Effective August 10, 2026
Joseph Iannazzone built the QRV app as a free app with in-app purchases. This service is provided by Joseph Iannazzone at no cost and is intended for use as is. This page informs visitors regarding my policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information for anyone who uses my service. It covers QRV on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Android.
Free features — band conditions, band plans, references, calculators, and callsign lookups — fetch data directly from your device: PSK Reporter, HamQSL, QRZ, HamQTH, POTA, and SOTA, or your own self-hosted Wavelog logbook. Your QRZ and Wavelog credentials are stored on your own device — in the Keychain on Apple devices, and in storage protected by the Android Keystore on Android — and are sent directly to those services. They never pass through QRV's servers.
Premium notification features (live spots, and band, DXCC, callsign, DXpedition, and lightning alerts) require QRV's servers to store some data so they can deliver push notifications to your device:
This data is kept only as long as it's useful: devices that go unused and hold no active alert configuration are automatically removed from our servers after 180 days.
Delivering a push notification requires the platform's own push service, so QRV hands each notification to Apple (APNs) for Apple devices, or to Google (FCM) for Android devices, and they deliver it to you. Apple or Google therefore see your device's push token and the short text of the notification — a callsign and a band, a DXCC entity, or, for a lightning alert, an approximate distance from your station. They do not receive your grid square, your alert configuration, or your credentials, and they process what they do receive under their own privacy policies. These push services are the only third parties QRV sends your data to, and they receive it only to deliver notifications.
Settings and backups. On Apple devices, your app settings and preferences sync through your own iCloud account, using Apple's infrastructure. On Android, settings live on the device; if you have Android Auto Backup enabled, Android backs them up to your own Google account, and QRV uses Google Block Store so that a replacement phone can pick up where the old one left off. The start date of your free trial travels the same way — through iCloud on Apple devices, through Block Store on Android — so that reinstalling the app doesn't hand you a second trial. Either way this data moves through Apple's or Google's infrastructure, inside your own account. QRV's servers never see this data.
What QRV doesn't do: QRV has no analytics or crash-reporting tools, no advertising, no advertising identifier, and no third-party tracking, and I don't sell or share your data. On Android, the operating system reports crashes and performance data to Google Play on its own, if you have allowed it to; I see those in aggregate in the Play Console and they are not tied to you. Purchases are handled directly by the platform's store — Apple's StoreKit on Apple devices, Google Play Billing on Android — so QRV never sees your payment information. IP addresses are used transiently to rate-limit API abuse and aren't stored in our database; server logs are capped and roll off automatically rather than being retained long-term.
If you delete the app, your locally stored data is deleted in the manner dictated by your device. If you purchase QRV Premium, data indicating your purchase status is written to your device's local storage. If you restore a purchase, your device contacts Apple's or Google's servers to authenticate the previous transaction.
You can delete any alert you have configured from inside the app, one at a time or all at once, which removes it from QRV's servers. A copy is held for 30 days so that a mistaken deletion can be put back, and is then permanently erased. Turning notifications off unregisters your device and stops every push immediately; the record itself is removed automatically once it holds no alert configuration and has gone unused for 180 days. If you would like your device's record removed sooner than that, email me at support@getqrv.com and I will take care of it.
This service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. These external sites are not operated by me. I advise you to review the privacy policy of any website you visit. I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
I may update this privacy policy from time to time. You are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. Changes are effective when posted on this page.
Revised August 10, 2026, for the release of QRV on Android: the push, credential-storage, backup, and payment services each platform uses are now named individually, the grid-square precision each alert type uses is stated exactly, and how to delete your data has its own section. The previous version was effective July 29, 2026.
If you have any questions or suggestions about this privacy policy, contact me at support@getqrv.com.