Privacy Policy

• On the web, watching cameras needs no account and no personal data. The Android app asks for an account before the map opens.
• We do not sell your data, we do not share it with data brokers, and there is no advertising in Roadze.
• Your location never leaves your phone unless you start a trip or deliberately share it with someone you chose.
• We keep no location history. While someone is watching you we store one position — the current one — and it is deleted the moment nobody is.
• You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app or from the website, whenever you want.

Roadze is made by WorkBook Studios. This policy covers the website at roadze.com and the Roadze app for Android (com.roadze.app). They are the same service and share the same account, so one policy covers both; where the app does something the website cannot, it says so.

For questions about privacy, or to exercise any of the rights below, write to workbook.corp@gmail.com. A person reads it.

Location is the one thing worth reading carefully, so here is every case, including the ones that run with the screen off.

The app asks for background location only because of the two cases above — a trip and an active share — and Android shows a permanent notification whenever either is running. You can say no to the permission and still use the map, the cameras, the search and your recordings. On the website there is no background anything: the browser only knows where you are while the page is open and you allowed it.

Sharing is off until you turn it on, person by person. You pick who, and for how long: one hour, eight hours, a day, or until you switch it off. They get a notification asking them to accept, and either side can cut it at any moment.

While a share is active we store a single row with your current position, and we overwrite it as you move. We do not build a history and we cannot show anyone where you were yesterday. When the last person stops watching — because it expired, because you stopped it, or because they did — that row is deleted, so your last position is not left sitting there.

The people you share with see your position, your @username, your name and your photo. That is the point of it, and it is the only case where another person receives anything of yours.

The app asks for permission to send notifications so it can tell you when someone requests your location, and to show the permanent notice while a trip or a share is running. If you say no, everything else keeps working.

We do not use Firebase or any push provider. Instead your phone asks our server, every so often, whether there is anything pending for it, using the signed device token described above. Nothing is sent to Google about you for this.

A recording is a clip of a public traffic camera that you chose to capture. There is no microphone: the app never asks for it and cannot record sound. Cameras are public government feeds, and we do not add anything to them.

Recordings you save go to a private bucket that only your account can read, so they are yours and not public. You can delete any of them, at any time, and they go with your account if you delete that.

When you first open Roadze on the web, the map has to point somewhere. Instead of always starting in Las Vegas, our server looks up the rough city your IP address belongs to and starts there. That is all it is used for.

Three things worth being clear about. Your browser never talks to that service — our server asks, so your IP is not handed out from your machine. The answer is city-level, often the city of your internet provider rather than yours, which is why it is never drawn as your location: it only chooses the starting view. And if you have used the site before, your last map position wins over any of this.

This is separate from the location permission. Roadze only knows where you actually are if you turn that on yourself.

We do not build advertising profiles, we do not sell data, and we do not share it with data brokers. We do not track you across other websites or other apps. There is no advertising in Roadze, on the web or in the app.

There is no analytics SDK, no crash-reporting SDK and no advertising ID in the app. On the website we count visits with Google Analytics 4 — pages opened, country, device, where people came from — with the advertising features switched off and without your IP address being stored; the Cookie Policy explains it. Beyond that count, where no account is needed, we do not know who you are while you browse the cameras.

Running the service means relying on a few providers. Each only receives what it needs to do its job, and none of them is allowed to use it for anything else:

Every permission can be taken back at any time from Android Settings, and the app keeps working without them, minus whatever that permission was for.

Everything travels encrypted over HTTPS, on the web and in the app. Passwords are hashed by our authentication provider and cannot be read by anyone, us included. Recordings live in a private bucket, and the database refuses, row by row, to hand your data to another account — that rule is enforced by the database itself, not only by our code.

We ask for as little as we can, and what we do not store cannot leak. That is why there is no location history here.

In the app: Settings → Account → Delete account. On the web: Settings → Account. Same button, same account, either place.

When you do, it is scheduled for deletion and kept for 30 days — a grace period so an accidental or angry deletion can be undone. During that time you can recover it by signing in again. After 30 days it is deleted permanently by an automatic job, together with your recordings, your profile, your shares and anything else attached to it. That deletion is final: we cannot bring it back.

If you cannot get into your account, write to workbook.corp@gmail.com from the address on the account and we will delete it for you.

Wherever you live, you can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to erase it. Write to workbook.corp@gmail.com from the address on the account and we will handle it within 30 days. Most of it you can do yourself, without asking anyone, from Settings.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we handle your data to perform the contract you accepted when you created the account (having an account, sharing location with people you chose), to meet a legal obligation, or on our legitimate interest in keeping the service running and secure. You also have the right to portability, to object, and to complain to your local data protection authority.

If you are in California, we do not sell your personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising — we never have. You can ask what we collected, ask us to delete it, and we will not treat you differently for asking.

Roadze is run from the United States and our providers store data there. If you use it from outside the US, your data is transferred there — with the standard contractual clauses where the law requires them.

Roadze is not aimed at children and we do not knowingly create accounts for anyone under 13. If you believe a child has an account here, write to us and we will remove it.

If we change how any of this works, we update this page and the date at the top. If the change is significant and you have an account, we will email you rather than hope you notice.