The small print
Privacy
Find a Drive is all about where you go, so we're careful about where your data goes. Here's what we collect, why, who helps us, and what you can do about it.
Last updated 10 November 2026
The short version
- We only collect what we need to run the early-invite list: your email address, plus your first name and what you drive if you choose to tell us.
- We use it to confirm your place, to send your invite, and to email you news about Find a Drive, which is what joining says yes to. Just Find a Drive, nothing else, and we never sell your details.
- No advertising trackers, and nothing that follows you around the web. We count visits ourselves, without cookies, and the numbers never leave us.
- Every email lets you stop the news and keep your place, or leave the list altogether. You can also ask us to delete everything.
- With an account, what you make is yours: nobody else sees a drive until you publish it, and then never where you live. You can download all of it, or delete your account, from settings, whenever you like.
Who we are
Find a Drive is run by Driven Innovations LTD, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 15698962), whose registered office is at 7/8 Avon Reach, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1EE. We're the controller of your personal data: we decide how it's used, and we're responsible for looking after it. We're registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, reference ZC278139.
Questions about your data, or about this notice, go to [email protected].
What this covers
This notice covers findadrive.co.uk: your account and everything you make with it, the early-invite list, the map, any emails between us, and what we've kept from the original Find a Drive.
What we collect
When you join the early-invite list, we keep:
- your email address, which we need to put you on the list;
- your first name, if you give it, for your member card and our emails;
- what you drive, if you tell us, so we know who we're building for;
- the record of your place: your number in the queue, when you joined, confirmed or left, whether you'd rather have just your invite, and which version of this notice, and of the words by our sign-up forms, you said yes to;
- once you've confirmed, an invite link of your own to pass on, and if you joined through someone else's, whose it was. We never tell anyone who joined through their link.
Your name and what you drive are entirely optional, and nothing changes if you leave them out.
If you email us, we have your email address and whatever you choose to write.
If you send us an enquiry, we keep your name, your email address, your organisation if you give it, and your message (see enquiries).
When you visit, your browser sends technical details with every request, such as your IP address and the browser you're using. Our hosting providers use them to deliver the site and protect it from attacks. We also use your IP address, briefly and only in memory, to stop our forms being flooded. It's never stored with your details.
Counting visits
We count visits to the site ourselves, on our own servers, so we know what's working and what isn't. There are no cookies, nothing is stored on your device, and nothing goes to anyone else: no analytics companies, no advertisers.
For each page you open, we record:
- the page, how long it was on your screen, and how far down it you got;
- the website that sent you, by its name only (google.com, say), or the campaign a link was tagged with;
- the kind of device and browser you're using, from the details your browser sends anyway (a phone running Safari, say), and your country, if our network passes it on.
To count you once a day rather than once a page, we mix your IP address and browser details with a secret that's made fresh each day, and keep only the result. Each day's secret is deleted the next day, so the result can't be turned back into your address, or used to recognise you on another day. Your IP address itself is never stored.
If your browser asks sites not to track you (Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track), we don't count your visits at all.
When something goes wrong on a page, your browser tells us, so we can put it right: what broke, the page it happened on (without anything after a ?), and broadly the browser (a phone running Safari, say). Errors on our own servers are noted the same way. Nothing in them says who you are, and none of it goes to anyone else.
The map
The map is open to everyone. As you move around it, your browser fetches its pieces, and the roads and drives on them, from our servers, and what you type in its search box comes to us so we can find the place, road or drive you mean. We use them to answer there and then, and don't keep them, apart from the technical logs our hosting providers keep for a short time.
"Where I am" asks your browser where you are only when you press it, and your browser asks your permission first. The answer's used on your device to show you on the map: we never receive it or keep it, though the map then fetches the pieces round you, as it does wherever you look.
Your account
When you sign up, we keep your email address, your name, your handle (the @name others see) and, if you tell us, what you drive. We keep your choices with it too: your member card's paint and finish, miles or kilometres, paper or ink, how the map opens, and film grain.
If your invite came from the early-invite list, your account carries over your invite link, whose link brought you, and whether you're having our news, so they're kept when the list closes.
You sign in with a code we email you, or with a passkey. We keep each passkey's public half and the name you gave it, never anything that could sign in as you. Each time you sign in, we keep that session, with the browser it's from and its IP address, so you can see where you're signed in, in settings, and sign out of anywhere.
Your drives
The drives you plan are kept with your account: their stops, their roads, their names, and the figures we work out for them. Nobody else sees a drive until you publish it. Then it's on its own page, on the map and in search, and on your profile, with your name and handle.
