Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Waypoint handles your information. Waypoint is a UK driving-theory revision app built around Apple Screen Time: it blocks apps, categories or websites you choose and asks you to complete a short driving-theory challenge (“Pit Stop”) to regain temporary access. It also provides direct revision content — Theory practice, Mock Test, and a Highway Code reference section — and is built to be local-first.

Provider / data controller:
Alex Potozki
Postfach 19 02 17, 40112 Düsseldorf, Germany
support@waypointdrive.app

We do not sell your personal information. Waypoint uses two outside services to understand how the app is used and whether our advertising works: TelemetryDeck (anonymous usage statistics) and Meta (advertising measurement, which uses your device's advertising identifier only if you allow tracking when iOS asks). Both are described below. We do not use crash-reporting SDKs in the current version of the app.

Information Waypoint processes

iCloud backup of your progress

Waypoint uses Apple's CloudKit to keep a backup of your progress in your own private iCloud database, so your progress comes back if you delete Waypoint and install it again. This data is stored in your personal iCloud account. Waypoint cannot read it, and Apple does not give us access to it. Under Apple's App Store privacy rules, this still qualifies as “data not collected” because the developer cannot access the contents.

What the backup contains: your revision progress (the items below, including mistakes, favourites, mock test results, milestones, Today's Route history and swipe rounds), the daily counts behind “time saved” (numbers only, never which apps), and a few in-app preferences. It is one backup per iCloud account; each save replaces the previous one.

What is not backed up: the apps, categories and websites you selected, your Screen Time permission, your schedules and other blocking settings, and usage summaries. These stay on the device and have to be set up again after a reinstall.

It is a backup, not live syncing between devices. If you are signed out of iCloud, the app works fully offline and nothing is backed up.

Deleting the Waypoint app does not delete this backup. To delete it, open iOS Settings › [your name] › iCloud › Storage (Manage Account Storage), choose Waypoint, and delete its data.

Revision progress and preferences

Waypoint stores revision progress on your device (and, when iCloud is available, in your private iCloud database), including things like:

• question/content identifiers you have practiced (Theory practice, Mock Test)
• correct and incorrect answer counts
• mastered/readiness status
• last practiced dates
• completed practice session count
• swipe practice answers, kept separately from question answers
• the time you spent practising
• Today's Route tasks and which of them you finished
• practice difficulty, audio settings, and related revision preferences

This information is used to show progress, choose practice items, and make future practice more useful.

Blocking settings

Waypoint stores the settings you choose for blocking and unlocking, such as:

• whether protection is enabled
• unlock duration
• daily unlock limits
• daily usage limits
• schedules/time plans
• challenge modes
• selected content settings for unlock challenges (Pit Stops)
• audio and practice settings for blocked targets

These settings are stored locally so Waypoint can apply the blocking behavior you choose.

Screen Time selections and usage summaries

Waypoint uses Apple Screen Time technologies, including Family Controls, Managed Settings, Device Activity, and Screen Time shield extensions.

When you choose apps, categories or websites to block, selection happens through Apple's Screen Time picker. Waypoint stores the resulting system tokens and related configuration locally so it can apply and remove shields. For selected websites, iOS may also make the selected domain name available to the app.

Waypoint may also create local usage summaries from Apple's Device Activity reporting, such as weekly totals, daily durations, and top app display names and durations. These summaries are used for the in-app Stats/Roadbook experience. In the current version, these summaries are stored locally and are not uploaded to Waypoint servers.

Waypoint does not read your messages, posts, feeds, passwords, browser page contents, or what you do inside other apps.

Notifications

Waypoint uses local notifications to help move from the iOS Screen Time shield into the Waypoint unlock challenge. For example, after you tap Continue on a shield, Waypoint may show a notification that opens the correct Pit Stop challenge.

Waypoint can also send local reminders you can switch off in the app, for example for Today's Route or for mistakes waiting to be reviewed. All notifications are local/system notifications created on your device. Waypoint does not use a push notification server in the current version.

Widgets and the Lock Screen banner

If you add Waypoint widgets or a blocking schedule is running, iOS shows numbers such as today's tasks, your streak, minutes saved, recent mock test results, or the schedule's name and remaining time on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. These are read from your device and are not sent anywhere. Anyone who can see your screen can see them.

