Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2, 2026 · Français

The short version: PocketMile collects nothing behind your back. No analytics, no diagnostics, no tracking. Your trips, places, clients, and work schedule live on your iPhone, not on our servers, and nothing is ever sent to us in the background. The only things we ever receive are what you choose to send us: a feedback email, or a suggestion or vote on our public roadmap. 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 Zohrab 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

PocketMile collects no data on any server. There is no analytics and no diagnostics. Everything the app creates lives on your device and, by default, in your own private iCloud. The exceptions are things you actively choose to send us: a feedback email (described below) and suggestions or votes on the public roadmap board on our website (section 7).

2a. Data that stays yours (we never see it)

The following is created on your iPhone and stored in the app. By default it also syncs across your own devices through your private iCloud (Apple's iCloud, tied to your Apple ID; only you can access it). You can switch to on-device-only storage in Settings → Privacy & Data → Manage data. Either way 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

On the default iCloud Sync setting, this data is stored in your private iCloud and kept in step across your devices, handled by Apple as your storage provider and never collected by us. Deleting the app does not erase the iCloud copy. To remove your data everywhere, delete it inside the app (Settings → Privacy & Data → Manage data), which clears it from iCloud and your other devices too. If you switch to On this device only, nothing leaves your phone and deleting the app removes it for good.

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. The app contains no analytics SDK and sends no diagnostics.

2b. 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

• 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

• Apple: App Store purchases, the Maps service that turns trip coordinates into readable addresses, and (when iCloud Sync is on) your private iCloud, where your own data is stored and synced across your devices. Apple's privacy policy governs those, and your iCloud data stays private to your Apple ID; we never have access to it. 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 (only if you pair a beacon): "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." Day to day, tagging a trip by car works by reading the active audio route (the same way your phone knows it's playing through your car stereo), which needs no Bluetooth permission. The system Bluetooth permission is only requested if you choose to pair a car beacon, because scanning for one requires it. Neither signal starts 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. Our website (pocketmile.app)

This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising trackers. Two things are worth knowing:

• Hosting logs. The site is served by Netlify, our hosting provider. Like nearly every web host, Netlify keeps short-lived server logs (your IP address and the pages requested) to run and secure the service. We do not use these logs to identify or profile anyone. Netlify's privacy policy.
• The roadmap board. If you suggest a feature or vote on the roadmap, we store what you submit: the suggestion text you type and, for votes, a random identifier plus the time of the vote. We never ask for your name or email. The random identifier is created in your browser when you first vote and saved there (in local storage) for one purpose: stopping double votes. It identifies a browser, not a person. This data lives in a database hosted by our provider Supabase on servers in the United States. Please don't put personal information in a suggestion; if you did and want it removed, email privacy@pocketmile.app.

8. Data retention & deletion

• Your data is yours. Delete it inside the app at Settings → Privacy & Data → Manage data; with iCloud Sync on, that clears it from your iCloud and every synced device. Deleting the app alone does not remove the iCloud copy. On On this device only, deleting the app removes everything.
• Feedback emails sit in our inbox for as long as they're useful for support and bug fixing. Reply and ask us to delete yours at any time.
• Roadmap suggestions and votes stay on the board while they're relevant to planning. Email us to have a suggestion removed.
• There is no account, so there is no profile of you on our servers to access, correct, or export.
• If something goes wrong: in the unlikely event of a confidentiality incident involving personal information we hold, we will notify the people affected and the authorities where the law requires it.

9. 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).

10. Your rights & international users

PocketMile is available in the United States and Canada at launch. Because the app keeps no personal data on our servers and holds no per-user records, most data-subject requests (access, deletion, portability) have nothing to act on. Where privacy laws apply, our legal basis for feedback content and roadmap submissions is your consent (you choose to send them), and for short-lived hosting logs it is our legitimate interest in keeping the website secure and working.

Where data is processed. The little we do hold is stored with service providers that may keep it outside your province, state, or country: feedback emails with our email provider (Google), and roadmap suggestions and votes with our database provider (Supabase) on servers in the United States. These providers protect the data under their own privacy policies and contractual safeguards.

Canada (PIPEDA): you may ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, and withdraw consent, by emailing privacy@pocketmile.app. If you're not satisfied with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Quebec residents (Law 25): you have the right to access, correct, and delete personal information we hold about you, to withdraw your consent, and to data portability. In practice the only personal information we ever hold is a feedback email or roadmap suggestion you choose to send us, so there is no account or profile to act on. As noted above, that information may be stored outside Quebec (with Google and Supabase). We have designated a person responsible for the protection of personal information (our Privacy Officer; see section 12). To exercise a right or raise a concern, email privacy@pocketmile.app. You may also file a complaint with the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec.

European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland: if you use PocketMile or this website from these regions, you have the rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, and object to processing of your personal data, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. Since we hold almost nothing about you, the fastest route is to email privacy@pocketmile.app. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

California residents (CCPA/CPRA): we do not sell or share your personal information as those terms are defined in California law, and we have not done so in the preceding 12 months. We don't use personal information for targeted advertising. You have the right to know what we hold, to ask for deletion or correction, and to never be treated differently for exercising those rights. Email privacy@pocketmile.app.

11. 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.

12. Contact

Questions about privacy? Email privacy@pocketmile.app.

Privacy Officer. The person responsible for the protection of personal information at PocketMile (including under Quebec Law 25) is Zohrab Toutounjian, PocketMile, Ontario, Canada. Contact: privacy@pocketmile.app.