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22:15Privacy and fairness

What we never do, at any hour.

Everyone is home and the map has gone quiet. What follows holds for the person on that map, tonight and every night: they always see who is looking, they choose how precisely they’re seen, and they can step away without asking anyone.

Try the sharing ladder What our server sees
Safety check: stop sharing with everyone, quietly, so your pin looks like a phone that is switched off and never says “paused”. A quick-exit button, and the list of who can see you: Mum and Dad see your exact location, Omar too, and Sara, a friend, your area only, each with Remove. Nothing on this screen sends an alert or leaves a message.

01The mirrorFree

You always see who is looking at you.

A live “looking now” eye on your own pin, and a ledger of who found you, set alerts on you or checked your speed.

Your mirror · today

  1. Dad is looking at your location right nownow
  2. Mum found you at the mallShe asked first. The search began only after you agreed.
  3. Mum checked your speedIt landed here as it happened.
  4. Dad set an arrive alert on you · SchoolIt came to you as a card, approved once.

Consent is a screen, not a setting.

Anything intrusive — a find, live speed, a group search — tells you first or as it happens, and lands in your mirror.

  • A findYou’re asked first.
  • A group searchYou’re told first.
  • Live speedYou see it as it happens.
  • An alert on youA card you approve once.

02The sharing ladderFree

You choose how precisely they see you.

Per group, one of four steps: Exact, Neighbourhood, City or Paused. Each step can be time-boxed, and it shows on your avatar, so nobody is left guessing.

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What the Family group sees

Exact

Your dot, with its accuracy ring, and the place name: Home.

For how long?

Exact is the everyday step. Pick another step to put a time on it.

03Pause and leaveFree

Pause is quiet. Stopping everything sends nothing.

For adults, pause is a calm, visible state: no push goes to the family. And when you need to step away from everyone at once, there is one exit, “Stop sharing now”, and it sends nothing at all.

On the family’s phones, when you pause

Nothing. Pausing sends no notification.

Stop sharing now.

One quiet exit, with a quick-exit button. It sends nothing.

Leaving a group never needs anyone’s approval.

04Your data

Never sold. No ads. No insurers.

No ads, ever — the subscription is the business.

  • No analytics or ad code in the app.

    Your circle’s locations travel encrypted through our server and are not sent to any other company. The map itself is drawn by Apple Maps on iPhone and Google Maps on Android, so Apple or Google receives the map area you are looking at.

  • Your history lives on your phone.

    7 days on Free, 30 days with Plus — on your phone, not on our server.

  • Your places are checked on your phone.

    Arrive and leave alerts are worked out on the phone itself, not on our server.

  • Delete your account, any time.

    It is deleted from our live server at once, and our encrypted backups age out within 15 days. What your family’s phones already received stays on their phones.

Full privacy policy How to delete your account

05What our server sees

Don’t take our word for it. The app shows you what our server sees.

A screen in the app shows you exactly what our relay receives for a location update: who it’s from, when it arrived, how many people it’s for, its size, and the location itself as an opaque envelope.

The envelopeSampled at 22:14

Who it’s from
p-adam
When it arrived
22:14
How many recipients
5
Size
148 bytes

The location itself

70c2 cee1 539d eaa7 89d5 9913

  1. What our relay can see about it: who it’s from, when it arrived, how many people it’s for, and its size.

  2. The location itself, as an opaque envelope. This is what our server stores for it.

Redrawn from the app’s “What our server holds” screen. The values are an example.

Why the careful words about encryption?

We’ll only use the words “end-to-end encrypted” after an outside security review. Until then, the app shows you exactly what our server receives.

06Never built

Things TZX Locate will never build.

Not on any plan, not as a hidden setting, not later.

  • No stealth or hidden tracking
  • No fake or frozen location
  • No remote listening
  • No uninstall blocking
  • No monitoring of one adult by another
  • No ads or data partnerships
  • No public profiles or friend leaderboards
  • No face recognition

Can I use it to watch another adult?

No.

TZX Locate has no adult-over-adult monitoring, and never will: not of a spouse, a driver, a nanny or a maid. Every adult on the map sees who is looking, chooses how precisely they’re seen, can pause quietly, and can leave any group without anyone’s approval.

In beta on iPhone and Android

Try the beta.

TZX Locate is in beta on iPhone and Android. Try it now, or leave your email and we’ll write once, when it’s in the stores.

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Get it on AndroidGoogle Play beta(opens in a new tab)

Ask to join, we approve, then install from Play.

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One email when the app is out. Nothing else. Privacy notice