Privacy policy

In short

Ridelark works on your phone. Your rides, places and settings stay there, and you don’t need an account. A few things do go online, to us and to others, and they’re all listed below.

Who we are

Ridelark is made by Matt Cockayne, in the UK, who decides how the information below is used. Questions about privacy, or a request about your data: [email protected].

What stays on your phone

• Your location, used to navigate. Ridelark never sends it to us.
• Your saved places, routes and settings.
• The Tripper pod you paired, and the Bluetooth connection to it.

Ridelark has no adverts, no tracking and no crash reporting of its own.

What leaves your phone

• Place search. What you type goes to two search services at once: Photon, run by komoot on OpenStreetMap’s data, with your position rounded to about a kilometre so nearby places come first; and your phone’s own geocoder, which on most Android phones is Google’s. Naming where you are now (to plan from it, or save it) sends your position to the geocoder. Search that works on the phone, with nothing leaving it, is planned.
• The full map. When you review a route or place a pin, map images for the area you’re looking at come from OpenFreeMap.
• Map downloads. The areas you choose come from our servers at Cloudflare. To get them, the app asks Google Play to confirm it’s a genuine copy of Ridelark on a genuine device, and sends us that answer with a random number the app made for itself, which isn’t linked to you or your Google account. We use the number only to limit how much one copy of the app can download in a day, and the count is deleted after two days. Your internet address is used only to limit how fast one address can download, and we don’t keep it.

Each of these services sees your internet address, as any website does, and has its own privacy policy: komoot, Google, OpenFreeMap and Cloudflare.

This website

The site is hosted by GitLab Pages and reaches you through Cloudflare, which sees each visit as any web host does. We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn’t collect personal data. The site sets no cookies of its own.

If you join the beta, your email address comes to us through the testers’ Google Group and Google Play’s test, and is used only to run the test. If you email us, your message is forwarded by Cloudflare to our inbox, and kept as long as it’s needed to answer you.

Payments

Nothing is for sale today. If paid extras are added, Google Play will handle the payment, and this policy will say what that involves before they arrive.

The legal part

Under UK data protection law, the reasons we rely on are our legitimate interest in keeping the maps for genuine copies of the app, and in running a test with the riders who asked to join it.

You can ask what we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing [email protected]. If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, ico.org.uk.

Your choices

• Delete everything Ridelark keeps on your phone by uninstalling it, or with Clear storage in Android’s settings for the app.
• Forget a paired pod under Handlebar displays.
• Leave the beta and the group whenever you like, and ask us to delete your email address.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version goes here with its date.