Privacy Policy
What GarageLink collects, why, and how it is protected. This applies to the GarageLink apps and to this website.
Version 1. This policy has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer and it will be revised. The last section lists what it does not yet cover.
What we collect
Your account
- Your name, your mobile number, and your email address if you give us one.
- A password, stored only as a cryptographic hash — we cannot read it.
- Your preferred language, so the apps and our messages reach you in it.
Your vehicles and service history
- The vehicles you add, and the repair or recovery requests you create.
- Quotes you receive, the work you accept, and the invoices that follow.
- Reviews you write and support tickets you open.
Location — recovery drivers only
- If you drive for a recovery partner, the app records your position, heading, speed and accuracy while you are working, so customers can see help approaching.
- Customers and garages are not location-tracked in this way.
Your device
- A push notification token, so we can tell you when a quote arrives or a driver is on the way. It is refreshed each time you open the app.
- Device identifiers, used to keep accounts secure and to block abuse.
Why we collect it
- To provide the service. A repair request cannot reach a garage, and a recovery driver cannot reach you, without the details above.
- To let you and a garage deal with each other. Quotes, messages and invoices pass between you through GarageLink.
- To keep the platform safe. We use account and device signals to detect abuse and to act on it.
- To bill for the service, where a subscription or a fee applies.
- To communicate with you about your requests, in the language you chose.
Who else sees it
- Garages and recovery drivers you deal with see what they need in order to answer your request and carry out the work.
- Service providers who operate parts of the platform for us — push notification delivery, mapping and arrival estimates, file storage, and payment processing. They act on our instructions.
We do not sell your personal data.
How it is protected
- Passwords are stored hashed, never in a readable form.
- Access to our admin console is restricted by role, and administrative actions are recorded in an audit trail.
Your choices
Deleting your account
- You can ask us to delete your account from the app, or from this website without signing in — we confirm the request with a one-time code sent to your number.
- You can check the status of a deletion request at any time, and cancel it.
Notifications and language
- You can change your language at any time in the app.
- You can turn off push notifications in your device settings.
What this policy does not yet cover
Each of the following is a normal part of a privacy policy, and this version does not state it. We would rather leave a gap you can see than write a commitment we cannot yet stand behind.
- How long each kind of record is kept.
- The names of the specific companies that process data on our behalf.
- Whether data is transferred outside the UAE, and on what basis.
- The legal framework this policy is written under, and the rights that follow from it.
- What this website stores in your browser, and why.
- The minimum age for holding an account.
If you need any of these before we publish them, or you have any other privacy question, please contact Support