Drivography Privacy Policy

Effective date: 17 October 2026

Drivography is run from India.

Contact: support@drivography.com

Summary

Drivography scores how smoothly you drive using your mobile phone's motion sensors and GPS.

• Your routes and locations stay on your phone. We do not receive them.
• Cloud sync is optional and is off until you turn it on. If you turn it on, we receive the score for each drive and the numbers used to work it out. We use this for your account, your friends list and the leaderboard.
• "Help improve scoring" is a separate option, also off until you turn it on. It sends us summaries of how each drive was measured, without any locations.
• You do not need to give us your name, phone number or email address.
• We never sell your data, and we never share it with insurance companies.

What the app uses on your phone

When the app detects that you are driving, it uses:

• Motion sensors (accelerometer and gyroscope) to measure braking, acceleration, cornering, bumps and phone handling.
• Location (GPS) to measure distance and speed and to draw your trip map. The app needs location access at all times so that trips can start recording on their own.

All of this is processed on your phone. Raw sensor readings, GPS points and trip maps are stored only on your phone.

The app does not use your microphone, camera, contacts or photos, and it does not use an advertising ID.

What we receive, and when

Cloud sync (off until you turn it on)

When you turn on sync, the app creates an anonymous account for you and starts sending a summary of each drive. A summary contains:

• when the drive started and ended, the distance, and the time spent moving
• the score, how it was worked out, and which version of the scoring rules was used
• the measurements behind the score: how many times you braked, accelerated or cornered hard, how strongly, and how many seconds into the drive each one happened; comfort and road roughness figures; top and typical speed; how often the phone was picked up; and counts of speed breakers, turns and stops
• anything you add yourself, such as marking that you were not the driver, or rating a drive

We do not receive GPS coordinates, routes, maps, place names or raw sensor readings. Our server rejects any upload that contains route data.

To run your account, we also keep:

• your @handle. The app picks one for you and you can change it.
• scrambled (one-way hashed) copies of two random codes the app creates on your phone. One identifies your account and one identifies your install of the app. We cannot turn the scrambled copies back into the codes. Neither code is a hardware ID or an advertising ID.
• your friends list and any friend requests

The leaderboard only shows you and your friends. Your friends can see your @handle, scores, number of drives and distance driven. Nobody can see your locations or routes, because we do not have them. Anyone who knows your @handle can send you a friend request, and you decide whether to accept it.

Help improve scoring (off until you turn it on)

If you turn this on, each new drive also sends a tuning summary. It contains:

• your phone model, operating system version and app version
• counts and ranges showing how the sensor and GPS readings were spread out, for example how jerky the motion was, how fast you went and how accurate the GPS was
• the moments the app checked for hard braking or acceleration: how many seconds into the drive, and how strong

It contains no locations and no raw sensor readings, and it is about 5 KB per drive. We use it only to make scoring more accurate on different phones and roads. If you turn this option off, we delete the tuning summaries you already sent.

Place names (off until you turn it on)

If you turn on place names in Settings, the app sends the start and end point of a drive to your phone's built-in map service to name the drive after the area, for example "Koramangala". Only those two points are sent, and only while the option is on. The names stay on your phone and are not sent to us.

Test versions

If you use a test version of the app (for example through Apple TestFlight), the test platform may send us crash reports, and any feedback or screenshots you choose to send. The platform's own privacy policy covers what it collects.

Where your data is stored

Our servers are in Mumbai, India. We use cloud hosting providers to run them. These providers store and process data only on our behalf and may not use it for their own purposes. Our website and support email are also run by service providers on the same terms.

The app has no advertising or analytics tools in it.

How we protect your data

• Everything sent between the app and our server is encrypted.
• The codes that identify your account and your install are stored only in scrambled form.
• Only the people who run Drivography can access the server, and only to operate and fix it.

No system is completely secure, but we keep what we hold to a minimum so that there is less to protect.

When the law requires us to share

We may share data if the law requires it, for example because of a valid order from a court or a government authority. We may also share data to protect people from harm or to stop abuse of the service.

How long we keep it

When an account is deleted, we keep its old @handle on a list of retired handles so that nobody else can take it. Nothing else is kept with it.

Your choices

• Delete your account: Settings, then Account & sync, then Delete account. This deletes your @handle, friends list, leaderboard place, drive summaries and tuning summaries from our server straight away. Backup copies are deleted within 30 days. Your drives stay on your phone.
• Turn off sync: we stop receiving anything. Your account and what was already sent stay until you delete the account.
• Turn off "Help improve scoring": we stop receiving tuning summaries and delete the ones already sent.
• Delete a drive: this removes the drive's route, map and details from your phone. The drive's score stays in your history, so deleting a drive never changes your driver score. This stops people raising their score by deleting bad drives. If the drive was already sent to us, its summary stays on our server until you delete your account.
• Export your drives from the app at any time.
• Privacy zones: mark places like home or work, and the start and end points of drives near them are blurred before they are saved.
• Pause: one tap stops all trip detection until you turn it back on.
• Change your @handle in Settings, under Account & sync.

Things we will never do

These apply to every future version of the app:

• We will never sell your data.
• We will never share your driving data with insurance companies.
• We will only share your data with another company if you ask us to.
• The app will never use your microphone or camera.

Children

Drivography is for drivers. It is not meant for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly create accounts for them.

Your rights in India

We follow India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act:

• We ask for your consent before anything is sent to us.

• We use your data only for the purposes in this policy.

• You can see your data (in the app, or by exporting it), correct it (by changing your @handle) and delete it (by deleting your account).

• You can withdraw your consent at any time by turning the options off.

• You can name another person to use these rights for you if you die or become unable to use them yourself. Email us to do this.

For questions, requests or complaints, email support@drivography.com. We aim to reply within 15 days.

If you are not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Beta

Drivography is in beta. The leaderboard is marked BETA, and scores may change as we improve the scoring.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version here with a new effective date. If a change means the app would send us something new, or share your data with someone new, the app will ask you first.