Roadspeed — Privacy Policy

Last updated 15 August 2026

Roadspeed warns drivers about speed cameras and speed limits, and keeps a record of their drives. This policy explains exactly what stays on your phone and what does not.

The short version. Your routes, your positions and your drive history never leave your phone. The speed camera database is bundled with the app, so checking what is ahead of you does not involve asking anyone. Two features can send something, and both are optional and can be switched off: community reports and the leaderboard.

What stays on your device

Your location. Used to work out which cameras are ahead of you, what the speed limit is, and to record a drive. It is matched against a database already on the phone.
Your drives. Route, distance, speed, score, harsh braking and cornering counts, elevation, and the squares of the map you have covered. Stored in the app's own storage.
Your settings, your garage and your badges.

Deleting the app removes all of it. Individual drives, and the whole history, can be deleted from inside the app.

Community reports (optional)

If report sharing is on, filing a report sends the type of report (police, hazard, roadworks and so on), the position of the thing you are reporting, an optional heading, and a random identifier generated on first run. That identifier is not linked to you, your device, or any account; it exists so the backend can rate-limit and count one vote per install.

Reports expire on a timer that depends on their type, from 45 minutes for police to 90 days for a speed bump, and are then deleted.

Turning sharing off in Settings stops both sending and receiving. Nothing then leaves the phone.

Leaderboard (optional, off by default)

Nothing is sent until you join a board. Joining creates an anonymous identity: a random id and a secret key, both kept only on your phone. There is no account, no email, no password and no contact list.

What is sent while you are on a board:

The name and picture you chose. The picture is one of twelve drawings in the app — no photo is uploaded.
Your driving score, distance, number of drives, streak and level for the current week, the current month and all time.
Your country, and a coarse area roughly 100 km across.

Your routes and positions are not sent. "Hide me from the boards" stops others seeing your row. "Leave" deletes your name, picture and figures from the server; if the request cannot be delivered at the time, it is retried automatically.

Third parties

Map tiles are loaded from tile.openstreetmap.org when a map is on screen. As with any web request, OpenStreetMap receives your IP address and which tiles you asked for. The alerts themselves do not need this — they work with the map off and with no connection at all.
The Roadspeed backend (radarpilot-api.ongoru.workers.dev, run on Cloudflare) receives only what is described under community reports and the leaderboard above.

There is no advertising, no analytics and no tracking software of any kind in this app. No data is sold or shared with data brokers.

Permissions

Location — the app cannot warn you about what is ahead without it. Background location is used only so warnings keep working with the screen off or while another navigation app is in front.
Photos — only if you choose a picture for a car in the garage. It is stored on the device.
Motion sensors — used for the peak G figure on a drive.

Children

Roadspeed is intended for drivers and is not directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

ongorunet@gmail.com