Privacy policy
What we collect
Account details: your name, handle, email address and password (stored hashed by our sign-in provider). If you continue with Apple or Google instead, we get the name and email address they share with us, and no password (Apple lets you hide your email). Plus anything you add to your profile — photo, background, bio, home town, the area you drive in and, for business accounts, contact details and hours.
Your garage: the vehicles you add, with photos, specs and mods.
Drives: when you record a drive, your phone’s location is used to save the route, distance, duration and the roads you drove. Recording only happens after you tap Start, and it stops when you tap Finish.
Things you post: posts, photos, videos, comments, reviews, listings, events, RSVPs, check-ins, emergency alerts and messages.
Device details needed to run the app: a push notification token (if you allow notifications) and basic app and device version information.
How we use it
To run the app: show your profile, drives, posts and listings to the people you choose, power club chats and events, and calculate rankings and badges.
To keep the community safe: review reports, enforce the community guidelines and prevent abuse.
To send notifications you have turned on, such as new messages, event updates, club invites and emergency alerts on a drive you’re going to.
We do not sell your personal information, we do not show third-party ads, and we do not track you across other companies’ apps or websites.
Location
Location is used while you record a drive, when you check in at an event, when you send an emergency alert, and when you tap “Use my location”. While a drive records, recording keeps going with your screen off or while you use another app (on Android, a notification shows while it records).
Your privacy zone (Settings → Privacy zone) hides the start and end of your public drives so people can’t see where you live or park.
If you send an emergency alert on a cruise or meet, your location, what you chose and any note go to the organizer and everyone going to that event. They can see it until the alert is closed and in the alert afterwards.
If you choose to share your location on a cruise or meet’s live map, the organizer and everyone going can see where you are, updated every 15 seconds, while you record a drive. It stops when you finish the drive, turn it off or the event ends, and your last position is deleted within a day. Your speed is never shared.
Your average and top speed on a drive are only shown to you. Speed never counts in rankings: it is only used to leave unsafe drives out of them.
Who can see what
Your profile, public posts and public drives can be seen by other members. Posts in a private club, members-only events and messages are visible only to the people in them.
Routes you plan are private unless you share them on your profile. If you use one for an event, everyone who can see the event can see the route.
You can turn off “Show me in rankings”, block anyone, and delete anything you have posted.
Service providers
We use Supabase to host our database, sign-in and file storage, and Expo to deliver push notifications and app updates. Maps come from Apple Maps on iPhone, Google Maps on Android and CARTO / OpenStreetMap on the web; the map backgrounds on cards and profiles are drawn in the app from OpenStreetMap coastline data (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and send nothing anywhere. When you plan a route, the stops you pick are sent to our routing provider (Mapbox or OSRM) to find the roads between them. If you continue with Apple or Google, they confirm who you are to us. Resend sends our emails, such as password reset codes, and Cloudflare hosts our website. These providers process data only to provide their service to us.
When you tap Directions or Drive this route, the app opens Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze with that location. What happens next is covered by that app’s own privacy policy.
Keeping and deleting your data
We keep your information for as long as you have an account. You can delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete account; that permanently removes your profile, drives, posts, listings and messages. Clubs you own pass to another member. You can also ask us to delete your account by emailing hello@drivecultureapp.com from the address on your account. Copies in backups are removed on our normal backup cycle.
Face ID / Touch ID / fingerprint unlock is handled entirely by your phone. We never receive your face or fingerprint data.
Our website
If you join the launch list on our website, we keep your email address, the area you picked and your type of phone, and use them only to tell you about Drive Culture. Email hello@drivecultureapp.com to be removed.
Children
Drive Culture is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Your choices and rights
You can access and update most of your information in the app. To request a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion, or to ask a privacy question, email hello@drivecultureapp.com.
If we make significant changes to this policy we will let you know in the app.