Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how EntertainTech Solutions LLC collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you use the Roadcrew app for iPhone. It is written to clearly describe our data practices for Apple App Review and for our users.

1. Who we are

Roadcrew is operated by EntertainTech Solutions LLC. For any privacy question or request, contact us at support@blowy.tech.

2. What Roadcrew does

Roadcrew is a social drive tracker. It detects when you are driving, records the trip, and lets you compare distance, Drive Score (a measure of smooth driving) and streaks with friends and in weekly leagues. You can also see whether a friend is driving or parked, poke a friend to go for a drive, compare how much new ground you explored this week, and use a photo of your car as your avatar. Roadcrew never ranks or compares drivers by speed, and never shows anyone where you are.

3. What stays on your device

• Routes and raw GPS points. The route of each trip and the location points it was built from are stored only on your iPhone. They are never uploaded to our server.
• Explored map. The map of areas you have driven through (the map tiles you have explored) is built from your routes and stored only on your iPhone. The tiles and the “% of your city explored” figure are calculated on your device and never uploaded; our server does not learn which city or area you drive in.
• Share images. Weekly recap and trip share cards are rendered on your device. An image leaves your iPhone only if you choose to share it, through the app you pick.
• Your original car photo. If you set a car photo as your avatar, the photo is prepared on your iPhone first (see section 7). Only the prepared copy is uploaded.
• Settings. Your preferences, such as how trips start (automatically, manually, or through a CarPlay or Bluetooth automation).

This data lives in the app's private container on your iPhone and is removed when you delete the app.

4. What we send to our server

The social features (friends, presence, leagues, and leaderboards) run on our server at api2.blowy.tech. We send it only:

• An account identifier derived from the user identifier of our subscription provider (Apphud). Roadcrew does not ask for your email address, phone number, or password.
• Your profile: the handle and display name you choose and the preset car artwork you select; optionally, a photo of your car (see section 7) and the country you pick. Your country is stored with your own profile and is not shown to other users. The app may suggest it from your iPhone's region setting, never from your location.
• Social data: your friends list, the invites you send and receive, the users you block, the reports you submit, and the pokes you send (who you poked and on which day).
• Trip summaries: date, start time rounded to 5 minutes, duration, distance, Drive Score, transport type, and average and maximum speed. Average and maximum speed are used only to detect cheating (for example, a “drive” that was really a train or a plane) and are never shown to other users.
• Presence: whether you are driving or parked, if you leave presence sharing on (see section 5).
• Explored counts: two numbers per week, the total number of map tiles you have explored and how many are new that week (see section 6).
• Premium and invite rewards: with Premium, a streak freeze keeps your streak alive over one missed day per week. Within limits, you receive 7 days of Premium when a friend you invited starts a trial or subscribes, and 30 days of Premium, once, when three friends you invited have each recorded a drive. To apply these fairly, our server keeps which friends joined through your invite, the rewards you received, and the days your streak was frozen.
• A push notification token, if you allow notifications, so we can tell you about friend requests, pokes, league results, and similar activity, and your device's time zone, so days are counted in your local time and we avoid notifying you at night.

We never send coordinates, routes, or explored map tiles to our server. Other users see only your handle, display name, car artwork or car photo, and your distance, Drive Score, streak, and weekly explored count; your friends can also see whether you are driving or parked, as described in section 5. Nobody sees where you are, where you drove, or how fast you drove.

5. Friends presence and pokes

Your friends can see a simple status for you:

• “Driving now” while Roadcrew is recording a drive, or “Parked” with roughly when you parked (rounded to 5 minutes), for up to 24 hours after a drive.
• Today's distance, the total of today's counted drives.

For this, the app tells our server only that a drive has started (and again every few minutes while it continues) and that it has ended. It never sends your location, your speed, or the distance of the drive in progress, and friends are not shown when a drive started. The status is shared with your friends only: members of your weekly league and other users never see it, and blocking someone removes it from them.

