Privacy
Made for a temporary outing.
Bread Crumbs is designed to help you share a short-lived safety view with people you trust—not to turn your day into a permanent feed.
Last updated: August 10, 2026
What Bread Crumbs may process
During an active safety session, Bread Crumbs may process location breadcrumbs, timestamps, device battery state, connectivity state, the selected activity and expected end, session status, and incident state when you use the app’s incident controls.
When location is collected
Bread Crumbs is designed to collect location information for an active safety session and its related background operation. Location access lets the app keep a last-reported trail while the phone is locked or you are using another app. Ending the session stops the active session flow.
Trusted contacts
Bread Crumbs does not upload your entire Contacts database. You choose the people with whom to share a guardian link. Guardians do not need a Bread Crumbs account to view a shared link.
Guardian links
A guardian link is a private, unguessable capability URL. It provides read-only access to the associated session while it is active. Links can expire and are revoked when a session ends. Anyone you share a link with may be able to view the information available through that link, so share it only with people you trust.
Encryption and service providers
Sensitive guardian telemetry is encrypted before it is stored in Apple CloudKit. The guardian web experience is hosted on Vercel and validates the private link before retrieving and decrypting the session information needed to render the read-only view. Apple, Vercel, and your device may process information under their own applicable policies and platform terms.
Retention
Bread Crumbs is designed around temporary sessions and expiring guardian links. Session expiry, revocation, and cleanup behavior can vary with the status of a session and available connectivity. Bread Crumbs does not promise a fixed retention period beyond the session and expiration behavior provided by the product.
Advertising and sale of data
The current Bread Crumbs beta does not include advertising, advertising tracking, or a data-selling feature. This statement describes the current product architecture and is not a substitute for the privacy practices of Apple, Vercel, your wireless carrier, or other services you choose to use.
Your choices
You control when to begin and end a safety session, whether to share a guardian link, and which permissions to grant. You can change Bread Crumbs permissions in iOS Settings. Turning off connectivity may delay updates; force-quitting the app affects iOS background behavior until the app is reopened.
Questions
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