Privacy Policy
Updated November 14, 2026
This policy describes Plate Tracker, developed under the Baumaway Designs name. Contact support@baumaway.us with privacy questions.
Your trips stay with you
Plate Tracker does not require an account and does not send your trip collection to a developer-operated server. There are no advertising, analytics, or tracking SDKs in this version. We do not sell your trip or location data.
Information saved on your device
The app saves trip names, start and finish times, the plate regions you log, sighting times, collection progress, and your preferences. If you allow location access, a sighting may also include latitude, longitude, location accuracy, and an approximate distance to that region’s border. The app records regions, not the registration numbers of vehicles you see. Local activity timestamps and a recent location checkpoint help with trip finishing and arrival suggestions.
Optional location access
Location is requested only while the app is in use. It helps name a trip’s starting town, place sightings on the map, estimate border distances, and suggest finishing after a break in the same area. The app does not continuously record a route or track location in the background. You can log plates without location permission. Change permission or Precise Location in iOS Settings. Turning off permission stops new location access; it does not erase previously saved sightings. Arrival Suggestions can be turned off in the app’s Settings.
Apple services and Live Activities
To suggest a starting town, the app sends a location to Apple’s geocoding service. Apple processes these requests under its privacy practices. Collection maps and border calculations use bundled geographic outlines on your device. Optional Live Activities show your trip name, timing, and collection progress on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, where others may see them. Turn Live Activity off in the app’s Settings to stop showing trip details there. Automatic trip finishing uses time away from the app; it does not require background location tracking.
Sharing and external links
Sharing happens when you choose a share action and a destination in the system share sheet. A trip recap includes its name, date, collection counts, and region names, but not recorded coordinates. A trip name may contain the starting town or any text you entered. Recipients and destination apps control the copies you share. Source and license links open external websites with their own privacy practices.
Retention, deletion, and backups
Trips remain on your device until you delete them. You can delete individual trips from trip history. Deleting the app, rather than offloading it, removes its local app data. Device or iCloud backups may contain app data according to your Apple settings, and restoring a backup may restore it. You control those backups through Apple’s settings. We do not hold a server copy that we can access or delete for you.
Support and policy updates
Plate Tracker is developed under the Baumaway Designs name. For privacy questions or support, email support@baumaway.us. If you contact support, Cloudflare forwards your message to our support inbox, and the mailbox provider processes your email address and the message or attachments you choose to send. Use only the information needed for your question. Support correspondence is used to respond and troubleshoot; it is separate from your on-device trip collection. This policy will be updated when the app’s data practices change. The current policy is available in Settings → Privacy Policy.
This website
Cloudflare hosts these support and privacy pages and may process your IP address and request details to deliver and secure the website. These website requests are separate from the trip collection stored by the app. We have not added advertising trackers, analytics scripts, or cookies to these pages.