Roadmeter

Support

Questions, a drive that wasn't recorded, or a problem with an export? Email dominguezdanieldev@gmail.com with your phone model and its iOS or Android version. A screenshot helps.

Tips: Roadmeter records drives on its own only when Location is set to Always and Precise Location is on (Settings › Roadmeter › Location). Leave the app in the app switcher. Settings › Tracking in the app shows anything that stops it from recording.

Privacy policy

Roadmeter (“the app”) is a mileage log for iPhone and Android. It records your drives so you can sort them as business or personal and keep the record the IRS asks for. This page explains what happens to your information when you use it.

Who is responsible

Daniel Dominguez, the app’s independent developer. Contact: dominguezdanieldev@gmail.com.

What we don’t do

The app has no accounts and no ads, contains no analytics or tracking code, and sells no data. It has no server of its own: we never receive your drives, your locations or anything else you enter. The exception is anything you choose to send us, such as an email or an attached file, which we use only to help you.

Your drives stay on your iPhone

Your drives, their routes, places, purposes, notes, vehicle and odometer readings are saved only in the app’s private storage on your iPhone.
They are included in your iPhone’s own backups (iCloud or computer) if you use them, which Apple and you control.
Deleting a drive in the app deletes it from your iPhone. Deleting the app deletes everything it saved.

Location and motion

With your permission, the app uses your iPhone’s location to tell when a drive starts and ends and how far you went. To record drives without you opening the app, it asks for location access set to Always; you can change this at any time in Settings.
With your permission, it uses Motion & Fitness activity (for example “driving” or “walking”) to notice drives sooner. It is used on your iPhone; only the diagnostic log below keeps a note of it.
You can use the app without location: add drives by hand.

Apple Maps

The app uses Apple’s maps services, which are part of iOS. To do that, your iPhone sends Apple the information each feature needs:

Map pictures of a drive: the area of the route.
Place names for where a drive started and ended: those two points.
Road distance for the stretch before the app noticed a drive: its start and end points.
Suggestions while you type a place: the text you type.

These requests go from your iPhone to Apple, not to us. Apple’s privacy policy applies to them: apple.com/legal/privacy.

Diagnostic log

To help find problems with drive detection, the app keeps a log of its own events (such as “drive started”), which includes locations and motion activity. It stays on your iPhone, is excluded from iCloud and computer backups, and each day’s file is deleted after 14 days. It is never sent anywhere by the app.

Notifications

If you turn on “Notify when a drive ends” in Settings, the app shows notifications created on your iPhone. They are off unless you turn them on.

Files you export

A CSV report or a backup file is created only when you ask for one, and handed to your iPhone’s share sheet or Files. You choose where it goes; we don’t receive it. Restoring a backup reads only the file you pick.

On Android

Roadmeter for Android works the same way, with these differences.

Where your drives are. Your drives, routes, purposes and notes are saved in the app’s private storage on your phone. If Android backup is on, they are also included in your phone’s backup to your Google account, which Google and you control. The diagnostic log and the app’s working files are left out of that backup. Drives stay until you delete them: deleting a drive deletes it from your phone, and uninstalling the app deletes everything it saved on the phone. A copy already in your Android backup can stay in your Google account after you uninstall, and can come back if you reinstall.

Location and activity. With your permission, the app uses your phone’s location to tell when a drive starts and ends and how far you went. To record drives without you opening the app, it asks for location set to Allow all the time; a notification shows whenever it’s recording. With your permission, it uses physical activity to notice when you get in a car. You can use the app without location by adding drives by hand. Android’s location and activity services are part of Google Play services.

Maps and place names. When you open a drive with a route, the app asks OpenFreeMap (openfreemap.org) for the map pictures of that area, which tells OpenFreeMap the area and your internet address. To name where a drive started and ended, the app sends those two points to Android’s place lookup, which Google provides. These requests go from your phone to them, not to us. Their privacy policies apply: openfreemap.org/privacy and policies.google.com/privacy.

Reports and diagnostics. A PDF, a CSV or a diagnostics file is created only when you ask for one and handed to Android’s share sheet: you choose where it goes. A report waits in the app’s private storage so the app you chose can read it, and it’s removed the next time you open Roadmeter after about an hour. The diagnostics file stays in the same private storage until you make the next one or uninstall the app.

Security. Your drives are kept in the app’s private storage, which other apps can’t read. We have no server holding your data. The app’s map requests are encrypted (HTTPS).

Children

The app is not directed to children under 13, and we don’t receive information from anyone who uses it unless they choose to send it to us.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.