Privacy
Effective 13 November 2026
Talking Road Trip has no accounts. We don't know who you are.
Your location
The app uses your location to know which town is coming up. That happens on your phone. Your location is never sent to us or anyone else.
It only uses your location while the app is open on screen.
When you play a story, see a photo, or just open the app, it fetches what it needs from our server, which is hosted by Vercel (the app has a built-in copy, plus any routes you download, for when you have no signal). Like any website, the server sees your IP address, your device type, the time, and what was asked for, so it could tell roughly which town you are near. It never receives your phone's location. Our hosting provider keeps these request logs for up to 30 days.
Usage counts
The app sends anonymous counts so we know which stories people like: a story appeared, was played, was finished or was skipped, with a random ID made on your phone. They never include your location, name or contact details. These counts are stored with PostHog, our analytics provider, in the United States. When a story appears, the count also says roughly how many kilometres away its place was, rounded to the nearest kilometre.
Weather and road warnings
When you open a story with signal, the app asks our server for the weather and warnings near that town. It sends the town, not where you are.
Maps
The map is drawn from OpenFreeMap. When you open the map, your phone asks OpenFreeMap for the part of the map on screen, so OpenFreeMap sees that area and your IP address. It does not receive your phone's location.
Payments
Apple or Google handle every payment. We get a receipt saying what was bought, so the app can unlock it. We never see your card or your name.
When you buy a route or subscribe, our server keeps a record of the purchase: your phone's random install ID and a scrambled copy of the purchase details. We use it to restore your purchases and to limit each purchase to three phones. We keep these records with no time limit.
Error reports
If you report a mistake in a story, we receive what you wrote and which story it was about. Don't put personal details in it. We keep reports with no time limit.