Privacy, in plain English.
Last updated: 13 September 2026
This notice covers the RetroSpeedGPS iPhone app. The separate website section below explains visits, support messages and any email subscriptions.
Who is responsible?
RetroSpeedGPS is provided by Remco van Breugel. For privacy questions, contact support@retrospeedgps.com.
The short version
RetroSpeedGPS does not require an account. The app stores saved trips and preferences on your iPhone and does not send those files to a RetroSpeedGPS server. It contains no advertising or third-party analytics SDK.
Apple services, your device's backup settings, beta testing and exports you choose to make can involve data leaving your device. Those situations are described below.
Location and heading
With your permission, the app uses location, speed, timestamps and heading to display speed, calculate trip information and position the optional map. Location data also supplies route recordings if you enable Log Drives. The app requests location permission through iOS; you can change or withdraw access in your iPhone's settings. Without it, location-based features cannot work.
Log Drives also enables background location updates. The iOS location indicator is shown while background location is in use. Turning this setting off disables the app's background location updates; it does not erase saved data.
What the app saves
Saved trip summaries include dates, distance, duration and speed statistics. When route logging is enabled, recordings also contain route coordinates, elevation, speed and timestamps. Recording checkpoints are saved during a drive to help recover interrupted recordings.
The app also stores preferences such as the chosen instrument, units and display options, along with local state for trip controls and the optional tip prompt. These records are stored within the app's storage on your iPhone. There is no automatic upload of drive-log files to a RetroSpeedGPS account or server.
Retention, deletion and backups
Saved drives remain in the app until you delete them. To remove them, first stop and save any active trip, switch Log Drives off, then use Settings → Drive Log to delete individual drives or all saved drives.
Deleting the app removes its local app data; offloading an app is different and can retain its documents. Copies you have exported and existing backups are separate from the app's local records. Depending on your settings, iCloud or computer backups may contain app data. You manage those copies with Apple or the destination where you saved them.
See Apple's explanation of iCloud Backup.
Maps and Apple services
The optional map uses Apple's MapKit. Loading maps can involve communication with Apple's services, which handle data under Apple's applicable privacy terms. See Apple Maps & Privacy.
Where optional tips are available, purchases are handled by Apple through StoreKit and the App Store. The app receives transaction information needed to handle the purchase; it does not receive your card details. Tips do not unlock app features. See Apple's privacy policy.
Exports you choose
If you use GPX export for a recorded route, the app creates a file containing route coordinates, elevation, speed and timestamps. You choose where to save or send it through the iOS share sheet. The recipient or service may then process it under its own terms. Deleting a drive in RetroSpeedGPS does not recall an export.
TestFlight and diagnostics
If you use a beta through TestFlight, Apple processes beta usage, crashes and feedback as described in its TestFlight privacy notice. Information may be made available to the developer to help test and improve the app. Feedback you submit can include your comments, screenshots and contact information. This is separate from the app's locally stored drive logs.
See TestFlight & Privacy.
Questions and changes
Contact support@retrospeedgps.com with privacy questions or requests about information you have sent us. We will update this notice when the app's data handling changes and show the updated date here.
When you visit this website
This website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes technical request information, such as IP addresses and request details, to deliver and secure its services. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
These pages contain no advertising scripts, analytics scripts, third-party fonts or embedded social feeds. Following an external link takes you to that service’s own website and privacy policy.
Beta interest and support
This website has no subscription form. If you email support@retrospeedgps.com, we receive your email address and the content you send so we can respond. Cloudflare Email Routing forwards incoming messages to our support mailbox. We use messages to handle and follow up your request, and retain them only as needed for that purpose or to meet legal obligations. We do not add support correspondents to a marketing list. Please avoid sending location histories unless necessary for your request.
Your privacy choices
Contact support@retrospeedgps.com to ask about personal information you have sent us, request access, correction or deletion, or object to its use. Applicable data-protection law may also give you rights to restriction and portability. We cannot retrieve drive logs stored only on your phone. You can also raise a concern with your local data-protection authority, including the Dutch Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.