Support, reports, and feedback

If you contact us by email or through TestFlight feedback, we may receive the information you choose to send, such as:

• your email address
• your message, including any report about a specific question, answer, hint or illustration
• screenshots or comments
• device model, iOS version, app version, build number, crash details, or other diagnostic information included by you, Apple, or TestFlight

We use this information to respond to support requests, investigate bugs, review content accuracy or rights concerns, and improve the app.

Sign in with Apple and progress sync

Waypoint does not require an account in the current version.

If Waypoint adds optional Sign in with Apple and progress sync in a future version, we may use an Apple-provided account identifier, and possibly the email address or private relay address Apple provides, to save and restore revision progress across installs. This Privacy Policy and the App Store privacy disclosures will be updated before any such sync feature is released.

Subscriptions and RevenueCat

Waypoint sells an optional Pro subscription (weekly, monthly and six-month plans, each with a 3-day free trial) through Apple's in-app purchase system, processed via RevenueCat, a subscription infrastructure provider.

When you subscribe or restore purchases, RevenueCat processes an anonymous RevenueCat app user ID generated on your device, purchase/transaction and receipt data from Apple, and your subscription/entitlement status. Waypoint does not send RevenueCat your name, email address, or other directly identifying profile information, and never receives or stores your payment card details — Apple handles the transaction.

Anonymous usage statistics (TelemetryDeck)

Waypoint uses TelemetryDeck (TelemetryDeck GmbH, Germany) to count how the app is used, so we can see which parts work and which need fixing. TelemetryDeck is built to be anonymous: the app sends a randomly generated identifier that is hashed on your device and again on TelemetryDeck's servers before it is stored, so neither we nor TelemetryDeck can tell who you are, and it cannot be used to follow you across other apps or websites. It is not advertising tracking and it does not use the advertising identifier.

What is sent: the name of an event, with counts or rough ranges only. For example: which onboarding step was reached; that the subscription screen was shown and which plan was chosen; that a Pit Stop, practice session, swipe round or mock test was started or finished, with the number of questions or a score range; that a milestone was earned or Today's Route was completed; a setting that was switched on or off; and once a week a summary in ranges (minutes practised, days with practice, how many app-opens were stopped). TelemetryDeck also receives general technical information such as the app version, iOS version and device model.

What is never sent: the text of questions or your answers to them, which topics you are weak in, which apps, categories or websites you block, the names of your schedules, anything you type, your name, or your email address.

Advertising measurement (Meta) and the tracking permission

We advertise Waypoint on Meta's platforms (Facebook and Instagram). To find out whether those ads lead to people installing Waypoint and subscribing, the app includes Meta's SDK, and RevenueCat reports subscription events (such as a trial starting or a purchase) to Meta on our behalf.

The first time you continue past the opening screen, iOS asks whether you allow Waypoint to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

• If you allow it, Meta may receive your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) together with the fact that the app was installed or opened and your subscription events, and can match them to an ad you saw. This is tracking in Apple's sense.
• If you do not allow it, the advertising identifier is not available to Waypoint or Meta. Subscription events may still be reported to Meta without it, using an anonymous identifier created by Meta's SDK on your device, for measurement that Apple's rules do not allow Meta to use to track you.

Meta does not receive your revision progress, your answers, or which apps you block. You can change your choice at any time in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. Meta processes this information as described in Meta's own privacy policy.

How Waypoint uses information

Waypoint uses information to:

• apply Screen Time shields to apps, categories and websites you choose
• open Pit Stop challenges when you try to access a blocked target
• grant temporary access after a successfully completed challenge
• reapply blocking based on your unlock limits, schedules, usage limits, and iOS Screen Time behavior
• show revision progress, readiness, and practice history
• generate driving-theory practice sessions
• show local usage and progress stats
• validate and manage your Pro subscription, where applicable
• keep a backup of your progress in your own iCloud account
• count, anonymously, how the app is used so we can improve it
• measure whether our advertising leads to installs and subscriptions
• diagnose Screen Time and shield behavior during development and testing
• respond to support, bug reports, content-accuracy reports, and feedback

What leaves your device

Waypoint does not operate a backend server, and does not upload your revision progress, blocking settings, Screen Time selections, or local Screen Time usage summaries to any Waypoint-operated server.

A backup of your revision progress is kept in your own private iCloud database via Apple CloudKit so it survives reinstalling the app. This data lives in your personal iCloud account and is not accessible to Waypoint or to Apple's developer tools.

