Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 1, 2026 · Applies to the Smart Mileage Tracker iOS app and this website, smartmileagetracker.com.

This privacy policy explains how the app handles your data. The short version above is the whole story; the rest is the detail.

Information the App Uses

• Location data, during trips and in the background while the app watches for a drive to start, including the places your iPhone records you leaving and arriving (stored on your device)
• Trip details — date, time, distance — stored locally
• Device information (sent only in a support email you choose to send)
• Motion and activity data (device only)
• Favorite locations you save (local storage)
• Time spent at favorite locations (on device)
• Power and accuracy preferences (local only)

How the App Uses This Information

Everything below happens on your iPhone, except map display, address lookups, place search, the driving distance for a recovered trip and update checks, which go to Apple:

• Track your mileage and create reports
• Display saved favorite locations on your trip logs
• Track time spent at your favorite locations
• Optimize battery usage based on your preferences
• Provide enhanced GPS accuracy when plugged in
• Troubleshoot technical issues, via diagnostics you can choose to send
• Check for app updates from the App Store

Data Storage and Security

Your trips are stored in a database on your iPhone. There is no cloud sync and no account. You can back up your data yourself from Settings → Data & Backup → Back Up All Trips, which writes a file you own and can restore from later. The app also saves an automatic backup on your device at most once a day, when your trips have changed, and keeps the 10 newest in its folder in the Files app — the app never sends it anywhere.

If you back up your iPhone with iCloud Backup or to a computer, the app's data is included in that device backup like any other app's. That backup belongs to your Apple account; we have no access to it.

Address Lookup

To turn trip coordinates into street addresses and place names, the app uses Apple's built-in Maps services. Those lookups send the coordinates to Apple as part of the operating system's service — we never receive them. Everything else about a trip is stored on your device.

Data Sharing

We do not sell or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes. Your location data and trip information remain private and under your control. App update checks are performed using Apple's public iTunes API and do not share personal information.

Third-Party Code

The app contains no third-party analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting software. The only services it talks to are Apple's: Maps for map display, address lookup, place search and, for a recovered trip, the driving distance between two places; and the App Store for update checks and its rating prompt. If that ever changes, this policy will say so before the change ships.

Diagnostics and Support Email

The app sends nothing to us on its own. If you choose Settings → Help & Support → Contact Support, the app opens an email that you can read before sending. It includes a short diagnostics summary: the app version, the iOS version and device model, your location permission setting, the tracking mode, the number of trips saved, and whether Low Power Mode is on. If the app asks whether it is working for you and you answer that it is not, you can choose to attach a diagnostic log to your message; that log can include up to 7 days of trip times, location coordinates and street addresses, along with motion and settings details. Your email goes to our support mailbox, is read by a person, is used only to answer you and fix what you reported, and is kept only as long as needed to resolve the issue. It is never shared or used for anything else.

Your Data, Your Control

Because we hold no data about you, there is nothing for us to access, correct, or delete on your behalf. Every trip can be edited or deleted in the app, and deleting the app removes all of its data from your iPhone (backups you made yourself excepted). Whatever privacy law applies where you live — California, the EU or UK, or elsewhere — the answer is the same: the only personal data we might ever hold is a support email you chose to send, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13. The app itself collects no personal information; a support email you send contains what you write and the diagnostics summary described above.

This Website

smartmileagetracker.com is a set of static pages: no cookies, no analytics, no trackers, no ads, and no forms. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages; as with any web host, GitHub may keep standard server access logs (such as IP addresses) to operate and secure the service — we do not receive or use them. If you email support@smartmileagetracker.com, your message is used only to answer you.

Changes to This Policy

If the app ever changes how it handles data, this policy will be updated here first, with a new date at the top, before that change ships.

Contact

Questions about privacy or your data: support@smartmileagetracker.com, or in the app via Settings → Help & Support → Contact Support.

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