DCProximity helps you see how nearby U.S. data centers may affect your community — water use, electricity and utility costs, wildlife and land, and quality-of-life themes. This policy explains how the DCProximity iOS app, published by Judge Dean LLC ("we," "us"), handles information.
The app has no user accounts, no login, and no registration. Optional resident reports are sent through your email app, so Judge Dean LLC receives the sender address and the information you choose to send. We do not require your real name or home address; and we do not use advertising, cross-app tracking or attribution services. Optional first-party usage counts are described below. Public catalog hosting receives ordinary web requests as described below; we do not upload your private app content.
DCProximity requests optional permissions only when you choose the related feature: location while using the app, camera for tabletop AR, and notifications for reviewed changes and optional public-meeting reminders. Contacts, photos, microphone and tracking are not requested. You can browse the catalog without granting these permissions.
If you tap "find data centers near me," the app asks iOS for your approximate location and uses it only on your device to calculate approximate distances to catalog map markers and to center the map. Your last map view is saved locally so you can return to it; it may reflect an area you located using GPS. We do not upload your GPS coordinates, saved places, or map position. Apple Maps and place search may contact Apple services under Apple’s privacy policy. You can revoke the permission at any time in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services.
The campus explorer works in 3D without camera access. If you choose tabletop AR, iOS asks for camera permission so ARKit can recognize a surface and position the model. Camera images and spatial tracking are processed on your device for the current session. DCProximity does not record, store or upload these images or tracking data. Leaving the viewer stops its AR session. You can revoke camera permission in iOS Settings. Public source data and illustrative model geometry are separate from your surroundings.
If you add a private note about a data center, that text is stored only on your device. It is not uploaded, published, shared, or visible to anyone else. Notes remain available after you close the app. You can edit or delete each note on its facility page. Saved facilities, preferences, your last map view, the downloaded public catalog, and which catalog changes you have reviewed are also stored locally. This information may be included in device backups controlled by your iOS settings.
The separate “Share your experience” form prepares an email draft to info@judgedeanllc.com containing the selected facility, topic, observation date, text and publication permission. It does not attach GPS, saved places or private notes. Form text is not saved after leaving the screen. Review the draft and choose Send in your email app; opening it does not submit or publish a report.
Judge Dean LLC reviews submitted reports for relevance, privacy and abusive content. Only reports with permission for public pseudonymous publication may be included in the public catalog. Published fields include an opaque contributor ID, pseudonym, facility, topic, observation date, text and review date. Your email address and signature are excluded. We may edit for privacy and clarity without changing meaning. Editorial review is not independent verification of an experience. Reports are separate from sourced facts and buyer briefs.
Report concerns or request correction/removal at info@judgedeanllc.com. Blocking a contributor hides their reports on your device and is stored locally; it does not notify them. We may reject submissions or block abusive contributors from publication. Unpublished correspondence is retained as needed to review and resolve submissions and abuse concerns, with periodic retention review. Public reports remain until corrected or withdrawn. Downloaded copies may remain on offline devices until they refresh. Your email provider processes sent mail under its own policy.
DCProximity may offer an optional "tip jar." Tips are voluntary, unlock no features, and are processed entirely by Apple through the App Store's in-app purchase system, subject to Apple's Privacy Policy. We do not receive your name, payment details, or any other personal information when you leave a tip.
The data center facts shown in the app (locations, water and power figures, construction activity) are read from our public, read-only catalog. Catalog downloads use HTTPS to judgedeanllc.com, hosted on GitHub Pages. We do not include your GPS coordinates, notes, saved IDs, preferences or an app-generated user identifier in those requests. GitHub receives connection information, including the requesting IP address, and states that Pages visitor IP addresses are logged and stored for security purposes. See GitHub Pages data collection and GitHub's Privacy Statement. This hosting behavior is separate from the optional feature counts described below. The app stores the latest valid public catalog locally for offline use. Published figures require matched sources; unsupported figures are withheld. Opening a source link contacts its publisher under that publisher's privacy policy.
The map is rendered by Apple Maps (MapKit), which is part of iOS and governed by Apple's Privacy Policy. We do not receive any Maps usage data.
We do not sell private app content or upload your notes and saved places. Hosting providers may retain connection logs under their own policies; we do not set or promise a specific retention period for GitHub's security logs. If you choose to email a correction, the email service sends your address and the contents you choose to include to us. If you choose Share, iOS sends only the displayed public facility summary and sources to the destination you select; private notes are not included.
