PINGD

Privacy Policy

Effective: July 6, 2026

This policy explains what PINGD (“PINGD,” “we,” “us”), operated by the PINGD developer, collects, why, how long we keep it, who processes it on our behalf, and the choices and rights you have. PINGDis a group-planning app: you create a crew, ask “who's in?”, and people answer in or out. We designed it to need as little personal data as possible — there is no email, phone number, password, social login, contacts access, advertising identifier, or third-party ad tracking — but the list below is the complete and accurate account of what we do handle.

1. Information we collect

Information you provide. The display name you type (you choose it; we don't verify it); the crew names, questions, and optional plan location/address you create; your answers (in / out) and optional ride preference (driving / getting a ride) and weekly availability you set; saved question templates; and the content of any abuse report you submit.

Device & security data. To keep the service trustworthy without accounts, each install gets a random device identifier, and on iOS we use Apple's App Attest to confirm requests come from a genuine, unmodified copy of the app. We store the attestation key reference, a per-device session token (only a one-way hash of it — never the token itself), your iOS version, the app version, and a last-seen timestamp.

Notifications.If you enable notifications, we store the push token(s) for your device (including Live Activity / lock-screen tokens) so your crew's pings can reach you.

Purchases. If you buy PINGD Premium, the purchase is processed by Apple. We and our subscription provider (RevenueCat) receive your subscription status, product identifier, an opaque app-user identifier, and transaction/event identifiers needed to grant and verify entitlements. We never receive your full payment-card details — Apple handles payment.

Technical & operational data. Like any internet service, our infrastructure processes your IP address transiently to deliver requests and to enforce abuse/rate limits, and generates short-lived operational logs. We don't use this to build advertising or cross-app tracking profiles.

2. How we use it

Solely to run the app: to show your name beside your answer, deliver the pings your crew creates, count who's in, apply your ride/ availability, unlock and verify Premium, prevent abuse and fraud, keep the service secure, respond to support, and meet legal obligations. We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use it for third-party advertising.

3. What your crew sees

PINGDis social by design. Other members of a crew you join can see your display name, your in/out answers, your ride preference, and your weekly availability for that crew. Don't put anything in your name, questions, or plan location that you wouldn't want your crew to see. Lock-screen and notification cards may display the question and who's in; we never put a plan's street address in a push payload.

4. Service providers

We use a small set of vetted processors that handle data on our behalf under their own security and privacy commitments, only to provide the service:

We do not sell or rent personal data, and we do not share it for third-party advertising. We may disclose information if required by law or to protect the rights, safety, and security of our users or the service.

5. Retention

6. Deletion & your choices

Delete your account. In the app, open the You screen and tap delete my account. This permanently removes your memberships across every crew on the device, your answers, your profile (ride / availability / templates), your device identity and session, your App Attest key reference, your push tokens, and your Premium link on that device. Content others rely on that isn't personal to you — for example a plan you created that the rest of the crew answered — remains in the crew. Reinstalling starts you completely fresh; a deleted account is never silently restored.

Leave a single crew. Leaving one crew removes your membership, answers, and push subscriptions for that crew only.

Notifications. You can turn notifications off at any time in iOS Settings.

Your rights.Depending on where you live (for example the EU/EEA/UK under GDPR, or California under the CCPA/CPRA), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or port your data, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. The in-app deletion above satisfies the core access/erasure right; for anything else, contact us and we will respond within the time the law requires. We do not “sell” or “share” personal information as those terms are defined under California law.

7. Security

Data is encrypted in transit (TLS). Session tokens are stored only as one-way hashes on our servers and in the device Keychain on your phone; App Attest binds requests to a genuine app install. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and limit what we collect in the first place.

8. Children

PINGD is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.

9. International users

We operate PINGD from, and process data in, the United States. If you use the app from outside the U.S., you understand your information is processed in the U.S. and other countries where our providers operate.

10. Changes

We may update this policy as the app evolves. We'll change the effective date above and, for material changes, provide reasonable notice. Continuing to use PINGD after an update means you accept the revised policy.

11. Contact

Questions or requests: pingd.support@gmail.com. See also our Terms of Use.

Last updated: July 6, 2026.