Presence sharing is on by default. You can turn it off at any time in Me → Privacy → Share when I'm driving with friends. While it is off, our server stores no status for you and your friends see neither a status nor today's distance for you (your finished drives still appear in the friends feed). Turning it off deletes any stored status immediately.

Pokes. You can poke a friend to remind them to drive today. They receive a push notification with your display name. You can poke each friend once a day, a person receives at most three poke notifications a day, and pokes are never delivered while the friend is driving or at night in their time zone. Our server keeps a record of who poked whom and on which day.

6. Explored area

The explored map shows which parts of the map you have driven through. The map itself, meaning the tiles you have explored and the routes behind them, stays on your iPhone, and the “% of your city explored” is calculated on your device. For the weekly explored leaderboard, the app uploads only two numbers for each week: the total number of tiles you have explored and how many of them are new that week. Your friends may see these counts, as numbers, on the leaderboard. They never see the tiles or any place.

7. Car photo avatar (optional)

• What you share. You can replace the preset car artwork with a photo of your car, taken with the camera or chosen from your photo library. Please choose a photo of your car, not of people or personal documents.
• Prepared on your iPhone. Before uploading, the app blurs license plates it detects in the photo, on your device.
• Cleaned on our server. Our server re-encodes the photo and removes all embedded metadata, including location (GPS) data, camera details, and timestamps. The file you upload is never shown to anyone; only the re-encoded copy is.
• Who sees it. Other Roadcrew users wherever your profile appears, for example your friends, members of your weekly league, leaderboards, and the friends feed. It is not shown on public invite web pages.
• Reports. Any user can report a photo. A reported photo is hidden from the person who reported it right away. If two different users report the same photo, it is hidden from everyone, you included, until our team reviews it.
• How long we keep it. Until you replace it, remove it, or delete your account. A photo hidden after reports is kept until our team has reviewed it, even if you replace or remove it in the meantime.

8. Information collected by analytics and attribution

• Usage and diagnostics. App-usage events (for example, opening a screen, finishing a trip, or the car brand, vehicle type, and country you pick during onboarding) and crash and performance diagnostics, collected through the third-party services listed in section 11. These events do not include your location, routes, or photos.
• Device identifiers. The Identifier for Vendor (IDFV), which is specific to our apps on your device, is available to these services. The Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) is used only if you allow tracking in Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt.
• Subscription status. Whether you hold an active subscription, managed through Apple and our subscription provider. We never receive your payment card details.
• Support information. Anything you voluntarily send us by email.

9. How we use information

• To detect and record your drives and show your trip history.
• To run friends, weekly leagues, leaderboards, and streaks, and to keep them fair.
• To show your friends whether you are driving or parked, and to deliver pokes.
• To run the weekly explored leaderboard.
• To show your car photo and review photos that other users report.
• To handle blocks and reports and keep the community safe.
• To send the notifications you allow.
• To operate and improve the app, understand feature usage, and fix crashes.
• To measure the performance of our marketing and app installs, subject to your tracking choice.
• To manage subscriptions, unlock premium features such as the streak freeze, grant invite rewards, and restore purchases.

10. Advertising and App Tracking Transparency

Roadcrew does not show ads. We use advertising measurement to understand which campaigns bring people to the app. iOS asks, through Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, whether you allow tracking across other companies' apps and websites. If you decline, the advertising identifier (IDFA) is not collected or used to track you. You can change your choice at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

11. Third-party services

We use the following services, each governed by its own privacy policy. None of them receives your routes, GPS points, explored map, or car photo.

• Apple — App Store, in-app purchases, and platform services. apple.com/legal/privacy
• Apphud — subscription management on top of Apple's in-app purchases. apphud.com/privacy
• Adjust — install attribution and marketing measurement, using the advertising identifier only with your tracking consent. adjust.com/terms/privacy-policy
• Google Firebase (Analytics, Crashlytics & Cloud Messaging) — usage analytics, crash reporting, and push notifications. firebase.google.com/support/privacy
• Meta (Facebook SDK) — measurement of our ad campaigns on Facebook and Instagram, active only when we enable it for the app, and using the advertising identifier only with your tracking consent. facebook.com/policy.php

12. Permissions

Roadcrew asks for a permission only for the feature that needs it. You can change every choice at any time in the iPhone Settings app.

