Privacy Policy

MilesJar · Last updated November 9, 2026

MilesJar logs your drives so you can claim business mileage on your taxes. It is built so that your trips belong to you: they stay on your iPhone and, if you use iCloud, in your own iCloud account. We do not run a server that stores your trips, and we have no account system.

What the app uses

• Location. With Always access, the app notices when you start driving and records the route of each drive with GPS. GPS runs only while a drive is being recorded. Routes, start and end places, times and distances are stored on your iPhone.
• Motion and fitness. Motion activity tells the app when you are in a vehicle, so it can start and end trips without keeping GPS on. It is read on your iPhone and not stored apart from the trip it belongs to.
• What you type. Trip purposes, place names such as Home, vehicles, odometer readings, parking and tolls, and the name and business you add for your tax report.

Where your data goes

• Your iCloud. If iCloud backup is on, trips, places and vehicles are saved in your private iCloud database through Apple's CloudKit. Only your Apple Account can read it; we cannot.
• Apple Maps. To name the start and end of a trip, the app sends those two coordinates to Apple's address lookup service and receives a street address back. Apple's privacy policy covers that service.
• Purchases. Subscriptions are handled by the App Store. We receive no payment details.
• Reports you share. A tax report or spreadsheet leaves the app only when you share it. A missed-drive report contains the app's recent event log, recent locations and motion readings, and is sent only if you choose to send it to us.

We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers or data brokers, use third-party analytics or tracking SDKs, or show ads.

Keeping and deleting your data

Your trips are kept until you delete them. You can delete any trip in the app. Deleting the app removes the data on your iPhone; to remove the iCloud copy, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Manage Storage, choose MilesJar and delete its data. If you sent us a missed-drive report, ask us and we will delete it.

Children

MilesJar is meant for adults who drive for work and is not directed to children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions or requests: nikadevashvili@gmail.com

MilesJar is built around IRS record rules. It is not tax advice.