Privacy Policy

This is the privacy policy for the Sideroads app. These policies are subject to change without notice. Users should check this page for the latest privacy policy and immediately discontinue use of the application if they disagree with it.

As a trip planning app, Sideroads creates and manages data relating to its users’ personal travel plans: the user tells the app where they are going, what they are doing, and when they plan to do it. The app stores this data locally on the user’s devices, allowing them to view it later while providing additional value add services such as driving directions and weather forecasts. Trip data is retained as long as the user intends, and is deleted when the user chooses to delete it.

Sideroads does not directly share any of this data outside the user’s device. The app may use dates and locations from planned trips to request information from third party services such as weather services or driving directions generators; these requests are performed anonymously and no personally identifiable information is disclosed to third parties.

Sideroads protects all sensitive data using industry‑standard security measures. Sensitive data, including user-provided API keys and tokens, are encrypted at rest using secure platform storage, and all communication with third‑party services occurs over encrypted HTTPS/TLS connections. Access to sensitive data is restricted to the Sideroads application and is never used for any purpose other than those described in this policy.

At the user’s request, the app may sync travel information to the user’s own cloud storage (such as OneDrive or Google Drive) allowing users to more easily share data between their own devices. None of this data is transferred to any other service, and the user retains full control of the data. The app only reads and writes from its own application directory on the user’s cloud storage, and does not access any other files belonging to the user.

During the sync process, the app may access profile information about the user (such as name, email address, avatar) in order to display the user’s signed-in status. When accessing Google user data, Sideroads complies with Google’s API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Sideroads does not use user data for advertising, profiling, or any purpose unrelated to the features the user has chosen to use. User data such as profile information or authentication tokens is retained only as long as needed to provide the associated feature and is deleted when the user signs out or removes the app’s data. Users may revoke Sideroads access to their accounts at any time through their Microsoft or Google Account permissions page.

The user may request that the app share user data (such as user trips or recorded user tracks) with other users. In these cases, the data items specified by the user are shared using native cloud storage mechanisms. The app may also examine cloud storage folders shared by other users in order to detect shared app items and download them to the user’s device. Sideroads only accesses cloud storage files that were created by itself or another instance of the app running as another user.

To enable cloud sharing scenarios, as well as planned “meeting” activities inside user trips, the app may access the user’s contacts in order to auto-complete email addresses specified by the user. The app does not use contacts for any other purpose.

If the app crashes, the app may send crash information to the Sentry service. This information is used to fix bugs in the app, and is only visible to the app developers.