GonnaLand Privacy Policy
1. Who we are
GonnaLand is made by Betterself.ai LLC ("Betterself", "we"). GonnaLand is an advisory landing training aid for general aviation. For anything in this policy — questions, access, correction, or deletion requests — email hello@betterself.ai.
2. What the app records — on your device
To do its job, GonnaLand records each approach locally on your device:
- Camera video — the forward view of your approach, for later review.
- Precise location — GPS position, groundspeed, and altitude during the approach.
- Device motion — accelerometer, gyroscope, attitude, and barometer readings.
- Nearby avionics data — if an ADS-B receiver (GDL90) or simulator feed is on your local Wi-Fi network, the app listens for its position broadcasts and records them alongside the flight. The app receives these; it does not transmit anything to your avionics.
- Aircraft & mount profile — the aircraft type, mount position, and optional calibration values you enter.
These recordings live in the app's storage on your device (also visible in the Files app), under your control. You can review and delete them in the app at any time. The app does not use the microphone.
3. The optional sharing program
You can choose to share approach recordings with us to help improve GonnaLand's runway detection — including training and evaluating the machine-learning models that power it. Sharing is off by default, requires an explicit opt-in, and can be turned off at any time (uploads stop immediately). Turning it on requires a free GonnaLand account — see section 4.
What uploads when sharing is on
- The approach video and sensor log (which includes the GPS track and motion data above)
- Runway identifier, approach duration, and your aircraft name
- Device model and app version
- Your account identifier — a random string with no personal meaning. Your name and email are not attached to a recording; they stay in your account (section 4), and we look them up there if we need to reach you about a particular approach.
Uploads run only over Wi-Fi, and only for recordings that pass a quality bar (simulator and desk-test recordings, recordings without a runway or GPS, and broken files are never uploaded). Shared recordings are stored in Google Cloud Storage in the United States and are used for product development — improving runway detection and related safety features — and for nothing else.
Retention
- On your device: recordings are automatically removed from the device 7 days after the flight to save space (you can turn this off in Settings); a recording still waiting on an enabled upload is kept until the upload completes.
- Shared copies: a recording you share becomes part of the dataset we use to develop and evaluate GonnaLand's perception models, and we keep it indefinitely for that purpose. It carries only your account identifier, never your name or email.
- If you delete your account: we delete the account and everything in it — your name, your email, and the identifier's link to you. Recordings you already shared remain in the dataset, but nothing then connects them to you or to any account.
- Removing shared recordings: email hello@betterself.ai and we will delete them. Please do this before deleting your account — afterwards we can no longer determine which recordings were yours.
4. Your GonnaLand account
The app itself works without an account. An account is required only to turn on the optional sharing program, and it exists so that shared recordings have a stable, verified owner and so we can reach you about one.
- You sign in with Apple or Google. For these — the way essentially everyone signs in — we never see or handle a password: the sign-in happens with Apple or Google, who tell us your name and email address and give us an account identifier.
- An email and password sign-in also exists, which we use for support accounts and for the account we give Apple's reviewers when they review the app. Those passwords are stored and checked by Google Firebase Authentication; we never store one ourselves and cannot read one. Accounts of this kind are created by us on request — there is no way to sign up for one in the app.
- If you use Sign in with Apple and choose Hide My Email, we receive an Apple private-relay address rather than your real one. That is fine; mail we send to it is forwarded to you by Apple.
- Your GonnaLand account is separate from any account you may have with our other products — deleting it affects GonnaLand only.
- You can delete your account from inside the app at any time (Settings → Share approaches → Delete account). This removes the account, your name and your email, and turns sharing off. See Retention above for what happens to recordings you already shared.
5. App diagnostics and analytics
The app uses Google Firebase for crash reporting (Crashlytics) and usage analytics. This tells us things like which screens are used, that an approach was recorded (its duration and whether a runway was identified — never the video, the location track, or your name), the device model and OS version, a device-scoped identifier, an approximate region derived from IP address, and crash logs. We use this to fix bugs and understand which features matter.
6. The website
- Beta signup: if you request beta access, we store the email address you enter, a timestamp, and your browser's user-agent string — used solely to contact you about GonnaLand's beta and availability. The form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA v3, which evaluates interaction signals to block bots.
- Analytics: gonnaland.com uses Cloudflare Web Analytics — a cookieless, aggregate measurement service. The site sets no tracking cookies.
7. What we don't do
- We never store a password. Signing in is handled by Apple or Google, or — for the support and app-review accounts described in section 4 — by Google Firebase Authentication. Either way it is needed only if you turn sharing on; the app itself works without an account.
- No advertising, no ad networks, no ad tracking.
- We never sell personal data, and we don't share it with data brokers.
8. When data is shared with others
We use a small set of service providers to run GonnaLand: Google (Firebase and Google Cloud — hosting, storage, database, analytics, crash reporting, reCAPTCHA, and Google sign-in), Apple (Sign in with Apple, including its private email-relay service) and Cloudflare (website analytics). They process data on our behalf under their respective terms. Beyond that, we disclose personal data only if required by law.
9. Your choices and rights
- Use the app fully without ever enabling sharing or creating an account.
- Turn sharing off at any time in Settings — uploads stop immediately.
- Delete any recording from your device in the app.
- Delete your account from inside the app (Settings → Share approaches → Delete account), which removes your name, email and the account itself.
- Request access to, correction of, or deletion of anything you've shared with us — including shared recordings and your beta-signup email — at hello@betterself.ai. We won't discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
10. Children
GonnaLand is a tool for pilots and flight training. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 17.
11. Security
Data in transit is protected with TLS. Uploads are authenticated with your account and can only ever write to your own area of our storage, and our upload service holds narrowly scoped credentials (it can create new objects, nothing else). No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we design for least privilege.
12. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will post the new version here with a new effective date, and flag material changes in the app or on this site before they take effect.
13. Contact
Betterself.ai LLC · hello@betterself.ai
This policy is specific to GonnaLand. Our sibling product GonnaFly has its own policy at gonnafly.ai/privacy.