Clearpath
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Privacy Policy

What Clearpath collects, why, and what you can do about it.

Clearpath Privacy Policy

Effective: TBD (first public release)
Last updated: 26 May 2026

Clearpath is a Cape Town navigation app built for solo by Edward Leonard. This policy describes what we collect, why, and what you can do about it.

TL;DR

  • We don't run ads.
  • We don't sell your data.
  • Your location stays on your device - we never store where you've been.
  • The only personal-ish data we keep is what you choose to give us: saved favourite places, your own custom danger zones, and the content of incident reports you submit.

What we collect

Location (foreground only)

Clearpath asks for your location while the app is open so it can:

  • Centre the map on your current position.
  • Calculate the safest route from where you are to where you want to go.
  • Warn you when you're approaching or entering a higher-risk area.

We never collect background location. When you close or background the app, location updates stop.

We never transmit your location to our servers. Routing requests go to Mapbox directly with the start/end points you've chosen (which may or may not be your live position). Mapbox sees those coordinates; we don't.

Saved data

The following lives in our Supabase database, associated with your anonymous device install:

  • Favourites: the named places you've explicitly saved.
  • Your own danger zones: areas you've drawn on the map to flag as risky.
  • Incident reports: pothole or hazard locations you've submitted, plus the optional description.
  • Route history: the start and end points of routes you've calculated, for the in-app history view.

No account, no email, no phone number. The link between this data and you is a single random device-install identifier that exists only inside the app.

Diagnostics

When the app crashes or errors out, the Expo / EAS service collects a non-personal crash trace (which line of code failed, what device model). No personal data, no location.

What we share

With Mapbox (mapping & routing provider): the coordinates of your route's start and end, and the bounding box of the map view, so they can serve the map tiles and calculate directions. Their privacy policy is at https://www.mapbox.com/legal/privacy.

With Supabase (database provider): the saved data described above. Their privacy policy is at https://supabase.com/privacy.

With nobody else. No ads, no analytics, no third-party trackers.

Your rights

You can:

  • Delete a favourite, custom zone, or incident report from inside the app at any time.
  • Wipe everything: uninstall the app, and the local device-install identifier is gone. Any data still on Supabase remains anonymous (we can't connect it back to you), but if you want it scrubbed by hand, email the developer.

If you're a EU/UK resident, you have rights under GDPR / UK GDPR - including access, deletion, and portability. We've designed the app so most of those rights are exercisable directly through the UI; for anything you can't do in-app, contact the developer.

Children

Clearpath is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Contact

This is a solo project. For privacy questions, data deletion requests, or to report a vulnerability:

Both addresses forward to the developer's personal inbox.

Changes

We'll update this document if anything material changes and bump the "Last updated" date. Significant changes will be announced in-app on next launch.