Privacy policy

for the iPhone app uBoarded · Last updated: November 2026

In short

• No account required. No ads, no tracking, no analytics tools.
• Your flights, boarding passes and photos are stored on your iPhone and in your own iCloud Drive. I have no access to them.
• uBoarded does not run its own server. For aircraft photos, aircraft data and maps, the app queries a few services – only the aircraft registration or the map area is sent, no personal data.

1. Controller

Michael Pikelj · ultramagnetics
Südallee 62, 40593 Düsseldorf, Germany
Email: info@ultramagnetics.store

2. Data on your device and in iCloud

Everything you record in uBoarded – flights, seats, notes, boarding passes, photos, documents and, optionally, your name for the name check and the PDF report – is stored locally on your iPhone. If iCloud Drive is turned on, the app also stores this data in your personal iCloud Drive in the “uBoarded” folder. Storage in iCloud is provided by Apple as part of your Apple Account; Apple’s privacy policy applies. I never receive this data.

Boarding passes you send to the app via “Share › uBoarded” are briefly kept in a shared app folder on your iPhone until you assign them in the app.

3. Camera, photos and files

The camera is only used when you scan a boarding pass or take a photo yourself. The app only accesses photos and files you select. An import folder you set is remembered on your device only. Text recognition and barcode reading run entirely on your iPhone.

4. Requests to external services

For some additional features, the app sends requests to services on the internet. For technical reasons, your IP address is transmitted to the respective provider. Names, boarding passes or your flight list are never transmitted.

• Planespotters.net – to show an aircraft photo, the aircraft registration (e.g. “D-AIDV”) is sent. Photos are only displayed (with photographer and link), not stored. You can turn this off under Settings › Aircraft photos.
• adsbdb.com – to determine the aircraft type, the registration is sent when you use “Look up type by registration” or “Check aircraft types”.
• Apple Maps – for the map and globe views, the app loads map data from Apple. Apple’s privacy policy applies.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (providing the feature you use) and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in displaying aircraft data).

Links such as “Look up on the web” (e.g. Flightradar24, FlightAware, JetPhotos, Google) only open the website in your browser after you tap them. The privacy policy of the respective provider applies there.

5. Notifications

If you allow it, the app shows local notifications, e.g. “Boarding pass ready” after sharing from Wallet. Notifications are created on your iPhone; there is no push server.

6. Purchases (uBoarded Pro)

The purchase of uBoarded Pro is handled entirely by Apple’s App Store. I receive no payment data and no personal information, only confirmation that the purchase is valid. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

7. Feedback by email

If you write an email via “Feedback & Support”, your mail app opens with a prepared text including the app version, iOS version and device type. No flight data is attached. I only use your email and address to reply and delete them when they are no longer needed for that purpose (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR).

8. Statistics from Apple

The app itself contains no analytics or crash reporting tools. Apple provides developers with anonymised statistics and crash reports – but only if you have agreed on your iPhone to share them with app developers (iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements). This data does not identify you.

9. Retention and deletion

Your data is kept until you delete it. To do so, delete the app and the “uBoarded” folder in iCloud Drive (Files app or iOS Settings › [your name] › iCloud › Manage Storage).

10. Your rights

You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection (Art. 15–21 GDPR). As I do not receive any data from the app, I can usually only provide information about emails you have sent me. Please contact info@ultramagnetics.store.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia (www.ldi.nrw.de).

11. Changes

If the app changes in a way that involves processing other data, I will update this policy. The version published here applies.