Privacy Policy

1. Information we may collect or process

• Driver name — labels citations and reports.
• Email address — the destination you choose for citation notices.
• Phone number and mobile carrier (optional) — used only to deliver a citation as a text through your carrier’s email-to-text gateway.
• Location / GPS data (including in the background) — precise coordinates, heading, speed and accuracy, used to calculate speed and to look up nearby speed limits and stop signs. Speed Snitch uses your location and speed during an active trip to provide safety warnings, record driving events and create trip reports, even when your screen is locked or another app is open. Collection begins only when you tap Start trip and stops the moment you tap End trip.
• Speed and trip information — current speed, posted limit, distance travelled and stop-sign approaches.
• Citations — date, time, speed, posted limit, road name and approximate coordinates, penalty assigned.
• Safety scores, streaks and rewards — derived from your own driving history.
• Device information — device type, operating system and app version for compatibility and troubleshooting.
• Subscription status — whether a Premium entitlement or free trial is active on your Apple ID.
• Notification preferences — voice warnings, volume, penalty type and reward settings.

2. Why we use it

Location, speed and trip data exist to do the one job the app promises: compare your speed with the posted limit, warn you, and record a citation when you exceed the threshold. Driver name, email and phone are used only to address and deliver those citations. Device information supports troubleshooting. Subscription status controls access to Premium features. We do not use any of this data for advertising, and we do not sell it.

3. Background location use

On iPhone, Speed Snitch requests Always Allow location and uses Apple’s background location capability so an active trip keeps recording when your screen locks, a call comes in, or you switch to another app. On Android, an active trip runs as a foreground service with an ongoing “Trip in progress” notification, which is Android’s supported way to keep receiving location. Background monitoring never runs outside an active trip: it starts only when you tap Start trip and ends immediately when you tap End trip. While it is running, your phone displays its own background-location indicator, and the app shows whether background monitoring is On or Off.

Limits we will not overstate. If you force-quit Speed Snitch from the app switcher, or force-stop it in Android settings, your operating system stops the app and monitoring will not resume by itself — it stays off until you open Speed Snitch again. This is different from your phone terminating the app on its own to reclaim memory, which the app can recover from. A powered-off phone records nothing at all. Android battery optimization can also pause a trip; the app reports that state and lets you open Android’s settings yourself, and never changes that setting on your behalf.

Background location is used only for warnings, event records and trip reports — never for advertising, profiling or sharing with third parties. Microphone access is used only while you record a personalized warning, never during a trip. Speed Snitch cannot tell whether you were driving or riding as a passenger; a trip that has not been confirmed as a driver trip never results in a charge, fine, citation or penalty.

4. How information is stored

Your settings, citation history, scores and rewards are stored locally on your device. If you delete the app, that local data is deleted with it. Citation content that you choose to send is transmitted to our email delivery provider only for the moment it takes to deliver the message. Precise location is processed on your device and is not retained on our servers as a location history.

5. Service providers

• OpenStreetMap / Overpass API — receives approximate coordinates to return posted speed limits and stop-sign locations.
• Email delivery provider — receives the citation content and recipient address in order to deliver it.
• Mobile carrier gateways — when you enable text delivery, the citation is emailed to your carrier’s gateway address.
• Apple — processes all subscription payments. We never receive or store payment card details.

6. Children and family use

Speed Snitch is intended for licensed drivers and the parents or fleet managers who supervise them. A parent or guardian who sets up the app for a household driver is responsible for informing that driver that their speed and location are being monitored.

7. Your choices and deletion requests

You can turn location off at any time in your device settings; the app simply stops tracking. You can clear driver details, citation history and rewards from within the app, or delete the app to remove all local data. To request deletion of anything we may hold — for example email delivery logs — email [your-support-email@example.com] from the address in question and we will action the request within 30 days.

8. Security

Data in transit is encrypted using HTTPS/TLS. No system is perfectly secure, so please do not put sensitive information into free-text fields such as custom penalty text.

9. Changes to this policy

We will update the effective date above when this policy changes and, for material changes, surface a notice in the app.

10. Contact

Questions, complaints or deletion requests: [your-support-email@example.com] ([Your Business Name]).