Privacy policy

Updated 12 November 2026

Gordon Keenan develops Velo Vane in Ireland. This policy covers the cycling app and this website. You can plan a ride without a Velo Vane account.

Your places and rides

The app saves the places you enter, ride schedules, preferences, imported routes and commute log on your device. On mobile it uses the platform’s secure storage for saved home and work details. Additional destinations, ride history and settings use local app storage. The web app uses your browser’s storage. The iOS app shares a forecast summary with its widget through on-device storage.

Choosing “Use current location” asks your device for permission to find your position. You can search for a place manually and change location or notification permissions in your device settings. Scheduled briefings can refresh forecasts for saved places in the background.

Who receives a request?

• Weather and air quality. Open-Meteo receives coordinates to return forecasts and air-quality readings. Supported iOS versions can use Apple WeatherKit. Requests can include points along your route.
• Place search and directions. Depending on platform and availability, Apple Maps, Google Maps or your device’s geocoder receives a search phrase, nearby coordinates or a selected place. BRouter and available routing providers such as Apple Maps, Google Maps or Mapbox receive route endpoints to calculate directions. Viewing a map can request tiles for that area from the map provider, including OpenStreetMap on the web.
• Purchases. Apple or Google handles payment and retains the store transaction. The app checks purchase status to unlock or restore features. The developer does not receive your card details.
• Diagnostics. Builds with Sentry enabled send error reports and sampled performance traces to help diagnose failures. These may contain device and app versions, stack traces and context about a failed operation.

Network services receive connection information such as your IP address when handling a request. The app uses HTTPS for external service requests. Velo Vane does not sell personal data.

Files, sharing and external links

The app reads route files you choose to import. Using a route for a forecast can send coordinates to weather providers. Saving a ride card to Photos requests permission to add the image. When you share an image or file, the app you select receives that content. Some gear links include an affiliate identifier and may earn the developer a commission.

Website visits and support

The website host processes technical information needed to deliver these pages, such as the requested page and IP address. If you email support, the developer receives your email address and whatever you choose to include. Please leave out home addresses, precise route details and payment information.

Retention, deletion and your choices

Saved trips, locations and preferences stay on your device until you remove or reset them. Use Settings → Reset App to clear your saved setup, or clear site data in your browser for the web app. Remove exported files and photos separately. Resetting the app leaves store purchases and subscription billing in place.

Support correspondence is used to handle your request and retained as needed for follow-up and applicable legal obligations. External providers apply their own retention periods to service requests, diagnostic records and store transactions.

Privacy requests

To ask about data, request access, correction or deletion, or object to processing, contact Gordon Keenan at support@velovane.cc. Depending on where you live, you may also have a right to restriction or portability, and you may contact your local data protection authority. In Ireland this is the Data Protection Commission.