Privacy Policy

Effective October 22, 2026

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

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.
• Event entries: if you enter an event, or an organizer enters you, the details described under "Events" below.

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 and work-order scanning Optional

When you add a purchase order, you can choose to scan a receipt or order confirmation instead of typing it in. When you log service, you can do the same thing with a shop work order or invoice. Either way, the image or PDF you picked is sent over an encrypted connection to our AI service provider (Anthropic's Claude) to read out the details: vendor, date, order number, totals, and line items, plus the maintenance categories a work order covers.

A shop work order often carries more than a receipt does. Yours may have your name, phone number, address, and the shop's own details written on it. Scanning one is per-use and always your choice, and typing the record in by hand works just as well.

Reading out those details is the only thing your scan is used for today. 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 or service record, stored with your account like any other attachment. Nothing is committed until you review what was extracted and save the record yourself.

Using scans to improve accuracy Opt-in only

Reading handwriting off a greasy carbon-copy work order is genuinely hard, and the best way to get better at it is to learn from real ones. So we want to be upfront: we may, in the future, want to use scans like yours, and the corrections you make to what we read off them, to improve how accurately Moto Garage reads them.

We are not doing that today, and we will not start doing it quietly. If we ever do, it will be opt-in, never opt-out. It stays off until you go and turn it on yourself. We will not switch it on for you, we will not treat continuing to use the app as your agreement, and we will not bury it in an update nobody reads. If you never touch that setting, nothing of yours is ever used this way.

The never-sold, never-shared rule would still apply. This would be about making the scanner better for riders, not about handing your documents to anyone else. If you turn it on and later change your mind, switching it back off stops any further use of your scans. We will be straight with you about the one limit: anything already used to improve the scanner before you switched it off cannot be pulled back out again, which is exactly why this is off unless you choose it.

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 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.

Showing a shop your service history Rolling out

You can make a service-history link for a bike and show it to a shop as a QR code. The shop opens the page without an account and can print it or save it as a PDF. It shows your name, the bike, its odometer reading, its service records (including their notes) and its installed parts. Receipts and documents are never on it, and costs and the VIN appear only if you tick them for that link. The page is a snapshot from the moment you made it, so later service never shows up on it. The link stops working after the time you pick (24 hours, 7 days or 30 days), and you can revoke it sooner. Until then anyone with the link can open it, and a copy the shop saved stays with them.

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.

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.

Events Rolling out

Organizers can list events in Moto Garage and take entries for them. An organizer is the club, promoter or group that runs the event, and they are independent of us. This section covers what happens to an entry, whether you made it yourself or someone entered you.

How an entry is made

• In the app, signed in, once your email address is verified.
• On the event's public registration page, without an account. We email you a link to confirm your entry. Until you do, the organizer can't see it, and if you don't confirm within 48 hours we delete it.
• By the organizer, for example for a walk-up at the gate or a family entered together. The details then come from the organizer, not from you, and the organizer confirms they have the rider's permission, or a parent's or guardian's for a rider under 18. The email address on the entry, if there is one, may be the rider's or a parent's or guardian's. We use it only to send the entry notice and a link to see or withdraw the entry.

What an entry holds

Your name and class, an email address (optional when the organizer makes the entry), and whatever the organizer's form asks for. The organizer sets the form. It can include the bike you're bringing (only its year, make and model, never anything else from your garage), a phone number, an emergency contact, a date of birth, a membership number or questions of their own. Before you submit, the page lists exactly what will be shared and asks you to agree. An entry may also carry a race number and a team, and the organizer can mark it paid or unpaid. If you enter someone else's details, such as an emergency contact, make sure they're happy for you to share them.

Who sees it

• The event's organizers, who see the entry list and can download it as a spreadsheet.
• Moto Garage staff, on events where Moto Garage runs registration for the organizer (the registration page says so). Staff manage the list and share it with the organizer named on the page. Our admins can also see entries when needed to give support.
• Nobody else. We never sell entry lists or share them with anyone but the event's organizer.

Once an organizer has your entry, Moto Garage does not control what they do with it. Their own privacy practices apply, and their copies (a downloaded list, a waiver, results) stay with them even if you withdraw or delete your Moto Garage account. Ask the organizer if you have questions about how they use it.

Entry fees, if any, are paid to the organizer through their own payment provider, outside Moto Garage. We never see or handle your payment details. The paid mark is just a note the organizer keeps.

How long we keep it

• Form answers are deleted 90 days after the event's last day.
• The entry itself (name, email address, class, number, team, paid mark and status) is kept as part of the event's history.
• Deleting an event deletes all of its entries.
• An entry belongs to the event, so deleting your Moto Garage account doesn't remove it. Email us if you want one deleted.

Seeing or withdrawing an entry

Use the manage link in your confirmation or entry email to see your entry or withdraw it. If you entered from the app, you can do the same from the event in the app. If you have neither, for example because the organizer entered you without an email address, ask the organizer or email us at hello@advlabs.io. Withdrawing stops any further sharing but can't recall what the organizer has already seen.

Riders under 18

A rider under 18 can only be entered by a parent or guardian, or by the organizer with a parent's or guardian's permission. Riders under 13 can't be entered. See "Children and riders under 18" below.

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). Event confirmation and entry emails go the same way. 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

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, apart from the two things noted above.

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. Event entries follow their own schedule, described under "Events".

Children and riders under 18

Moto Garage accounts are for people 18 or older. Nobody under 18 may create an account or use the app themselves.

The one exception is event entries. A rider aged 13 to 17 can be entered in an event by a parent or guardian, or by the event's organizer with a parent or guardian's permission. For that rider we hold only what the entry form asks for, provided by the parent, guardian or organizer, and we keep and delete it on the same schedule as any other event entry. Most events are for riders 18 and older, and each organizer sets their own age rules.

Moto Garage is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Riders under 13 can't be entered in events. If we learn that we have collected a child's information, we delete it.

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.