Privacy Policy

Last updated 5 October 2026

NYCHawk has no accounts, no ads, no trackers, and no servers of ours. Your saved places and preferences stay on your phone, and city data comes straight from public services.

What stays on your phone

Your saved places and your preferences are stored on your device. There is no sign-in and no profile, so there is nothing about you for us to keep.

What you type to look something up

Some tools have to ask the city a question for you. An address you type goes to the city's address search so the app can find your block, and to NYC Open Data when you check a building. If the address search does not answer, the app asks your phone's built-in address lookup instead (Apple's, on an iPhone). A license plate or a restaurant name you type goes to NYC Open Data so the city can look it up. The block you pick is sent as a map point to the city, transit, weather and air quality services that answer for that spot. All of this goes straight from your phone to those services, the same way a website visit would. None of it passes through servers of ours, and we never see it.

How city data reaches you

NYCHawk works like a very focused browser. Your phone requests data directly from public services: NYC Open Data, the MTA, the city's public traffic cameras, weather and environmental services, and map tile servers. Those requests go from your device to those services, the same way a website visit would, and those services see standard request information like an IP address. The requests never pass through servers of ours, and we never see them.

Your location

NYCHawk never asks for your phone's location. You tell it your block by typing an address or picking a spot on the map.

The cameras

The camera views in NYCHawk are New York City's own public traffic cameras, the same feeds the city publishes. NYCHawk shows them so you can look for yourself. It runs no recognition of any kind, not of faces, plates, or anything else.

What we never do

We do not sell data, show ads, run analytics trackers, or use advertising identifiers. We have nothing to sell because we collect nothing.

Deleting your data

Everything NYCHawk stores lives on your device, so deleting the app removes all of it. You can also clear saved places and watch lists inside the app at any time.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with an updated date, and material changes will be called out inside the app.

Contact

NYCHawk is made by SVLTMK LLC. Questions about privacy are welcome at the address below.