Apps

TLDR

MikroTik savvy collects no data and has no account and no server of ours. It talks only to your own MikroTik routers on your local network. The router addresses and logins you enter stay on your phone.

Explainer

Thank you for using MikroTik savvy. You trust it with the keys to your boat’s network, and it should respect that. This policy is long only because we wanted to be clear: the app doesn’t collect anything about you.

No data is collected

The app has no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no crash reporting. It contains no third-party services that could do any of that. We run no server for the app, so there is nowhere for your data to be sent, and nothing about you or your routers is gathered, sold, shared or passed on to anybody.

Who the app talks to

The app connects only to your own MikroTik routers on the local network, at the addresses you give it. It uses the routers’ REST API to do three things:

• Show the state of your routers: LTE signal, GNSS position, interfaces, Wi-Fi clients and system health.
• Read the SMS messages held on the router’s modem. They are shown to you in the app only. The app never touches the SMS on your phone.
• Control your routers: manage eSIM profiles, including scanning an eSIM QR code, and run recovery actions such as a modem power cycle, always after you confirm.

The eSIM QR code is read on your phone, and what it holds goes to your router, nowhere else.

The app does not connect to any other address, any server of ours or any third party.

One thing to know: plain HTTP

Routers on a boat network usually speak plain HTTP, and the app talks to them in the same way, so these connections are not encrypted. Everything stays on your local network, between your phone and your router, but anybody who is on that same network can in principle listen in. Keep your boat’s network protected, for example with a good Wi-Fi password.

What stays on your phone

The only thing the app stores is a private file holding the addresses, usernames and passwords of your routers. Other apps cannot read it, and it never leaves your phone except as the login the app presents to those routers. If you delete the app, the file is deleted with it.

Permissions

The app asks for these Android permissions, all of them for talking to your routers:

• Internet, which Android requires for any network connection, including one on your local network.
• Network state and Wi-Fi state, to see how the phone is connected.
• Wi-Fi multicast, for networking with the routers on the local network.

They are the permissions the app works through, so it cannot do its job without them. Android grants them automatically, without a question. The app asks for nothing more: no location, no camera, no contacts and no phone permission.

Children

The app collects no data from anyone, so it collects none from children either. It is safe for all ages in this respect.

If this ever changes

We don’t plan to change any of this. If the app ever needs to work differently, this page will be updated first, and the date at the top will change, so you can always see when it was last revised. The app will not start collecting data without this policy saying so beforehand.

Questions

If something here is unclear, or you just want to say hello, write to apps@y-b.one. We are glad to hear from you.

Fair winds!