WildNX
Last updated: October 15, 2026
WildNX is a hunting app for British Columbia. It records where you have walked, shows you the regulations for where you are standing, and lets you share your position with people you choose. This page explains what the app collects, where it goes, and how to get rid of it.
WildNX is built and run by Robert Backs, based in British Columbia, Canada. If anything here is unclear, email WildNX@hotmail.com.
To use WildNX you create an account with an email address and a password. Your email is stored by our hosting provider so you can sign back in. Your password is never visible to us.
You can fill in a profile. Nothing in it is required, and you choose what to enter. It can include:
This information exists so that it is available when it matters — to show a conservation officer, or to include in a message asking for help. It is stored on our hosting provider's servers and on your own phone.
Buddies you connect with can only ever see your display name — never your full name, phone number, address, emergency contacts, medical information, or licence numbers, even after a connection is accepted. If you turn on position sharing for a buddy, they can also see your position, on the terms described below.
WildNX records your position while you are tracking a hunt. It does this continuously, including when your phone is in your pocket and the screen is off, because a trail with gaps in it is not much use.
Your recorded trails are stored on your phone. They are not uploaded anywhere, unless you send a trip as a link (below), and then only locked.
From History you can share a trip's summary (numbers only) or its trail file (exactly where you went, with times and height). From a pin's details you can share the pin: its type, your note, the date and time it was dropped, its exact coordinates, a map link, and its photo if it has one. Before a photo is shared, WildNX removes its hidden details, such as where it was taken and which phone took it. WildNX hands all of this to your phone's share sheet, and you choose where it goes. WildNX does not upload it or send it anywhere itself. The map link is a Google Maps link, or an Apple Maps link if you hold POSITION on the pin card. If either link is opened, or a messaging app shows a preview of it, Google or Apple receives the pin's position under its own privacy terms.
You can also send a trip to another WildNX hunter as a link. The trip holds its trail (exactly where you went, with times and height), its name and date, its distance and time, where you walked, drove, stopped and sat, and your display name (the name your buddies see). It does not include your step counts, your pins or your photos.
Before the trip leaves your phone, WildNX locks it (encrypts it) on your phone with a new key made for that trip alone, and uploads the locked trip to WildNX's file host, trip.wildnxmaps.com, which runs on Cloudflare. The key is only in the link, after the "#", and phones and browsers never send that part to a server, so neither WildNX nor Cloudflare can unlock the trip or read anything in it. The file host keeps only the locked trip, its size and when it was uploaded: no name, no account and nothing it can read.
You must be signed in to send a link. WildNX checks that you are, then keeps nothing that ties the trip to you or your account. The file host's request logs are turned off, so WildNX keeps no record of your internet address or of who sent which trip. Like any web server, Cloudflare sees the internet address of a phone that uploads or opens a trip, under its own privacy terms.
The link stops working 7 days after you send it, and the locked trip is deleted from the file host within a day after that. Until then, anyone you give the link to, or anyone they pass it on to, can open the trip. The link goes in a short message with your display name, the trip's name and the last day it works. WildNX hands it to your phone's share sheet, and you choose where it goes. When a messaging app shows a preview of the link, it gets a page that is the same for every trip, with no trip, name or place in it.
You do not have to send a link. You can send the trip as a file instead, and WildNX offers this when a link cannot be made (with no signal, for example). The file is a standard GPX trail file that other mapping apps can open too. WildNX hands it to your phone's share sheet and does not upload it or send it anywhere itself.
Trips you open from a file or a link, including ones other hunters send you, stay only on your phone, under SHARED WITH ME, until you delete them. Opening a link downloads the locked trip from the file host and unlocks it on your phone; the file host never sees the key. They are removed when you delete your account.
The app also uses your position, without storing it, to show you which management unit you are in, whether you are near a boundary or a closure, and whether you are on private land, and on Hunt Forecast how high you are and the nearest named peak. All of this is worked out on your phone. Your position is not sent anywhere for it.
WildNX shows private land from ParcelMap BC, published by DataBC under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia. These maps hold public government data only, with no owner names.
They are downloaded one area at a time from WildNX's file host, packs.wildnxmaps.com, which runs on Cloudflare. On Wi-Fi, WildNX downloads by itself the area your phone is in (and a neighbouring area when you are near its edge) and keeps them up to date; on cell data it asks you first. It works out which area you are in on your phone and never sends your position. Like any web server, the file host sees your phone's internet address and which area's file was asked for, so it can tell roughly where you are. WildNX keeps no record of which areas you download. You can turn the automatic download off, and remove areas, in the Hunter tab.
