AutoTripMemo
Privacy Policy
AutoTripMemo records where you drive. That is about as personal as data gets, so this page says plainly what the app keeps, where it keeps it, and the one place it goes.
The short version.
There is no account and no server of ours. Your trips, routes and addresses are stored on your iPhone and nowhere else. We cannot see them, because there is no “we” to see them — nothing is sent to us at any point.
One exception, stated plainly: to turn coordinates into street addresses and to draw maps, the app asks Apple's mapping service, the same way Apple Maps does.
What the app records
When AutoTripMemo detects that you are driving, it records:
- the location of your iPhone along the route, as a series of coordinates with timestamps;
- the start and end time of each trip, with its time zone;
- the distance and duration it calculated from those coordinates;
- the street addresses of where the trip began and ended;
- motion data from your iPhone's activity sensor — whether the phone believes it is in a moving vehicle, walking, or still. This is what lets the app start and stop recording without you touching anything.
Alongside that, the app stores what you enter yourself: vehicle names, odometer readings, names you give to places you visit often, trip categories, and notes.
The app also keeps a technical log of its own behaviour — when tracking started, when permissions changed, when a trip was detected — so that problems can be diagnosed. It stays on your device with everything else.
Where it is stored
On your iPhone. All of it. AutoTripMemo has no accounts, no sign-in, no cloud sync and no backend of any kind. There is no copy of your driving history anywhere except the phone in your hand.
If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or to a computer, the app's data is included in that backup, in the same way as data from your other apps. Those backups are Apple's, are encrypted by Apple, and are under your control — not ours.
When information leaves your iPhone
Three cases, and only three.
Addresses and maps. A trip is recorded as coordinates. To show you “1234 Richmond Ave” instead of a pair of numbers, and to draw the map of your route, the app sends those coordinates to Apple's mapping service. This is the same service Apple Maps uses, and Apple's own privacy policy governs what happens there. We receive nothing back except the address and the map.
Reports you export. When you export a mileage report, the PDF is built on your device and handed to the standard iOS share sheet. You choose where it goes — email, Files, a messaging app, a cloud drive. Nothing is sent anywhere until you pick a destination, and once you do, that destination's own rules apply.
Nothing else. No analytics, no crash reporting service, no advertising identifiers, no third-party software development kits. The app contains no third-party code at all.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your data. There is no data of yours in our possession to sell.
- We do not share it with advertisers, data brokers, insurers or employers.
- We do not track you across other apps or websites, and the app does not ask for permission to do so.
- We do not build a profile of you. Classification of trips as business, personal or commute happens on your device and stays there.
Permissions the app asks for
Location, always. A trip that only records while you have the app open is not automatic, and automatic is the entire point. AutoTripMemo asks for location access while in use first, explains itself, and only later asks to keep access in the background — after it has recorded at least one trip, so you can see what you are agreeing to. You can decline, or downgrade it later in iOS Settings. The app will tell you that it has stopped detecting drives rather than going quiet.
Motion & Fitness. Your iPhone's motion sensor is what recognises the difference between driving, walking and standing still. It is how the app knows a trip has begun without draining your battery watching GPS all day. Declining it makes detection slower and less reliable, but the app still works.
Deleting your data
Individual trips can be deleted inside the app. Deleting a trip also deletes the route points recorded with it.
Deleting the app from your iPhone deletes everything it stored, permanently and immediately. There is no copy on a server to request the deletion of, and no form to fill in. If you have iCloud backups, the data may persist in those backups until they are replaced or removed, which you control in iOS Settings.
Because your information never leaves your device, the rights that data protection laws give you over data held by a company — access, correction, portability, erasure — are things you exercise directly, on your own phone, without asking anyone. Export produces your complete record; deletion is immediate and final.
Children
AutoTripMemo is intended for people who drive for work. It is not directed at children and is not designed for use by anyone under 13.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever begins to do something this page does not describe — an account, a sync service, anything at all that leaves your device — this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the change will be described in the app's release notes rather than buried here.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything the app did that you did not expect: support@autotripmemo.com. A person reads it.
AutoTripMemo is developed by Andrey Savelev, New York, United States.
Last updated: 23 August 2026.