Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 1, 2026

The short version: PocketMile collects no personal information. Your trips, places, clients, and work schedule live on your iPhone — not on our servers. The only data we ever receive is anonymous diagnostics, and you can turn that off. Here's the long version.

1. Who we are

PocketMile is an iOS app for self-employed drivers in the United States and Canada who need a clean, tax-ready mileage log. PocketMile is built and operated by Zach Toutounjian, an independent developer based in Ontario, Canada ("PocketMile," "we," "us"). This policy explains what the app does and does not do with your data.

2. What data we collect

2a. Data that lives only on your device — we never see it

The following is created and stored on your iPhone, in the app's local storage. It is never transmitted to us, and we have no servers that hold it:

• Trip GPS coordinates and the distance of each trip
• Trip start and end addresses
• Your saved Places, Cars, and Clients
• Your work schedule
• Trip classifications (Business / Personal) and any notes you add
• Diagnostic logs you may attach to a feedback email

This data is included in your standard iPhone and iCloud backups if you have those enabled — that is ordinary iOS device storage handled by Apple, not collection by us. Deleting the app removes this local data from your device.

2b. Anonymous diagnostics we receive — on by default, optional

To find crashes and fix performance problems, PocketMile sends a small amount of anonymous diagnostic data. You can turn this off at any time in Settings → Data inside the app. It contains no coordinates, no addresses, no names, and no identifier tied to you. Specifically:

• Via Apple MetricKit — crash reports, hang reports, scrolling performance, and battery metrics, delivered through Apple's anonymous-by-design pipeline.
• Via TelemetryDeck (a privacy-first analytics provider that uses rotating salts and stores no per-user identifier) — a short list of anonymous event signals: app opened; a trip started (and whether by manual or automatic detection); a trip ended (a rough duration bucket and whether it was classified); a classification changed; an export was generated (which framework and unit, and whether a filter was used); feedback was sent (the fact only, never the content); the advanced "For Geeks" settings were revealed; the paywall was viewed; and a permission was denied (which one).

Never collected, anywhere: your coordinates, addresses, trip notes, client or car names, any text you type, your advertising identifier (IDFA/IDFV), your email, or any identifier tied to you.

2c. Data you choose to send us via Send Feedback

If you tap Send Feedback in the app, you can email us. You control exactly what goes in that email:

• Whatever you type in the comment field.
• Optionally, a device-info block (iOS version, device model, app version).
• Optionally, a copy of the sanitized diagnostic log (GPS rounded and street numbers stripped before it's ever attached).

The email is composed in Apple's Mail app or the iOS share sheet and is sent only when you tap send — we never send anything in the background, and your email address passes from Mail directly to us, never through our own code.

3. How we use data

• Anonymous diagnostics: to reduce crashes, improve performance, and understand which features are used.
• Feedback you send: to read it, reply to you, and fix bugs.

We do not advertise to you, profile you, sell your data, or share it with "partners." There are none.

4. Who we share data with

• TelemetryDeck — processes the anonymous event signals above. See TelemetryDeck's privacy policy.
• Apple — the MetricKit diagnostics pipeline, App Store purchases, and the Maps service that turns trip coordinates into readable addresses. Apple's privacy policy governs those. Apple's privacy policy.
• No one else. PocketMile uses no advertising SDKs, no attribution SDKs, no data brokers, and no social-login providers.

5. Permissions we request and why

These are the system permissions PocketMile asks for, with the reason shown verbatim from the app:

• Location ("Always") — "PocketMile needs your location to automatically track trips and calculate distance while you drive." Always access is what lets a trip start and end while the app is in the background.
• Motion — "PocketMile uses motion to detect when you're driving, so GPS only activates when needed — saving battery."
• Bluetooth — "PocketMile detects when your car's Bluetooth audio device or beacon connects, so trips can be auto-classified as Business or Personal based on the car you're driving." Bluetooth is a context signal for classification only — it does not start trips. Trips start from GPS and motion.
• Notifications — to let you know when a trip has been recorded or needs classifying.

6. Subscriptions & payment

PocketMile is a paid subscription with a free trial. All billing is handled by Apple through your App Store account. We never see or receive your name, card number, billing address, or any payment details — Apple processes the purchase and only tells us, anonymously, that an active entitlement exists so the app can unlock. We keep no record of who has purchased. See the Terms of Use for the subscription details.

7. Data retention & your rights

• On-device data is yours and stays on your device. Delete it inside the app (Settings → For Geeks → Reset), or delete the app to remove it entirely.
• Anonymous diagnostics are retained by TelemetryDeck per their policy. Because they carry no identifier, we cannot single out or delete "your" diagnostic data — there is nothing tied to you to find.
• Feedback emails sit in our inbox. Reply and ask us to delete yours at any time.
• There is no account, so there is no profile of you on our servers to access, correct, or export.

8. Children

PocketMile is a tool for working drivers and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13 (or the minimum age of consent in your region).

9. International users

PocketMile is available in the United States and Canada at launch. Because we collect no personal data and hold no per-user records, most data-subject requests under the GDPR and CCPA (access, deletion, portability) have nothing to act on. Where they do apply, our legal basis is legitimate interest for anonymous diagnostics and your consent for any feedback content you choose to send. Anonymous diagnostics are processed by TelemetryDeck; see their policy for processing locations.

10. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll post the new version here with an updated date. Material changes will be surfaced in the app.

11. Contact

Questions about privacy? Email privacy@pocketmile.app.