DriveDial Privacy Policy

App: DriveDial (com.coderhub.drivedial) · Developer: CoderHub26 · Effective: 13 October 2026

Summary

DriveDial is a GPS speedometer and trip recorder. It uses your location on your device to show your speed and record trips. The developer does not run any server: your location, trips and settings are not sent to the developer, are not sold, and are not shared for advertising. DriveDial has no accounts, no ads and no analytics.

Location

• While you use the app, DriveDial reads your precise location to show your speed, distance, altitude and route, and to record a trip when you start one. A notification is shown while a trip is recording.
• DriveDial does not request background location ("Allow all the time"). A trip records while the app is open or its recording notification is showing.
• Location is provided by Google Play services on your phone (the fused location provider). Google's handling of location for that service is covered by Google's own privacy policy.

Information stored on your device

DriveDial keeps these in the app's private storage on your device:

• your trips: start and end times, distance, speeds, and the points of the route;
• speed-alert events and the breaks detected during trips;
• your settings (units, vehicle type, speed limits, theme, language and similar);
• if you switch on Garage and trip log (off by default): your vehicles and their odometer readings, fuel fills and their cost, service and renewal items with their dates, and the purpose and vehicle you give each trip;
• map areas you have viewed, kept so the map works without signal (you can set the space it uses or clear it in Settings > Offline map);
• a diagnostics log, only if you switch diagnostics on in Settings (it is off by default).

You can delete single trips, all trips, or everything (Settings > Erase everything) at any time, or uninstall the app.

Information that leaves your device

• Map tiles. When you open a trip on the map, DriveDial downloads map images from OpenStreetMap's tile servers. Like any web request, this reveals your device's IP address and the map area being viewed to the tile server. Tiles are cached on your device. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy.
• What you choose to share. If you share a trip, a place or a diagnostics log, DriveDial hands it to the app you pick (for example a messaging app or Google Maps). What happens next is up to that app.

Nothing else is sent anywhere by DriveDial.

Motion sensors

If you allow physical activity recognition, DriveDial uses Android's activity detection on your device to tell a traffic stop from leaving the vehicle when it splits a trip into driving and breaks. These readings stay on your device.

Device backup

If you have turned on Android's backup service, Android may include DriveDial's settings and data in your device backup. That backup is handled by Google under your Google account and its own privacy terms; the developer cannot access it.

Permissions

• Precise and approximate location: speed and trip recording.
• Foreground service (location): the recording notification while a trip runs.
• Physical activity (optional): telling traffic stops from breaks.
• Notifications: the recording notification, speed alerts and, if you use the garage, service reminders.
• Internet and network state: map tiles.
• Vibration: speed alerts.

Children

DriveDial is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone.

Safety

Speeds come from GPS and can be wrong. Always follow road signs and your vehicle's speedometer, and do not handle the phone while driving.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: technicalexplorer20@gmail.com