Privacy Policy

Road Trip operates on a strict local-first architecture. All your driving data, GPS coordinates, journey summaries, vehicle garage profiles, achievement badges, and driving scores are stored directly on your physical smartphone using local SharedPreferences (JSON key-value storage). We operate zero remote server databases, require zero user accounts, and demand zero logins. When you drive, your data never leaves your device sandbox.

During an active drive, Road Trip queries high-precision GPS sensors to record timestamped LocationPoints containing latitude, longitude, speed, altitude, compass heading, and horizontal accuracy. GPS noise is filtered using an accuracy threshold of 30 meters, while an altitude deadband threshold of 3 meters eliminates barometric and satellite fluctuations. Real-time speed is processed directly on your smartphone processor without third-party surveillance.

The driving analytics engine monitors critical vehicle dynamics directly on your smartphone: hard braking (deceleration <= -3.0 m/s^2), rapid acceleration (>= +3.0 m/s^2), high-G lateral cornering, and speed limit violations. These events are used solely to compute your 0-100 driving score and provide personal feedback. We never sell, transmit, or license your driving dynamics to automotive insurers, fleet operators, or regulatory authorities.

Your journeys are categorized into 4 precise speed zones: Urban (0-50 km/h), Rural (50-90 km/h), Highway (90-130 km/h), and High Speed (> 130 km/h). Road Trip logs duration, distance, and percentage breakdown for each speed zone to render detailed histograms and journey charts, entirely processed within your device processor.

Route visualizations and interactive maps utilize the OpenStreetMap raster and vector tile ecosystem via flutter_map and latlong2. Road Trip does not integrate proprietary third-party tracking map API keys (such as Google Maps APIs) that trace individual route lookups. Reverse geocoding for departure and arrival city names relies on native operating system frameworks without logging your movements.

Story Studio enables drivers to produce vertical 9:16 high-resolution recap posters combining route contour polylines, duration, speed graphs, and journey photos. Photographs captured or selected via image_picker remain isolated in local app sandboxed storage (path_provider). Road Trip never uploads, accesses, or indexes your photo library. Story cards are exported solely through native operating system sharing (share_plus) upon direct user action.

The Garage feature allows motorists to configure vehicle profiles including name, brand, model, production year, license plate, country plate format, fuel type (Gasoline, Diesel, Hybrid, Electric), and recorded odometer. All vehicle parameters are persisted locally in SharedPreferences, allowing drivers to isolate driving statistics and mileage per car without registering vehicle identities on any central server.

To deliver live speed and background drive tracking, Road Trip requests specific operating system permissions: Precise Location (ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION and iOS Always/When In Use) for Haversine speed calculations, Foreground Service (FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION) to keep tracking alive while minimized, Post Notifications for lock-screen live displays, Wake Lock to prevent screen sleep during cockpit mode, and Advertising ID (AD_ID) for AdMob policy compliance.

Road Trip integrates the Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob) to support ongoing independent product development. Advertisements are presented without disrupting the driving experience, including interstitials upon trip completion, optional rewarded visual exports in Story Studio, and native cards in the trip archive. Advertising delivery strictly complies with authorized digital advertising standards (IAB app-ads.txt) and Apple SKAdNetwork privacy guidelines, without cross-app tracking or personal identification.

You hold full sovereignty over your automotive information. Within the application Settings tab, selecting "Reset All Driving History" immediately and permanently wipes every stored coordinate, speed log, vehicle profile, trip summary, and unlocked badge from local storage. Because data is never uploaded to remote servers, local deletion constitutes complete and irreversible data destruction.

Road Trip is developed and provided under the ARVENEL brand, engineered to meet and exceed global privacy regulations, including the GDPR, Turkish KVKK No. 6698, CCPA, Apple App Store Guidelines, and Google Play Policies. Because personal driving data is not collected or transmitted to remote servers, user rights of access, portability, and erasure are satisfied instantaneously on the device.

Contact our privacy and data security team anytime for inquiries.