Privacy

No account, no identity

There is no sign-up. Expedition never asks for your name, email address, phone number, birthday, or anything else about who you are. On first launch the app invents a random key, stores it in your iCloud Keychain, and that key is your entire identity to the game. We could not connect your expedition to you if we wanted to.

The one thing you type is an explorer name for your plaques in The Museum. Pick nearly anything; it is a label, not an identity, and you can change it whenever you like.

Location

Expedition reads your location only while the app is open on your screen, because the game is about where you are standing. There is no background tracking of any kind; the app does not ask for that permission and has no use for it.

When you search, the place you searched is recorded in your expedition's log on our server. That is what draws your Travels map, keeps dropped artifacts where you left them, and stops the same patch of ground paying twice. Those coordinates are tied to your random key, not to you.

What the server keeps

Your expedition's log: your gold and crystals, with a ledger of how they came and went; your artifacts and gems; your progress in The Museum; your letters, lists, and expeditions; your explorer name; your time zone, so the post arrives at a civil hour; and the places where you searched, picked things up, set them down, and sent them off. It lives on our server (the game calls it the expedition office) because a shared world and an honest economy cannot live on the phone.

If you allow notifications, the server also keeps the token Apple issues so the office can deliver them. If the app runs into something it cannot do, it reports what it was doing, its version, whether it is an iPhone or an iPad, and the iOS version. If you share something from the game, the server keeps the link it made, and notes each visit to it: for a web browser, which browser it was and the page that sent it; for another explorer opening it in the app, their expedition's key.

The app also reports a handful of anonymous, first-party events, such as a screen being viewed or a shop being shown. They are attributed to the same random key, with no device identifier, no advertising identifier, and no third-party analytics service involved. There are no third-party SDKs, no ads, and no trackers in the app. None.

Purchases

Crystal purchases are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We receive Apple's signed receipt so the office can credit your crystals; we never see your payment details of any kind. Receipts are kept only so a purchase is never credited twice, and for tax compliance.

Children

Expedition is a general-audience game. It is not directed at children under thirteen and is not listed in the App Store's Kids Category. It also collects nothing that could identify a child, or anyone else. If you are a parent and would like a child's expedition erased anyway, write to the office and it will be done, no questions asked.

Erasing an expedition

If you want your expedition's log erased, open Settings in the app and press Erase My Expedition. It warns you once, then erases the log at once. Or write to the office at help@expeditionfieldrecovery.com with your explorer name. Erasure is permanent. The office keeps a private copy of the erased log for ninety days, in case the request turns out to be a mistake, and then destroys it. Artifacts you once carried remain in the world's shared history, credited to an explorer whose fate the archive records with regrettable relish.

Third-party notices

Points of interest come from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database License. Maps are drawn by Apple's MapKit under Apple's own terms.

This page describes Expedition: Field Recovery as shipped by Jacket Industries, LLC, and was last revised in October 2026. If the game ever starts collecting something new, this page changes first, and the app's release notes will say so.