Tobermory · Get Me Home, iOS App

Privacy Policy

Effective October 20, 2026

In short: the app uses where you are to work out how to get you home, and nothing else. Get Me Home has no accounts and no analytics. Your home and walking preferences stay on your phone. Your location is sent to a journey planner only to ask for routes home, and to Google Maps when you open the map. Your compass direction never leaves the device.

This page explains exactly what the app touches and why, so you don't have to take that on faith.

What the app stores

Get Me Home keeps a small amount of data on your device, using iOS's standard local app storage. It is only sent anywhere as part of the route requests described below.

Data

Purpose

Home
a postcode, or a pinned location

The destination the app plans routes to.

Walking preferences
walking speed, longest walk

Shapes which routes are offered and how long the walks take.

Location and compass

Get Me Home asks for permission to use your location "while using the app" only — never in the background. Pointing you the right way is the whole point of the app, so while it's open on screen it follows your location and your phone's compass.

Location is used to ask a journey planner for routes from where you are to your home, and to work out which direction each stop lies in. It is not stored by the app once those routes have been worked out.
Compass direction is used only on the device, to turn the display as you turn. It is never sent anywhere.
Neither is linked to your identity, and neither is used for advertising, analytics, or tracking of any kind.

Third-party journey planners

To find routes home, the app sends your current location and your home (postcode or pinned location) to one of these services, depending on the journey:

Transport for London (TfL) Open Data, when both you and your home are in Greater London. Powered by TfL Open Data.
Google's Routes API, for any journey that starts or ends outside Greater London, and as a back-up if TfL has no answer. These requests are handled by Google under the Google Privacy Policy.

When you switch to the map view, the map is drawn by Google Maps. To show the streets around you, Google receives the area being shown, which is centred on where you are. This is handled by Google under the same Google Privacy Policy. The compass-only "Around me" view doesn't use Google Maps.

To tell when you're already home, the app looks up where your postcode is using Apple's location services.

These requests contain only what's needed to plan the journey — they don't include your name, an account, or any other information that identifies you personally. Get Me Home is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Transport for London, Google, or any transport operator.

What we don't do

No accounts, sign-in, or personal identifiers are collected.
No analytics, crash reporting, or advertising SDKs are embedded in the app.
No advertising, and no data is sold, rented, or shared with anyone beyond the route requests above.
No tracking of you across other apps or websites.

If you're testing a pre-release version through Apple's TestFlight, Apple may share crash reports and any feedback you choose to send with the developer, under Apple's own privacy terms.

Your control over this data

Everything above lives in the app's local storage sandbox on your device:

Change your home or walking preferences any time from Settings.
Stop location use any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services.
Erase everything at once by deleting the app — iOS removes its local storage along with it.

Children's privacy

Get Me Home does not knowingly collect personal information from children. The app has no age gate because it collects no personal information from any user, regardless of age, beyond the location use described above.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes — for example, if a future version adds a feature that touches data differently — the date at the top of this page will update, and the change will be described here in plain terms.