Privacy Policy
Moto Garage is a motorcycle maintenance and garage app published by ADVLabs, a brand of Choyce Industries, LLC (the legal entity responsible for your data under this policy — "we" throughout). This policy explains what information the app collects, how it is used, and the choices you have. We keep it simple: we collect only what the app needs to work, we don't track you, and your data is never for sale.
You are not the product
A lot of "free" software pays for itself by quietly turning its users into inventory. We think that's a rotten deal, and Moto Garage doesn't work that way. We never sell your data. We never rent it, trade it, or share it with third parties for advertising, marketing, "partnerships," lead generation, or any purpose of their own — not your email, not your bikes, not your service history, not anything. There are no ads and no tracking. Your data exists in Moto Garage for exactly one purpose: making the app work for you. It leaves only when you choose to share something (described below) or if the law compels us.
Affiliate links — how a free app stays free Coming soon
There are no affiliate links in the app today. This is a planned feature, and we're setting its rules down now — before it exists — so you know the terms in advance and can hold us to them.
So how will Moto Garage pay for itself without selling you? Some links in the app may become affiliate links — for example, a reorder link for a part or consumable. If you tap one and end up buying from the retailer, they pay us a small commission at no extra cost to you. Here's the privacy shape of that, honestly:
- The link identifies Moto Garage, not you. The affiliate tag tells the retailer the visit came from us — it carries no name, no email, no garage data, nothing about you.
- Nothing about your identity comes back. We learn that a commission happened, not who you are or what's in your garage.
- Once you're on a retailer's site, their privacy policy applies — same as following any link on the web.
- Affiliate links are labeled so you always know when a link is one, before you tap it.
- Commissions never change what the app tells you. Your maintenance schedule, due alerts, and reminders are driven by your bike and your data — never by what pays us.
- You can turn them off — no questions asked. A switch in Settings disables affiliate links entirely, and once off they are never active again unless you choose to turn them back on. One honest caveat: a cookie a retailer set when you tapped an earlier link lives for however long that retailer decided — turning our links off doesn't reach into their cookie jar. Clearing your browser's cookies removes it if you want it gone.
Why make it a switch? Because plenty of riders in this community are creators, and we know some of you would rather a purchase support a favorite creator's links instead of ours. That's fine by us — genuinely.
Information we collect
- Account information — your email address and the display name you provide when you create an account.
- Your garage content — the data you add: motorcycles, maintenance intervals, service records, parts & mods, projects, purchase orders, garage stock, riding gear, mileage / odometer readings, costs, notes, known issues, warranty and renewal dates, trips (plans, checklists, and trip logs), and any photos, receipts, documents, or manuals you choose to attach.
- Route files you upload — if you attach a GPX track to a trip, that file contains location history from wherever it was recorded. It's stored with your account like any other attachment. The app itself does not access your device's location.
- Notification data — if you enable push notifications, a per-device push token; your notification preferences are saved with your profile.
We do not collect advertising identifiers, device location, or contacts, and the app contains no third-party advertising or analytics/tracking SDKs.
How we use it
- To provide the core app: storing and syncing your garage so it's available across your sessions and devices.
- To compute maintenance status, due/overdue reminders, and your mileage trend.
- To send reminders and alerts if you turn them on — on-device local notifications, in-app notification-center entries, push notifications, and (if you enable them) email notifications sent to the address you choose. Every category and channel is optional and under your control, with one master switch over all of it.
Receipt scanning Optional
When you add a purchase order, you can choose to scan a receipt or order confirmation instead of typing it in. If you do, the image or PDF you picked is sent over an encrypted connection to our AI service provider (Anthropic's Claude) to read out the order details — vendor, date, order number, totals, and line items. That extraction is the only thing the scan is used for: Anthropic processes it on our instructions as a service provider, the same never-sold, never-shared rule applies, and the scan then becomes the receipt attached to your order, stored with your account like any other attachment. Nothing is committed until you review the extracted details and save the order yourself. Scanning is per-use and always your choice — typing it in works just as well.
When you choose to share
Everything above stays private to your account by default. Moto Garage also has features that share specific things with specific people — every one of them is opt-in, initiated by you, limited in scope, and revocable. Nothing is ever shared without an action you take.
Some of these features are still rolling out (or, where marked, not built yet) and may not be in your app today. We document them ahead of time on purpose — the rules are set before the feature arrives, not after.
Sharing a bike with another rider Rolling out
You can invite someone (by email) to a bike as a viewer or editor. They see that bike's maintenance data — intervals, service history, mileage — and editors can log work, attributed to them by name. Your private bike data is structurally off-limits to collaborators: purchase and sale details, costs and spending, receipts, known issues, and uploaded documents/manuals stay owner-only. You can revoke access at any time, and revocation takes effect immediately.
