Summary: RoadBook records your drives entirely on your device. MW Supply Limited operates no servers and never receives your location or trip data — your trips stay on your device or, if you are signed in to iCloud, inside your own iCloud account. The new Driving Mode looks up public road-safety and parking information (camera locations, car-park availability, traffic cameras) directly from third-party open-data providers; those requests go to the data providers, never to us, and carry no account or trip data (Section 9). RoadBook is free with ads; on the free plan a third-party advertising provider (Google AdMob) is used to show ads and may collect device and ad-interaction data as described below. The optional RoadBook Pro subscription removes all ads.
None directly. We operate no servers and receive no personal data from RoadBook. The app has no account system, no login, and no user profile, and it makes no network requests to MW Supply Limited. Your trips, routes and preferences are never sent to us.
RoadBook does make two kinds of request to other companies, never to us: the third-party advertising provider on the free plan (Section 7), which collects data under Google’s control to deliver ads; and, in Driving Mode, read-only lookups of public open data from the data providers described in Section 9. Neither carries your identity, your account (there is none), or your trip data.
While you are recording a drive, RoadBook reads your location from iOS Core Location and stores each trip on your device as a list of GPS samples (latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, course, timestamp, and Apple’s reported accuracy). Each finished trip is saved as a single JSON file in the app’s own sandbox. From those samples the app computes distance, duration, max and average speed, elevation gain, and the route polyline you see on the map.
RoadBook also stores your in-app preferences (units, auto-start/auto-stop thresholds and toggles) using iOS’s standard UserDefaults mechanism.
If you are signed in to iCloud on the device and have iCloud Drive enabled, RoadBook stores trip files in your own iCloud Documents container (iCloud.com.edfd.DrivingRecorder). This is Apple’s CloudKit Documents feature: the files are stored under your Apple ID, synchronised between your own devices by Apple, and are not accessible to MW Supply Limited. (Cross-device iCloud sync is part of RoadBook Pro.) If iCloud is not available, trips are stored only on the device.
Recording a drive requires location access. The app uses the lowest-privacy permission that gets the job done:
Your precise location is used to record your current drive on your device. MW Supply Limited does not collect, transmit, or share your location, and your location is not used for advertising. There is one functional exception: in Driving Mode, outside the regions that have a built-in camera dataset (currently Hong Kong), the app sends an approximate map location to OpenStreetMap’s public Overpass API to look up speed-camera locations near you (Section 9). That request goes to OpenStreetMap, not to us, and contains only a rounded coordinate — no identity and no trip data.
With your permission, the app posts local notifications when it auto-starts and auto-stops a recording. These are generated and delivered entirely on-device by iOS.
You can export a finished trip as a GPX or JSON file from the Trip detail screen. The destination of that export (Files, Mail, AirDrop, etc.) is chosen by you through the iOS share sheet. We are not involved in that transfer.
You can also share a trip with another person in two ways. Both are started explicitly by you, and MW Supply Limited is never part of the transfer:
.roadbooktrip file (the same trip data, in JSON) and hands it to the iOS share sheet, so you can send it via AirDrop, Messages, Mail, or save it to Files. Whoever you send it to can open it in RoadBook. The transfer happens through whichever app you pick; it does not pass through us.So that a recipient knows who a trip came from, the optional display name you set in Settings → Sharing is included with any trip you share. It is shown only to the people you share a trip with; it is never sent to us. Trips that other people share with you appear in your Trips list under “Shared with you,” tagged with the sender’s name, and you can remove them at any time.
Regional leaderboard (optional, off by default). If you turn on the regional leaderboard in Settings → Compete, the app publishes a small summary of your driving to a public leaderboard held in Apple’s CloudKit: your display name, your country, and aggregate figures — your top speed, total distance, and time driven above 150 km/h — for the current day, week, month, year, and all time. It never includes your routes, individual trips, timestamps, or any location coordinate; to work out your country the app reverse-geocodes only the last point of a drive to a country code, on your device. The leaderboard is public to other RoadBook users, and you can leave it at any time by turning the toggle off. This data stays inside Apple’s CloudKit and is never accessible to MW Supply Limited.
On the free plan, RoadBook shows ads using the Google Mobile Ads SDK (Google AdMob): a banner on the Trips screen and an occasional short video ad when you save a manually recorded drive. To select, deliver, measure and cap the frequency of these ads and to prevent fraud, the Google SDK may collect device and usage information — including a device advertising identifier (IDFA, only with your consent), an IP address (and the coarse region derived from it), and information about your interaction with the ads.
The first time you open the app, iOS shows Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt:
This advertising data is collected and processed by Google as an independent controller, not by MW Supply Limited. We never receive it. Google’s handling of this data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. You can change your tracking choice at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
RoadBook Pro removes all ads. While you are a Pro subscriber the app does not display ads, does not load the advertising SDK for ad serving, and the App Tracking Transparency choice has no effect on you.
RoadBook Pro is an auto-renewable subscription (Monthly or Yearly) sold through Apple’s In-App Purchase — the only in-app purchase in the app. Your purchase, payment and renewals are handled entirely by Apple under your Apple Account; MW Supply Limited never receives your name, your Apple ID, or any payment details. Apple provides us only with aggregate, non-identifying sales reports. Subscriptions are managed and cancelled in iOS Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions.
The only third-party SDK bundled in RoadBook is the Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob), used solely to show ads on the free plan (Section 7). The app contains no analytics frameworks and no crash-reporting services other than Apple’s own first-party crash reporting (which runs only if you have opted in to Share With App Developers in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements). The first-party Apple services it uses on your device are Core Location, MapKit, CLGeocoder (to label countries and cities on the Explore tab, and to detect which country you are driving in so Driving Mode shows the right data and respects local rules), iCloud / CloudKit Documents, and StoreKit (for subscriptions).
Driving Mode open data. Driving Mode overlays public road-safety and parking information on the map. To do that it makes read-only requests to public open-data providers:
overpass-api.de) — fixed speed-camera locations in regions without a built-in dataset. As noted in Section 4, this request includes an approximate (rounded) map coordinate so the provider can return cameras near you.As with any internet request, these reveal your device’s IP address to the provider you are contacting; that is inherent to how the internet works and is handled under each provider’s own policy. RoadBook sends them no account information (there is none), no identifier we create, and none of your recorded trips. Camera, parking and red-light-camera locations are shown only where permitted by local law, and the underlying data is provided by these third parties “as is” — it may be incomplete or out of date, so always follow the road and posted signs. Speed-camera, red-light-camera and proximity alerts in Driving Mode are available for free; live parking availability and traffic-camera images are part of RoadBook Pro.
Open-data attribution: car-park, traffic-camera and camera information in Hong Kong © Transport Department, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; speed-camera data elsewhere © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL).
RoadBook is intended for adults who drive. We do not knowingly direct the app to, or collect personal data from, children.
You stay in control of your data:
If we ever change how RoadBook handles data, we will update this page and the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will also be reflected in the App Store privacy labels for the affected version of the app.
Questions about this privacy policy can be sent to mwsupplylimited@gmail.com.