TouchCab Privacy Policy
Last updated: 9 November 2026 · Applies to the TouchCab V2 Beta for iPhone and iPad and this website.
TouchCab is designed primarily to operate on your own device and local railway network. This policy explains what stays on your device, what may be shared with your railway equipment, and what information we receive when you contact us or use Apple TestFlight.
1. Who is responsible
TouchCab is developed by Mike Sutherland in association with KMS Railtech. For privacy enquiries, contact info@kmsrailtech.co.uk, or write to KMS Railtech, Unit 6 Donside Industrial Park, Donside Road, Alford, AB33 8WD, United Kingdom.
2. Data saved by the app
To operate your railway, TouchCab may save locomotive names, DCC addresses, function and decoder settings, Libraries and Groups, layout names, connection preferences, compatible command-station identities or addresses, and images you choose to attach to locomotive records. This information is stored locally by the app on your device.
We do not operate a TouchCab user-account service for this Beta and do not intentionally upload your saved locomotive library, photographs or layout database to a TouchCab server. Your device’s own backup settings may cause local app data to be included in backups operated by Apple or your chosen backup provider.
3. Local-network connections
TouchCab discovers and connects to supported railway devices over your local network, including compatible XpressNet, ECoS and WiThrottle services. It exchanges the connection details and railway commands or state information needed to operate the equipment. The equipment, its server software and other authorised devices on that network may process or retain those communications under their own configurations.
Where shared railway-session features are used, device or operator labels and session information may be exchanged directly with other participating TouchCab devices. Some supported railway protocols, including certain VNC connections, do not encrypt their traffic. Use trusted networks and secure your railway equipment appropriately.
4. Beta testing and Apple TestFlight
If you install TouchCab through Apple TestFlight, Apple automatically collects certain installation, usage and crash-diagnostic information and makes relevant reports available to the app developer. Depending on how you joined TestFlight, this can include your name or email, device information and app performance data. If you choose to submit feedback, screenshots, comments and related diagnostic information may also be shared with us.
We use TestFlight data to investigate faults, improve reliability, assess hardware compatibility and respond to feedback. TestFlight is administered by Apple; see Apple’s TestFlight and Privacy information for details of Apple’s collection and controls.
5. Contacting TouchCab
If you email us or send a support or bug report, we receive the contact details and content you provide, which may include screenshots, device configuration, diagnostic logs, or model railway setup details. Please avoid including passwords or unnecessary personal information. We use this information only to answer your enquiry, diagnose issues and improve TouchCab.
6. Website visits
The present TouchCab website pages do not include advertising trackers, third-party analytics scripts or newsletter tracking. The hosting provider may process standard technical data such as your IP address, requested pages, browser information and access times for delivery, security and operational logging. These pages do not intentionally set analytics or advertising cookies.
7. Sharing and disclosure
We do not sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising. Relevant information may be processed by Apple when you use TestFlight, by hosting or email service providers that support this website and our correspondence, and by railway equipment or peers that you deliberately connect to over your network. We may disclose information where legally required.
8. Retention and deletion
Locally stored railway records remain on your device until you edit or remove them using available app features or uninstall the app, subject to any backups you keep. We retain support correspondence and TestFlight reports only for as long as reasonably needed to investigate problems, support development, meet legal obligations or resolve disputes, after which we delete or anonymise them where practical. Apple independently handles certain TestFlight records under its own policies.
You can contact us to request access to, correction of or deletion of personal information we hold about you. We can remove information we control, but cannot directly erase copies held by your devices, connected railway servers or Apple.
9. Your privacy rights
Where UK or European data-protection law applies, you may have rights to access, rectify, erase or restrict processing of your personal information, to object to processing, and, where applicable, to data portability. We process feedback and support information as needed for our legitimate interests in providing and improving the app and responding to enquiries, and where required on the basis of your consent or our legal obligations.
If you are in the UK, you can also contact the Information Commissioner’s Office. In the European Economic Area, you may contact your local data-protection authority.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as TouchCab develops, particularly if we add online accounts, cloud synchronisation, purchases or additional services. We will publish an updated date and policy on this website when practices change materially.
11. Contact
Privacy and support: info@kmsrailtech.co.uk.
Postal contact: KMS Railtech, Unit 6 Donside Industrial Park, Donside Road, Alford, AB33 8WD, United Kingdom.