How Parko handles your information — in plain language.
Parko (the "app", "we", or "us") is an Android utility that saves where you parked your vehicle and helps you navigate back to it. This Privacy Policy explains what the app does and does not do with information on your device.
Parko processes and stores the following locally on your device only. None of it is transmitted to us.
When you tap Save Parking, the app records the latitude, longitude and timestamp of that spot so it can guide you back. These are saved in the app's private on-device database.
Any floor, row, slot, landmark, free-text note or parking cost you enter is stored locally alongside the spot.
If you attach a photo (for example of a pillar or sign), it is captured with your camera and stored in the app's private files on your device. Photos are not uploaded.
Your settings — theme, distance unit, default timer, notification preferences and a local premium flag — are stored locally on the device.
Parko does not access your contacts, call logs, messages, accounts, or other apps' notifications.
With your permission, Parko uses your device's location (via Google Play services) to record your parking spot and to calculate the distance and direction from where you are now to your parked car. Location is processed on your device; Parko does not send your location to our servers. You can revoke the location permission at any time in Android Settings — saved spots remain viewable, but new saves and live distance will not work.
To show a friendly address for a saved spot, the app may ask your device's built-in geocoding service to turn coordinates into a street name. This is performed by the Android operating system / Google Play services and may use a network connection on your device. If it is unavailable or you are offline, Parko simply skips the address and keeps working. The lookup result is stored only with your spot, on your device.
"Find My Car" and "Open in Google Maps" pass your parked coordinates to your installed maps application using a standard Android navigation intent. If you choose to share a spot, Parko creates a Google Maps link and lets you send it with an app you pick. Once data leaves Parko this way, the receiving app or service handles it under its own policy.
Parko offers two optional ways to save your spot automatically as you walk away from your vehicle, so you don't have to remember to tap Save:
If enabled, Parko notices when your phone disconnects from Android Auto and saves the current location once. It only reads the connection state (connected vs. not connected) — never any data from the car.
You can choose specific paired Bluetooth devices (for example your car's stereo) in Settings. When one of those devices disconnects, Parko saves your spot. To list your paired devices and recognize which one disconnected, the app uses the Bluetooth (Nearby devices) permission. Parko does not scan for, discover, or track nearby Bluetooth devices, and the addresses of the devices you select are stored only on your device. Both auto-save options are off-by-default selections you control, and each save uses location exactly as described above — entirely on-device.
Parko includes an optional home-screen widget for one-tap parking saves. You can add it from Settings (Parko asks your launcher to place it) or remove it at any time. The widget triggers the same on-device save as the in-app button and stores nothing extra.
Parko can display a small in-app map preview of your spot using the Google Maps SDK for Android. When shown, Google may process map-tile and device information under Google's Privacy Policy. The preview is optional and the rest of the app functions without it.
Parko requests only the permissions it needs, and explains them in-app:
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Location (fine/coarse) | Save your parking spot and compute distance/direction back to it. |
| Camera | Optional — attach a photo of your parking spot. |
| Nearby devices (Bluetooth) | Optional — list your paired devices and detect when a device you selected disconnects, to auto-save your spot. Not used to scan for or track nearby devices. |
| Notifications | Confirm a save and remind you before your parking timer expires. |
| Exact alarms | Fire your parking-timer reminder at the right time. |
Parko is a general-purpose utility and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your data lives on your device until you delete it. You can delete individual spots (including their photos) in the app, and uninstalling Parko removes all of its stored data.
We may update this policy as the app evolves; material changes will be reflected here with a new effective date. Questions? Email contact@dowble.com.