Privacy
This website
When you leave your email to hear about Android, modzapp.com keeps one thing about you: the email address you give, with the language of the page, the kind of device (iPhone, Android or other), the link you came from and the date.
We use it to tell you when Modz comes to Android. If you signed up before the iPhone launch, we also send you one email with your Modz Pass offer code. It stays on our own server and is never sold or shared.
To be removed from the list, write to [email protected]. We delete your address within a few days.
If you write to us from the support form, on this site or in the app, we keep your message, your email address and the app details sent with it (version, device, system version, language and map), to answer you. The message reaches us by email through Resend and in our private Discord channel. Resend and Discord, two US companies, may receive it in the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, in which both take part, and the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. To have it deleted, write to [email protected].
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The Modz app
Modz is published by Olivier Reynaud, the controller of the data this policy covers. Please send any question about this policy to [email protected]. Under the GDPR, you may ask to access, correct or erase the data that concerns you, to restrict its use or to receive it in a portable form, and to object to its use; you may also complain to your data protection authority.
Your position and your trips stay on your iPhone and are never sent to Modz, but for the drivers' reports below. The same goes for your places, markers, explored zones, progress, settings and player name: Modz has no account.
To work, the app asks public services for what a map needs: map tiles from a public map tile service built on OpenStreetMap and terrain tiles from Amazon's open data, and routes from Apple's MapKit, with the points of your trip. The Valhalla service of FOSSGIS plans the trip instead when the routing setting chooses it or where MapKit has no route, and it receives a simplified line of each route guided by car or by bike to read the speed limits and the traffic lights along it, a stretch of about 190 km at a time on a long trip. While you drive with the app open and no route, that Valhalla service also receives a few of your latest positions, simplified (the last minute at most, every 30 seconds at most), to read the speed limit of the road you are on. A place search goes to Apple's map services (MapKit), with what you type and the part of the map around you; they also give the traffic times. These requests carry no name and no account, and Modz adds no identifier to them; Apple's own privacy policy covers its map services.
Drivers' reports, which a switch in Settings, Driving turns off: a report you send (a traffic jam, police, an accident, a hazard, a closed lane or bad weather) goes to Modz's own server with the place and the direction where you tapped, and every player sees it on the map until drivers stop confirming it. Answering “Still there” or “Not there”, or driving past a report the app asked you about, sends that answer. To show the reports around you, the app asks the server for those of an area round you or of the map you look at; the server does not keep the area asked. Each of these requests, reports and answers carries a random number the app made for this install, never your name, an account or your phone's identifiers: the server keeps only a scrambled form of it, with the days it first and last saw it write, to count one answer per install and to stop abuse, forgets it 30 days after its last report or answer, and deletes a report and its answers a day after it ends. A scrambled number banned for abuse is kept until the ban is lifted. The traffic lights the map shows come from the same server, by area, with no number at all, whatever the switch says. Like any server you reach, it sees your device's IP address.
Purchases go through the App Store, which Apple runs under its own privacy policy. Modz has no advertising, no tracking and no analytics.
If you write to us from the settings with Contact us, your message, the email address you give and the topic go to the developer's mail and team chat, with the app's version, your phone's model and system version, the app's language and the map in use. The message is kept to answer you, and nothing is sent before you tap Send.
Deleting the app deletes what it stored, but two things: a count of the CarPlay trips used without the Pass, and the random number of the drivers' reports, stay in the iPhone's Keychain, so reinstalling the app does not reset them. The settings also let you clear the trip history at any time.
Routes and place searches go to the services credited under About: Apple for search, travel times and MapKit routes, and the Valhalla server of FOSSGIS for Valhalla routes and the speed limits and traffic lights along a route and the limit of the road you drive on, with no name and no account. Voice search in the car is recognized on the iPhone itself: your voice is neither kept nor sent anywhere. Drivers' reports go to Modz's own server (modzapp.com) with a random number made for this install, and the map's traffic lights come from it with none, never with a name or an account.
