Privacy Policy

Location

Frenano uses your device’s precise location while you are using the app to calculate your current speed and to provide automatic road and speed-limit information. In the web version, your browser controls location access through its site permissions. In the native iOS app, iOS controls location access through iPhone Settings.

Speed calculation is performed on the device. When automatic road or speed-limit lookup is used, the web version sends location coordinates directly to Geoapify over HTTPS. The native iOS app sends location coordinates through the Frenano Netlify proxy over HTTPS, which forwards them to Geoapify using a server-side API key. Geoapify is our mapping/location service provider and uses these requests to identify the road or speed limit.

What we do not do

• We do not require or maintain a Frenano user account.
• We do not use location or other app data for advertising or marketing.
• We do not track you across apps, websites, or services.
• We do not sell personal data.
• We do not use advertising analytics, cross-site tracking, or Netlify Real User Monitoring.

Service providers and operational data

Frenano uses Netlify to host the service and its secure server function. Netlify Web Analytics is enabled to provide aggregate website statistics from server/CDN request logs without adding analytics cookies or third-party analytics scripts to Frenano. The web app also makes a one-time request to /started.html after “Let’s go!” is used, so we can count approximately how many browser installations have started Frenano at least once. A local browser flag prevents normal repeat use from increasing that count. Frenano does not send a user ID, journey, speed, or location with this request. Like other hosting providers, Netlify may process technical request information such as IP addresses, request URLs, timestamps, and other operational metadata for delivery, security, reliability, troubleshooting, and these aggregate statistics.

Geoapify processes API requests used for road and speed-limit lookup. According to Geoapify’s published privacy information, API request information may include request data, headers, IP address, and timestamps. Geoapify states that successful-request data is generally retained for no longer than 24 hours to generate aggregated usage statistics, although longer retention may apply in exceptional cases such as suspicious or fraudulent activity.

Diagnostics

Diagnostic information used by Frenano is kept locally on the device and is not uploaded automatically. If you choose to share a diagnostic log, sharing is initiated by you. The shareable diagnostic format is designed to exclude precise coordinates, road and station names, public-transport destinations and line identifiers, API keys, and persistent identifiers.

Retention and deletion

Frenano does not maintain an application database of your journeys or location history. Local diagnostic history is short-lived and is designed to be retained for no more than one day. You can remove locally held app data by deleting the app.

Operational data processed by service providers is subject to their own limited retention practices as described above and in their privacy documentation.

Your choices

You can stop Frenano from accessing your location at any time by changing the browser’s site permissions for the web version or its Location permission in iPhone Settings for the native iOS app. Automatic road and speed-limit lookup requires location and network access; core features that depend on location will not work when location permission is disabled.

Because Frenano has no user account or application database containing a personal journey history, there is normally no account or stored journey record for us to delete. If you have a privacy question or believe information relating to you has been retained unexpectedly, please contact us at support@frenano.app.

Changes to this policy

If Frenano’s data practices change, this policy and the app’s App Store privacy information will be updated accordingly.