Privacy Policy — N7500 Dashboard

Effective date: September 16, 2026

N7500 Dashboard ("the app") is a radio-control utility for the VGC/Vero VR-N7500 and its Bluetooth-controlled "Benshi" sibling radios (BTech UV-Pro, Radioddity GA-5WB, Vero VR-N75/VR-N76/VR-N7600, BTech GMRS-Pro, Radtel RT-660), developed by David ODell.

Data Collection

The app does not use analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting services of any kind, and has no account system or backend server of its own. The one exception, described in full below, is the optional Roam feature: when you use it, your approximate location is sent to RepeaterBook.com to look up nearby repeaters. Nothing else the app does ever leaves your device.

What Data the App Handles

• Radio channel and configuration data, read from your radio over a direct Bluetooth connection, is stored locally on your device only so you can view and edit it before choosing to write it back to the radio. It is never uploaded anywhere.
• Your own RepeaterBook API token, if you enter one (see Roam, below), is stored locally on your device, encrypted using Android's own hardware-backed Keystore. It is never sent anywhere except to RepeaterBook.com itself, to authenticate a Roam lookup.

Roam and Auto Roam (Location Data)

Roam is opt-in — nothing about it runs unless you tap it or turn on Auto Roam yourself. When it runs:

• Your phone's current location (latitude/longitude) is read using Android's own location services, then sent to RepeaterBook.com's public API, along with your RepeaterBook token, to search for nearby repeaters. RepeaterBook.com is a third-party service this app does not control — see its own site for its privacy practices.
• That same location is also passed to Android's built-in reverse-geocoding service (to show a place name like "Austin, TX" above the results) — on most devices this is handled by Google Play services, which may itself transmit the coordinates to Google to resolve an address. This app does not send your location to Google directly; it asks the operating system for a place name and Android decides how to answer that request.
• Auto Roam, once turned on, repeats this process automatically — checking your location roughly every 5 minutes and re-running Roam only once you've moved past a distance you choose (5–20 miles) since the last lookup — until you turn it back off. This only runs while the app is open or recently used; it does not track your location after the app or your phone has been fully closed/restarted.
• No location data is stored anywhere except the coordinates and place name of your own most recent Roam fetch, kept locally on your device (the same way any other app setting is) so the app can compare against them the next time Auto Roam checks. This is never transmitted anywhere except as described above.

Other Permissions

• Bluetooth (scan and connect) — required to find and communicate with your radio. Used only for that purpose; the app does not scan for or connect to any other Bluetooth device.
• Location (Bluetooth scanning) — on Android versions before 12, the operating system classifies Bluetooth device scanning as location-adjacent and requires this permission to perform it, even though no location data is actually read or used for that purpose. On Android 12 and later, this permission is not requested for Bluetooth at all — a newer, non-location Android permission is used instead. (This is separate from the Location permission Roam requests for its own, described above.)
• Internet access — used to check Google Play for app updates (via Google's standard In-App Update mechanism), and for Roam's RepeaterBook lookups described above.

Data Retention and Deletion

All app data is stored in the app's own private storage on your device. Uninstalling the app deletes this data. Nothing is retained anywhere else, other than whatever RepeaterBook.com itself may retain about a Roam request on its own servers — see its privacy policy for that.

Children's Privacy

The app is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from anyone.

Changes to This Policy

This policy will be updated if the app's data practices change, and the effective date above will be updated accordingly.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to: n7500@mygeeks.com