HybridEdge for iOS · Effective 19 July 2026
HybridEdge does not ask you to create an account or provide any personal details. We have no user database, because there are no users to put in one.
Trips, fuel and charging events, costs, vehicle telemetry read from your OBD adapter, and trip locations are stored only on your device, in the app's local database. Nothing is uploaded, synced or transmitted to us or to anyone else. Deleting the app deletes all of it — there is no server copy to ask us to remove, because none exists.
If you grant location permission, the app records trip start and end locations and place names to label your logbook. This data stays on your device like everything else. Location permission is optional — the app works without it.
The app connects to your OBD-II Bluetooth reader and asks your car the same standard read-only questions a mechanic's scan tool asks: battery level, fuel level, speed, odometer. It cannot change vehicle settings, clear fault codes, or modify your car in any way. Vehicle data is processed and stored on your phone only.
The app periodically downloads its vehicle-specification database (battery sizes, tank capacities and similar public figures for PHEV models) from our public repository, so new vehicles appear without an app update. This request carries no personal information, no identifiers and no usage data — it is a plain file download.
If something looks wrong, you can choose to send a diagnostic report from Settings → Diagnostics. Nothing is ever sent automatically. Before a report leaves your phone: coordinates are rounded to roughly one kilometre and place names are masked by default (you can enable precise locations if you choose), and the report is handed to your own mail or share sheet, so you can see exactly what it contains before sending it.
If you use HybridEdge through Apple's TestFlight, Apple may provide us with crash logs and feedback you submit, handled under Apple's privacy terms. These contain diagnostic information, not your driving history.
HybridEdge is a vehicle-cost tool and is not directed at children.
If this policy ever changes — for example, if a future optional feature involves a new kind of network request — the change will be described here with a new effective date, and the in-app description will match.
Questions about privacy: privacy@hybridedge.com.au