Information may leave your device when:

• you send us an email for support, feedback, or a bug/content report
• you submit TestFlight feedback or crash feedback through Apple
• you open the Privacy Policy or Terms links in a browser
• the app sends anonymous usage statistics to TelemetryDeck (see above)
• Meta's SDK and RevenueCat report installs, app opens and subscription events to Meta for advertising measurement (see above)
• you subscribe, restore a purchase, or Waypoint checks your subscription status, which involves Apple's StoreKit and the RevenueCat SDK
• Apple processes system services such as App Store, TestFlight, Screen Time, or crash reporting according to Apple's own policies

Sharing

We do not sell your information. We share information with one advertising platform, Meta, only for the advertising measurement described above.

We may share or receive information through:

• Apple system services, such as App Store Connect, TestFlight, Screen Time, StoreKit, and local notification delivery
• RevenueCat, for subscription/entitlement validation and for reporting subscription events to Meta
• TelemetryDeck, for anonymous usage statistics
• Meta, for advertising measurement
• your email provider and our email provider when you contact support
• other service providers we may use in the future, but only if this Privacy Policy is updated first
• legal or safety reasons, if required by law or necessary to protect rights, safety, or security

Retention

Most Waypoint data in the current version is stored locally on your device. It remains until you change settings or delete the app.

The iCloud backup of your progress stays in your iCloud account, also after you delete the app, until you delete it in iOS Settings (see “iCloud backup of your progress” above).

Usage statistics are kept by TelemetryDeck in anonymous form according to its own retention practices. Information Meta receives is kept according to Meta's policies.

Some local stats are intentionally short-lived. For example, the current daily stats journal keeps a limited recent history for in-app charts.

If you contact support, we may keep the message for as long as needed to respond and maintain support records. You can ask us to delete support messages associated with your email address.

Subscription/entitlement data is retained by RevenueCat and Apple according to their own retention practices for as long as needed to validate purchases and support Restore Purchases.

TestFlight feedback and crash information are managed in App Store Connect and Apple's TestFlight systems. Apple may make crash reports and tester feedback available to the developer according to Apple's TestFlight rules.

Your choices

You can:

• choose which apps, categories or websites to block
• disable protection in Waypoint
• revoke Screen Time permission in iOS Settings
• disable notifications in iOS Settings
• use Waypoint without an account
• allow or refuse tracking when iOS asks, and change that later in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking
• delete the iCloud backup of your progress in iOS Settings › [your name] › iCloud › Storage
• manage or cancel your subscription in iOS Settings › Subscriptions, or use Restore Purchases on Waypoint's subscription screen
• delete the app to remove local app data from your device (the iCloud backup is deleted separately, see above)
• contact us at support@waypointdrive.app about privacy questions, content accuracy/rights concerns, or deletion of support messages you sent us

Your rights under the GDPR (DSGVO)

If you are in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region with similar laws, you have rights regarding your personal data. Waypoint does not upload your revision progress, blocking settings, or Screen Time data to our servers, and the usage statistics we receive are anonymous, so most of your data never reaches us in a form we can access or connect to you.

For the limited personal data that is processed — primarily what you send us by email or through TestFlight feedback, subscription/entitlement data processed via RevenueCat, and the advertising measurement data described above — you have the right to:

• request access to the personal data we hold about you
• request correction of inaccurate data
• request deletion of your data
• object to or restrict certain processing
• request a copy of the data you provided (data portability)

The legal basis for processing support and feedback you send us is our legitimate interest in responding to you and improving the app (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), and, where applicable, your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The legal basis for processing subscription data is performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Anonymous usage statistics are based on our legitimate interest in understanding and improving the app (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Tracking with the advertising identifier is based on your consent, given through the iOS tracking prompt (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); you can withdraw it at any time in iOS Settings.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at support@waypointdrive.app.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. In Germany, this is the data protection authority of your federal state (Landesdatenschutzbehörde) or the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI).

Children and family use

The current version of Waypoint is designed for self-directed use, including by learner drivers preparing for their own UK driving theory test. It is not a parental surveillance dashboard and does not provide a remote monitoring service for another person's device.

If Waypoint later adds child, guardian, family or remote management features, this Privacy Policy and the App Store disclosures will be updated before those features are released.

Security

Waypoint uses Apple's platform APIs and local device storage to provide its blocking and revision features. No method of storage or transmission is perfect, but the design intentionally keeps your Screen Time selections on the device and your revision progress on the device and in your own iCloud account, not on a server we operate.

Changes

We may update this policy as Waypoint changes. If a future version adds accounts, crash reporting, a backend, or other new data transmission, this policy will be updated before that version is released. The “Last updated” date above reflects the current version.

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