Privacy Policy

1. Information that never leaves your device

Speed camera warnings — the core of the app — are decided entirely on your device. BlueArgos downloads a speed camera database ahead of time, stores it locally, and compares your GPS position against it as you drive.

• Location (GPS) — current position, speed and heading. Used to decide warnings and draw the screen.
• Barometer readings — used to tell overpasses and underpasses apart, which reduces false warnings.
• Compass heading — used to determine the direction of travel.

This information stays in device memory while you drive and is never transmitted; it is gone when the app closes. The app does not store your route or travel history on the device either.

2. Information sent automatically

Public speed camera data contains errors. A camera facing the opposite carriageway may trigger a warning, or a camera beneath an overpass may be picked up from the road above. To find and correct these bad warnings, a diagnostic record is sent automatically — but only under the limited conditions below.

When a record is sent

• Warning ignored — passing a camera above the speed limit after being warned, seen repeatedly at the same spot.
• Warning withdrawn — the app raising a warning and then cancelling it itself, seen repeatedly at the same spot.

Seeing this happen once at a camera does not, by itself, send anything. Only when the same thing happens again and again at that camera is a record of that repeated behavior sent. In other words, normal driving — or a single one-off slip — never sends anything to the server. Records that cannot be sent for lack of a connection are kept on the device and sent later (at the latest, shortly after the app is next started). A camera may start counting from the beginning again once the camera database on your device is replaced by a new version; restarting the app does not reset this.

As a further safeguard against misuse, sending is also kept under a generous cap (per device, per day and per month, and separately per camera-database version and per camera). Records beyond these limits are discarded without being sent.

What the record contains

Each record is a snapshot of a single moment passing one camera. If you pass the same camera repeatedly and meet the condition above each time, more than one record for that camera may build up over time — but what happens between cameras is never captured, and no continuous route or driving trajectory is ever collected.

What is never sent

• Your route or travel history
• A one-off instance of speeding, or any pass within the limit
• GPS accuracy, device model, operating system version
• Name, email, phone number, account details — none of which are collected in the first place
• Contacts, photos, call logs, list of installed apps

3. Why this is collected

Records described in section 2 are used solely so that a person can check whether a camera warning is genuinely wrong. Neither the app nor the server makes any automatic decision from them, and no camera data is changed automatically. Any correction follows a human checking the location.

These records are never used for advertising, marketing, profiling, or sale to third parties.

4. Retention and deletion

• On-device information — held in memory while driving and discarded when the app closes. Your settings and the downloaded camera database remain on the device and are removed when you uninstall the app.
• Transmitted records — kept for as long as needed to investigate incorrect warnings, then deleted. Records are stored append-only.

5. Processors

Records described in section 2 and the usage statistics in section 7 are stored or processed on infrastructure operated by:

No information is shared with or sold to anyone else.

6. Permissions the app requests

7. Advertising and tracking

BlueArgos carries no advertising. It does not read advertising identifiers (Android Advertising ID, iOS IDFA) and does no advertising-related tracking.

The app does include Google's Google Analytics for Firebase. Together with a random per-installation identifier, basic usage statistics such as launch counts, app version, OS version, device model, language and approximate country may be sent to Google. These statistics contain no location, driving route or voice, and are not linked to a name or account. They are used only to improve the app and check its stability, never for advertising or profiling. There is currently no in-app switch to turn this off; if you do not want it, block the app's network use in your device settings as described in section 8.

This website, however, uses Google Analytics to count visitors. That applies to the website only and has nothing to do with the app.

8. Your rights

Because there are no accounts and no identifying information is collected, it is generally not possible to trace a transmitted record back to a particular person. If you nevertheless want records from your device deleted, write to the address below and records sent from that device will be located and removed.

If you would rather nothing were transmitted at all, block the app's network access in your device settings. Camera data updates will stop as well.

9. Children

BlueArgos is made for drivers and is not directed at children under 14. No information is knowingly collected from children.

10. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the change and its effective date will appear on this page. Significant changes, such as collecting anything additional, will also be announced inside the app.

11. Contact