Where your position data goes
While a sharing session is running, your phone sends your Position (what other apps call your location) to FriendTrack’s server, which passes it to the people in that Group and to nobody else. When no session is running, nothing is sent.
What is kept, and for how long
| Data | How long it is kept |
|---|---|
| The last position you shared with each Group | Kept while it is current; removed once it is older than 90 days |
| A trail of everywhere you have been | Never kept. There is no history and no route to replay |
| Your phone number | Held as your account, and stored in a form that cannot be read back as a number |
| Concern reports | Twelve months, then deleted |
| Server logs | Thirty days |
The important row is the second one. FriendTrack keeps your latest position per Group, not a path. So there is no journey to hand over, to leak or to reconstruct, and there is nothing anybody can query for where you were last Tuesday — including us.
Who can see it
- The people in the Group you are sharing with, while you are sharing. That is the whole point.
- Nobody else: not your other Groups, not other FriendTrack users, and not anybody who happens to know your phone number.
- The venue whose Map you are using cannot see you. Making a Map does not give its creator sight of the people using it.
Exactly what your Group sees, field by field, is what your friends can and cannot see.
What stops it
Stopping sharing stops the sending, immediately and per Group — Stop Sharing. Letting the Sharing Duration run out does the same thing without you having to remember.
Getting a copy, or getting rid of it
- A copy of everything held about you: download your data.
- All of it gone: delete your account.
The full detail — the legal bases, the processors involved, and how to raise a complaint — is in the
privacy policy at friendtrack.net/privacy, which is the authoritative statement. This page is a
plain-language summary of the part that concerns positions.