DCProximity is not directed to children under 13. The app does not request a child's name or contact information. The hosting and map service behavior described above also applies when the app is used by a child.
If we change how the app handles information, we will update this page and revise the effective date above. Material changes will be posted here before they take effect.
My area stores your chosen town or ZIP label, approximate area center and radius on this device. Offline suggestions use bundled place information; choosing “Find town or ZIP” sends the entered search to your device’s map service. Please enter an area rather than a home address. Your saved area is not sent to Judge Dean LLC.
Coverage requests prepare an email containing only the town or ZIP, state, topic, public source link and details you enter. Review and send it in your mail app. The optional share sheet exports the same entered fields with the recipient and subject; you can copy the request or choose a destination. DCProximity does not send it automatically. Judge Dean LLC receives your sender address and any signature added by your email app. These suggestions are private research correspondence and are not public resident reports or a promise of coverage.
If you enable change alerts, your device periodically downloads the same public catalog and compares published changes with locally stored area and saved-place preferences. Notifications are generated on-device; DCProximity does not register a remote push token or upload your followed places. Your operating system controls background timing. You can disable alerts in Updates or notification permission in system settings. Local alert preferences and change history remain on-device. Public catalog requests are subject to the hosting and connection-log practices described above.
Following a proposed project stores your selection and a small history of reviewed changes only on this device. The identities of your followed projects are not uploaded. If you opt into feature usage counts, we may receive totals for saved follow and unfollow actions and failed follow changes, without the project identities. Changes appear in the app when a reviewed proposal catalog is received. Following does not enable push notifications. Unfollow a project to remove its follow and change history from this device.
Optional public-meeting reminders store the selected meeting and reminder time only on your device. Your device downloads a separate reviewed public proposal catalog from the same GitHub Pages host. It can update or cancel reminders when a newly reviewed schedule is received; the operating system controls background checks. We do not receive the selected meeting, its date or its scheduled notification time, and we do not register a remote push token. If you opt into feature usage counts, we may receive totals for one-hour or one-day reminder selections, successful or failed scheduling requests, and successful or failed removals, without the meeting identities. A successful scheduling count is not proof that a notification was delivered. Remove reminders in Proposed projects > Meetings, or turn off notification permission in system settings. Check the official notice before attending; offline reminders may not reflect last-minute changes.
When available, “Help improve DCProximity” in About lets you choose to share feature usage counts with Judge Dean LLC. It is off by default. The app works fully without participating. We count actions such as screen visits, opening a buyer brief or coverage email draft, selecting an area, adding or removing a bookmark, requesting AR, enabling alerts, visiting proposed-project and timeline screens, saving or removing a project follow, choosing a one-hour or one-day reminder, and successfully or unsuccessfully scheduling or removing a reminder. We also count failed follow changes. Counts do not include which facility, area, project or meeting you chose, search text, entered correspondence, notes, coordinates, camera data, purchase details, names, advertising identifiers or persistent device identifiers.
Unsent counts are kept temporarily in memory and may be lost when the app closes. Batches include a random receipt used only to avoid counting retries twice; it does not identify an installation or link separate batches. Our collector combines counts into UTC daily totals. Hourly scheduled cleanup removes receipt records and their submitted count batches after the following UTC day and keeps daily totals for 90 UTC days in the active database. Cleanup can be delayed by service interruptions or hosting limits. Cloudflare backup recovery may retain earlier database states after active records are deleted. We do not create individual histories or calculate individual return rates.
Turn sharing off in About to stop sending and discard unsent counts. A request already received cannot be recalled. Because daily totals do not identify participants, we cannot locate or delete one person’s contribution after it is combined. We do not sell these counts or use them for advertising.
Optional usage counts are sent over HTTPS to Judge Dean LLC’s collector hosted on Cloudflare Workers and stored in Cloudflare D1. Cloudflare processes connection information, including IP addresses and network/security information, to operate and protect its services. Our collector uses the requesting IP address for temporary rate limiting but does not put IP addresses in the usage database. Worker request logging is disabled. Cloudflare’s separate processing and retention practices are described in its Privacy Policy; database recovery is described in its backup documentation. These hosting practices apply even though the usage totals contain no user or persistent device identifiers.
Questions about this policy or your privacy? Email info@judgedeanllc.com.