Land you mark NO ALERTS HERE (your own land, for example) is kept in a list on your phone only.
If you allow notifications, WildNX can tell you when you walk onto private land while you are recording a trip and WildNX is not on your screen (with your phone in your pocket, for example). WildNX makes the notification on your phone itself. Nothing is sent to us or to anyone else to make it, and WildNX does not use push notifications. You can change your answer at any time in your iPhone's Settings.
If you allow Motion & Fitness, WildNX reads your phone's step counts for the times you recorded a trail, only to tell walking from slow driving. They stay on your phone, are never uploaded, and are deleted with the trail or your account.
WildNX works without it: if you say no, it tells walking from driving by speed alone. You can change your answer at any time in your iPhone's Settings.
You can connect with other WildNX users as hunting buddies. Both people have to agree before a connection exists.
Once connected, you can turn on position sharing for that person. While it is on, your position — together with a GPS accuracy figure — is sent to our servers, and that buddy can see it. It is off until you switch it on.
Switching it off stops that buddy seeing your position immediately, including positions shared before you turned it off. The stored positions are not deleted right away — they are removed by the automatic seven-day cleanup described below — but from the moment sharing is off, that buddy can no longer read any of them.
Nobody but a buddy you have specifically enabled sharing for can see your position.
When the app crashes, a report is sent to Sentry, a crash-reporting service, so that the problem can be found and fixed. That report contains the technical details of the failure, your device model, your operating system version and the app version, and a short record of which screens you had open and what the app was doing in the seconds beforehand. It does not contain your name, your email or your position. Sentry's servers record the IP address the report came from, as any web service does. Sentry's session replay and screenshot features are never turned on — nothing about what is on your screen is ever recorded or sent.
Accounts, profiles, buddy connections and shared positions are stored with Supabase, a hosting provider, in its us-west-1 region — servers located in Northern California, United States. This means your information is held outside Canada and is subject to United States law, including lawful access requests by United States authorities. Crash reports are held by Sentry.
Maps are provided by Apple Maps, and weather and storm forecasts come from Open-Meteo, a weather service that does not require an account. When the app draws a map or checks the forecast, those services necessarily receive the area you are looking at, under their own privacy terms — for weather, the app rounds your coordinate to roughly 100 metres before sending it, rather than your exact position. Hunt Forecast also shows the latest reading from the nearest Environment and Climate Change Canada weather station. WildNX picks that station on your phone and asks Environment Canada's weather service for that one station's reading, so your position is not sent; like any web server, it sees your phone's internet address and which station was asked for, which says roughly where you are. Private land maps come from WildNX's file host on Cloudflare, as described above, and trips you send as links are held there, locked, for 7 days.
Your account and profile are kept until you delete your account.
Positions you have shared with a buddy are deleted automatically, every night, once they are more than seven days old.
A trip you send as a link is deleted from the file host within a day after its 7 days are up.
Crash reports are kept by Sentry for 30 days and then deleted.
You can delete your account from inside the app, under your profile. Deletion removes, on our servers: your profile, your buddy connections and every position you have shared. Your buddies stop seeing you and the connection disappears from their list. A trip you have sent as a link is not tied to your account, so it cannot be found and deleted early; it is deleted within a day after its 7 days are up.
It also clears your phone: every trail you have recorded or opened from a file or a link, every field pin and its photos, and everything saved in the app's settings and caches. That includes the private land maps you downloaded, because the areas you picked can say roughly where you hunt. What is not cleared is your device's own record that you have seen the app's safety warning, and reference material that is not personal to you — cached copies of the regulations, regulation maps and closures, which are the same for every hunter.
Deletion cannot be undone. If you would rather ask us to do it, email WildNX@hotmail.com from the address on your account.
WildNX is intended for licensed hunters and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has created an account, email us and it will be removed.
You can see and change everything in your profile from inside the app. You can turn position sharing off at any time, for any buddy, without removing them. You can delete your account and everything attached to it.
If you want a copy of what is held about you, email WildNX@hotmail.com from the address on your account.
If what the app collects changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top will tell you when. Anything that meaningfully affects your privacy will also be shown in the app.
Questions, concerns, or anything on this page that does not match what you have seen the app do:
WildNX@hotmail.com