Last updated August 28, 2026
Curbwise is built to do one thing — remember where you parked in San Francisco or Oakland and warn you before you get a ticket. The privacy story matches the product: your data stays on your phone, no accounts, no analytics, no ads.
Only one thing: your precise location, captured when you tap "Save here" (or trigger the same flow via Siri or CarPlay). We use it to look up which San Francisco or Oakland blockface you're on and what sweeping schedule applies.
Curbwise asks for "When In Use" location authorization. We do not request "Always" or background location.
Your saved parking sessions (location, blockface label, time-limit info, departure timestamps) live in a SwiftData store on your device. The store is shared with the Home Screen widget and the Apple Watch app via an iOS App Group, but stays inside your phone's sandbox.
If you're signed into iCloud, that store also mirrors to your own private iCloud database, which is how your history follows you between iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It is your iCloud account, not ours — we operate no server and cannot read it. Turning off iCloud for curbwise in Settings stops the mirroring; Apple's standard iCloud Backup will still include the local store if you have backup enabled, which is between you and Apple.
If you use Curbwise Plus to share a car with someone, that one car and its current spot are put in an iCloud share (Apple's CloudKit sharing) so the person you invite can see it. You choose who; you can stop sharing at any time from the car's screen. Nothing else in your history is shared, and again it moves through iCloud rather than through us.
Deleting the app removes everything on the device. To also clear the iCloud copy, delete curbwise's data under Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage.
Curbwise queries each city's public data endpoints to download sweeping schedules and (for San Francisco) parking regulations:
gisapps1.mapoakland.com copy until August 2026; the data is identical, but that host stopped answering reliably.)These requests fetch each city's data and do not include any information about you. The full datasets are cached on your phone so most lookups happen offline.
Curbwise schedules local notifications (sweeping warnings, time-limit warnings) using iOS's standard notification center. Nothing is pushed from a remote server — there is no remote server.
Curbwise is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date at the top will change too. Material changes will be called out in the app's release notes.
Questions about privacy? Email juanca.med@gmail.com.