Last updated 2 September 2026

Privacy Policy

This policy describes how the RoadBond app and website (roadbondapp.com) handle information. RoadBond is a convoy navigation product. It cannot work without some location, account, and ride data.

Who we are

RoadBond is operated at roadbondapp.com. Questions: roadbondapp@gmail.com.

Information we collect

• Account. Email and password, or Google sign-in. Display name, profile photo, and optional social handle you add in onboarding.
• Location. Used to place you on the map, find nearby rides, and keep navigation working while you drive. While a RoadBond is active, the app broadcasts your live GPS position to other people on that ride — including in the background — so they can see you on the shared map.
• Ride data. Destinations, route, start time, member list, roles (leader, DJ, owner), join requests, and status (coming soon, active, completed).
• Voice alerts. Short microphone recordings you send to the people in that convoy.
• Camera and photos. QR codes to join a ride, and photos you pick for your profile or a RoadBond.
• Notifications. Device tokens so we can alert you about start times, join requests, and ride updates. You can turn types off in settings.
• Diagnostics. If you leave crash reporting on, error reports may go to Sentry (device and account identifiers needed to debug).
• Advertising. On ordinary rides, Appodeal may use an advertising identifier to show banners and interstitials. Funeral, drive-by, and fundraiser rides do not show those ads. iOS may ask for tracking permission; you can refuse.

Who processes it

• Google Firebase — authentication, database, file storage, and push messaging.
• Mapbox — maps and turn-by-turn data. Location is sent to draw the map and route.
• Appodeal and its ad networks — ads on non-ceremony rides.
• Sentry — crash reports, only with your in-app consent.

We do not sell your personal information.

Live location you broadcast

RoadBond is built around a shared map. When you join or start an active RoadBond, your position is sent continuously to our servers and shown to the other people on that RoadBond: members, and on some types (drive-by and time trial) spectators who are watching without joining the pack.

That broadcast can keep going in the background while you drive, so the group can still see you if the phone is in a mount or the screen is off. Anyone on that ride can see roughly where you are, in near real time. On a public RoadBond, that can include people you have not met. On a private one, it includes everyone the leader accepts.

Leaving the ride, ending it, or turning location off in your phone settings stops new updates. A last known position may stay on the map for a short time.

Treat a join link like a key to your live location for that ride. Do not join a RoadBond with people you would not trust to know where you are. Do not post join links in places where strangers could use them to follow you. RoadBond is not a personal-safety app, a panic button, or emergency response — if you are in danger, contact local emergency services.

Why we use it

To run your account, operate convoys, send the alerts you asked for, improve reliability, and (on eligible rides) show ads that fund the product. Legal bases, where they apply, are the contract to provide RoadBond, your consent (microphone, optional tracking, crash reporting), and legitimate interest in keeping the service secure.

Retention and deletion

Account and ride records stay while your account exists. You can delete your account in the app. After deletion we remove or de-identify personal data we no longer need, except where we must keep a record (for example a legal request or security log).

Children

RoadBond is not directed at children under 13. Do not create an account if you are under 13.

Your choices

• System settings for location, microphone, camera, and notifications. Turning location off stops the live broadcast.
• In-app notification toggles, crash-reporting toggle, and ad privacy options (where the OS provides them).
• Email roadbondapp@gmail.com to ask what we hold or to request deletion if you cannot use the in-app control.

This website

The marketing site is static. It does not run join requests. Share links such as /join?convoyId=… open the app when it is installed, or show a download page when it is not. The site may load web fonts from Google Fonts.