The questions everyone asks, answered straight

Only with their consent. Installing a tracking app on someone else's phone without them knowing, or following them without their agreement, is a crime. Every honest app tells the person that they're sharing.

With Mi Estela, no: everyone can see that they're sharing and with whom. With parental controls, the minor knows they're being supervised. What doesn't notify the person is stalkerware, and app stores ban it.

From the digital consent age in their country: 14 in Spain, 13 in Portugal, 16 in Germany. Below that age, parents give consent and parental controls are set up by an adult.

Yes, with a parental control set up from your adult account (Family Link, Qustodio...), which is appropriate at that age. Circle-based apps like Mi Estela require users to be 14 to have their own account.

It can be, if you both agree, there's a clear reason, and either of you is free to turn it off without explaining. If it's a condition, if you're asked to explain a dot on the map, or your history gets checked, that's control, not presence.

Some use location data or identifiers for third-party advertising and say so in their App Store listing. Life360, for example, states in its current privacy policy that it licenses precise location data to partners. Mi Estela doesn't sell or license location data to anyone.

On encrypted servers in the European Union. We prioritize European providers and, when a provider processes data outside the European Economic Area, GDPR safeguards apply and it receives only the minimum necessary.

No. Each person agrees to join the circle, can see at all times that they're sharing, and chooses how they appear: precise, approximate area only, or invisible (adults). There's no supervisor who sees more than anyone else.

Real-time location is kept only while you have it turned on. History: 3 days on the free plan and up to 30 days with Premium, and only if you turn it on. There is no indefinite history.

In Mi Estela, from the app: Settings → “Delete my account.” Everything is erased instantly, with no “just in case” copy kept. If you no longer have the app, write from your registered email to hola@miestela.app.

With “While Using the App,” the system cuts off location as soon as you close the app: your people would see “a while ago” and arrival alerts wouldn't go out. “Always” lets your phone send an arrival alert without you opening anything.

Since Android 11, Google requires you to set it on the system Settings screen, not from the app's pop-up. This applies to every app. Mi Estela takes you straight to that screen, but you're the one who has to tap it.

Since iOS 14 and Android 12, you can give an app only your approximate area (a few kilometers around you) instead of your exact spot. For a family map with arrival alerts, you need precise location; with approximate, arrival alerts don't work well.

In Mi Estela, the microphone is only used when you talk to Estela, record a voice note, or are on a call; never in the background. Contacts are only used if you choose to invite from them, and they're read on your phone without being sent anywhere.

Yes: that's how arrival alerts, your people's SOS, and incoming call rings reach you. They're needed on the phone of whoever shares and on the phone of whoever receives.

The Spanish family locator: a private map with the faces of your circle, arrival alerts, SOS, battery levels, chat, calls, and video calls, for iPhone and Android. Consent-based, two-way, ad-free, and it never sells data. Made in Madrid.

The essentials are free forever: the map with your people, SOS, “I've arrived” and “I'm okay,” arrival alerts for three spots, battery, chat, calls, video calls, and 2D and 3D maps. Estela (the AI), the midpoint, routes, and plans have free monthly usage. Premium is optional.

€9.99 a month or €99.99 a year for the whole circle (one person pays, and everyone in the family gets it), with a 14-day free trial. It includes 30 days of history instead of 3, more spots with alerts, and more AI features. If you stop paying, nothing gets deleted or locked.

The digital consent age for each country: 14 in Spain. Between that age and 18, an adult in the circle approves the social features, and minors share at least their general area (they can't go invisible).

Going invisible for a while: others can see that you're invisible, not a frozen clock. It's for adults; minors share at least their general area. You can also share “by area only,” which shows your approximate area instead of your street.

No. It alerts your circle with your location and puts 112 (Spain's emergency number) and AlertCops one tap away so you can call yourself. If there's no signal, the alert is sent as soon as it returns. It does not replace emergency services.

No, on purpose: scoring how someone drives isn't presence. If that's what you're looking for, Life360 and GeoZilla do that.

No. It doesn't block apps, read messages, or measure screen time. For a young child with their first phone, there are other tools. Mi Estela is for families with kids from age 14, older parents, couples, and friends.

It helps you meet up (where, what's nearby, how to get there on foot or by transit), write or translate a message, and tell you useful things. It's optional, off by default, and receives only the minimum it needs to answer you: no raw coordinates and no unnecessary identifiers.

Seventeen Caminos with their stages; it marks each one, and your people see your progress; “I've made it to the hostel” with one tap, which works without signal (it sends once you're back in range); a link so others can follow you without installing anything; the weather and elevation for each stage; SOS. Free during the Camino.

Yes, within the same circle: a family can mix both, with map, alerts, chat, and video calls across devices.

Yes, in two ways. With “Let me know when you arrive,” you send them a WhatsApp link and they're notified when you get there, without installing anything. With a live link, they can see where you are from their browser for as long as it's active. On the Camino, the pilgrim link shows your progress and your last check-in.

Yes: family, friends, your team. Each circle is independent: what you share in one isn't visible in another.

AYR GALIC CONSULTANTS, S.L., a company based in Madrid, Spain, with a data protection officer at dpd@miestela.app and contact at hola@miestela.app. It doesn't sell data and has no ads.