Privacy Policy

Last updated October 28, 2026

SweepSpot has no accounts, no analytics and no advertising, and it never sells or shares your information. Almost everything it does happens on your device. This page explains what leaves your device, when, and why. It covers the iPhone app and its App Clip, the Android app and the web app at app.sweepspot.ai alike.

Location

SweepSpot uses your device's location, or an address you type in, to work out which block and which side of the street you are on, and to show the parking rules for that spot. That matching happens on your device.

To fetch the rules, the app requests the data for a map tile covering roughly one square kilometre around the spot from our content delivery network. That request identifies the tile, not you and not your precise position, and it is not tied to any account. A copy of the data also ships inside the app and is used whenever the network is unavailable.

Drawing the map means telling a map provider which area to draw, the way any map app does. On iPhone the map is Apple Maps. On Android and in a desktop browser it is Mapbox. Address search is resolved by Mapbox on every platform, and in the web app, tapping your location dot asks Mapbox for the address at that spot. SweepSpot has no server of its own that sees or stores any of this. See Apple's privacy policy and Mapbox's privacy policy for how they handle it.

Problem reports

Any card in the app can be turned over to report a wrong schedule, meter or sign. If you send a report, the app sends your description, the photo you attached (if any), your precise location at that moment, the block's details as shown on the card, and the app and data versions to our report service, which delivers it by email to the developer. Nothing is sent until you press Send.

Reports are used only to investigate what you reported and to fix the data. They are kept in the developer's mailbox and are not linked to you, because there is nothing to link them to. To limit abuse, the report service keeps a short-lived count of reports per network address; it does not keep the reports themselves.

Reminders, calendar, Lock Screen and widget

"Move your car" notification reminders are scheduled on your device by iOS or Android's own notification system.

On iPhone, the Lock Screen countdown can also be updated by push, through Apple's push service and ours:

• The moving street sweeper. To move the sweeper along the countdown, the app subscribes the countdown to a broadcast channel for its sweep window. The channel carries only that window's start and end times, it is shared by everyone counting down to the same window, and nothing about you or your phone is sent to set it up.
• A countdown set well ahead. iOS ends a countdown after about eight hours, so if you set one further ahead than that, the app asks our push service to start it about eight hours before the sweep. For that it sends the street name, the sweep times, the reminder's wording and the token Apple issues for starting a countdown on your phone. That record is kept only until the countdown has started or you clear the reminder, then deleted. It is not linked to you and is used for nothing else.

If you add a reminder to your calendar, the app writes an event to the calendar you choose, with your permission, and removes the events it created when you clear the reminder in the app. It does not read your calendar for anything else.

The Lock Screen countdown and the Home Screen widget run on your device. The widget's small map is drawn by Apple Maps from the location where you parked.

Sharing a parked car

A parked car's card has a share button. It makes a link to the car's spot (its position, and the block and street it is on) and hands it to your phone's share sheet, so you choose who gets it and how. SweepSpot does not send the link anywhere itself and keeps no copy.

The spot is written into the link, so anyone you send it to can see where the car is, as can the app you send it with. Share it only with people you want to know where your car is.

Opening a shared link in SweepSpot asks before pinning the car. Opened in a browser, the page at app.sweepspot.ai reads the spot from the link on your device and shows it. If you tap Directions, the spot is handed to Apple Maps or Google Maps, whichever you pick.

The App Clip

On iPhone, a shared car's link, or a SweepSpot QR code on a street, can open the SweepSpot App Clip: a small part of the app that runs without installing it. It handles your information the way the app does. With your permission, your location is used on your device to find the curbs around you. The clip downloads the parking lines for the area around you from our content delivery network, in squares of about one kilometre; those requests identify the area, not you. The map is Apple Maps.

If you tap Save location, the clip leaves that spot on your phone for the SweepSpot app, so the app can offer to pin it the first time it opens. It never leaves your phone, the app reads it once, and the app ignores it after a week. The App Clip sends no reminders or reports, and iOS removes it and its data on its own when it has not been used for a while.

What is stored, and where

Your reminder-timing preference, the spot where you parked and the rules for that block (until you clear it), and the app's own settings are saved only on your device. In the web app they live in your browser's storage. They are never transmitted anywhere, and they are deleted when you uninstall the app or clear the site's data.

Analytics, ads and tracking

None. SweepSpot has no analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs, and it does not track you across other apps or websites.

Third parties

• Apple provides the map on iPhone and in the App Clip, along with notifications, the calendar, Live Activities and widgets, under Apple's own privacy policy.
• Mapbox resolves address searches on every platform and draws the map on Android and in desktop browsers.
• Cloudflare hosts the data files, the pages shared links and QR codes open, the map token service, the report service and the push service for the Lock Screen countdown. Like any host, it sees the network requests it serves.
• The parking rules come from the City and County of San Francisco's open data. Nothing about you is sent there.

Children's privacy

SweepSpot does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children. The only information kept off your device is a problem report you choose to send, and, on iPhone, the details of a countdown you set more than eight hours ahead, until it starts.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected]