ouRGeo · Effective date: July 21, 2026
ouRGeo collects no personal data. The application runs entirely on your local machine — there is no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, and no cloud component. There is no infrastructure that could receive or store information about you, even if we wanted it to.
All R code, geoprocessing operations, and map rendering happen on your machine. ouRGeo bundles a
local R server that listens only on localhost, used to communicate between the desktop
UI and the R session running on your computer. No data is sent to a remote server by default.
ouRGeo reads and writes only the files you explicitly open or save through the application — for example, when you load a Shapefile, save a project, or export a GeoPackage. There is no background scanning, indexing, or uploading of files.
A default install of ouRGeo makes no outbound network calls. Some optional features do reach the internet — but only when you choose to use them, and only to the destination you pick:
Basemaps. If you display a public basemap (such as OpenStreetMap), your computer requests map tiles directly from that public tile server, the same way a web browser would. You can disable basemaps and work fully offline.
Data Connector. When you import from a public data source (Esri, WFS, STAC, Socrata, and similar), ouRGeo contacts that server directly to fetch the data you requested. It talks to no one else.
AI assistant. The in-app AI agent is optional. If you configure a cloud provider, your prompts and the context you share are sent to that provider under their terms. If you instead point it at a local model (for example via Ollama or LM Studio), the assistant runs entirely on your machine and nothing leaves your computer. The choice is yours.
ouRGeo does not integrate any third-party analytics, advertising, crash-reporting, or tracking SDKs. The only third parties your machine ever contacts are the basemap, data, or AI providers you explicitly choose to use — no data is shared with anyone else under any circumstances.
ouRGeo is released under the MIT license. The source code is the ultimate proof of these claims — anyone is free to read, audit, modify, or redistribute it.
If this policy ever changes — for instance, if a future version of ouRGeo adds optional cloud sync or remote collaboration features — the updated policy will be posted here and the effective date will be updated accordingly. Such features would always be opt-in.
Questions or concerns about ouRGeo? Reach out to cmcurtis1988@gmail.com.