Before you publish anything, you put a privacy zone round home, and round anywhere else you'd rather keep to yourself. A published drive's ends inside them are hidden from everyone else, wherever it's shown or downloaded. We keep each zone as a circle, a middle and a size, and never an address.
Where you are
The planner asks your browser where you are only when you press "Start from where I am" or "Show where I am", and your browser asks your permission first. The answer is used there and then, to put a stop where you are or show you on the map, and we keep it only if you make it a stop on a drive.
Photos, stories and videos
Photos you add to a drive are made smaller on your phone, then made again on our server from their pixels alone, so nothing in them says where or when they were taken, or on what. If your phone says where one was taken, that's read on your phone to pin it to the drive, and never sent to us. We keep them in our storage in London, and others see them only on a drive you've published, and never inside your privacy zones.
Your stories are kept with their drives. A story can show a YouTube video you made: we keep its address, its title and its channel's name. Nothing loads from YouTube until someone presses play.
Nods, follows and comments
- A drive's owner sees who's given it a nod.
- Putting a drive in your glovebox is private: its owner sees how many have, never who.
- Who you follow, and who follows you, is on your profile for anyone to see.
- Your comments are on the drive's page, with your name, for anyone to see.
Club runs and clubs
A club run is never public: it's seen by those with its link, those its organiser invites, or its club's members. Saying you're coming shows your name to its organiser and to others on the run. Where it meets, and where it goes, are told to those its organiser chooses.
A club's members see each other, and its admins see who's asking to join. Organisers' notes go to those on the run, in the app and by email.
Bespoke drives
When you ask for a drive made to measure, what you write, where you're starting, your units and what you're driving go to Anthropic, the company behind Claude, which designs it with our own roads, places and routing. Anthropic acts only on our instructions, doesn't use what you ask to train anything, and deletes it within 30 days (unless it's flagged as breaking Anthropic's rules, or the law needs it kept). We keep what you asked, with the drive it made, so you can come back to it, for as long as you keep your account.
Reports
Anyone can report a drive, a comment, a photo or a profile, and members can report a run's note. We keep the report, why it was made and anything said with it, and who made it: a member by their account, anyone else by the email they give, if they give one, so we can tell them we've looked. Nobody's told who reported them.
When we take something down or suspend an account, we tell its member what and why, in the app and by email, and keep a note of what we decided and who decided it. Our basis is our legal obligation under the Online Safety Act, and our legitimate interest in a safe place for everyone.
Why we use it
The law asks us to name a lawful basis for each use, so here they are.
- Running the early-invite list. We send you a confirmation email (and if you haven't confirmed after a day or so, one reminder), keep your place in the queue, and email you when your invite's ready. If you came by someone's invite link, it counts towards theirs. Our basis is your consent, which you give when you join and confirm. You can withdraw it at any time by leaving the list.
- News about Find a Drive. Joining also says yes to news about Find a Drive: the launch, new drives and features, membership, events, and ways to get involved, like passing on your invite link. It's only ever about Find a Drive: we never send you anyone else's offers, or pass your details on for theirs. Our basis is your consent, which you give when you join and confirm. Every email lets you stop the news and keep your place. If you joined before 20 October 2026, you said yes to your invite and the occasional update about the launch, so that's all we'll send you unless you say yes to more.
- Respecting your choices. If you stop the news or leave the list, we keep a note of it, so we never send you what you've said no to, or add you back by mistake. Our basis is our legitimate interest, and yours, in honouring your choice.
- Replying when you get in touch. Our basis is our legitimate interest in answering you.
- Keeping the site secure and working. Our basis is our legitimate interest in running a safe, reliable website.
- Counting visits. So we can see what's working and make the site better. Our basis is our legitimate interest in doing that. The counts can't identify you.
- Your account, and everything you make with it: signing you in, keeping your drives, photos and stories, showing what you publish, your runs and clubs, bespoke drives, and the emails and notifications that go with them. Our basis is our contract with you, the terms you agree to when you sign up.
- Telling you how to join, if you try to sign in first. While Find a Drive's by invitation, if you ask for a sign-in code with an address that has no account and isn't on the early-invite list, we email it once to say so, and how to join. So that it's only once, we keep a fingerprint of the address, made with a key of ours so it can't be turned back into the address, and never the address itself. Our basis is our legitimate interest, and yours, in not leaving you waiting for a code that isn't coming.
- Keeping Find a Drive safe: reports, moderation and suspensions. Our basis is our legal obligation under the Online Safety Act, and our legitimate interest in a safe place for everyone.