• Location, including “Always” — Roadcrew uses precise location to measure your trips. Background (“Always”) access lets it detect and record drives automatically without you opening the app. GPS is used only while you are driving; the rest of the time the app relies on motion activity to notice when a drive starts. If you allow only “While Using the App,” you can still start and stop trips by hand.
• Motion & Fitness — Roadcrew reads the motion activity your iPhone already classifies (for example, “in a car” or “walking”) to tell when you start and stop driving. It does not read your health or fitness data.
• Camera — requested only when you choose to take a photo of your car for your avatar. If you pick a photo from your library instead, the iOS photo picker gives Roadcrew only the photo you select.
• Notifications — for friend requests, pokes, league results, and trip updates you choose to receive.
• Tracking — Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, so we can measure which ad campaigns brought you to Roadcrew (see section 10).

Roadcrew does not request access to your microphone or contacts, or to your whole photo library.

13. Sharing of information

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share your location, routes, trip data, or car photo with advertisers or data brokers. Information is shared only with the service providers named above to the extent needed to run the app, analytics, attribution, notifications, and subscriptions; with other Roadcrew users as described in sections 4 to 7; or where required by law.

14. Data retention

• Routes, GPS points, your explored map, and settings remain on your device until you delete a trip, use Delete my data, delete your account, or uninstall the app.
• Trip summaries on our server are kept for 13 months and then deleted.
• Your presence status is only your latest state; it is replaced by the next one and deleted immediately when you turn presence sharing off.
• Weekly explored counts are kept until you use Delete my data or delete your account.
• Your car photo is kept as described in section 7.
• Reports about users are kept for 12 months and then deleted.
• Your profile (including your country), friends, invites, blocks, pokes, streak freezes, and invite rewards are kept while your account exists.
• Data handled by the third-party services above is retained according to their own policies. Support emails are kept only as long as needed to help you.

15. Deleting your data and your account

Delete my data in Settings removes your drives from your iPhone and your trip summaries, streak freezes, and weekly explored counts from our server.

You can delete your account at any time in the app. Deletion permanently removes, from our server, your profile (including your car photo and country), friendships, invites, blocks, trip summaries, presence status, pokes sent and received, explored counts, streak freezes, invite rewards, and reports. Routes stored on your device are removed when you delete the app. If you joined through a friend's invite and that friend received a reward, a one-way hash of your subscription-provider identifier stays with their reward so the same reward cannot be earned twice. The technical device record our server uses for push notifications and subscription status (push token, time zone, and subscription state) is not part of your Roadcrew account; you can ask us to delete it by email. Deleting your account does not cancel an active subscription; manage that in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. You can also request deletion by email; see our Data Deletion page.

16. Your choices and rights

• Change or revoke location access in Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services.
• Turn off Motion & Fitness access in Settings → Privacy & Security → Motion & Fitness.
• Change or revoke camera access in Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera.
• Stop sharing whether you are driving or parked in Me → Privacy in the app.
• Replace or remove your car photo at any time in your profile.
• Change your tracking choice in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
• Turn off push notifications in Settings → Notifications.
• Block or report any user, or report their car photo, from their profile in the app.
• Depending on your region (for example under GDPR or CCPA), you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data by contacting us at support@blowy.tech.

17. Children's privacy

Roadcrew is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact us at support@blowy.tech and we will delete it.

18. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect data in transit and at rest and limit unnecessary access. No system is completely secure, but we work to safeguard the information involved.

19. International users

Our servers and the third-party services we use may process data in countries other than your own. Where required, such transfers rely on the safeguards described in those providers' privacy policies.

20. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material updates will be reflected by changing the effective date on this page.

21. Contact us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or to submit a privacy request, contact us at support@blowy.tech.