and the Apple Watch app

If you choose to count your past flights when you start, Summiter reads your full Flights Climbed history to set your starting total.

Summiter reads only Flights Climbed. It asks for no other Health data and never writes to Apple Health.

Which apps and devices recorded your flights

Apple Health records which app or device wrote each flight, for example “Jane's iPhone” or Garmin Connect. Summiter reads these names and each one's recent total, so you can choose which source to count if your total looks too high. It saves the source you chose, and the identifiers of sources it has seen, so it can ask you when a new one appears.

What Summiter saves

Summiter saves your floor total, any manual adjustment you make, the landmarks you have reached and when, which ascent you are on, which summit celebrations and notifications you have already seen, and whether you have unlocked the full climb.

Garmin watches (optional)

If you turn on Garmin sync, Summiter saves the name and model of the Garmin watches you choose so it can reconnect to them.

Where your data goes

Your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

Your saved climb, including the source names above, is stored in Summiter's private storage on each device you use it on. Your iPhone and Apple Watch stay in step using Apple's Watch Connectivity, which sends it between your paired devices. Summiter on iPad keeps its own climb in its private storage there; it is not synced with your iPhone or Apple Watch. It is never sent to me.

Garmin, only if you turn it on

Garmin sync exchanges your total floor count with Summiter on your Garmin watch, together with a few technical values the two apps need to agree: a sync counter, the counting mode, and which edition of the Garmin app you have. These messages pass through Garmin's Garmin Connect app on the same device, and Garmin's handling of them is covered by Garmin's privacy policy. You can turn Garmin sync off at any time.

Summiter is not made by or affiliated with Garmin. Data you provide to Summiter is provided to its developer and not to Garmin, and Garmin has no responsibility or liability for it.

People and apps you share with

When you tap Share, Summiter makes a card showing a landmark, your floor total, the floors left to go and how many landmarks you have reached, and hands it to the iOS share sheet. It goes only where you send it.

Device backups

Summiter does not use iCloud. If you back up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud or a computer, Summiter's saved climb is included in that backup, as any app's data is.

Purchases

The full climb is sold through the App Store. Apple processes the payment. I do not receive your name, Apple Account or payment details; Summiter records only whether the purchase is active, on your devices.

Notifications

Notifications are created on your devices. Nothing is sent through a server.

Diagnostics

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device settings, Apple may give me crash reports and App Store statistics. Apple prepares these; they do not contain your flights or your climb. Summiter itself contains no analytics or crash-reporting code.

What I never do

• Receive or store your Health data or your climb
• Sell, rent or trade your data
• Use Health data for advertising, marketing or data mining
• Track you across other companies' apps or websites

How long data is kept

Summiter keeps your climb on your devices until you delete the app.

Your choices

Stop Health access

In the Health app, tap your profile picture, open Apps under Privacy, choose Summiter, and turn off Flights Climbed. Summiter keeps the progress it has already saved but reads nothing new.

Stop Garmin sync

Turn off Garmin sync in Summiter's settings. To remove Summiter from your Garmin watch, use the Connect IQ Store app.

Stop notifications

Go to Settings › Notifications › Summiter.

Delete your data

Delete Summiter from your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. This erases everything the app has saved. It does not delete Flights Climbed from Apple Health, which belongs to Health and the apps that recorded it. I cannot recall cards you have already shared.

Children

Summiter is not directed at children under 13. I do not collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Security

Summiter's data is kept in the app's private storage, protected by iOS, iPadOS and watchOS. Because I run no servers, I hold no copy of your data that could be exposed.

Changes

If I change how Summiter handles data, I will update this section and its effective date. If a change means collecting or sharing new data, I will ask for your permission in the app first.

Contact

Eirik Rude
Camas, Washington, USA
fjell@ballangrud.com

Right Seat for iPhone and iPad

Effective October 10, 2026

Right Seat (on the App Store as Right Seat: Flight Sim Copilot) is a companion for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. It works with Right Seat Bridge, a free program on the PC that runs the sim. It has no account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no third-party SDKs. The one thing that reaches me is a message you choose to send from its Contact the developer form.

