Privacy Policy
This covers the go there mobile app and the gothere.bike website.
Who it covers
- Ride leaders — people who sign into the app to publish rides and broadcast position.
- Followers — anyone who opens a ride link on the web. No account required.
What we collect
| Data | From | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Leader | Sign-in via magic link | |
| Member emails | Leader | Authentication only |
| Ride metadata (name, time, start, route, image, details) | Leader | The thing we publish |
| Live position (lat/lng/accuracy/time) | Leader's phone, only while a ride is broadcasting | Broadcast to the ride's public follower page |
| Aggregate page-view counts | Visitors to ride pages | Operational |
We don't collect follower identity, device data, or anything from a leader who isn't actively broadcasting. No analytics SDKs, ad networks, or tracking pixels.
Location
When a ride leader taps Broadcast, Go There captures the phone's precise location and updates the ride's public follower page in real time. This runs in the background — locked screen, app in pocket, Go There not in the foreground — because that's the entire point: followers expect to see the leader move.
Capture stops the moment the leader taps Stop, the ride's 24-hour window ends, or Go There is force-stopped. Outside an active broadcast, Go There never captures your location. The app does not sample location passively, on a schedule, or while you browse rides — only during a session you started, until you end it.
Both Android and iOS surface a persistent indicator while a broadcast is running (Android: a notification anchored to the foreground service; iOS: the system blue location bar) so you always know when sharing is on.
How ride data is published
Ride metadata is published to the Neighborhood Commons under CC BY 4.0 — an open catalog of group rides. Live position is not part of that publication; it only appears on the ride's live page while the broadcast is active.
We mirror your email into the Commons as a portal account on first handle claim, so your published rides surface in the Commons under your handle (e.g. "monday-night-rides") with "Go There" as the contributing app. We send your email and your handle — nothing else. When you rename your handle we update the Commons account so attribution follows. Deleting your Go There account deletes the Commons portal account and every event attached to it.
Retention
| Account & members | Until you delete |
| Ride metadata | Until you delete |
| Live position data | During broadcast + 1 hour, then purged |
| Magic-link tokens | 15 minutes |
| Server logs | 30 days |
Third parties
- Mapbox — maps (policy)
- Railway — hosting
- Resend — sign-in emails
- Neighborhood Commons — ride publishing (CC BY 4.0)
Deleting your data
Delete your account in the app to remove all rides, members, and tokens, including the Commons entries. Or email [email protected] from the address on file and we'll handle it within 30 days. Full instructions: gothere.bike/delete.
Security
Magic-link tokens are single-use, SHA-256 hashed, and expire in 15 minutes. Session tokens expire in 1 hour. All traffic is HTTPS.
Children
Not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us data, email [email protected].
Changes
We'll update the date above and email active leaders for material changes.