Two Lane
Privacy
Two Lane is about roadside stands, which are usually somebody’s front yard. That shapes most of the decisions below.
Last updated 6 September 2026
The short version
- A stand owner can never see who visited their stand. They see counts, not people.
- Your location is used to work out which stands are near you. We do not keep a history of where you have been.
- Owners choose whether their stand shows an exact pin or an approximate area. When they choose approximate, we round the coordinates before they ever leave our servers.
- We do not sell anything about you, and we do not run advertising.
What we collect
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Email address and password | To sign you in. Passwords are stored only as a hash by our authentication provider — nobody at Two Lane can read yours. |
| Display name | Shown on reviews you write. |
| Your location, while the app is open | To sort stands by distance and to work out whether you are standing at one. Your coordinates are used to answer that question and are not stored. |
| Your location in the background, only if you turn it on | So the app can notice you stopped at a stand and ask afterwards what you picked up. Off by default, and the app works without it. |
| Stops you report | Which stand, when, roughly how long, and whether it was open. This is what keeps stock counts honest for the next person. |
| What you came away with | Reduces the stand’s stock count and feeds its accuracy score. |
| Notes you write to an owner | Delivered privately to that stand’s owner. See below. |
| Reviews, saved stands, stands you open | Reviews are public. Saved stands are yours alone. Opening a stand’s page adds one to that stand’s view count — never tied to you in anything an owner can see. |
| Photos, if you run a stand | Shown publicly on your listing. Do not upload anything you would not put on a sign. |
| Your stand’s location, if you run one | Shown to shoppers as either an exact pin or an approximate area — your choice, offered at the moment you place it. |
What stand owners can and cannot see
This is the part we get asked about most, so it is written into the database rather than into a policy anyone could quietly change.
Owners see: how many people stopped, how many bought something, how many stopped while the stand was closed and the earliest hour that happened, and totals over a week or a month.
Owners cannot see: who any of those people were. There is no screen, export or request that will give an owner a list of visitors. Naming who stopped and did not pay would turn a record into an accusation, and these are people’s homes.
One exception, stated plainly
A note you choose to write to an owner is stored against your account, the same as a review is. We do not show the owner your name alongside it, but a note is not anonymous in the way a visit count is. If you would not want a neighbour to know it came from you, do not write it.
Location, in more detail
While you are using the app, we ask your device where you are so the feed can be sorted by distance and so the app can tell whether you are standing at a stand. That check happens on our server against the stand’s real position, and the answer is only ever which stand — never a distance or a coordinate — so the result cannot be used to work out where a stand actually is.
In the background, only if you turn it on, the app watches for you arriving at and leaving a stand so it can ask what you picked up afterwards. It records that you stopped at that stand and for roughly how long. It does not record your route, and it does not run when you are away from a stand.
You can turn either off in your phone’s settings at any time. Turning off background location does not disable any other part of the app.
Who else is involved
- Supabase — hosts our database, sign-in and photo storage, in the United States.
- Expo — builds and delivers app updates.
- Apple and Google — distribute the app and handle any subscription payments. We never see your card.
We do not sell or share personal information for advertising, and we do not use third-party analytics or tracking SDKs.
Keeping and deleting
You can delete your account from inside the app, or by asking us at twolane.app/delete-account. Deleting removes your account, your saved stands, your notes and your reported stops.
Two things survive, both stripped of any link to you: the totals an owner has already seen, and the accuracy score your reports contributed to. Recomputing those would rewrite other people’s history, and they contain nothing that identifies you.
Reviews you have written stay unless you delete them, since other people rely on them.
Children
Two Lane is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.
Changes
If we change this in a way that matters, we will say so in the app rather than quietly updating the date at the top.
Contact
Questions, or anything that looks wrong: hello@twolane.app.