Last updated 2 November 2026 · Applies to Silver Bullet Road Bro (iOS) · Publisher Decor Elevate Ltd

This is the privacy policy for Road Bro (also known as Silver Bullet Road Bro), an iOS app from Silver Bullet®, published by Decor Elevate Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. We've kept this as plain-English as legally possible.

What we collect

We hold no accounts and none of your records are stored on a server of ours. We have no analytics, no advertising, and no login. We never see your trips, receipts or files — with one exception that is entirely in your hands: if you choose to send us a diagnostics report from Settings → Diagnostics, that file contains your recent drives, mission names, vehicle registration and settings. It is only ever created when you tap it. See section 04.

Every piece of data Road Bro creates or uses — your trips, missions, files, settings — is stored locally on your iPhone using iOS's built-in storage. That is why your job files still open on a site with no signal. It leaves your device when you explicitly export or share something (e.g. emailing yourself a report or sending us a diagnostics file), when a finished drive's route shape is sent to Mapbox to be matched to the road, and when a drive's start and end coordinates are sent to Apple to be turned into a place name, and when you type a question into RoadBot (only the question itself). See section 04 for exactly what each of those involves.

iOS permissions Road Bro asks for

The app requests permissions from iOS to function. These are governed by iOS — we receive the data only on your device, and only while the app is processing it:

• Location — used to record the start, end and route of your drives. Granting Always lets Road Bro detect a drive beginning even when the app is closed, which is what makes tracking automatic; with While Using the App you can still record drives, you just start them yourself. Either way the route is stored on your device and we never see it. Two kinds of location data do go out, both described in section 04: a finished route's shape (to Mapbox) and a drive's start and end coordinates (to Apple, for a place name). Neither is live tracking, and neither is ever the drive you are currently on. If your subscription lapses, drive tracking pauses until you subscribe again.
• Motion & Fitness — used to recognise when you're driving so a trip can begin automatically. Used on-device only.
• Files & Photos — only when you tap the + button to attach a file to a mission. Whatever file you pick is copied to Road Bro's storage on your phone. We never see it.
• Notifications (optional) — while a drive is recording, Road Bro shows a quiet lock-screen card with the running mileage. If the drive is linked to a mission, the mission name appears on it, which is worth knowing if that is a client's name. It clears itself when the trip ends. Nothing is sent off-device; there is no push server.
• Camera — only when you photograph or scan a receipt, bill or invoice. The image is saved to Road Bro's storage on your phone.

You can revoke any of these at any time in iOS Settings → Road Bro.

Where your data is stored

All Road Bro data lives in your iPhone's local app sandbox, the standard iOS storage area for apps. Depending on your iCloud settings, iOS may include this storage in your encrypted device backup — that's controlled by you in iOS Settings, not by us.

A drive still in progress is written to that same private storage as it happens, so that if your iPhone closes the app mid-journey the drive can be recovered rather than lost. It means an interrupted journey still appears afterwards, flagged as a part drive.

We never delete your records for you. There is no automatic clear-out and no retention timer — HMRC expects mileage records to be kept for several years, and it is not our place to decide when yours have expired. Deleting is always your call.

If you uninstall Road Bro, iOS deletes its local data — every mission, drive, receipt and attached file goes with the app.

Your free trial is run by Apple as part of your App Store subscription, so Road Bro no longer keeps a trial date of its own. Earlier versions stored the date your trial started in the iOS keychain; the current version removes it when it starts up. So that you aren't locked out when you have no signal, the app remembers when your current subscription period ends. That note stays on your iPhone and goes when you delete the app.

Deleting Road Bro doesn't cancel your subscription, because that belongs to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel it in your Apple account settings.

Third parties

Road Bro uses these Apple frameworks. Two of them reach Apple's servers, marked below:

• CoreLocation — to detect drives (on-device), and to turn the coordinates where a drive started and ended into a place name, which does send those coordinates to Apple
• CoreMotion — to detect movement
• MKLocalSearchCompleter — for address autocomplete (this DOES send the text you type to Apple's servers, governed by Apple's Maps Privacy Policy)

One other outside service is used, Mapbox, for two things:

• Mapbox — once a drive finishes and you have a connection, the route's coordinates are sent to Mapbox to be checked against the road network: their Directions service works out the roads across any gap in the GPS trace, and their Map Matching service snaps the line to the road. This is what keeps your mileage accurate and the route clean. We send only the shape of the route — no name, no account, no receipts, no mission details, nothing that identifies you. Your HMRC mileage is always calculated on your phone first, so this is a refinement, not a dependency: a drive recorded with no signal is complete and correct, and simply tidies itself up once you are back in coverage.
• Mapbox maps — the maps you see inside Road Bro are drawn by Mapbox. When a map is on screen, the map images (tiles) for the area being shown are downloaded from Mapbox, so Mapbox can tell roughly which area you are looking at, not where you are. Mapbox's own usage reporting (“telemetry”) is switched off in Road Bro; you can see the setting under the (i) button on any map. Like every app that uses Mapbox maps, Road Bro sends Mapbox a random identifier, not linked to you, so Mapbox can count monthly users for billing.

• Apple's App Store lookup — once each time the app starts up (not every time you switch back to it), Road Bro asks Apple what the current published version number is, so it can tell you when an update is available. The request carries the app's ID and nothing about you.

RoadBot (optional help assistant) — if you ask RoadBot a question, only what you type is sent, through our own server, to Anthropic's Claude AI to write the answer. RoadBot can't see your drives, receipts, files or anything else stored in Road Bro, and we don't keep your conversations. Please don't type personal details into it.

When you tap "Open in Maps" for navigation, your destination is handed off to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze depending on your setting. From that point on, the maps app's own privacy policy applies.

All of the above are ordinary internet requests, so those services necessarily see your device's IP address, as they would for any app or website.

The diagnostics report in Settings → Diagnostics is the one file that can send us your data, and only if you tap it. It contains your iPhone model and iOS version, your most recent location, your recent drives with their place names and coordinates, your missions with their names and locations (including your Home Base), your vehicle names and registrations, your settings, your subscription status and the app's recent activity log. It goes wherever you send it, and we delete our copy once your problem is sorted. It is plain text — read it before you send it.

The subscription and its free trial are handled by Apple. Apple processes the payment and runs the trial, and tells the app only whether you have an active subscription, whether it's in its free trial and when the current period ends. We never see your payment details.

When you export a report or share a file via the iOS share sheet, you control where it goes. We have no involvement. Note the export is a zip: alongside the spreadsheets it contains your receipt photographs and any documents attached to your missions.

Notifications

• Notifications — while a drive is recording, Road Bro shows a quiet lock-screen card with the running mileage, titled with the mission name if the drive is linked to one. It clears itself when the trip ends. iOS creates and delivers it locally: there is no push server, so we cannot send you anything and we get nothing back.

Children's privacy

Road Bro is intended for adult business users. We do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 16.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change this policy, we'll update the date at the top and explain the change. Because we hold almost nothing off your device, there's very little that could change.

Contact

If you have any questions about this policy, or about how Road Bro handles data:

Email: roadbro@thesilverbullet.shop
Post: Decor Elevate Ltd, 25-29 Sandy Way, Yeadon, Leeds LS19 7EW, United Kingdom

For app help and common questions, see the Road Bro support page.

This policy is offered in good faith. It is not legal advice. If you require certified compliance documents (e.g. for GDPR DPIA, Schrems II, or a corporate due-diligence audit), commission them separately from a qualified data protection lawyer.