We'll never sell your data, or use it to advertise anything other than Find a Drive. We don't make decisions about you by automated means.
Who else handles it
A few providers help us run Find a Drive. They only act on our instructions, and their contracts require them to protect your data.
- DigitalOcean hosts the website and its database, and members' photos, on servers in London.
- Cloudflare runs the network DigitalOcean uses to deliver and protect websites, so your visits, including your IP address, pass through it.
- Resend sends our emails, so it handles your email address, your name and the emails we send you.
- Google hosts our inbox (Google Workspace), so it holds any emails you send us.
- Anthropic designs bespoke drives for us, so it handles what you ask for and where you're starting (see bespoke drives).
YouTube isn't one of them, but a video in a story plays from YouTube once someone presses it, and from then YouTube handles that visit under its own privacy policy.
Beyond them, we'll only share your data if the law requires it, for example a valid request from the police or a court.
Data outside the UK
Your details are stored in London, but these providers are all American companies, and some of their work happens in the United States and elsewhere. Wherever your data goes, it's protected by the safeguards UK law requires: the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which UK law recognises as giving adequate protection, or the UK's approved contract clauses for international transfers.
How long we keep it
- If you don't confirm your email, we delete your sign-up 30 days after we last emailed you.
- Once you've confirmed, we keep your place until you leave the list, or until the list closes after launch. Before it closes, we'll ask whether you'd like to carry your place over to an account. If not, we delete your details.
- If you leave, we delete your name, what you drive and whose invite link brought you straight away. We keep your email address so we never email you again, and your place in the queue and your own invite link in case you come back. Ask us to forget you entirely and we will.
- We keep emails you send us only as long as we need them to help you.
- We keep enquiries for up to two years, then delete them. Anything that looks like spam goes after 30 days.
- We keep visit counts for two years. Each day's secret for counting visitors is deleted the next day.
- We keep each kind of error for three months after it last happened.
- Our hosting providers keep technical logs for a short time, then delete them automatically.
- Your account, and everything you make with it, for as long as you keep the account. Deleting it, in settings, deletes it all straight away: your drives, photos, stories, privacy zones, comments, nods, follows and the rest. Club runs you were organising are called off, with everyone coming told, and clubs you were the last admin of go to their longest-standing member. Reports you've made stay, without your name, so what they led to still makes sense.
- Where you're signed in, until that session ends or you sign out of it.
- A report from someone without an account, with the email they gave, until we've told them we've looked at it; then the email goes. A record of what we decided about a report, and who decided it, for two years.
Enquiries
The form on our enquiries page sends your name, email address, organisation and message to Harry, who started Find a Drive. We use them to reply to you and to keep a record of the conversation. Our basis is our legitimate interest in answering you and working with you.
Your enquiry is stored in our database, emailed to Harry through Resend, and lands in our Google Workspace inbox. We don't add you to any mailing list. If a message looks like spam, we keep it for 30 days in case we got it wrong, without emailing it on.
The original Find a Drive
Find a Drive first ran in 2024, on a site that's now closed.
- If you had an account there, we've kept an archive of that site's data, your account included, while we wind it down. We use it to tell you, once, that your account has closed, and a few favourite drives from it are on this site, credited to the people who drove them. Our basis is our legitimate interest in closing the old site properly. We'll delete the archive once that's done, and if you'd like your details deleted sooner, email [email protected] and we will.
- If you subscribed to its newsletter, we email you news about Find a Drive, as you asked, starting with a note that it's coming back. Our basis is the consent you gave when you subscribed. Every email has an unsubscribe link. If you use it, we keep your email address only so we never email you again.
Keeping it safe
Your details travel over encrypted connections, and only the site itself and the people who run it can reach the database. The links in our emails are stored only as one-way fingerprints, so even we can't read them back.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- a copy of the data we hold about you;
- have it corrected if it's wrong;
- have it deleted;
- restrict how we use it, or object to it;
- have it sent to you, or to someone else, in a format you can take elsewhere;
- withdraw your consent at any time. That won't affect anything we did before you withdrew it.
To use any of them, email [email protected]. It's free, and we'll reply within a month. We may need to check it's really you first. With an account, you can download everything we hold about you, and delete your account, yourself, in settings.
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, please tell us first so we can put it right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.
Children
You need to be 16 or over to have an account or join the early-invite list. If we learn we've collected details from someone younger, we'll delete them.
Changes
If we change this notice, we'll update the date at the top. If the change matters, we'll email everyone on the list before it takes effect.