AirportPayMate Privacy Policy

Summary

AirportPayMate is designed to respect your privacy. We do not require an account, we do not collect personal information, and we do not transmit your location, trips, or any usage data to our servers or any third party. Everything the app needs to work — including your location, trip history, favourite airports, and settings — is stored locally on your device.

Who we are

AirportPayMate is published by SaintsNostalgia ("we," "us," or "our"), an independent UK-based app studio. If you have any questions about this policy or your privacy, you can reach us at hello@saintsnostalgia.com.

Location data

AirportPayMate uses your device's location to detect when you arrive at one of the supported UK airports (Manchester, Luton, Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, East Midlands, Stansted, and London City). This detection is performed entirely on your device using Apple's Core Location and geofencing APIs.

• Your location is never sent to our servers or any third party.
• Your location is never stored as raw coordinates — we only record that you arrived at a specific airport, locally, so the trip history feature works.
• The app requests "Always" location permission so it can detect airport arrivals while running in the background. This is the only reason background location is used.
• You can use the app without granting location permission by manually starting an alert from the Airports tab.
• You can revoke location access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → AirportPayMate.

Data we collect

We do not collect personal data. The following is created and stored only on your device:

• Trip history (airports visited, fees paid or skipped, timestamps).
• Favourite airports.
• App settings (notification sound, reminder frequency, monitoring toggles).

This data never leaves your device. Uninstalling the app permanently deletes it. There is no cloud sync and no account system.

Notifications

AirportPayMate sends local notifications to remind you to pay an airport fee. These notifications are generated entirely on your device and are never routed through a remote push server. You can disable notifications at any time in iOS Settings → Notifications → AirportPayMate.

Payments and third-party links

When you tap "Pay Now," the app opens the official payment website of the relevant airport (or a UK government payment portal) in Safari or an in-app browser. Once you leave AirportPayMate, you are subject to the privacy policy of that third-party website. We do not receive any information about your payment, your vehicle registration, or your card details.

The optional "Remove Ads" in-app purchase is handled entirely by Apple via the App Store. We do not see or store your payment information. Refer to Apple's privacy policy for details.

Advertising

The free version of AirportPayMate may display advertisements. If we introduce ads, the SDK used and any data it processes (such as a non-personal advertising identifier and coarse region) will be disclosed here and in the App Store privacy labels before that version ships. We do not use ads to build profiles about you and we do not share personal information with advertisers. You can permanently remove ads via the one-time "Remove Ads" in-app purchase.

Analytics and tracking

AirportPayMate does not use third-party analytics SDKs and does not perform any tracking as defined by Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework. We do not link any data to your identity or your device's advertising identifier.

Children's privacy

AirportPayMate is rated 4+ and is intended for a general audience, but it is designed for adult UK drivers. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone, including children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your jurisdiction). If you believe a child has somehow provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

Your rights (UK GDPR / EU GDPR / CCPA)

Because AirportPayMate does not collect or store personal information on our servers, we hold no personal data about you to access, correct, export, or delete. All app data is held on your device under your control. You may delete it at any time by clearing trip history in the app's Settings, or by uninstalling the app. If you contact us by email, we retain that correspondence only as long as needed to respond.

Data security

App data is stored on your device using Apple's standard secure storage APIs and is protected by your device passcode and biometric authentication. Because nothing is transmitted off your device, there is no server-side data to breach.

Changes to this policy

If we update this policy we will update the "Last updated" date above. Material changes (for example, introducing a new SDK or feature that processes additional data) will be highlighted in the app's release notes before they take effect.

Contact

Questions, concerns, or privacy requests? Email hello@saintsnostalgia.com.