Privacy
Privacy policy
What Outrider collects, what it never does, and the choices you have.
Effective 29 September 2026.
Effective date: 29 September 2026
Who we are: Outrider Trails LLC, a Nevada limited liability company.
What this covers: the Outrider app and outridertrails.com. Outposts, the host network, will get its own policy before it launches.
The short version
- Your rides stay on your phone unless you say yes to sharing them.
- If you say no, nothing about your rides leaves your phone.
- Shared rides carry no name or ID, so they can't be traced back to you — which also means they can't be deleted later.
- We publish trail totals, never people, to help keep the trails we love open to horses.
- We don't sell your information. No ads, and no tracking you across other apps or sites. The app has no analytics; the website counts visits.
1. What we collect
You don't need an account. What leaves your phone depends on what you do:
- Sharing your rides. Off until you say yes — we ask once, after your first ride. When it's on, each ride you save is sent: the full route, the date (never the time), how long it took, the name you gave it, any trail answers or note, and any photos you added. No name or ID is attached.
- Your location. The app asks your permission first. It records your location while you're recording a ride, even with the screen off, and uses it when you ask for places "near you." Only a shared ride, or a "near you" search, sends it off your phone — and a "near you" search isn't saved.
- Photos you send. Location and camera data are removed first. We review every photo; once published, anyone can see it.
- Tips and reports. What you enter, plus a random code the app makes up so one phone can't flood us. It says nothing about who you are.
- Group rides. What you enter — your name, the day, time, meeting place and trails — and the names, rigs and notes of riders who ask to join. The public board shows only the region, the day, your first name and spaces left. Everything else goes only to riders you accept, and to anyone you give the invite link.
- The website. The waitlist, trail-request and host forms collect what you type in, such as your name, email, phone and where you ride. Each sign-up is emailed to us and copied into a Google Sheet we keep.
Your horses, your ride history and anything else on your phone stay there. We never collect race, religion, health information or government ID.
2. How we use it
- To map trails accurately.
- To count horse use on trails, so riders have a number when agencies decide which trails stay open. We share only totals — never a person or a route — free with land agencies, advocacy groups and researchers, who agree not to try to identify anyone.
- To run group rides, answer you, and keep the app working and secure.
We never sell your information, show anyone's track, or use it for ads. A trail page shows only the month it was last ridden, and never during that month.
3. Who else sees it
- Our service providers: Supabase (database and storage), Mapbox (maps and search — it sees the area you're viewing and what you search for), Cloudflare (website, including a count of website visits that uses no cookies), and Apple (App Store) and Google (Play Store, and the Gmail and Google Sheets that hold website sign-ups). They may only use your information to provide their service to us. Like any website, they see your IP address. Our data is stored in the United States.
- Public government services: the app gets weather from the National Weather Service, fires from the National Interagency Fire Center, land ownership from the Bureau of Land Management, and some camp photos from the National Park Service. They receive the place you're looking at — never your own position.
- Directions open Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze, under their own policies.
- The law. We'll disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety. If Outrider is ever sold or merged, this policy goes with it.
No one else can track you across other apps or websites through Outrider, so we don't respond to "Do Not Track" signals — there's nothing for them to turn off.
4. How long we keep it
- Shared routes: the line is deleted 90 days after it's matched to a trail. Routes that match no trail are kept.
- Group rides: deleted 30 days after the ride, unless reported.
- Trail totals: kept.
- Photos, tips, reports and website sign-ups: kept until we remove them or you ask us to. That includes the copy in our email and our sheet.
- Everything on your phone: until you erase it.
5. Your choices
- Sharing: turn it on or off any time in Settings → Add my rides to the trail count.
- Erase: Settings → Erase what is on this phone removes everything the app keeps on your phone. Rides you've already shared can't be removed, because nothing links them to you.
- Export: save any ride as a GPX file.
- See, correct or delete what you sent us: email info@outridertrails.com about a photo, tip, group ride or website sign-up.
- Do Not Sell (Nevada): we don't sell personal information, but you can still email info@outridertrails.com with the subject "Do Not Sell." We'll respond within 60 days.
6. Security
Data is encrypted in transit. The public can't read what you send, except published photos and what you share on a group ride. The people who run Outrider can see the database. If a breach affects your information, we'll tell you as Nevada law requires.
7. Children
Outrider is for adults 18 and older. If we learn we have information from someone younger, we'll delete it.
8. Changes
We'll post any update here with a new date and tell you in the app before it takes effect. If a change would use shared rides in a new way, we'll ask you again.