Road Ranger Privacy Policy

Effective August 3, 2026

Information used to provide the app

When you plan a trip, the app may use a location you enter or your current location, the route geometry, planned departure time, route preferences, and questions you ask. These details are used to calculate routes and retrieve relevant real-time information such as reported road work and weather conditions.

Your traveler, vehicle, pet, vehicle-rest, advisory, and recent-place preferences are stored on your device. If you use Apple’s one-time Contacts picker, Road Ranger receives only the contact address you select for the trip location and does not request ongoing access to your address book.

If you use voice input, Apple’s speech-recognition services may process your audio under Apple’s terms. Road Ranger receives the resulting text so it can answer your route question.

To answer natural-language route questions, Road Ranger may send the question text and a compact fact packet about the selected route to an AI service. The packet can include the route name, distance, duration, toll status, summarized route warnings, sampled weather, source coverage, and confidence. It does not include your GPS coordinates, route geometry, or approved stops. Questions asking for your current location and straightforward route calculations are handled on the iPhone.

AI credit sales are disabled in this release. If purchases are offered in a future release, this policy will be updated before the feature is enabled.

Processing and retention

Route-intelligence requests are processed only to return the requested result. The Road Ranger service does not create user profiles or intentionally retain route requests, questions, or precise locations. Standard infrastructure security logs may temporarily contain technical information such as request time and network address.

OpenAI API requests are sent with response storage disabled and are not used to train OpenAI models by default. OpenAI may retain API abuse-monitoring logs containing question text for up to 30 days unless a shorter approved retention control applies to the service account.

Other apps and data providers

If you choose to hand a route to Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Waze, that app’s privacy policy applies. Weather and road-condition results may come from public agencies such as the National Weather Service and state transportation departments. OpenAI processes eligible question text under its privacy policy.

Your choices

You can plan from typed locations without granting current-location access. Microphone and speech-recognition access are optional and can be changed in iOS Settings. Straightforward calculations and common question types can be handled on the iPhone; broader free-form answers may be unavailable when the AI service cannot be reached.

Contact

You can edit or clear on-device profile fields and clear recent places from Settings. Questions about this policy may be sent to arnold.jagt@gmail.com.