Privacy Policy

The short version

Benzeen keeps your cars, fill-ups, tolls, services and fines on your phone. On iPhone, if you sign in with Apple, a backup goes to your own private iCloud, which we cannot read. We have no servers that store your data, no ads in the app and no tracking. The guides on this website carry Google ads (see This website). On Android, the VIN scanner uses Google ML Kit, which sends Google anonymous diagnostics (see Android app).

What stays on your iPhone

• Location is used on your iPhone to notice fuel-station stops, measure trips and count Salik and Darb crossings. It is never uploaded.
• Motion & fitness tells driving from walking. It stays on your iPhone.
• Camera and photos are used only when you scan a VIN or a fuel receipt. The text is read on your iPhone.
• Notifications (fuel-stop questions, service and renewal reminders, the weekly report) are created on your iPhone.

Sign in with Apple and iCloud backup (optional)

If you create an account, Apple shares an anonymous identifier with the app and, the first time only, your name and email if you choose to share them. These stay on your iPhone. Your backup is saved in your private iCloud database (CloudKit); only your iCloud account can access it.

What leaves your iPhone

• VIN look-ups: when you decode a VIN, only the VIN is sent to the free vehicle database of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA vPIC) to get the make, model and engine.
• Maps: nearby fuel stations are found with Apple Maps, under Apple's privacy policy.

We do not sell, share or collect personal data. The iPhone app contains no third-party analytics or advertising code, and neither app shows ads.

Deleting your data

In the app, Settings › Account › Delete account deletes your iCloud backup, your profile and everything on your iPhone. Without an account, Settings › Your data › Erase everything removes all data. Deleting the app also removes everything stored on your iPhone.

Android app

Your cars and records stay on your phone. If Android backup is on, they're included in your phone's own Google backup, under Google's privacy policy. You can export a backup file at any time.

• Camera is used only when you scan a VIN. The text is read on your phone by Google ML Kit through Google Play services; no photo is saved or uploaded. To keep the scanner working well, ML Kit sends Google anonymous diagnostics — device model and Android version, app version, performance figures and an installation identifier that doesn't identify you — encrypted, and not passed to anyone else.
• Notifications (service, renewal and fine-discount reminders and the Monday report) are created on your phone.
• VIN look-ups work as on iPhone: only the VIN is sent to NHTSA's vehicle database.
• Deleting your data: Settings › Your data › Erase everything, or uninstall the app.

This website

benzeen.app is a static site hosted by GitHub Pages, which keeps the usual server logs (your IP address and the pages you request) under GitHub's privacy statement. The site itself sets no cookies and has no analytics.

Some guide pages show ads served by Google. Google and its partners use cookies and similar identifiers to show ads, measure them and prevent fraud, and depending on where you are the ads may be personalised. How Google uses information from sites that use its services explains what is collected. You can turn personalised ads off in Google's Ads Settings or at aboutads.info. If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a consent prompt lets you decide before any advertising cookie is set.

The apps show no ads and contain no advertising code. The ads are on this website only.

Children

Benzeen is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@benzeen.app