DrivePulse Privacy Policy

DrivePulse does not require creating an account. There is no central database or cloud server to which your driving data, GPS location or vehicle information is sent.

All information collected via the OBD2 adapter and the phone sensors (GPS, accelerometer) is stored exclusively in the local database on your device. This data includes:

• Trip routes and parking locations.
• Technical engine data (RPM, speed, temperatures).
• Diagnostic trouble codes (DTC).
• Vehicle information (VIN, make, model).
• Vehicle photos (saved in the app's private storage).

The app asks for location access so it can record trips on its own, even with the screen off. On iPhone this requires the "Always" permission; on Android the app records only while the trip is running and never asks for background location. The track points stay in the database on your phone and are used to compute distances and draw maps. They do not reach us: there is no server of ours. Two things do leave the phone, though, and we would rather say so. To write the street name of a trip or a parking spot, the phone asks the operating system's map services for the address (Apple on iPhone, Google on Android). To draw the map it downloads tiles from CARTO, and asking for a tile tells them which area you are looking at; at the end of a trip the app also downloads the tiles for the area where you parked, for the widget image. Neither request carries anything beyond the coordinates: not your name, not an identifier of yours, not your trip history.

The OBD2 adapter (ELM327) is reached locally, without going through the internet: over Bluetooth LE, over Wi-Fi to the adapter itself, and on Android also over classic Bluetooth. The only requests the app sends to the network are the ones described in section 3, plus Apple's and Google's stores for the purchase and for the store's review prompt.

DrivePulse uses Apple's in-app purchase system (StoreKit) on iPhone and Google Play on Android for the Lifetime license. Transactions are handled entirely by Apple or Google, and the developer neither receives nor stores any payment data. The purchase receipt is tied to your Apple ID or your Google account.

Since all data resides on your phone, you have full control: you can export it via the backup feature or delete it permanently by removing the app or using the "Delete all data" function in settings.

The drivepulse.it website counts visits anonymously, with our own counter running on our own web space, without any third-party analytics service. For each page that is opened it records only which page it was, the day, the campaign named in the link, if there is one (the utm_source parameter), and the website you came from, as a domain name only. The counter uses no cookies and stores no IP addresses or device fingerprints: only totals are kept, and they cannot be traced back to a person.