Privacy policy
- Runs Great does not collect your data. It has no account, no analytics and no ads.
- Your cars, records, photos and documents stay on your iPhone.
- Two optional features ask a US government service for public vehicle data, and send only what is listed below.
On this page
What we collect
Nothing. Runs Great does not send your vehicles, service records, mileage, costs, photos, receipts, documents or reminders to us or to anyone else. We have no server that could receive them.
The app contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code, and no third-party SDKs. It does not use your location.
What stays on your iPhone
Everything you enter is stored in the app’s private storage on your iPhone. Your regular iPhone backup, to iCloud or to a computer, includes it, under Apple’s terms.
Photos of your car, receipt scans, odometer photos and fuel receipts are read on the iPhone with Apple’s on-device text and image recognition. They are never uploaded.
Ask your garage, a Pro feature, answers questions with Apple’s on-device model. Your questions and the answers stay on the iPhone.
The two times the app goes online
VIN lookup: when you tap to decode a VIN, the app sends that VIN to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s free vPIC service (vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov) to get make, model, year and energy type. It sends nothing else.
Recall check: when you tap Check recalls (shown in the United States only), the app sends the make, model and model year to NHTSA (api.nhtsa.gov). It does not send the VIN.
NHTSA receives these requests like any website visit, including your IP address. Its own privacy policy applies to them. Runs Great keeps no record of the requests.
Purchases, notifications and Apple services
Runs Great Pro is sold through the App Store. Apple processes the payment; we never see your name or payment details. The app checks your purchase with StoreKit on the iPhone.
Service reminders are local notifications scheduled on the iPhone. No push server is involved.
The app may ask Apple to show its standard rating prompt once. Whether and when it appears is up to iOS.
If you share a file (an export, a resale report, a hand-over file), it goes only where you send it.
Permissions
Camera: to photograph your car and scan receipts, only when you choose to. Photos: to pick a picture you already have. Notifications: for reminders. You can change each one in the iPhone’s Settings at any time; the app keeps working without them.
Children
Runs Great is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, children included.
This website
runsgreat.org sets no cookies. It counts page views with Vercel Web Analytics, which records the page, referrer, country and device type, never who you are: no cookies, no IP address stored, no tracking across sites. Our host, Vercel, also keeps standard server logs (IP address, time, page requested) for security, for a short time.
The app does not use this. Nothing you do in Runs Great is sent to the website or to Vercel.
Your choices and rights
Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete. You control your data directly: export it from Settings, delete a vehicle, or delete the app.
If you write to us by email, we use your message only to answer you, and delete it once the conversation is over.
Changes
If a future version changes what the app sends or stores (for example optional iCloud sync, which would store your garage in your own private iCloud account), we will update this policy before that version ships, and change the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy: write to the address below. The app is published by Irlind Pllumbi.