Cryptid Atlas ("the app") is made by Aquarius Mobile Studios. This policy explains what the app collects and why. Questions go to support@meetamsai.com.
No account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking tools. Browsing the map sends nothing about you to us. The only information you ever send us is a sighting report, from the app or from the report form on our website, and only if you choose to file one.
Location is optional and is used only while the app is open. With your permission, your position is used on your phone to center the map and to work out how far away the nearest case file is. Browsing never sends your coordinates anywhere.
Your location leaves your phone only if you use it to place the pin on a sighting report, as described below.
Filing a report is optional. If you file one, in the app or on our website, what you entered is sent to our database: the creature, the kind of encounter, the date and time of day, the weather, temperature, moon and terrain, what you saw, heard, smelled and felt, how long it lasted, how far away it was, who else was there, and your account in your own words. The website form asks for fewer of these details.
The map pin you placed. You also choose how precisely that spot could ever be published; the exact pin itself is never published.
Whether you agree to have your account posted on the map after review. The answer is no unless you choose yes.
A photo, only if you attach one. In the app you pick a single image with your phone's own picker or camera, and the app never reads the rest of your photo library. The image is re-encoded on your phone, or in your browser on the website, before upload, which removes embedded metadata such as the GPS position your camera recorded.
Contact details, only if you ask to be reachable. The email address or phone number you enter is used only to follow up on that report. It is never published or shared.
A random report ID. The first time you file a report, the app (or your browser, on the website) makes up a random code and keeps it. It is sent with each report so we can limit abuse and group repeat reports. It is not taken from your phone, your SIM card or any account.
Automatic review flags. The app checks your written account for patterns that suggest spam and attaches the result, to help us review reports.
Every report is checked automatically before anything happens to it. The report's details (the creature, what happened, when, the approximate place, the conditions and your account) are sent to Google's Gemini AI service, which checks that it is a sincere report and not a joke, abuse or spam, and prepares a copy of your account with profanity, names of private people, phone numbers, email addresses, street addresses and links removed. Your contact details, your photo and your exact pin are never sent to it.
n8n, the automation service we use, passes the report along and keeps it only until it has been checked. To name the place, the report's location, rounded to about a kilometre, is looked up with OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service.
If you said we may post your report and it passes, it becomes a case file on the map: the creature, when, the cleaned copy of what you wrote, and the location blurred to the area you picked. Your contact details, your photo and your exact pin are never published. If you said no, or sent your report before we asked, it is never shown to other users. Reports that fail the check are kept on file but never shown. Anyone can flag a posted report from its case file in the app, which emails us the case number; we look at every flag and take a report down if it breaks the rules.
We keep a report so it can be checked and kept on record. You can ask us to delete yours at any time, as described under YOUR CHOICES.
Reports and photos are stored by our database provider, Supabase, in the United States, which handles the data on our behalf. They are encrypted in transit, and photos are kept in private storage that is not publicly reachable.
Case files download from the same database. Like any internet request, this shows your IP address to Supabase; it isn't stored with any report.
The map is drawn with tiles from OpenFreeMap, which receives your IP address and the map area you are viewing.
Google's Gemini service receives a report's details, without your contact details, photo or exact pin, only to check it, as described above.
Your settings, the creatures you picked, and the downloaded case files stay on your phone and are never uploaded. Alerts about new case files are scheduled on your phone; there is no push service and no notification token.
Android's own backup may include your settings if you have it turned on.
Cryptid Atlas is a paid app sold through Google Play. Google handles the purchase, and we never see your name, email address or payment details.
The app never asks for an account, a name or an email address to use it. It has no ads, no ad trackers, no analytics tools and no crash-reporting service, and it doesn't access your contacts, microphone or advertising ID. We don't sell or share data.
Say no to location and browse the whole map instead.
Don't file reports, file them without contact details, or keep them private.
Ask us to delete a report you sent, with its photo and contact details, on the Cryptid Atlas data deletion page or by email to support@meetamsai.com. We'll delete it within 30 days.
Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android settings, removes everything it keeps on your phone, including the random report ID.
Cryptid Atlas is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has sent us a report, email us and we will delete it.
If this policy changes, the new version is posted on this page with a new effective date.
support@meetamsai.com
Last updated September 27, 2026.