Throttler Privacy Policy
- No account. No sign-up.
- Anonymous usage counts only, such as which dash gets used. They can be turned off in Settings.
- No advertising IDs. No identifier of any kind. We never sell your data.
- Your location is used on your phone, and only while the app is open.
- To show weather, we send a rounded position (about 11 km) to our weather service.
- Map, radar and speed-limit tiles are fetched for the area you are in.
What this policy covers
This policy covers the Throttler app for Android and the servers it talks to. Motocamp runs the app and those servers.
Location
The app needs your location to work. It uses GPS to show your speed, heading, altitude, grade, trip distance and the street map.
All of this is worked out on your phone. Your exact position and your ride track stay on your phone.
The app uses location only while it is open. It does not track you in the background.
Motion sensors (for lean angle, roll, pitch and g-force) are also read on your phone only.
What leaves your phone
Weather. To show wind, temperature, pressure and rain, the app sends a rounded position to our weather service. The position is rounded to about 11 km, so it shows your general area, not where you are. Our weather service may pass that rounded position on to a weather data provider to get the forecast.
Map, radar and speed-limit tiles. The app downloads small map pictures, called tiles, for the area around you. Each tile request shows the area it covers, and like any internet request, your IP address. These requests go to:
- our servers at
api.throttler.app, for rain radar and speed limits; - the OpenFreeMap tile servers, for the street map (OpenStreetMap data). OpenFreeMap handles these requests under its own terms.
House ads. If you do not have Pro, the app shows ads for our own apps, Motocamp and Ridgeflow, only when you are stopped. The ad pictures are part of our own service. No ad network is used. If you tap an ad, a web page opens, and the link shows that the visit came from the app.
Anonymous usage counts
The app sends us anonymous counts of how it gets used, so we can tell which features to work on and whether something is broken. Each count is a tally, such as "one more minute on the Apex dash". No identifier goes with it, so we cannot tell one phone from another.
What is counted:
- How often the app is opened, and how long for, in ranges (under 1 minute, 1 to 5 minutes, and so on).
- App version, Android version, screen type (phone or tablet) and the language of your phone.
- Free or Pro, and minutes used per vehicle, dash, orientation, units and day or night setting.
- Riding totals in wide ranges only: moving minutes, distance per session (for example 5 to 20 km), top speed (for example 100 to 150 km/h) and peak lean angle on a bike.
- Taps on Settings, Zero, the lap timer and the voice setting in use.
- Ad views and taps per app advertised, the steps toward buying Pro, and if a purchase fails, the kind of failure.
- App health: a location warning shown, how long the first GPS fix took, weather or map downloads that failed, a count of app errors (never the error text) and the hot phone warning.
To count daily, weekly and monthly use and how long people keep the app, your phone remembers the dates itself and only tells us "first time today", "first time this week", "first time this month" and how long since install, as a range. The dates stay on your phone.
Never collected in these counts: your position, routes, heading or altitude; an exact speed or distance; your IP address; any install ID, device ID, advertising ID, or a hash of one; anything you type; the time an event happened.
Where it is stored: in a Cloudflare D1 database we run, as one running total per day, counter and country. The country is worked out by Cloudflare from the connection; we do not store the IP address. We keep these totals as long as they are useful. They are totals only, and cannot be linked to a person or a phone.
Turn it off: open Settings → Anonymous usage stats → Off. Nothing more is sent, and the switch stays off after a restart.
What we do not collect
- No account, name, email or phone number.
- No third-party analytics or tracking tools. The only usage data is the anonymous counts described above.
- No advertising ID, no device or install ID, and no ad networks.
- No contacts, photos or files.
- We do not sell or rent any data, to anyone.
Purchases
Throttler Pro is a yearly subscription bought through Google Play. Google handles the payment. We never see your card or payment details. The app receives only whether you have Pro, so it can turn on the Pro features. Google's own privacy policy covers the payment.
Server logs and how long we keep data
Our servers run on Cloudflare. Like most web servers, they may keep standard request logs for a short time. These logs can include your IP address, the time, and the tile or rounded area asked for. They are used only to keep the service running and safe. Cloudflare keeps them under its own retention rules. We do not use them to build a profile of you.
Data stored in the app on your phone stays there until you delete it or remove the app.
Children
Throttler is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your choices
You can turn off location access for the app in your phone's settings at any time. The app then cannot show speed or the map. Because there is no account, we hold no personal profile to delete. If you have a question about your data, write to us.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date.
Contact
Motocamp. Email support@throttler.app.