Riders Compass
Privacy Policy
The short version
Riders Compass has no account, no server that holds your data, no analytics and no advertising. Your trips, rides, profile and garage are stored only on your phone. The app talks to a handful of services to do its job, the map provider of your platform (Apple Maps on iPhone, Google Maps on Android) and Open-Meteo, and sends them nothing but the coordinates and place names needed to answer your request.
Location
With your permission, Riders Compass uses your location to:
- plan a route from where you are and show your position on the map
- find fuel, food and other places near you
- record a ride, including in the background while a recording is running, so the track is complete when you put the phone in your pocket
Location is never used for advertising, never sold, and never shared with anyone except as described below. You can withdraw the permission at any time in your phone's settings; the app keeps working with places you type in.
What is sent where
Maps. Place names you type, and the coordinates of your start, stops and destination, are sent to the map provider to return search results, directions and points of interest. On iPhone this is Apple Maps (MapKit); on Android it is Google Maps Platform. Their handling of this data is described in Apple's and Google's privacy policies.
Open-Meteo. The coordinates of points along your route are sent to Open-Meteo to fetch the weather forecast and elevation for those points. No identifier, account or device information accompanies the request. Open-Meteo is an open-source weather service; its data is provided under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
OpenStreetMap (Overpass API). With Premium and camera warnings switched on, the area around your route, or around your position while the Ride screen is open, is sent to a public OpenStreetMap query server to fetch fixed speed cameras and average-speed checks. Camera data is © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Nothing is sent in countries where such warnings are not permitted.
OpenStreetMap roads and speed limits. To draw the roads around you in the navigation view and to show the speed limit of the road you are on, the area along a saved trip (when you plan or open it) and around your position while a ride is running is sent to public OpenStreetMap query servers, which return the road shapes and their signed speed limits. This happens for every user and is cached on your phone for up to 45 days. Road data is © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Fuel price feeds. In France (data.economie.gouv.fr), Austria (E-Control) and Germany (Tankerkönig, MTS-K data), the coordinates of a fuel stop or of your position on the Explore screen are sent to the official price service to list nearby stations and prices. National average prices, and the per-province prices used in Turkey (recommended prices published by Petrol Ofisi; the Dutch average comes from Statistics Netherlands, CBS), are downloaded once per launch as small tables from riderscompass.nl, the developer's own website. That download carries no location or other data about you; the web server keeps only its standard short-lived access log (IP address and time), which is not used for anything else.
All requests to the map, weather, camera and price services are answered in real time and nothing about them is retained by the developer; apart from the price-table download above, no server of the developer sees them.
What stays on your device
Saved trips, recorded rides, your profile, emergency contact, motorcycles and settings are stored in the app's own storage on your phone and are included in your device backup like any other app data. Delete any trip or ride inside the app, or delete the app, to remove them.
Purchases
Premium is an auto-renewing subscription handled entirely by the App Store on iPhone and by Google Play on Android. The store tells the app whether the subscription is active; the developer never sees your name, payment details or store account.
Children
Riders Compass is not directed at children under 13 and collects no data from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the version here is updated and the date above changes with it. The same text is available inside the app under Settings.
Contact
Questions about this policy: info@riderscompass.nl