Privacy policy

Last updated: 10 November 2026

This policy covers the location reminders app for Android published by Opiumos (listed on Google Play as "Upon Arrival: Place Reminders" and shown on your phone as "Upon"). In this policy "we" means Opiumos and "the app" means that app.

The short version

• No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking.
• We run no server. Nothing you save in the app is sent to us, and we cannot see it.
• Your reminders and places stay on your phone.
• A few features use online map services, and only when you use them. Each one is listed below with exactly what it sends.

What stays on your phone

• Your reminders: the place and the items you said or typed.
• Your saved places: the name you gave each one, a point on the map and its size.
• Your settings.
• The shop list. About 1.9 million stores are built into the app, plus any you download. Working out which shops are near you happens on your phone.
• Your last known position (one point, replaced each time), so the app can work out which shops to watch.
• A short log of the last 50 things the reminder engine did, so you can see why a reminder did or did not arrive. It includes the names of shops and places you arrived at or left, with the time. It never leaves the phone and you can see it in Check my reminders.
• Pictures of places you have looked at (map pictures and, if you turned them on, street photos), kept so each one is fetched only once.

Location, including in the background

The app uses your location to remind you when you arrive at a shop or place on your list, or leave a place of your own, even when the app is closed or not in use. This is the only thing location is used for.

• The checks happen on your phone, using Android's own location service (Google Play services). Google Play services handles location under Google's privacy policy.
• The app never sends your exact position anywhere, and never sends your position in the background on its own.
• The only time a position leaves your phone is your rough area, to about 1 km, for the map features below.
• To work when the app is closed, the app asks for location "Allow all the time" and precise location. It explains why on screen before Android asks. You can change this at any time in your phone's settings; reminders then stop arriving while the app is closed.

Voice

When you tap the mic, the app uses your phone's built-in speech recogniser. On most Android phones that is run by Google, and on some phones Google turns your voice into text online, under Google's privacy policy. The app receives only the text. It keeps the words as your reminder and never records, keeps or sends the audio. You can always type instead.

What leaves your phone, and when

Nothing leaves your phone unless you use one of the features below. Each sends only what is listed. Like any website, these services can also see your phone's internet address and that the request came from the app.

1. Download shops near me (only when you tap Download). Sends your rough area, to about 1 km, to overpass.private.coffee, or to overpass-api.de if the first is busy. Both serve OpenStreetMap data. They reply with shops within 25 km. If you tap it while offline, the download waits and runs once you are back online, even if the app is closed.
2. Find the shop (only when you tap Find, for a shop the app does not know). Sends the shop name you typed and your rough area, to about 1 km, to overpass.private.coffee, or to overpass-api.de if the first is busy (OpenStreetMap data). The shop you pick is saved on your phone.
3. Place search (only for a place the app does not know, such as a park or a business by name). Sends the words you said or typed and your rough area, to about 1 km, to photon.komoot.io, a free map search run by Komoot using OpenStreetMap data. For a kind of place, such as "the park", it first asks the same two OpenStreetMap servers (overpass.private.coffee, then overpass-api.de) for places of that kind within about 40 km of your rough area. Names that sound personal, such as "Mum's" or anything starting with "my", are not searched until you tap Search.
4. Map pictures (when the app shows you places to choose from). Loads a small map picture of each place's area (about 600 m across) from tile.openstreetmap.org, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. It asks for the area around the place shown, not your position.
5. Address search for your own places (when you type an address). Sends the words you typed to your phone's own address lookup (Android's geocoder), usually run by Google. The app does not add your position.
6. Street View photos (only in builds where this feature is switched on, and only after you say yes when asked or turn on Street View photos in Settings). When you open a shop reminder, it sends the location of the nearest branch of that shop to Google Street View to show a photo of it. Once turned on, it also does this for places in the list you are choosing from. It sends the location of that shop or place, never yours. Tapping the photo opens the same spot in Google Maps.

We do not control these services. Their own privacy policies apply to what they receive: - OpenStreetMap Foundation: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy - Komoot (Photon): https://www.komoot.com/privacy - Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy - overpass-api.de and overpass.private.coffee are public OpenStreetMap servers run by volunteers in the OpenStreetMap community. See each site for its own terms.

What we do not do

• No accounts, sign-in or email collection.
• No ads and no advertising IDs.
• No analytics, crash reporting or tracking tools.
• No selling or sharing of your data, because we do not have it.
• No payments in this version. Every feature is free during testing.

Children

The app is made for adults and is not directed at children under 13. It collects nothing that identifies anyone. If you think a child has used it, uninstalling it removes everything (see below).

Deleting your data

Everything the app keeps is on your phone. To delete it: - Uninstall the app, or - Go to your phone's Settings, then Apps, then the app, then Storage, then Clear storage.

The app does not take part in Android backup, so nothing it keeps is copied to your Google account.

There is nothing for us to delete on our side, because we hold nothing. If you have a question, write to us.

Changes

If this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top. If a change means the app sends something new, the app will tell you before it does.

Contact

Opiumos hello@boredapps.com