GPS OBD Tracker: Privacy policy
GPS OBD Tracker records your drives on your phone. Your trips and car data stay on your device (and, on iPhone, in your own iCloud account). We have no servers that receive them, we have no accounts, and we can't see your data.
Who we are
GPS OBD Tracker is made by The Mains Technology (Pty) LTD. Contact: gpsobdtracker@themains.tech.
What the app stores, and where
The app keeps the following on your phone, so it can show your trips and statistics:
- Trips: GPS location, time, speed and distance.
- Readings from your car's OBD adapter, if you use one, such as speed, engine data and fuel.
- What you enter: vehicles, places, fuel, expenses, reminders and notes.
- Settings, and debug logs if you turn debug mode on.
iPhone: if you're signed in to iCloud, your data syncs through your private iCloud database, and backups go to your iCloud Drive. Apple holds this for you under your Apple Account; we can't access it.
Android: backups go to a folder you choose. If that folder is in a cloud service, that service holds the copy under its own terms. Android's own device backup includes only the app's settings, not your trips.
What leaves your phone
Some features need an online service. Each one gets only what it needs for that request, and none of it comes to us:
- Maps. Showing a map downloads map tiles for the area on screen, from Apple Maps (iPhone, the default) or OpenFreeMap (Android, and iPhone if you pick it).
- Offline maps. Downloading a map area fetches it from maps.themains.tech, hosted by Cloudflare. The request includes the area you chose and, like any web request, your IP address. We don't use these requests to track you.
- Addresses and place search. Naming a trip or a place, and searching for one, sends that location or search text to Apple (iPhone) or to your phone's address service (Android; on most phones this is Google).
These providers handle requests under their own privacy policies.
The app connects by Bluetooth only to your OBD adapter.
What we don't do
- No accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.
- No third-party analytics or advertising code in the app.
- We don't sell or share your data, because we don't receive it.
Crash reports and emails
If you've agreed in your phone's settings to share diagnostics with app developers, Apple or Google may send us crash reports and app performance data. These don't include your trips.
If you email us, including any debug log or export you choose to attach, we use it only to answer you and to fix problems, and we delete it once we're done.
Permissions
- Location, including in the background: to record trips while the screen is off or the app is closed, to start trips automatically and for place alerts. The app asks for background location only when you turn one of those on.
- Bluetooth: to connect to your OBD adapter.
- Notifications: for the recording notification, trip naming, place alerts and reminders.
The app still works with any of these turned off; only the features that need them stop.
Your choices
- Delete any trip, place or entry in the app, or delete everything by removing the app (and, on iPhone, its iCloud data in Settings → your name → iCloud).
- Export your data at any time from the app.
- Turn off location, Bluetooth or notifications in your phone's settings.
Children
The app is for drivers and isn't aimed at children.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its date. If the app ever starts sending your data to us, we'll say so here and in the app before it happens.