Your privacy & your data
Mileage knows where you go, so privacy isn’t a footnote — it’s the design. Here’s the honest picture: what stays on your phone, and the short list of what leaves it.
What stays on your phone
- No account. No sign-up, no email, no password — it works the moment you open it.
- Your trips and settings live on your phone, not on our servers. We can’t see your drives.
- We never sell your data. Not to anyone, ever — there’s no advertising business here to feed.
The short list of what does leave your phone
We’d rather tell you plainly than claim “nothing ever leaves”. Three things can, and that’s the lot:
- A drive’s coordinates, to draw the route — sent to an open maps service to snap your path to the roads. No name, no account attached, never sold — and you can turn it off (your trips still record, drawn as the raw GPS line).
- An anonymised crash report — only if the app hits a problem, so we can fix it. No trips, no identity.
- Your purchase receipt — handled by Apple or Google when you buy the app once.
Photos of receipts you add stay on your phone — the text is read on-device, nothing’s uploaded.
Why not just use Apple or Google Maps?
Two reasons, both for you. Privacy: we keep your trips yours and never attach your name. Cost: the big mapping services charge per user every month — at scale we’d have to pass that on as a subscription. Using open map data is how Mileage Tracker stays a one-off purchase.
The app is in development for iOS and Android — the illustrated version of this guide arrives at launch. For the full legal detail, see our Privacy Policy.
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