Privacy Policy

Effective November 10, 2026

BEV Monitor is an iPhone app that reads your electric car’s data through an OBD adapter you plug into the car. This policy explains what the app does with that data. In short: your data stays on your iPhone and, unless you turn it off, in a backup in your own iCloud Drive. BEV Monitor has no account, and no server of its own besides its website. Your location is never sent to the developer. It goes to A Better Routeplanner (ABRP) only if you turn on ABRP live data.

If you choose to share them when you set up the app, the developer also receives:

• daily counts of which screens and features you use
• your dash charge readings
• the diagnostic test logs you run

These are labeled with a random code, never with your name. Other logs reach the developer only if you choose to send them.

What the app stores on your iPhone

• Readings from your car: charge level, battery and pack values, speed, odometer, temperatures, tire pressures and similar values, read through your OBD adapter. The app only reads; it never changes anything in the car, and it never reads your car’s VIN.
• Trips and charges the app records. These include each trip’s route and each charge’s location when you allow Location, and the place names Apple Maps gives them.
• What you enter:
  • your car’s model, year, battery size and nickname
  • your Home address
  • your home charger, charging start time and electricity rate
  • your tire pressure
  • charges you add or edit (times, costs and kWh)
  • dash charge readings
  • your settings
• OBD logs, only while Settings → OBD2 adapter → Diagnostic logging is on. It starts off when you install from the App Store, and on for beta testers.
  • A log records each connection’s requests to the car and its answers, and is kept for 60 days.
  • Logs never include your car’s VIN or your position on the map. They can include your elevation from GPS and your adapter’s Bluetooth name.
  • With Diagnostic logging off, the app writes no logs.

All of this stays in the app’s storage on your iPhone. It’s included in your iPhone’s own backups, as for any app.

iCloud backup

BEV Monitor also saves a copy of your data to your own iCloud Drive, at most once a day after a trip or a charge. A copy holds your trips, charges, dash readings, what you entered and most settings, but not OBD logs or your ABRP key. It includes your trips’ routes, the places you drove and charged, and your Home address. It’s how the app restores your history on a new iPhone or after you reinstall.

• Where it is: in a BEV Monitor folder in your iCloud Drive, which you can open in the Files app (iCloud Drive → BEV Monitor). The developer can’t see it.
• Who else can read it: it’s stored in your iCloud account under Apple’s iCloud terms, like your other iCloud Drive files. Unless you turn on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, Apple holds the keys that encrypt it.
• How many copies:
  • The app keeps the three most recent copies made by this installation, and deletes this installation’s older ones.
  • Copies made before you reinstalled the app, or on another iPhone, stay until you delete them.
  • So do backups you export.
• Turning it off: iCloud backup is on unless you turn it off in Settings → Your data → iCloud backup, and it works only when iCloud Drive is on. Turning it off stops new copies but doesn’t delete the ones already saved.

Choosing what to share with the developer

When you set up BEV Monitor, it asks whether to turn on two kinds of sharing, both described below:

• Share readings
• Share app usage

In the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, both start off. Everywhere else, both start on. Your App Store country decides this, or your iPhone’s region if the app can’t tell.

Nothing is sent until you’ve made your choice and left that page. You can change either one at any time in Settings. If you used BEV Monitor before it asked during setup, your earlier choices stay as they were.

Sharing app usage

If you choose Share app usage, BEV Monitor sends the developer one record a day of how the app was used, so it can be improved. You can turn it off in Settings → Your data → Share app usage.

• What a record holds:
  • Counts: how many times each screen, chart, ⓘ note and Settings screen was opened, and how many times each feature was used. For example: the plug and Car location taps, CarPlay tabs and cards, how trips started and ended, how charges and dash readings were logged, sending a log or testing an adapter.
  • Errors and time: how many errors happened, and how many minutes the live view, a live charge, the Live Activity and CarPlay were in use.
  • Settings: which settings are on or off (never what they’re set to), which number leads the Vehicle tab, and the CarPlay trip cards you show.
  • Your setup: the app and iOS versions, iPhone model, car model and battery size, units, the kind of adapter (OBDLink or another), and whether the app came from the App Store or TestFlight.
• What it never holds:
  • your location, routes, Home address, where your car is parked or any weather lookup
  • your car’s VIN or nickname, or anything you type
  • any trip, charge, battery or cost number
  • your Apple ID or name
  • your adapter’s Bluetooth name
• How it’s sent: after each day ends, through Apple’s iCloud, to BEV Monitor’s own iCloud database; only the developer can see it. No other company receives it. It’s sent only when your iPhone is signed in to iCloud. Days not sent within 30 days are dropped.
• How records are labeled:
  • Each record carries a random code the app makes for this installation. The code isn’t your name, Apple ID, phone number or your car’s VIN.
  • Apple also attaches IDs for the iCloud account and device that sent it. These IDs don’t show the developer your name or email address.
  • The developer never matches these codes to your name, email address or App Store account, so the App Store privacy label lists this data as not linked to you (see below).
  • The developer has no way to tell which records are yours, so they can’t be found to show or delete on request.
• Turning it off stops counting at once and deletes the days not yet sent from your iPhone. Records already sent stay.

Usage records are not sold, not shared, and not used for advertising or tracking.