Contact the developer

A message you send from the form holds:

• whether it's a complaint, a request for help or a comment, and what you wrote
• your email address, only if you give one so I can reply
• if you leave them on: the app's and iOS's versions, the device model, your language, the bridge's version, and whether the app and the sim are connected
• if you leave it on: the app's last 200 activity log entries, which record what the bridge and the sim did, such as sim rate changes, alerts and ATC calls

You can see each of these before you send. The app posts the message to my server at feedback.fjell.tech, which runs on Cloudflare and keeps nothing. It passes the message to Resend, an email service, which emails it to me. I keep it in my mailbox for as long as it's useful for helping you, and delete it on request. Resend keeps a record of the delivery under its own policy. I use the message only to answer you and to fix what it reports.

So Right Seat's App Store privacy label lists your email address, customer support and diagnostics, as data linked to you, used for app functionality, and not used for tracking.

Your flights, and the bridge on your PC

The app talks to Right Seat Bridge over your local network. What the sim reports, your flights, debriefs, logbook, checklists, aircraft cards, screenshots, photos and settings stay on your iPhone or iPad, and what the bridge needs stays on your PC. None of it is sent to me. Deleting the app deletes what it keeps on the device.

To name the airports in the logbook, the app asks Apple's maps for the airport nearest to where the simulated aircraft took off and landed. That's the aircraft's position in the sim, not yours.

Notifications

If you turn on alerts, the app gives the bridge on your PC the address Apple assigns for notifications to Right Seat on your device (a push token), with the alerts you chose and your fuel reserve. The bridge keeps them on the PC. When an alert is due, such as the autopilot dropping out or the next slowdown, the bridge sends its text and the token through my relay at push.fjell.tech, on Cloudflare, to Apple's push service, which delivers it. The Lock Screen countdown is updated the same way. The relay passes each one on and keeps nothing: its logs record only Apple's reply, never a token or an alert's text. Turning the alerts off, or deleting the app, stops them.

SimBrief

If you enter a SimBrief username or Pilot ID, the app fetches your latest flight plan straight from SimBrief and keeps it on the device. I never see either. SimBrief's handling of your account is governed by its own privacy policy.

What Right Seat asks for, and why

Local network

To find Right Seat Bridge on your PC and connect to it.

Notifications

For the alerts you turn on, such as top of descent, low fuel or an ATC call waiting.

Live Activities

For the countdown to the next slowdown on the Lock Screen.

Camera

To take a photo of an aircraft for its card. The photo stays on the device.

Photos (add only)

To save the screenshots you take of the sim. Choosing a photo for an aircraft's card uses Apple's picker, which shows Right Seat only the photo you pick.

Changes

If I change how Right Seat handles data, I will update this section and its effective date, and Right Seat's App Store privacy label with it.

This website, email and your rights

This website

These pages are static files served from Cloudflare's network. There is no analytics script, no advertising, no tracking pixel and no cookie set by this site. Cloudflare processes standard request logs, including IP addresses, to serve traffic and mitigate attacks, as described in Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Email

If you email support, I hold that message and my reply for as long as it is useful for supporting you. It is not added to any mailing list and there is no mailing list to add it to.

Children

These apps are not directed at children under 13, and I don't knowingly collect anything from children. The only thing any of them sends me is a Right Seat feedback message, and only when someone chooses to send one.

Your rights

Under the GDPR and similar laws you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data held about you. In practice I hold none beyond any support email or Right Seat feedback you have sent me — which I will delete on request. Data held by Garmin should be requested from Garmin. Maiden's data is on your own devices and in your own iCloud account, and Summiter's is on your own devices; I have no access to either. Washington residents have further rights over Summiter's consumer health data, described in its Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. Material changes will be noted on this page rather than made quietly.