About this app

Safeture: Keeping you safe on your travels, a Global Warning System service

Safeture is a personal safety and early travel warning solution that provides real-time status on warnings, alerts, and localized security information wherever you are including local SOS emergency numbers. Safeture lets you alert your friends and family and give them a real-time trail of your movements when you are walking home in an unfamiliar environment.

Global Warning System have for several years provided International Businesses, NGO’s and Government Agencies with high-end travel security and convenience through the Safeture app. Now you can have it too.

The Safeture app for leisure travellers is based on the same groundbreaking positioning and warning information technology that made Safeture Pro for Businesses successful, while adding features more relevant to the casual leisure traveller. The technology automatically filters warnings and information such as dangerous environmental disasters, civil unrest , disease outbreaks and terrorist attacks to you based on where you are in the world or where you are going. This means relevant real-time warning information before anyone else, avoiding spam information.

The app keeps you and your loved ones safe and avoid threats while staying in touch wherever you are. Share your position, get local alerts and warnings, stay connected to your friends and family, and get automated local advice when arriving at a new destination.

Safeture means
* Fast information: You and/or your loved ones get alerts and warnings before anyone else and may avoid safety threats, travel delays, fires, extreme weather such as tsunamis, flash floods, natural disasters, civil unrest, terrorism etc. when travelling

* Peace of mind: Allows you to follow the whereabouts of family or friends that are touring the world and them to follow you

* In the know, on the go: Local news in English, country general safety and trip advice, local SOS and emergency numbers; all automated based on real-time location

Key features

* Share your position: Check-in to let family, friends and colleagues see your exact position and track you as you travel to new destinations

* Walk me home: Walking home alone at night in an unfamiliar neighborhood? Alert your friends and family and give them a real-time trail of your movements!

* Local news wherever you are: simple access to automated local news in English for whatever country you visit. In the know, on the go!

* Direct push notifications: real-time early warnings, alerts and information about safety, security and travel plans through SMS and data notifications

* Worldwide detection of local SOS emergency numbers with one click: all countries listed; police, ambulance, fire squad

* Country safety and travel information including advice at hand at every location

* Automatic translation of messages and texts into 90 different languages

New features

Supporting Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.