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FareGlance reads ride offers on your phone to show an estimate of what they are worth. Offer reading happens on your phone only: screen images are never saved or uploaded.
Who we are
FareGlance is provided by BigEBasket Limited ("BigEBasket", "we", "us" or "our"). BigEBasket Limited is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16499232) and is the data controller for the personal data described in the "Your account and backups" and "This website" sections of this policy. Contact: fareglance@gmail.com.
FareGlance is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Uber. Uber is a trademark of its owner.
The app: what is processed and why
| Data | When | Purpose | Kept? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screen content of the app you share (or the whole screen, only if you choose that and confirm) | Only while monitoring is on | Read offer details with on-device text recognition | No. Images and recognised text are discarded after each reading |
| Offer details: fare, pickup and trip time and distance, service type, passenger rating (if shown) | Only while monitoring is on | Calculate and show estimates; optional voice summary | Not kept unless you turn on offer history. Passenger rating is never kept |
| Offer history (optional, off by default): service, fare, minutes, miles, estimated £/hour, verdict, time | If you turn it on | Let you review past offers and see Insights | On your phone, newest 500 offers, until you clear it |
| Earnings and expenses you enter | When you add them | Your own records | On your phone until you delete them |
| Monitoring health counters; masked layout fingerprints only if you turn on detailed diagnostics | During monitoring | Troubleshooting | On your phone until the next session or until you clear data |
| Location while a shift is running (optional, off by default; only if you turn on "Count miles with GPS") | During a shift you start | Add up the miles you drive | Only the total miles are kept, on your phone. Your route and locations are never stored or uploaded |
| Receipt photos you choose to scan (optional) | When you tap Scan a receipt | Read the amount and date on your phone | No. The photo is read and not kept; only the expense you save is stored |
| Approximate area for Radar (optional, off by default) | Only while Radar is open | Look up weather near you (Open-Meteo) | Your area is rounded to about 1 km and sent to the weather service to get a forecast. Your exact location is never used or stored |
| Running costs, offer filters, shifts, repeating costs | When you set them | Profit estimates, filters, shift and tax figures | On your phone; in your backup if you back up |
| Settings: targets, card appearance, voice | When you change them | Remember your preferences | On your phone |
If you choose whole-screen sharing, other apps, messages and notifications visible while monitoring is on also pass through on-device text recognition. They are not stored, displayed or sent anywhere.
Your account and backups
FareGlance needs a FareGlance account to work. You can sign in with Google or with an email address and password. Sign-in is provided by Google Firebase Authentication.
- Account data: your email address and a user ID. If you use Google sign-in, Google shares your email address and basic profile with us.
- Backups (only when you choose to back up): your targets and appearance settings, and the earnings and expenses you entered. Offer history is included only if you switch that option on. Backups are stored in Google Firebase Cloud Firestore and only your account can read them.
- Never in a backup: screen images, recognised text, passenger ratings or addresses.
The app uses the internet only for sign-in and backup. Account backups are stored in Google Cloud's London region (europe-west2). [Confirm Google's role as processor and where Firebase Authentication data is stored.]
This website
If you join the waitlist we collect your email address and the date you signed up, to send you one email when FareGlance launches on Android and occasional launch updates. You can unsubscribe at any time from any email or by contacting us. Waitlist sign-ups are collected and stored for us by Formspree. [Confirm where Formspree stores data and the safeguards for any transfer outside the UK.]
This site loads its font from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address to deliver the font. [Confirm whether any analytics or cookies are used; currently none are.]
Sharing
We do not sell your data. We share it only with the service providers named above (Google Firebase for accounts and backups, and the waitlist provider) to run the service. Data from your phone leaves it only for sign-in, for backups you make, or when you export it yourself (CSV through Android's share menu).
Third-party components
FareGlance uses Google ML Kit text recognition, which runs on the device. [Confirm and describe any Google ML Kit or Google Play services data handling for the exact SDK versions used.]
Your controls
- Stop monitoring at any time from the notification, the app, or Android's screen-sharing control.
- Turn offer history, detailed diagnostics and history-in-backups on or off.
- Delete on your phone: Offers → Clear offer history; Setup → Privacy and data → Clear everything; or uninstall the app.
- Delete your account and cloud backup: Setup → Account → Delete account. [Add the web account-deletion link required by Google Play.]
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask to access, correct, delete or export your personal data, and object to or restrict how we use it. Contact us at fareglance@gmail.com. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
[Legal basis for each purpose, retention periods for accounts, backups and the waitlist, and passenger-data considerations, to be confirmed by counsel.]
Children
FareGlance is intended for licensed adult drivers and is not directed at children.
Changes and contact
We will post changes on this page and in the app listing. Questions or requests: fareglance@gmail.com.