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Privacy Policy — CheaPark

Last updated: October 8, 2026.

CheaPark ("the app", "we", "us") compares parking-garage prices in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, on iPhone and on Android. This policy covers both apps; where they differ, it says so. It explains what the app does and does not do with your information. It is written to be honest and short, because CheaPark's whole point is honesty.

The short version

CheaPark collects no personal data. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no advertising and no tracking. From version 1.15 on iPhone and 2.30 on Android, the app asks whether it may count, anonymously, how it is used — searches, lots opened, hand-offs to navigation apps. Only if you agree does it send us those counts, as totals, with no device identifier, no location and nothing that could tell us who you are. You can change your answer at any time in Settings.

Anonymous usage counts

The app asks once before it counts anything. If you say no, nothing is counted or sent. If you say yes, so that we know whether the app is useful and to whom, the app counts:

• destination searches, per city (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa or "other");
• which parking lots had their details opened;
• taps on "navigate", and which maps app, per lot;
• car-screen (CarPlay) sessions, on iPhone;
• whether the app was used on a given day and in a given week, and whether it had been used in an earlier week.

The counts are kept on your phone and sent to our server as daily totals, at most about once every ten minutes. They carry the app version and the ISO week in which the app first counted on your phone (a week shared by everyone who installed it that week), and nothing else: no device ID, no advertising ID, no location, no account, no name, phone number or car plate. Our server does not keep the IP address a report arrives from.

To confirm that counts come from the real app, each report from an iPhone can carry an Apple App Attest check made through Google Firebase App Check. That check says "this is the genuine CheaPark app"; it does not identify you. The Android app sends its reports without such a check.

Changing your answer: Settings → Privacy → "שיתוף נתוני שימוש אנונימיים". Turning it off stops the counting and deletes any counts not yet sent.

How the counts are used. To learn which features and parking lots are useful, and to improve the app. We may also publish, or show to partners, investors or a potential buyer of CheaPark, statistics built from all the counts together — for example "so many drivers used CheaPark this week". Those statistics are aggregates; individual reports are never shared, sold, used for advertising or combined with data from anywhere else.

Where they are kept, and for how long. On Google Cloud servers in Israel (the Tel Aviv region), which Google operates for us under its cloud data processing terms; Google does not use the data for its own purposes and protects it at least as well as this policy requires. We keep the counts as anonymous statistics for as long as CheaPark operates. Because a report cannot be linked to anyone, no report can be singled out as yours to delete; turning counting off stops new counts at once.

App store statistics

Like every developer, we receive from Apple statistics about CheaPark as a whole — downloads, deletions, and how many devices opened the app on a given day — counted only for people who chose to share analytics with app developers in their iPhone's settings. Google Play gives us the same kind of totals for the Android app — installs, uninstalls, ratings — and, if your phone is set to share usage and diagnostics with Google, reports of crashes and freezes, which carry the phone model and Android version but not who you are. All of these are about the app, never about a person; we keep them with the rest of CheaPark's statistics and use them the same way.

Location

CheaPark asks for your location only while you are using the app, and only to:

• center the map on where you are, and
• find and rank parking lots around you.

Your location is not sent to us and is not part of the usage counts. On iPhone, when you search for parking around your current location, the app asks Apple Maps for walking times from that point to nearby lots; Apple's privacy policy covers that request. The Android app works out distances on the phone and sends your location nowhere; it reads it through Google Play services, and only while the map is on screen. If you decline the location permission, the app still works: search for a destination instead.

Searching for a destination

When you type a destination, the text you type is sent to Google Places (or, on iPhone, to Apple Maps if Google is unavailable) to suggest and locate places. Google's and Apple's privacy policies cover those requests. We do not receive or keep what you search for — only, if you agreed to share usage counts, the number of searches per city described above.

To stop copies of the app that aren't genuine from using CheaPark's search, the iPhone app uses Firebase App Check: Apple's App Attest service confirms that a request comes from a real copy of CheaPark, and that confirmation goes to Google with the search. On Android, Google's own software attaches the app's name and signing certificate to the request for the same purpose. Neither contains personal information or is used for analytics or advertising.

Navigating, sharing and rating

When you tap "navigate", the app opens Waze, Google Maps or another maps app with the parking lot's location, and that app's privacy policy covers what happens next. Sharing a lot hands its name and price to the app you choose to share with. When the app invites you to rate it, the rating sheet is Apple's or Google's own; we learn only what you choose to post publicly in the store.

Information stored on your device

Your preferences — such as resident status, payment method, maximum search distance, favorite lots and recent destinations — are saved on your device, in Apple's standard storage (UserDefaults) on iPhone and in the app's private storage on Android. They are not sent to us and are removed when you delete the app.

Parking data the app fetches

To show prices and free spaces, the app reads publicly available parking data: from CheaPark's own server, which collects it from the operators' public websites, and directly from operators such as Ahuzot Hahof and Central Park. These requests fetch general lot information and do not include your identity or your location. CheaPark's server keeps a history of the lots' published prices and free spaces; it contains nothing about any driver.

Children

CheaPark is suitable for all ages and does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, including children.

Your rights (GDPR / CCPA / Israeli Privacy Protection Law)

The usage counts cannot be linked to you, so there is no personal data about you on our side to access, correct, export or delete. Everything personal the app uses stays on your device and is removed when you uninstall it.

If CheaPark changes hands

If CheaPark is sold or merged into another company, the anonymous statistics and the parking data go with it, and the new owner must keep to this policy — or ask you again before doing anything this policy does not allow.

Changes to this policy

If the app's data practices change, we will update this policy and its date before the change ships.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email idobeerie46@gmail.com.