Your location stays yours
Live location on group trips is useful — and easy to get wrong. Here’s how wroom thinks about privacy.
Useful ≠ always on
Knowing where friends are during a trip can be genuinely helpful. Meeting at a busy station. Finding each other at a fort. Making sure nobody is stranded.
But permanent tracking is a terrible default.
So wroom’s rule is simple: location sharing is off by default, trip-scoped, temporary, and easy to stop.
What “trip-scoped” means
When you share location in wroom, it’s for this trip’s members, not the whole internet, not random contacts, not forever.
When the trip ends — or you hit stop — sharing ends.
What we keep (and don’t)
- Latest location only while sharing is on — not a creepy history trail for later
- A stop button that stays visible — no hunting through settings mid-chaos
- You choose — nobody else can turn your sharing on for you
We’re not building a surveillance feature with a friendly map skin.
SOS without fake promises
Emergency tools exist for “ping the group now” moments. We won’t market them as a personal bodyguard service. No fake safety guarantees. Just clear, high-contrast tools when your group needs attention fast.
Honesty > hype.
Chat stays in WhatsApp
We deliberately don’t try to own your conversations. Your group already has a chat app.
wroom holds the structured trip facts: plan, money, map, meetup, essentials.
That separation is a privacy choice too. Fewer messages, less always-listening product surface, more focus.
Local-first helps here
Because more of the trip can live on your device:
- You’re less dependent on constantly uploading everything
- Offline packs keep plans usable without round-tripping the cloud
- Live features stay opt-in layers on top — not the only way the app works
Trust is a feature
If friends don’t trust the app, they won’t share location when it would actually help. If they feel tricked once, they never turn it on again.
So we design for:
- Clear defaults (off)
- Clear scope (this trip)
- Clear exit (stop anytime)
- Clear language (no safety theater)
The one-liner
wroom helps your group coordinate — without treating your location like free product data.
That’s the deal.