TachoClear — privacy policy

Last updated: 26 July 2026

The short version

TachoClear keeps everything on your phone. It has no accounts, no adverts, no analytics, and it makes

no network requests. Nobody — including us — can see your hours.

Everything you enter stays in the app's own storage on your device:

your activity log — driving, other work, availability, breaks and rest, with the times
your settings, including which rules you drive under
weeks you have told the app about but not logged
your own notes about Driver CPC training and your card's expiry date

That data is included in your iPhone's normal encrypted backups if you use them, whether to iCloud or

to a computer. Those backups are covered by Apple's terms, not ours, and we have no access to them.

Nothing. The app makes no network requests at all. There is no server, no account to create, and no

sync. That is why it works with no signal, and it is why the App Store listing says **Data Not

Collected** — that answer is literally true rather than a best effort.

Drive Detection is off by default. While it is off, the app never asks the system for your

location or your motion activity.

If you turn it on:

it reads motion activity to tell driving from walking, and location only to confirm speed
both are processed on your device, in the moment, to decide whether to log a switch between driving

and other work

neither is stored as a track, a route or a history. The only thing that survives is the activity

entry it created, which is the same entry you would have made by tapping

nothing is transmitted anywhere
you can turn it off at any time in Settings, or revoke the permission in iOS Settings, and the app

remains fully usable by tapping to switch

When you create a PDF or a CSV, the file is written to your device and handed to the iOS share sheet.

Where it goes after that is your choice. TachoClear does not upload it, keep a copy, or see where you

send it.

Break, finish and other reminders are scheduled locally by your phone from times the app has worked

out. No notification goes through a server, and nothing about them leaves the device.

Apple gives every developer aggregate, anonymised statistics about downloads and crashes through App

Store Connect. That is Apple's measurement of the App Store, not ours of you, and it contains nothing

about your hours. TachoClear contains no analytics SDK of any kind.

TachoClear is a tool for professional drivers. It is not directed at children and collects nothing

from anyone.

Because we hold no data about you, there is nothing for us to disclose, correct or delete. Your copy

is yours: export it whenever you like, and delete it from Settings → Your data, where a full wipe

asks you to type a confirmation first and offers an export before it happens.

If a future version of TachoClear ever needs to send anything anywhere, this policy will say so

before that version ships, and the App Store privacy answers will change with it.

Tom Murton — tom.murton@gmail.com

TachoClear is a planning aid, not the legal record — your tachograph is. Not legal advice.

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