OTAMap Live TV Privacy

Last updated: May 22, 2026

The short version

OTAMap Live TV collects no personal data and sends nothing to any server. Everything happens on your device.

What the app does on your device

OTAMap Live TV talks to HDHomeRun network tuners on your local Wi-Fi to show live TV, and uses your location to compute distance and bearing from where you are to nearby TV transmitters.

Both of those happen entirely on your iPhone or iPad. No data leaves the device.

Permissions the app requests

Local Network — required to discover HDHomeRun tuners on your Wi-Fi. The app sends UDP broadcasts to find them, then HTTP requests to read channel lineups and pull video streams.
Location While Using — used to compute distance and bearing from your location to TV transmitters. Coordinates stay in memory only while the relevant view is open, are never written to disk, and are never transmitted anywhere.
Camera — only when you open the AR antenna-pointing view. The camera feed is rendered directly into ARKit; no frames are captured, saved, or transmitted.

What the app does NOT do

No account creation. There is no login, no user profile, no "sign up."
No analytics. We do not use Google Analytics, Firebase, Apple Analytics, or any other measurement SDK.
No advertising. No ad networks. No ad SDKs. No tracking.
No third-party data sharing. The app does not embed any third-party data-collection libraries.
No crash reporters that include personal data. iOS itself may aggregate crash data if you've opted in at the system level; we receive only Apple's anonymous crash summaries.

The OTAMap Antenna Pointing Utilities data

The bundled transmitter database (7,800+ towers) is sourced from publicly published FCC and ISED licence records. It ships with the app — you don't download it, and we don't query a server when you use it.

If we ever change this

If a future version of OTAMap Live TV ever collects, stores, or transmits data, that change will be disclosed in the "What's New" notes of the App Store release, and this page will be updated before the change ships.

Contact

Privacy questions, or any concern about how the app handles your information: arcticsurfdesigns@gmail.com.