Privacy Policy

Last revised: November 13, 2026

Who we are

Ionolog is provided by Bearologics GmbH, Bergstraße 18, 29221 Celle, Germany (Impressum). We are responsible for the processing described here. Questions about privacy: legal@bearologics.com.

The app

Ionolog has no account of its own, no advertising, no tracking and no analytics. We run no server that stores your log, and we never receive your QSOs.

• Your log and settings are stored on your device. If iCloud sync is on, Apple stores your QSOs in the private database of your own iCloud account (CloudKit); we have no access to it. You can turn sync off in the settings.
• Credentials for QRZ.com and Wavelog are stored in your device’s keychain.
• Location: Only if you let the app determine your locator from your location and allow it does the app read your location. The locator is computed on your device; your location is not transmitted.
• WSJT-X and similar programs (Mac) send QSOs to the app over your local network; no data leaves your network.
• Purchases (Ionolog Pro) are processed by Apple through the App Store. To check whether Pro is active, the app uses RevenueCat, Inc. (USA) as a service provider; RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user ID and the purchase information from Apple, but no name or email address. Data transfers to the USA are based on the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses.

Services you connect yourself

The app only uses these services if you set them up in the settings with your own account. Their own privacy policies apply to the processing on their side.

• QRZ.com (QRZ LLC, USA): For station lookups while logging, the app sends the looked-up callsign and your QRZ.com credentials to QRZ.com. With the QRZ logbook upload (Ionolog Pro) it transfers your QSOs to your QRZ.com logbook.
• Wavelog (Ionolog Pro): The app transfers QSOs to the Wavelog instance whose address you enter and downloads QSOs from it. You decide who runs that instance.

Public data sources

For callsign suggestions, country lookup and space weather, the app downloads public data from country-files.com (country list cty.csv), supercheckpartial.com (Super Check Partial list) and NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (USA). No data from your log is sent; as with any request on the internet, these providers see your IP address.

This website

The website is delivered by bunny.net (BunnyWay d.o.o., Slovenia) as our hosting provider. When you visit it, your browser transmits technical data such as your IP address, the requested page, date and time and your browser type. This is necessary to deliver the website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) and is stored by the provider in server logs for a short time only. The website uses no cookies, no analytics and no embedded content from third parties. Your choice of light or dark appearance is stored only in your browser.

Support

If you email us, we use your address and message only to answer you and delete them when they are no longer needed.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and to object, and you may complain to a data protection supervisory authority. To exercise your rights, write to legal@bearologics.com.

Changes

We update this policy when the app or the website changes. The date at the top shows the current version.