Broemwijs privacy policy
Last updated 9 November 2026
Broemwijs is an iPhone app that plans and guides routes for a bromfiets or a snorfiets in the Netherlands. This page says what the app keeps on your phone, what it sends elsewhere, and who receives it. The short version: there is no account, your rides and places stay on your phone, and the app sends counts rather than places.
Who is responsible
Waypost Labs, KVK 42199534, Salland 1, 1948 RE Beverwijk. Questions, or a request about your data: support@waypostlabs.com.
What stays on your phone
These are kept on your phone and are never uploaded by us:
- your rides (route, distance, time, plate type) and the places you save or searched for recently;
- the routes you plan, and the paths the app learns from your own riding;
- your settings, including which plate you ride, and map data downloaded for the areas you route through.
There is no Broemwijs account, so there is nothing to log in to and nothing for us to look up about you. Deleting the app deletes this data. Rides and places can also be deleted inside the app.
Your location
The app asks for your location to show you on the map and to guide you while you ride. It is used on your phone to match you to the route and read speed limits. Your location is not sent to us. If you allow usage counts, Firebase estimates an approximate region from your IP address, never your position (see “What the app sends back”). See “Services the app contacts” for the two places where an area, not your position, leaves the phone.
What the app sends back
Usage counts
- Goes to
- Google Firebase Analytics
- When
- Only if you allow it when iOS asks about tracking on first use. If you decline, nothing is sent.
What it contains
- that a route was planned or a ride finished
- distance and duration, as a range rather than a figure
- which plate you ride
- which screens you open, which buttons you press and which settings you use
- whether location access is allowed, and errors the app ran into
- added by Firebase: the app version, phone model and iOS version, a random identifier for this installation, and an approximate region (country or city) worked out from your IP address
Never a street, an address, a saved place or where you were.
Crash reports
- Goes to
- Google Firebase Crashlytics
- When
- When the app crashes, whether or not you allowed tracking.
What it contains
- what the app was doing and which screen was open
- your settings, including your plate, and whether location access is allowed
- the app version and your phone model
- a random identifier for this installation and, during a ride, for that ride
Never your location, a route, a saved place or what you rode.
The app uses Firebase Analytics without the advertising identifier (IDFA). It shows no ads and does not sell your data. Because the usage counts go to Google together with an identifier for your installation, Apple treats them as tracking, which is why iOS asks first. Allowing it only switches on the counts above. You can change your answer at any time in Settings › Broemwijs › Allow Tracking.
Services the app contacts
- Our map-data server (tiles.waypostlabs.com). Planning a route downloads map tiles for the area you route through. A request names the map tile (an area about 2 km wide), not you. Like any server, it sees your IP address in the connection.
- OpenStreetMap data from public Overpass servers. If our server cannot provide a tile, the app asks a public Overpass server for the roads in the area of your trip. The request contains the rectangle of map to download, which covers the area between your start and destination, and your IP address. It does not contain your name or any identifier from the app.
- Apple Maps search. Searching an address or place, and turning your position into an address, uses Apple’s MapKit and geocoding services under Apple’s own privacy policy. What you type, and the area around the map, goes to Apple.
- Apple (subscriptions). You subscribe through the App Store. We never see your payment details, name or Apple ID. The app only receives a signed statement from Apple that a subscription or free trial exists, and when it ends.
Why we use this data
- to plan and guide your route (your location and trip area, on your phone and as map downloads);
- to keep the app working and fix crashes (crash reports);
- to learn which parts of the app are used, if you allow it (usage counts);
- to check that a subscription or trial is active (Apple’s signed statement).
How long, and your rights
Data on your phone stays until you delete it. Firebase keeps usage counts and crash reports for the period set in our Firebase project; we use Firebase’s default retention and do not link them to a name or account. Because we hold no account and cannot tie the counts or crash reports to you, we usually cannot look up data about you; if you write to us we will tell you what we can. Under the GDPR you may ask for access, correction, deletion and restriction, object to processing, and complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).
Our legal bases are your consent for usage counts, our legitimate interest in a working app for crash reports, and performing the subscription contract for the subscription check.
Children
The app is for people who may ride a bromfiets or snorfiets. It is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If a minor subscribes through Family Sharing or Ask to Buy, the purchase is handled by Apple.
Where data goes
Firebase is operated by Google, which may process data outside the EU under the safeguards Google publishes. Map data servers and Apple services are covered above.
This website
This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking. Our host, Cloudflare, processes your IP address to deliver the pages and protect them from abuse.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and, where the app’s behaviour changes, so does the in-app statement under Menu › About. This policy is published in English and Dutch; if the two differ, the English version applies.
Terms of use
Broemwijs uses Apple’s standard end-user licence agreement. Our terms also say what the app is not: it is a navigation aid, not legal advice, a route can be wrong, and the traffic signs and how you ride are your responsibility.