How Byker keeps you private
What Byker does with your location, rides and photos.
Updated 18 October 2026
Rides can show where you live, so Byker is private by default.
- Your rides are private until you publish or share them.
- Hide exact start and finish keeps the first and last 500 m of a ride to yourself.
- Photos have their location and other hidden details removed when you upload them.
- Your location is used on your phone to centre the map and find rides near you, rounded to about 1 km. It's never saved.
- Recordings stay on your phone until you save the ride.
- Location sharing is always your choice, ends by itself, and keeps only your latest position, deleted when you stop.
- Your birthday, gender and email are never shown to other riders.
- No adverts, no advertising trackers, and your data is never sold.
Read the full Privacy Policy at byker.net/privacy.