RideTracker Privacy Policy

The short version

You can use RideTracker without an account. Your ride history is stored on your iPhone.

Your GPS location stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch. It is not sent to us or stored in the cloud.

If you sign in, your park days and profile are backed up with Google Firebase, and your friends can see what you choose to share.

There are no ads and no third-party tracking, and we don't sell your data.

Location

RideTracker uses your location to show which park you are in and the rides closest to you. During a park day you start, it also notices when you are standing in a ride's line so it can ask if you want to log that ride.

Location set to Always is optional. With it, iOS lets RideTracker notice when you arrive at a park entrance so it can say welcome, and keeps ride prompts working while your phone is locked. Close tracking only runs during a park day you start. Between park days, RideTracker only uses the iOS park-entrance alerts.

Your location is processed on your device. Your coordinates and location history are not uploaded to our server or to Firebase. If you sign in, each backed-up park day records which park it was at, not where you were in it. The Apple Watch app uses location the same way, to find the ride nearest you.

If you share a park day with friends, they see the name of the park you are at, not where you are in it.

Information stored on your iPhone

Your park days and the rides you log (ride, time, the posted wait, and how long you waited if you use the Apple Watch line timer), your settings, reminders, and the step count for a park day if you allow motion access.

RideTracker's widgets, Siri shortcuts and Apple Watch app read this information from your iPhone. It stays on your devices unless you sign in.

If you sign in

Account. You can sign in with Apple or Google. Sign-in uses Firebase Authentication, a Google service. It stores a sign-in ID and the email address Apple or Google provides (Apple can give a private relay address), plus your name if you share it.

Backup. Your park days and rides are stored in Cloud Firestore (also Google) so they come back on a new phone.

Profile. Your display name, @username, avatar or photo, bio, home park, favorite ride, profile color and frame, and lifetime stats (rides, parks, level, badges). Other signed-in RideTracker users can see your profile, for example when they search for your username.

Friends. Your friend list and friend requests. Friends you accept can see your park days.

Sharing a park day. Only when you turn it on, your friends see the park you are at, how many rides you have logged that day and your last ride, and they get a notification when you arrive.

Friend leaderboards. On a ride's page, your friends see how many times you have ridden it. This comes from the park days friends can already see.

Global leaderboards. Off unless you turn on "Show me on global leaderboards". When it's on, any signed-in RideTracker user can see your display name, @username, avatar emoji, frame and how many times you have ridden each ride, counting only rides logged at the park. Your photo and park days are not shown. Turning it off removes you from every global leaderboard.

Google's handling of Firebase data is described at firebase.google.com/support/privacy.

Notifications and alerts

Ride prompts, park welcomes, reminders and rain warnings are created on your iPhone.

When you set a wait alert or a Magic Key alert, the app sends our server (firstdropnews.com) your device's push notification token, the ride or date, and the wait you picked. The alert is sent through Expo's push service and Apple Push Notification service. These records are not linked to your account and are deleted 3 days after the alert expires.

Park information and weather

Wait times, ride status, park hours and showtimes come from ThemeParks.wiki and Queue-Times. Weather comes from Open-Meteo. Magic Key reservation availability comes from Disney's public calendar through our server. Wait forecasts come from our server.

These requests name a park, ride or date. They never include your location or account. Like any website, those services can see your IP address.

What we don't do

No ads, no analytics or tracking tools, and no selling, renting or sharing your data with advertisers or data brokers. The ride assistant in the app runs on your phone.

Deleting your data

You can delete or edit any ride or park day in the app.

To leave the global leaderboards, open any ride's leaderboard, choose Everyone and turn off "Show me on global leaderboards". Deleting your account also removes you.

To delete your account, go to the You tab, then Account, then Delete account. This removes your account, the park days backed up to it, your profile, @username, friends and friend requests. You can erase the ride history on your iPhone at the same time, or later by deleting the app.

You can also email jeanpierre@jpland.net and we'll delete your account for you.

Children

RideTracker is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think a child has created an account, email us and we'll delete it.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects what is shared or with whom, we'll also mention it in the app.

Contact

Questions or requests: jeanpierre@jpland.net