Privacy Policy

This is an earlier version of the Privacy Policy (version 1, published November 5, 2026). Current version: Privacy Policy.

Last updated: November 5, 2026

This policy explains how the Dashcam app uses your information. The app is developed by Ayberk Altuntop. In this text, "we" refers to us.

In Short

• Your recordings stay on your phone. If you turn on Recording Vault, they're also backed up to your own iCloud account. Videos, trips, location, photos and notes never reach us.
• You don't need an account. We have no servers, no ads and no usage tracking (analytics).
• Only you can share a recording.
• Locations needed to find addresses and show maps and weather are sent to Apple's services. To check the time, the app sends a request to the apple.com website. Details below.

Information Kept on Your Phone

The app stores the following only on your phone, in its own storage:

• Video recordings: Footage from the rear camera. If you turn on the cabin camera, footage of the vehicle interior from the front camera too. With loop recording on, the oldest unlocked recording is deleted when the storage limit is reached. Clips you lock are not deleted.
• Audio: Audio recording starts off. If you turn it on, sound inside the vehicle is added to the video. No audio is recorded during a phone call.
• Trips: Location (route), speed, elevation and motion sensor readings, events (hard braking, rapid acceleration, hard cornering, impact), Driving Score and trip summaries.
• Photos and notes: Incident and rental photos you take in the app, copies of photos you add from Photos, incident notes and damage notes.
• Witness details: Names, phone numbers and notes you enter yourself on the incident screen.
• Rental details: License plate, make and model, contract number, contract photo, pickup and return locations, odometer and fuel.
• Evidence packages and reports: PDF reports, clips and file fingerprints (SHA-256) that you create.
• Your settings and the app's activity log (for example, when an auto trip started).
• Last locations for auto trips: Where your vehicle was last parked and your phone's last known location. These two locations are used to detect a drive that starts while the app is closed and to find where the trip began.

We can't see this information. If you delete the app, all of it is deleted.

Information That Leaves Your Phone

The app sends nothing to a server of its own. Some features use Apple services. As with any internet request, Apple can see the IP address the request comes from.

• Maps and addresses (Apple Maps): To find the names of the places where a trip starts and ends, the coordinates of those two points are sent to Apple Maps. Place names are looked up automatically when a trip ends. The coordinates of an incident location and a rental pickup location are also sent to find the incident's address and country and the pickup location's name. The incident's country is used for the emergency number on the Incident Screen. For the maps in the app, route thumbnails and the map in incident reports, map imagery for the area shown is downloaded from Apple. The route line is drawn on top of it on your phone. Your recorded route data and recordings aren't sent to Apple. These requests are subject to Apple's privacy policy.
• Weather: The locations where a trip starts and ends, and where an event happened, rounded to about 1 km, are sent to Apple's weather service (WeatherKit) to find the weather at those times. The time is sent too. Your recorded route measurements and recordings aren't sent. These requests are subject to Apple's privacy policy.
• Time check: To verify recording times, the app sends a request to the apple.com website when there's an internet connection. Only the time is read from the response. The request contains no location, recordings, cookies or information about your phone. The same check is also used to calculate how long the trial and Travel Pass last. When internet is available, these periods follow the time from the apple.com website, not the phone's clock.
• Recording Vault (optional, Premium): If you turn it on, locked clips, trips, events (including notes and witness details), rentals and photos are uploaded to a private area of your own iCloud account (Apple's CloudKit service). We can't access this area. Location, notes and witness details are stored in encrypted fields in iCloud. The data is subject to Apple's privacy policy and your iCloud settings. When you delete a recording on your phone, it's deleted from the vault too.
• Siri and Shortcuts: If you give commands such as "Start Recording" with Siri, Apple processes the command.
• Sharing: When you share a recording, report, evidence package or exported trips, the file goes to the app or person you choose. From then on, it's the responsibility of that app or person. Shared videos, photos and reports may include your location. If you turn off "Show Location in Stamp" in Settings > Video Stamp, new videos won't include your location.
• Saving to Photos: If you save a video or summary image to Photos, it's subject to the Photos app and your iCloud Photos settings.
• Crash reports: If sharing analytics with app developers is turned on in your iPhone settings, Apple may pass on to us the technical report created when the app crashes. These reports don't include your recordings, location or photos.
• Purchases (Premium): Payments are made through Apple. Your payment details never reach us.

Permissions and What They're Used For

• Camera: To record the road, to record the vehicle interior if the cabin camera is on, and to take incident and rental photos.
• Location: To record your route, speed and where events happen, to add your location to the video stamp and the video file's details, to add where incident and rental photos were taken, and to find the pickup location of a rental. If you allow "Always", the app detects and records your drives even when it's closed (auto trips). You can turn this off in Settings.
• Microphone: Only if you turn on audio recording, to add sound inside the vehicle to the video.
• Motion & Fitness: To tell that you're in a vehicle, that you've gotten out and started walking, and how the elevation changes. Your step count and health data are not read.
• Notifications: To let you know if recording stops, an impact is detected, a drive is detected, a trip ends on its own, or the return time for a rental car is near.
• Add to Photos: Only when you choose to save a video or summary image.

You can change permissions at any time in your iPhone's Settings.

Backup and Deletion

• Videos, trips, photos, evidence packages and rental files are not included in your iPhone backup (iCloud or computer). If Recording Vault is off, they're gone when you change phones or delete the app. Save any recording you want to keep to Photos or somewhere else.
• If Recording Vault is on, locked clips, trips, events, rentals and photos stay in your iCloud account. When you turn on Recording Vault on a new phone, they come back. Unlocked loop recordings and evidence packages aren't included in the vault.
• Location information isn't included in backups either. Only your settings (for example, the storage limit and appearance) are included in your iPhone backup.
• You can delete a trip, event, clip, package or rental in the app. If Recording Vault is on, it's deleted from the vault too. Deleting the app deletes everything on your phone. You can delete recordings in the vault when you turn off Recording Vault, or from iCloud storage in iPhone Settings.

Other People's Images and Voices

Other people, vehicles and license plates may appear in recordings. If audio recording is on, passengers' conversations are recorded. If the cabin camera is on, the faces of people in the vehicle are recorded. You decide how to use these recordings and who to share them with. You're responsible for following the laws that apply to you, especially data protection laws. Tell the people in the vehicle and get their permission before turning on audio recording or the cabin camera. Record and share witness details only with the person's permission.

Children

The app is intended for people who drive. It isn't directed at anyone under 18.

Your Rights

Because your recordings are only on your phone, we can't access them. So you don't need to contact us to see, correct or delete a recording. You can do this yourself in the app. You can write to us with any questions.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll publish the new version in the app and on our website and update the date at the top. If there's an important change, we'll let you know in the app.

Contact

Ayberk Altuntop
ayberk@ayberk.com.tr