Last updated November 10, 2026
CastCove is made by Throttle Mountain LLC. It has no sign-in, no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and we don't sell or share personal information. This page explains what the app sends to our servers and why.
Your device's random ID
The first time you open CastCove, it makes a random ID. It's kept in your iCloud Keychain, so your collection follows your Apple Account to your other devices without signing in. The app sends this ID with its requests, along with your device model, iOS version and CastCove version, so our servers know which collection is yours and which app version they're talking to. The ID isn't linked to your name, email or Apple Account on our side.
Your collection
The cars in My Cars and your Wishlist are stored on our servers so they sync between your devices: which cars, how many of each, whether they're in the package or loose, when and how you got them (if you say), and any changes you make to a car's details for yourself.
Adding a car
- Photo search. When you add a car with a photo, CastCove cuts the car out of the photo on your device and sends that picture to our servers to look for it in the catalog. Search pictures are kept for up to 30 days to check and improve matching, then deleted.
- Car details. To suggest the car's name, color and other details, and to check that the picture shows a toy car, AI models read the picture. They run on Cloudflare's Workers AI and, when available, Anthropic's Claude.
- The shared catalog. A car you add always goes into your own collection. It's also offered to the shared catalog with its picture, barcode, toy number and the details you typed. After a review, approved cars are visible to everyone. The catalog doesn't show who added a car.
- Barcode and name lookups send what you scanned or typed to our servers to find matching cars.
Please don't include people in your photos.
Things that stay on your device
- Your own photos of your cars are saved on your device and in your own private iCloud. We never receive them.
- Car Scans, your history of barcode and photo scans, is kept on your device only.
- The camera is used only while you scan or take a photo.
Feedback
If you send feedback in the app, we get your message, your device's random ID, your device model and app version, and your email address only if you choose to add it for a reply.
CastCove Plus
Subscriptions are handled by Apple. We never see your payment details.
Our service providers
Our servers run on Cloudflare, which processes your IP address to deliver and protect the service. We use IP addresses briefly to limit abuse (for example, too many requests in an hour) and don't store them with your collection. Apple gives us download numbers and anonymous crash reports from people who chose to share them.
Children
CastCove isn't made for children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think a child has sent us information, contact us and we'll delete it.
Your choices
- Remove a car from My Cars or your Wishlist any time in the app.
- To delete everything we hold for your device, send a request from the app (open the My Cars sidebar, then Send Feedback) so we can match it to your collection, or email us. Cars already approved into the shared catalog stay there, without any link to you.
- Manage your own photos in Settings → your name → iCloud.
- Depending on where you live, you can ask what we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it.
Changes and contact
If CastCove starts collecting anything new, we'll update this page before that ships. Questions: contact@throttlemountain.com.