Sharing readings and logs with the developer

If you choose Share readings, BEV Monitor helps make its charge level match the dash on more cars. It sends the developer, through Apple’s iCloud:

• your dash charge readings
• the logs of diagnostic tests you run: Read All and adapter tests, which exist only while Diagnostic logging is on

The first time, it also sends the readings you saved earlier. You can turn it off in Settings → Improve accuracy → Share readings. Turning it off stops automatic sending, including readings and test logs still waiting to go.

You can also send any single OBD log yourself with Send to Developer. Logs of drives and charges are only sent that way, whether Share readings is on or off.

What each reading or log carries:

• your car’s model, and its year and battery size if you set them
• the app’s version
• the random code for this installation
• never your name, email address or your car’s VIN
• never your location: readings don’t include it, and logs never include your position on the map (they can include your elevation, as the OBD logs section above describes)

Apple also attaches IDs for the iCloud account and device that sent it, which don’t show the developer your name or email address. Apple stores them in BEV Monitor’s own iCloud database, and only the developer can see them.

To have readings or logs you sent deleted, write to bevmonitor@gmail.com with roughly when you sent them and your car’s model.

When data leaves your iPhone

Data leaves your iPhone only in these cases:

• Apple Maps:
  • It turns your trips’ start and end points and your charges’ locations into place names.
  • It turns your Home address into a point on the map, when you set it.
  • It draws the maps of your trips’ routes and of the Car location card, which shows where your car last parked. Open in Maps hands that spot to the Maps app.
• Apple Weather (WeatherKit):
  • The Weather card looks up the forecast for the town where your car last parked, at most every 30 minutes while you have the Vehicle tab open. Apple Weather is sent that town’s location, which Apple Maps finds by the town’s name near where you parked. If no town is found, it’s sent your car’s last parked spot rounded to about 6 miles (10 km).
  • Trip wind: when you open a recorded trip, the app looks up the wind and rain along it. Apple Weather is sent the areas the trip passed through, rounded to about 6 miles (10 km), and the trip’s times.
• A Better Routeplanner (ABRP), only if you turn on ABRP live data in Settings and enter your own ABRP key and token (kept in your iPhone’s Keychain). ABRP live data is off unless you turn it on.
  • While the app reads your car, it sends ABRP about every 10 seconds: your car’s charge level, power, speed, location, heading, elevation, battery voltage and current, temperatures, climate power, odometer, tire pressures, and whether it’s parked or charging.
  • ABRP’s own privacy policy covers what it does with them.
• When you share something yourself: an OBD log, an exported backup, or your dash readings, through the iOS share sheet to the app or person you pick. An exported backup includes your trips’ routes, the places you drove and your Home address, so share it only with people you trust.
• Your iCloud Drive, for the iCloud backup above, unless you turn it off.
• To the developer through iCloud: the usage records, readings and test logs described above, if you chose to share them, and any log you send yourself. None of these include your position on the map.
• bevmonitor.com: when you open the BEV Monitor Pro trial or plans screen, the app downloads a small file from the developer’s website to see whether a sale is on. The app sends nothing about you or your car with it. Like any website visit, the request reaches bevmonitor.com’s web host with your IP address and the app’s and iOS’s version numbers, which the host keeps in its standard access logs. The developer doesn’t use them to identify you.
• TestFlight (beta testers only): Apple’s TestFlight sends crash reports, and any feedback or screenshots you choose to submit, to the developer. Apple’s TestFlight terms cover these.

The developer doesn’t sell or share your data, doesn’t use it for advertising or tracking, and has no access to it except the usage records, readings, logs and website access logs described above.

The App Store privacy label

The label on BEV Monitor’s App Store page lists the data that can leave the app. None of it is used to track you.

• Data Linked to You:
  • Precise Location: your car’s position. It’s sent only to ABRP, only if you turn on ABRP live data, and ABRP ties it to your ABRP account. It’s never sent to the developer.
• Data Not Linked to You: the developer receives these with only the random code for this installation, and never matches it to you.
  • Device ID: the random code for this installation.
  • Product Interaction: the app usage records, if you share app usage.
  • Other Diagnostic Data: test logs, logs you send yourself, and the app version, iOS version and iPhone model that come with them.
  • Other Data: your dash charge readings, if you share readings.

Permissions

• Bluetooth: to connect to your OBD adapter.
• Location (while using the app, including while it records a drive in the background): to record each trip’s route and show your heading, and, if you turn on ABRP live data, to send your position to ABRP. The app never asks for Always.
• Motion & Fitness: to measure each trip’s climb with the barometer.
• Notifications (optional): to ask for your dash’s charge reading, and to remind you to plug in, if you turn those on.

You can turn any of these off in iOS Settings → BEV Monitor. The app keeps working with less detail.

Deleting your data

• On your iPhone: delete the app to delete everything it stored there.
• iCloud backups and exported backups: they stay until you delete them. For iCloud backups, use the Files app (iCloud Drive → BEV Monitor).
• Readings and logs you sent the developer: deleted on request at bevmonitor@gmail.com.
• Usage records: they can’t be told apart by person, so they can’t be found and deleted on request. Turning Share app usage off deletes the ones not yet sent.
• Data you shared with ABRP or with others: covered by their policies.

Children

BEV Monitor is not directed at children.

Changes

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

Contact

bevmonitor@gmail.com