Privacy

A mileage tracker records where you go all day. Every established tracker stores that history on the vendor's servers. Miles does not have any.

Where your data is

Drives, routes, places, rules, vehicles, expenses, and receipts are stored on your iPhone in an on-device database. They sync to your other devices through the private database of your iCloud account, which only your Apple account can read. Apple encrypts it, and it counts against your iCloud storage the same as your photos do.

We operate no location servers. There is no Miles account, no login, and no copy of your log anywhere we can reach.

What that means

• Nothing to sell. We have no location data to share with advertisers, insurers, or data brokers, and no way to build a business on it later.
• Nothing to breach. A breach of our systems cannot expose your location history, because our systems do not hold it.
• Nothing to lose access to. If you stop paying, the log is still in your iCloud and still readable and exportable in the app. If Miles were to shut down, the JSON backup is a complete copy in a documented format.

What the app sends

The app checks for updates and sends crash and performance reports to a monitoring provider by default. You can turn the reports off in Settings. The reports are not designed to capture drives, places, addresses, or expenses. The privacy policy lists what is sent.

Address lookups go to Apple Maps, under Apple's privacy terms, the same as when you search in the Maps app. Directions for a manually added drive go the same way.

Permissions

Miles asks for the Always location permission and the Motion & Fitness permission, because automatic detection needs them. It asks for the camera only when you scan a receipt. It does not ask for contacts, photos, or calendars. See automatic tracking.

Face ID

Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID so the log is not readable to someone holding your unlocked phone.

Confidential information

Publication 463 says you do not have to put confidential information about a trip, such as a client's identity, in your log, as long as you record it elsewhere and can produce it. Miles has a private notes field on every drive that is kept out of every export unless you include it.

Exports are yours

Every export is a file you hold. Sending it to your accountant, your employer, or your tax software is a decision you make each time, from the share sheet.

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