Privacy policy
Last updated 1 November 2026
Service Station is an app for logging the motorway and A-road services you stop at. This policy explains what it collects, why, where it's kept and what you can do about it. The short version: it keeps your sign-in email and the visits you log, it uses your location on your phone to find the services you're at, and it doesn't track you, show adverts or sell anything about you.
Who is responsible
Service Station is made by Dan Towers, a sole developer in the United Kingdom, who is the data controller for the information described here. Contact: support@servicestations.app.
What the app collects and why
Your account
Your email address, so you can sign in with a one-time code (there are no passwords) and so your visits are kept with your account across devices. Lawful basis: providing the service you asked for (contract).
The visits you log
For each visit: which services, the date and time, and anything you add — a star rating, notes and photos. For stops found by auto-detect, also when you arrived and left and how long you stayed. This is stored with your account and is private to you. Lawful basis: contract.
Your location
- On the map and “I'm here”, your location is used on your phone to show where you are and find the services you're at. It isn't sent to us.
- Auto-detect is optional and off until you turn it on. It uses your location in the background, including when the app is closed, through low-power geofences around nearby services (not continuous GPS tracking). When you're at a services for about a minute it asks “Are you here?”. Your position is not stored or sent to us: the app only notes, on your phone, which services you're at and when. Nothing is added to your account unless you confirm the visit. Lawful basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by turning auto-detect off in the app's settings or your phone's location settings.
- Geofencing is provided by your phone's operating system (Google Play services on Android, Apple on iPhone), which processes location under its own privacy policy.
Correction reports
If you choose to report a problem with a services, or a missing one: what you said is wrong, your note, and for a missing services the place you marked or your location at the time. Reports are linked to your account so we can follow up and spot abuse. We use them to correct the map data, which can mean editing OpenStreetMap, a public map; we never include your name or email in those edits. Lawful basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the map accurate.
Things the app doesn't do
No adverts, no analytics or tracking tools, no selling or sharing of your data for marketing, and no push-notification service: the “Are you here?” notification is created on your phone.
Who else handles your data
We use these services to run the app. Each processes data only to provide its service to us.
| Service | What for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Accounts, your visits, photos and correction reports | Stored in Ireland (EU). Supabase is a US company and may access data from the US for support, under standard contractual clauses. |
| Resend | Sending sign-in code emails (your email address and the code) | United States, under standard contractual clauses and the UK addendum. |
| Cloudflare | This website, the domain, and forwarding email sent to support@ | Global network |
| OpenFreeMap | Map images. Your phone downloads them directly, which shows OpenFreeMap your IP address and the area of the map you're viewing. | Europe |
How long it's kept
- Your account, visits and reports are kept until you delete them or your account.
- Deleting a visit removes it from the app and deletes its photos straight away. A record that it was deleted is kept, so your other devices remove it too, until you delete your account.
- Deleting your account deletes everything listed above, immediately and permanently. See deleting your account.
- Records of sign-in emails sent are kept by Resend for up to 30 days. Emails you send us are kept as long as needed to deal with them.
- Signing out removes your data from that phone; it stays in your account.
Keeping it secure
Everything travels over encrypted connections. Each account's data can only be read by that account, and photos are kept in private storage that needs a short-lived signed link to view.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask to see the data we hold about you, have it corrected, have it deleted, receive a copy in a portable format, or object to or restrict how it's used. Email support@servicestations.app from the address on your account; we'll reply within one month. You can delete your account yourself in the app at any time.
If you're unhappy with how your data is handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, though we'd appreciate the chance to put it right first.
Children
Service Station isn't intended for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change. If a change affects how your data is used, we'll tell you in the app first.