This Privacy Policy explains how Hitt Foundry LLC ("Bolted," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you use Bolted, including the Bolted iPhone app, website, APIs, notifications, Live Activities, subscription features, support, and related services (collectively, the "Service").
1. Information We Collect
We collect information you provide, information generated by your use of the Service, and information needed to operate the Service. This may include:
- Watch zone information, such as zone names, coordinates, radii, distance units, notification frequency, mute settings, all-clear settings, and Live Activity settings.
- Location information, including your device location when you allow location access or enable current-location features.
- Device and app information, such as anonymous user identifiers, device identifiers, app account tokens, app version, build number, device token environment, and diagnostics.
- Notification and Live Activity information, such as APNs device tokens, Live Activity tokens, push-to-start tokens, delivery settings, and related status information.
- Subscription information, such as StoreKit or App Store product identifiers, transaction identifiers, original transaction identifiers, entitlement status, expiration, revocation, renewal, and app account token information.
- Support communications, including messages, email metadata, and diagnostics you choose to send us.
- Usage, analytics, and operational information, such as feature interactions, app events, server logs, error logs, IP address, approximate network information, timestamps, and security records.
2. How We Use Information
We use information to:
- Provide, operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Service.
- Show lightning activity and related map views.
- Create, update, restore, and monitor watch zones.
- Send lightning alerts, all-clear notifications, and Live Activity updates based on your settings.
- Sync current-location alert settings when you enable those features.
- Verify subscriptions and provide Pro features.
- Respond to support requests and troubleshoot issues.
- Analyze performance, usage, reliability, and security of the Service.
- Comply with law, enforce our terms, and protect rights.
3. Location Information
Bolted uses location information to show lightning near you and to support location-based alerts. If you enable current-location push alerts, Bolted may update your device location after meaningful movement to keep those alerts accurate, including when the app is not open if you grant the required permissions. You can disable location access or background location access in iOS settings, and you can disable current-location push alerts in the app.
4. How We Disclose Information
We do not sell your personal information for money. We may disclose information as follows:
- Service providers and infrastructure vendors that help us host, store, analyze, monitor, secure, and operate the Service.
- Apple and App Store services for purchases, subscriptions, APNs, StoreKit, Live Activities, iCloud Keychain, maps, and device platform functionality.
- Analytics and diagnostics providers to understand app performance, usage, crashes, and reliability.
- Legal, safety, and compliance recipients if we believe disclosure is required by law, legal process, safety needs, fraud prevention, security protection, or rights enforcement.
- Business transfer recipients in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of assets.
- With your consent or at your direction, including when you contact support or share diagnostics.
5. Third-Party Services
The Service may rely on third-party data sources, maps, hosting, analytics, payment, notification, and platform services. These third-party services may process information under their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties that we do not control.
6. Retention
We keep information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Service, maintain security, troubleshoot issues, enforce our terms, comply with law, resolve disputes, maintain subscriptions and entitlements, and protect rights. Retention periods may vary based on the type of information and the context in which it was collected.
7. Your Choices
You can control many privacy-related settings through iOS and the app. You may disable location access, background location, notifications, Live Activities, cellular data, or analytics permissions where iOS provides those controls. Disabling permissions may cause some features to stop working.
You may request access to, deletion of, correction of, or other action regarding your information by contacting support@hittfoundry.com. We may need information to verify your request, and some requests may be limited by legal, security, technical, anti-fraud, or operational reasons.
8. California Privacy Rights
California residents may have rights under California privacy laws, including rights to know, access, delete, correct, opt out of certain sale or sharing, limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, and not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights. We do not sell personal information for money. If our practices constitute "sharing" under California law, you may contact us to opt out.
We may collect the following categories of personal information: identifiers; internet or electronic network activity; geolocation data, including precise geolocation if you enable location features; commercial information related to subscriptions; inferences derived from usage information; and sensitive personal information such as precise geolocation when enabled. We use these categories for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
9. Children
The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided information to us, contact us at support@hittfoundry.com so we can take appropriate action.
10. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information. No method of transmission, storage, or processing is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. International Use
The Service is operated from the United States. If you use the Service from outside the United States, you understand that information may be processed in the United States and other locations where we or our service providers operate.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice by posting the updated policy, updating the effective date, or using another reasonable method. Your continued use of the Service after the updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the updated policy.
13. Contact
Questions or requests about this Privacy Policy can be sent to support@hittfoundry.com.