Privacy Policy
The short version
Enrout reads ride offers on your device to help you decide whether to accept them, and keeps a history of them on your device so you have a record. Nothing leaves your phone. The app does not have Android's internet permission, so it cannot send anything to us or to anyone else — this is enforced by Android, not just promised by us. We have no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no server that the app talks to.
1. Who we are
Enrout is an Android application operated by Casey Vigus. For any privacy question, contact privacy@enrout.app.
2. What the app reads, and how
To evaluate an incoming ride offer, the app reads the offer your rideshare app shows you. It does this in two ways, each of which you switch on yourself in Android's settings:
- Notification access, to read ride-offer notifications posted by the Uber and Lyft driver apps. Notifications from other apps are ignored.
- An accessibility service, to read the offer card on your rideshare app's screen. Where that card offers no readable text, the app takes a picture of it and reads the text out of the picture on your phone. The service can only read: it is declared without the ability to tap, swipe, or accept or decline anything.
Depending on what the offer shows, what is read can include fares, distances, estimated durations, ride type, pickup and destination areas, and rider details such as a name, rating, or photograph. All of it is processed on your device.
3. What the app keeps on your device
Your offer history. For each offer the app scores, it keeps: the time, the platform, the fare, pickup and trip distances and durations, the ride type, the rider's rating, the pickup and destination areas as the offer showed them, the verdict and the figures behind it, and whether you marked the ride as taken. This is your record — for example, to compare what an offer said with what you were paid.
The history does not keep rider names, rider photographs, or pictures of your screen. Those are read to score the offer and then discarded.
Offers are recorded while screening is switched off, too. Switching the screener off silences its verdicts; it does not leave a gap in your record.
Your settings — your thresholds, vehicle cost figures, and where you placed the on-screen controls.
A coverage log — when screening was running, switched off, or interrupted, and why. It contains no offer details and is kept for seven days.
All of this is stored in the app's private storage, which other apps cannot read, and it is excluded from Android's cloud backup. The history stays until you clear it in the app, clear the app's storage, or uninstall the app.
4. Sharing is something you do
Each history record has a Share button. It hands that one record to an app you choose — email, messages, and so on — through Android's standard share screen. Nothing is shared unless you tap it, and what happens to a record after you share it is between you and the app you chose.
5. What leaves your phone
Nothing. The app is built without Android's internet permission, so the operating system does not allow it to open a network connection. That is checked every time the app is built: if a component ever tried to add internet access, the build fails.
The text reading described in section 2 uses Google's ML Kit, packaged inside the app and running entirely on your phone. ML Kit normally reports usage statistics to Google; without internet access it cannot, and the parts of it that would try have been removed.
There are no analytics, crash reporters, advertising networks, or location tracking of any kind.
6. If this ever changes
We may one day want the app to fetch updated reading rules from a server, so that a rideshare app's redesign can be fixed without waiting for an app update. If we do, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the change will be stated clearly in the app. Whatever the app might then send, the following would still never leave your phone:
- Fares, distances, durations, or any detail of a ride or offer
- Rider names, ratings, or photographs
- Pickup or destination addresses
- Screenshots or text read from your screen
- GPS or any other location data
- Your name, email address, payment details, rideshare account or earnings
7. Riders
Some of what the app reads belongs to riders, who are not our users and have not agreed to anything. That is why rider names and photographs are never stored, and why nothing about any ride leaves your device.
8. Children
Enrout is a tool for working rideshare drivers and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
9. Your rights
Privacy laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, delete, or export the personal data a service holds about you, and to complain to a regulator.
Here, we hold no data about you at all — everything the app keeps is on your phone, in your hands. You can delete your history in the app, or remove everything by clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it. If you would like to ask us anything, write to privacy@enrout.app and we will respond within 30 days.
10. Security
Your records live in the app's private storage and are not included in cloud backups. The app has no network access, so there is no connection to intercept and no server copy to breach. The protection that matters most is the one you already have: your phone's own screen lock.
11. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page. If a change is significant — particularly one that widens what the app collects or lets anything leave your phone — we will say so clearly in the app before it takes effect.
12. Contact
Questions, requests, or privacy concerns: privacy@enrout.app.