Motonest — Privacy Policy
Effective date: June 26, 2026 · Last updated: November 13, 2026
Motonest (“the app”, “we”, “us”) is a community app for motorcycle riders that helps you discover and share rider-friendly places (“nests”). This policy explains what data we collect, why, and your rights over it. It is written to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Who is responsible
The data controller for Motonest is Anerti Venture SRL, tax ID 15435895, registered office Str. Mihail Kogălniceanu 21, Sc. A, Et. 2, Ap. 5, Bistrița, Bistrița County, 420034, Romania. For any privacy request, contact contact@motonest.com.
What we collect and why
| Data | Why | Legal basis (GDPR) |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | Create your account and sign you in (magic link, one-time code, or password). | Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) |
| Approximate & precise location | Show nests near you, tag a place when you submit one, and compute a route that starts where you are (that point goes to our routing server only to compute the route). Used only while you use the relevant feature. | Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) |
| Photos you attach | Illustrate the places you submit to the community. | Consent / Contract |
| Submissions you create | Place name, location, notes and photos you share become part of the community map. | Contract |
| Basic technical data | Your device requests map tiles and app data over the internet; this involves your IP address being seen by the serving servers. | Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Anonymous usage counts | To see how the app is used, it adds one to shared daily counters: a day the app was opened, a step of adding a place, which place pages were opened. No user ID, device ID or location goes with them, so they cannot be traced back to you. | Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| Public profile (optional) | If you turn it on: show your rider profile to other people, let them find you by name and open the link you share. Off by default. | Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) |
We do not collect contacts, advertising identifiers, or background location. We do not sell your data. We do not use third-party advertising SDKs. The website's analytics are described below.
Your public profile (optional)
Your profile is private until you turn on “Visible to riders” on Your public profile. When it is on, we show: your display name, your profile photo once we have approved it, your bike, the year you joined, how many nests you added and those nests, and the trips and lists you chose to share. We never show your email address, your saved places, your road preferences or your location.
Who can see it: anyone who uses Motonest, signed in or not. They can find you by searching your name in the app (at least 3 letters, a few results at a time). The profile also has a link (motonest.com/r/…) that you can share; it opens in the app or in a web browser without an account, and anyone who receives it can pass it on. We ask search engines not to index these pages.
Your display name also appears as the author of the nests you added, even while your profile is off: it is part of the community map (see “Submissions you create”).
You can turn it off at any time with the same switch. From then on the profile no longer opens, no longer shows in search and its link stops working; we cannot recall copies that others have already made, such as a screenshot. Withdrawing consent does not affect what was shown before. After a report we may remove a photo or make a profile private. Deleting your account deletes your profile.
Data about the places listed on the map
The map lists places: accommodation, repair shops, restaurants, fuel. For each one we hold the name, the address, the coordinates, the category and, where they are public, the business contact details — phone, website, email address. These are business details; where an address identifies a person (firstname.lastname@…), it is personal data and this section applies to it.
This information does not come from the business itself. It comes from submissions sent in by riders, from the 2020 Motonest legacy list, from OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps, Foursquare open data and DATAtourisme (open data from French tourist boards).
We process it to keep the map accurate and to let a rider find and contact a place. The legal basis is legitimate interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)): keeping a free map correct, and giving a business the chance to correct what is published about it. This data is never sold and never used for advertising targeting.
We sometimes write or call a business to check what the app shows about it. Every message offers two separate things, which you can ask for independently: removing the listing from the map, and never being contacted by Motonest again. A removal request is recorded so the listing does not come back through a later import; a no-contact request leaves the listing online.
The listing is kept for as long as it appears on the map. Removal and no-contact requests are kept indefinitely, precisely so that they are honored. Notes taken during a call or an exchange are kept for three years.
You can ask for access to this data, for it to be corrected or erased, or object to it being processed, by writing to contact@motonest.com. You can also complain to your data protection authority (in France: the CNIL; in Romania: ANSPDCP).
Where your data is stored
Your account data, submissions and photos are stored on our own server infrastructure at api.motonest.com, within the EU.
App install identifier and abuse prevention
Each install of the app gets a technical identifier, without creating an account. With that identifier and your IP address we limit and trace bulk downloads of the place data. These records are kept for 90 days, and identifiers that have been inactive for 180 days are deleted.
Analytics
If you agree, we use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read. The tag starts with every consent signal denied and only sets cookies after you accept, so declining leaves nothing on your device. Google acts as our processor and may process data outside the EU under its standard contractual clauses. You can change your mind by clearing this site's data in your browser.
Third parties
Some features call outside services directly from your phone. Each one sees your IP address, as with any web request, and only what the feature needs; no account data is sent to any of them. Map: OpenFreeMap (tiles.openfreemap.org). Relief shading of the Nature map style: Amazon Web Services (AWS Terrain Tiles, s3.amazonaws.com), which receives the part of the map you are viewing. Satellite layer and the printed trip map: Esri (server.arcgisonline.com). Address search, and naming a trip after the town it starts from: OpenStreetMap's Nominatim, which receives the text you search or the coordinates of that point. Trip weather: the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (api.met.no), which receives the coordinates of the trip's places, rounded to about 10 metres. Routes are computed on our own server (route.motonest.com). We do not share your personal data with any other third party, except where required by law.
How long we keep it
- Account data: for as long as your account exists.
- Submissions and photos: remain part of the community map unless you delete them or ask us to.
- If you delete your account, we delete your personal account data. Public submissions may be retained in anonymized form to preserve the community map.
Your rights (GDPR)
You have the right to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to withdraw consent at any time. Location and photo permissions can be revoked in your device settings at any time. To exercise any right, email contact@motonest.com and we will respond within 30 days. You may also lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority (in Romania: ANSPDCP).
Children
Motonest is not directed at children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Our places are not yours to copy
This policy is about your personal data. The places, photos and descriptions on Motonest are a separate matter: copying them in bulk, collecting them with a program or using them to train AI is not allowed without our written permission. The rules are in the Terms of Service, under “Our data and database rights” and “Automated access, scraping and AI training”.
Changes
We may update this policy. Material changes will be announced in the app or by updating the “Last updated” date above.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data: contact@motonest.com