Privacy Policy

Who we are

Sürdaş is a group intercom and ride coordination app for motorcyclists. For privacy questions contact ilkerceker@live.com.

What we process and why

Display name and device session. To show who is in a ride room. You can use the app without an account.

Account (optional). E-mail address, a salted password hash, profile name, avatar and bio, friends and communities — to sign in on several phones and to keep communities and planned rides.

Location. Shared with your ride group only while a ride is active and only after you switch on location sharing; background sharing needs your separate permission. The server keeps just the latest position for about two minutes and deletes it when you stop sharing, leave or the ride ends. No location history is stored.

Voice. Intercom audio is relayed live to the riders in your room through our media server (LiveKit). It is not recorded or stored.

Ride data. Role, quick status, meeting points, captain announcements and safety reports (SOS, crash, road hazards, optionally with a position) are shown to your group and kept with the room.

Battery level. Your phone battery percentage and charging state are shared with your group during a ride so the captain can see who may drop out; the value is ignored after ten minutes.

Notifications. A Firebase Cloud Messaging token and your app language, to send SOS/crash alerts, community ride and planned ride notifications. The token is deleted when you sign out or delete your account.

Crash reports. If enabled in a build, technical error reports (device model, OS version, stack trace) are sent to Sentry without your location or messages.

Service providers

Railway (API and database hosting), LiveKit (voice relay), Google Firebase (push notifications), MapTiler (map tiles; your device requests map images directly, which exposes its IP address), Resend (password reset e-mails) and Sentry (crash reports). They process data only to provide these services. Some of them operate outside Türkiye, including in the EU and the USA.

What we do not do

No advertising, no selling or sharing of personal data for marketing, no tracking across other apps or websites, and no automatic crash detection or emergency calls — SOS and crash alerts are sent only when you press them.

Retention and deletion

Positions: about two minutes. Push tokens: until sign-out or account deletion. Account data: until you delete the account in the app (Profile → Delete account) or via the account deletion page. Ride rooms and their safety reports may be kept for safety and abuse handling; when your account is deleted they are no longer linked to it.

Your rights

Under the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK) and, where applicable, the GDPR you can ask for access, correction, deletion or objection. Write to ilkerceker@live.com; we answer within 30 days.

Children

Sürdaş is not intended for children under 13.