Your location stays on your phone.

Effective 2026-08-22 · Applies to the Deep Creek Lake Rental Spotter iOS app, the DCL Rentals Android app, and this website

01Summary

Deep Creek Lake Rental Spotter (iOS) and DCL Rentals (Android) have no accounts, no sign-in, no ads, and no analytics or tracking SDKs. Neither app collects personal data or transmits any about you. The Android app's Map tab uses the Google Maps SDK for Android to render the map — see "Third parties" below for what that means and what it doesn't. This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics of its own. Its App Store and Google Play listing links, and the iPhone install banner, come from Apple and Google respectively, where each company's own privacy policy applies.

02Sensors are used on your device only

Location (While Using the App): your position and compass heading are used on-device to compute which properties are in view. They are never transmitted anywhere and never stored. On Android this fix is computed by Google Play services' location APIs running on-device; the result reaches this app the same way, and this app still never sends it anywhere.
Camera: the live camera view is display only — labels are drawn over it. The camera session has no recording outputs; no photos or video are captured, saved, or transmitted.
Motion: gyroscope and accelerometer data align the labels with the camera view, entirely on-device.

03Network requests the app makes

A few kinds of network activity exist, none carrying personal data or identifiers:

Property database updates. On launch, the app checks this website for an updated copy of the property database (a static file hosted on GitHub Pages). The request contains no identifiers or account information. Like any web request, GitHub's servers receive your IP address and user agent; see GitHub's General Privacy Statement.
Property thumbnails. Small preview images load directly from the rental agencies' own image servers, which likewise receive standard request data (IP address, user agent).
Map tiles (Android only). Opening the Map tab in the DCL Rentals Android app loads map imagery through the Google Maps SDK for Android, which communicates with Google's own servers as part of showing the map — required disclosure under the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service. Google's Privacy Policy applies to that traffic, independent of and in addition to this policy.
Listing links you tap. Choosing "View Listing" opens the rental agency's own website, where that agency's privacy policy applies.

04What's stored on your device

A cached copy of the property database and small app preferences (such as whether you've completed onboarding, your chosen marker range, your filter settings, and your map style). No personal data, no history of where you've been or what you've looked at.

05What's in the property database

Public listing facts compiled from the three rental agencies' own websites: property name, coordinates, beds, baths, sleeps, pet policy, and a link to the agency's listing. No pricing, no availability, no guest or booking data, and no personal information of any kind.

06Third parties

This website and the property database are hosted on GitHub Pages. Property listings and images belong to Railey Vacations (deepcreek.com), Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations (deepcreekvacations.com), and Red Barn Vacations (redbarnvacations.com), whose sites the apps link out to. Deep Creek Lake Rental Spotter and DCL Rentals are independent apps and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these agencies. No data about you is shared with anyone, because none is collected.

The DCL Rentals Android app also embeds two pieces of third-party code: the Google Maps SDK for Android (renders the Map tab; see the network item above) and Google Play services' location APIs (computes your on-device position fix). Both are Google's own components, governed by Google's Privacy Policy for whatever they themselves send to Google — independent of this app, which sends neither your location nor anything else through them. Both apps also use an image-loading library (Coil on Android) purely to fetch the property thumbnails described above directly from the agencies' own servers; it sends nothing beyond the image request itself and has no analytics of its own.

07Children

Neither app is directed at children, and neither collects data from anyone, children included.

08Changes to this policy

Any changes will be posted at this address with an updated effective date. If a future version of either app ever changes what data is handled, this policy will say so plainly before that version ships.

09Contact

Questions about privacy — or anything else — are welcome through GitHub Issues.