Privacy policy

For the app “OBD Dashboard” and this website. Last updated: 10 November 2026.

1. Who is responsible

2. In short

• Drives, logbook, settings and the app log stay on your phone. The person responsible does not receive them.
• There is no account, no advertising and no analytics. The published builds contain no crash-reporting service.
• The only network request is optional: the outside temperature from Open-Meteo, with coordinates rounded to two decimals (section 5).
• Bluetooth and location are used only for the features that need them. The app never asks for background location.

3. What the app stores on your phone

• Vehicle data read from the adapter over Bluetooth: readings such as RPM, speed, temperatures and voltage, fault codes, and the vehicle identification number (VIN) if the vehicle reports one. A VIN can identify a vehicle and thereby, indirectly, its owner.
• Drives: the readings of each recorded ride, including the GPS speed if you turned it on. The app does not store your route or your position.
• Logbook: the entries you type yourself (date, mileage, amounts, costs, notes, tyre make).
• Settings and counters: your choices, the counters of the fuel gauge and the estimated mileage, and the name and Bluetooth address of the adapter you picked.
• App log: technical messages such as connection errors, including the name of your adapter.

All of this lies in the private storage of the app on your phone. The app has no account and no cloud backup, and it is excluded from Android's backup and device transfer. To move your data to another phone, use the app's own backup file (Settings → Info & maintenance → Back up and restore).

4. Permissions and what they are for

• BLUETOOTH_CONNECT (BLUETOOTH on Android 11 and older)When: Needed to start the appPurpose: Connect to the OBD-II adapter that you paired in Android's Bluetooth settings. The app does not search for devices.
• ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONWhen: Optional. Asked only when you turn on a feature that needs it.Purpose: GPS speed (gear indicator, distance of the fuel gauge), the terrain tile and the outside temperature. The location is processed on the phone; only the outside-temperature lookup sends rounded coordinates (section 5). The app does not ask for background location.
• POST_NOTIFICATIONSWhen: OptionalPurpose: The status notification while connected and the alarms (low voltage, hot coolant, new fault code).
• FOREGROUND_SERVICE, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CONNECTED_DEVICE, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATIONWhen: Only while connected to an adapterPurpose: Keeps the connection and the recording running when the screen is off or another app is in front. With “Speed from GPS” on, the GPS speed keeps running as well. Android shows a notification while this runs.
• INTERNETWhen: OptionalPurpose: Only for the outside temperature (section 5).

5. Outside temperature (Open-Meteo)

This is the only time the app sends something over the network. It happens only if you turned on “Hide navigation bar while driving”, location is granted and the vehicle is moving: then the app asks api.open-meteo.com for the temperature at your position about once a minute, while the status row that shows it is visible.

Sent: your coordinates rounded to two decimals (about 1.1 km), the app name and version (OBD2Monitor/<version>) and, as for every internet connection, your IP address. Not sent: device identifiers, account data, your exact position, vehicle data.

Recipient: OpenMeteo GmbH, Bürglen (UR), Switzerland. According to its terms and privacy notice (read on 10 November 2026), Open-Meteo keeps web server logs that may contain coordinates, deletes them after 90 days, does not share them with third parties and acts as an independent controller.

Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). The feature is off until you turn it on, and you can withdraw the location permission at any time in Android's settings.

6. Crash reports

The published builds of the app contain no key for a crash-reporting service, so no crash reports are sent. The source code can send crash reports (Sentry) only in a build that was made with such a key; the published builds were not.

7. Exports and sharing

The app creates exports (CSV files and the backup package) only when you ask for it. They go to the place you pick in Android's file dialog or to the app you pick in Android's share menu. They can contain your VIN, fault codes, logbook entries and, for the app log, the name of your adapter. From then on, the receiving app or service is responsible for the file.

8. Storage and deletion

When the app starts, it deletes recorded drives older than 90 days and app-log entries older than 30 days (and keeps at most 1,000 log lines). The logbook and the other data stay until you delete them in the app, clear the app data in Android's settings or uninstall the app.

9. Children

The app is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.

10. Your rights

The app sends no personal data to the person responsible, so there is nothing for them to give you, correct or delete: your data is on your phone, and you delete it there. Towards Open-Meteo and the hosting provider of this website (section 11) you have the rights of Articles 15 to 21 GDPR, in particular access, erasure, restriction and objection, and you can lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

11. This website

This website is hosted by Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc., USA) with Cloudflare Pages. When you open a page, Cloudflare processes technical access data, in particular your IP address, to deliver and secure the site. According to Cloudflare's privacy policy (read on 10 November 2026) it processes such data of website visitors on behalf of the site operator and relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for transfers to the USA. Legal basis: legitimate interest in a secure and reliable website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

The site uses no cookies, no JavaScript, no analytics and no fonts or other resources from third parties. The links to GitHub and Open-Meteo lead to their sites only when you click them; their privacy policies apply there.

12. Changes

If the app or this website changes in a way that affects this policy, it is updated here. The date at the top shows the current version.