Privacy Policy

Last updated: 18 August 2026

RoadSignal is a driving and navigation app. This policy explains what it collects, why, who receives it, and how to delete it. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

The short version

• RoadSignal collects your precise location. That is the entire point of the app — it cannot warn you about something ahead of you without knowing where you are.
• There is no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind in this app. We do not sell your data, and there is nobody to sell it to.
• You can delete your account and everything on it from inside the app, at any time.
• The map you look at is served by third parties who will see your IP address. Details below, because it is the one thing people usually are not told.

What we collect

Location. Precise GPS location, while you are using the app. If you grant background location, also while the app is in the background — this exists so alerts still reach you with the screen off while driving. You can revoke it in Android settings at any time; the app keeps working, but background alerting stops.

Location is used for: showing your position, routing, warning you about reported hazards and cameras ahead, sharing your live position with a convoy only while you are in one, and recording a route only when you choose to record one.

Your account. RoadSignal creates an anonymous account on first launch. It is not tied to your name, email or phone number, and we do not ask for any of them. You may optionally add a display name, a handle and an avatar, and optionally link a Google account so you can sign in on a new device.

Things you create. Vehicles you add to your garage (including photos), routes you save, hazard reports you submit, friends you add, and messages you send.

What we do not collect. No contacts, no call logs, no SMS, no browsing history, no advertising identifier, no device fingerprint, no analytics events, no crash reports.

Who else receives your data

Map tiles — read this one. The map imagery is served directly to your phone by OpenFreeMap and, for satellite view, Esri. Your phone requests those tiles itself, so those providers receive your IP address and which map tiles you asked for — which indicates roughly where you are and where you are looking. We do not control and do not receive those requests. This is normal for map applications, but it is rarely stated, so we are stating it.

Services our server calls on your behalf. Address search, camera and points-of-interest data, aircraft data and public traffic feeds come from third parties, but our server contacts them, not your phone, so those providers do not receive your IP address. They do receive the content of the request — for example, the text you searched for, or the map area being looked at.

Google, if and only if you choose to link a Google account for sign-in.

Other RoadSignal users see: your display name, handle and avatar; any route you mark public; the contents of your garage; and your live position while you are in a convoy with them, for the duration of that session. Hazard reports you submit are shown to other users without any link to you — reports are never attributed to an account anywhere in the app.

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for advertising. There is no advertising in RoadSignal.

How long we keep it

Your account, garage, routes, messages and convoy history are kept until you delete them or delete your account. Hazard reports expire automatically about an hour after they are submitted.

We do not currently apply any other automatic retention limit. If that changes, this section changes with it.

Deleting your account

In the app: Profile → Delete my account.

Without installing the app: roadsignalapp.com/delete-account.

Deleting removes your account, your garage and its photos, your saved routes, your convoy memberships, your friends, your profile photo and your login credentials.

Two things deliberately survive, and you should know about both:

1. Hazard reports you submitted stay on the map, with your identity removed. Other drivers are relying on them, and once unattributed they no longer identify you.
2. Messages you have already sent stay in the recipient's conversation, with your identity removed — in the same way an email you sent stays in the recipient's inbox. We cannot delete another person's copy of a conversation.

Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone. There is no grace period and no backup restore.

Security

Traffic between the app and our server uses HTTPS. Your login credential is stored on our server only as a hash, never in a form that could be replayed.

Two limitations, stated honestly: your credential is stored on your own device in ordinary app storage rather than the Android keystore, and uploaded images are served from non-guessable URLs rather than being individually access-controlled — anyone with the exact URL of an image can view it.

Children

RoadSignal is not directed at children and is intended for licensed drivers. Do not use it if you are under 13.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export or delete your data. The app already gives you direct access to all of it, and deletion is one tap away. For anything else, contact support@roadsignalapp.com.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the app will say so before the change takes effect.

Contact

Cash Swafford — support@roadsignalapp.com