Giving a shop temporary access Rolling out
You can grant a mechanic or shop time-boxed access to a bike (for example, one day or one week). They can log service and mileage on it — records are labeled as shop-logged — but cannot change your maintenance schedule and cannot see your spending, warranties, costs, or documents. Access expires automatically at the end of the window, and expired access means zero access.
Trips with co-riders and public ride reports Rolling out
Inviting a co-rider to a trip lets them see the shared trip, check off prep items, and add their own log entries, photos, and tracks — attributed to them. Separately, you can publish a public ride-report link for a trip: it contains only the trip content that's designed to be public (your prep checklist is structurally excluded), and you can revoke the link at any time, which also removes the published media.
Public setup sheets Rolling out
If you publish a bike setup sheet, the public page carries a curated set of fields only. Your VIN, dates, odometer, purchase data, costs, and private notes can never be published — the allowlist is enforced server-side, not by trust. Published sheets are revocable at any time.
Selling or transferring a bike Rolling out
If you transfer a bike's history to a buyer, the maintenance record tree is copied into their account as prior-owner history. Your purchase/sale details and uploaded manuals are never transferred. You keep your own archived copy of the sold bike.
Registering for events Coming soon
Where Moto Garage connects you to an event — a rally, track day, group ride, or similar — that event has an organizer, and registering or signing up means sharing the information the registration asks for (for example your name, email address, and bike details) with them. Two things to understand clearly:
- Organizers are independent of ADVLabs. Information you share for an event goes to the organizer and may remain in their records — for their own record keeping, rosters, waivers, results, and similar administration — even after the event ends, and even if you later delete your Moto Garage account. Deleting your account removes our copy of your data; it cannot reach into an organizer's records. Questions about how an organizer handles your information should go to that organizer.
- We only pass along what you submit. An event registration shows you exactly what it's asking for, and that's all the organizer gets from us — we never sell attendee lists and never feed organizers data beyond what you chose to share.
Inviting someone who doesn't have an account yet
If you invite an email address that isn't registered, we park the invite keyed by a one-way hash of the address — the raw email is never stored — and send a single invitation email. Unclaimed invites expire and are deleted after 30 days. We also never reveal to anyone whether an email address has a Moto Garage account.
Where your data is stored
Your account and content are stored using Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Functions) on Google Cloud infrastructure. Data is transmitted over encrypted (HTTPS) connections and is accessible only to your authenticated account — or, where you've shared something, to the people you shared it with — enforced by server-side security rules. Google processes this data as our service provider; see Google's Firebase Privacy & Security information.
Two narrow delivery paths also involve service providers: if you enable push notifications, they're relayed through Expo's push service and Apple's / Google's notification systems, and if you enable email notifications, they're delivered through Amazon SES (Amazon's email delivery service). Service providers like these act on our instructions to run the app — that is not, and will never become, selling or sharing your data for anyone's own use.
Cookies & local storage
There are no advertising or tracking cookies — nothing follows you around the web. The web app keeps your signed-in session and a few small preferences (like a dismissed announcement) in your browser's local storage, because that's what they're for.
When the law requires
We may disclose information if we receive valid legal process that compels it. We interpret such requests narrowly, disclose only what is legally required, and — where the law allows — we will tell you it happened. We do not volunteer your data to anyone. And if a security breach ever affects your data, we will notify you promptly and plainly.
Camera & photo access
If you attach a photo or document (a receipt, a bike image, a PDF manual), the app asks for camera and/or photo-library permission. Attachments are used only for the item you create and are stored with your account. The app does not access your microphone or your device's location.
Deleting your account and data
You can permanently delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete account inside the app. This removes your authentication record and all of your data from our systems — your garage content and photos, sharing grants you've made or received, pending invites, and any public trip or setup-sheet pages you published (including their copied media). Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone. If you need help, contact us at the address below.
Your rights, your tools
Most policies make you email a request form to exercise your rights. In Moto Garage the rights are buttons:
- See everything we hold about you — it's your garage; there is no hidden profile behind it.
- Export your data — service history as a spreadsheet, or a printable PDF report, from inside the app.
- Correct anything by simply editing it.
- Delete everything, immediately, from Settings → Delete account.
We extend the same rights to everyone, wherever you live — not just where a privacy law makes us. For anything these tools don't cover, email us and a human will sort it out.
Data retention
We keep your data for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, your data is removed as described above. Backups maintained by our infrastructure provider are cycled out in the normal course.
Children
Moto Garage is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.
If ADVLabs ever changes hands
The usual fine print says your data quietly transfers to whoever buys the company. Ours doesn't. If Moto Garage or Choyce Industries, LLC were ever acquired, merged, or wound down, your data would only move to a successor that is bound by this policy's commitments — including everything in "You are not the product" — and we would give you clear advance notice with time to export or delete your data first. Your garage doesn't get sold out from under you.
Changes to this policy
If we make material changes we will update this page and the effective date above. The promise in "You are not the product" is not the kind of thing that changes.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data? Email hello@advlabs.io.