RideAware Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-10-02

RideAware ("we", "us") is operated for Ride Aware, LLC. This policy explains what we collect, why, and the choices you have.

Information we collect

• Account information: your email address, display name, optional phone number and profile photo.
• Location: your device location while you use navigation, reporting, weather and ShareDrive features. With your permission we also use location in the background while a ShareDrive session is active.
• Microphone: used only when you choose a hands-free voice note for a hazard report. Speech recognition turns that audio into text. The recording is not kept.
• Vehicle profiles: vehicle type, nickname and optional dimensions and weight you enter, used for route planning. Vehicle restrictions are available only when supported by the routing provider.
• Community reports: the hazard type, optional note and location of reports you submit.
• ShareDrive: the contacts you add (name, email, phone), the sessions you start, and live trip data (location, speed, ETA, destination) shared with the contacts you choose.
• Device data: push notification tokens.

How we use information

• Provide turn-by-turn navigation, weather radar and alerts near your current location.
• Show community hazard reports to nearby drivers. Reports are shown without your name.
• Share your live trip with the contacts you select and anyone with its link, only while sharing is on. Treat the link as private. Blocking a contact ends affected shares and revokes their links.
• Send account emails (verification codes, password resets) and the notifications you enable.
• Keep the community safe: free-text report notes are hidden from other users until moderator approval. You can flag reports and block users.

Sharing

We do not sell personal information or use it for advertising or tracking. We share data with service providers that run RideAware (hosting, email delivery, mapping, weather and push notification providers) only as needed to provide the service, and when required by law.

Mapping and weather providers receive coordinates needed for lookups. Hosting is provided by Convex; email uses Resend; push delivery uses Expo and Apple or Google. Configured providers may also include Mapbox, OpenWeather and Twilio.

Retention

Community reports expire automatically after 4 hours. ShareDrive location history is kept only as long as needed to show the session. You can delete your account at any time from Settings; this permanently deletes your profile, vehicles, contacts, trips and reports.

Your choices

You can change notification preferences, stop any ShareDrive session, revoke location permission in your device settings, and delete your account in the app.

Children

RideAware is not intended for children under 16.

Contact

Questions: alexrideaware@gmail.com