Privacy
Only you decide which journeys you share.
Your journeys are on your own phone, for your own use. You decide when you export a report, make a backup or share something: for your bookkeeping, your expenses claim or with someone you choose.
For handy features such as up-to-date speed limits, addresses and the map, the app fetches only the information it needs. Exactly what
How you stay in control
Your journey history is on your phone
Your journeys are recorded and kept on your phone. The app does not sync them to us.
You choose what you export or share
You make a report yourself, per period, vehicle or client, as Excel or PDF. You choose who it goes to.
Kept by you, not by us
MoveJack keeps no central copy of your full journey history. You do not create an account with us either.
Speed limit, address and map: how it works
A few handy features work with a map service. For those, only the positions a feature needs go from your phone to that service; your journey history as a whole is never uploaded.
| When | What | What for |
|---|---|---|
| While driving, and also outside a journey while the app is processing your location | about every 8 seconds one position; outside a journey at most once every 8 seconds | the speed limit |
| After the journey | the start and end, plus a few route points | the address, and a train, tram or bus check |
| When you open a journey with missing speed limits | a sample of route points | filling in those limits |
| When you use the map | map tiles and searches, via Mapbox | the map and search |
All of this happens with no name or account, though together those requests show your route. MoveJack keeps no central copy.
Also
- If you enter a Dutch number plate, MoveJack fills in the make, model and fuel automatically via the RDW, the Dutch vehicle authority; for that, the plate goes to the RDW.
- If you tap to navigate to your parked car, only your car’s location is passed, as the destination, to your phone’s maps app: Apple Maps on iPhone, Google Maps on Android.
- Mapbox’s map software reports that the map was used, with a random ID and without coordinates.
- Your subscription runs through the App Store or Google Play. To check the status of your subscription, the app uses the RevenueCat service. The app signs in there without a name or email address; RevenueCat receives your purchases and your subscription status under a random ID. The app sends no journey data.
- As with any internet connection, every service the app contacts sees the IP address of your connection.
What you share yourself
A report you send and a backup file you keep: they go only where you choose, when you choose.
What is not in the app
There is no analytics or crash reporting in the app.
Sharing and exporting
You put a report together in the app, per period, vehicle or client, as Excel or PDF. It is made on your phone. The app then opens your phone’s share sheet; you choose the app and the recipient. No MoveJack server is involved.
Every report you make also stays on your phone as a file under My reports, until you delete it there.
By default MoveJack reminds you on the 1st of every month, with a notification, to export the previous month. You switch that reminder off under My data.
An export is for your records and cannot be put back into the app. You make a spare copy separately, with the backup file.
For your bookkeeping and expenses
Your mileage records are yours. Your accountant, your employer or your client gets what you send, and nothing more.
Your journeys stay with you, so there is no central place where someone else can look at them.
Where are your journeys kept with other solutions?
A mileage log can be built in three ways. None of them is good or bad in itself; they differ in where your journey history ends up. MoveJack works local-first.
| Local-first (MoveJack) | Cloud-first | Tracker in the car | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where is the location measured? | Phone | Phone | Device in the vehicle |
| Where is your full journey history kept? | On your phone | Wholly or partly centrally | Depends on the product |
| Is central storage with the supplier part of the model? | No | Typically yes | Depends on the product |
| Can someone watch live? | Not through MoveJack: no position goes to us | Depends on the product | Typically yes |
| Who does this usually suit? | Someone who drives and keeps their own records | Someone who syncs, collaborates or connects other tools | Someone who manages the vehicle rather than the journey |
Backup: your copy, kept where you choose
Because your journeys stay with you, you keep the spare copy yourself: one backup file, stored wherever you choose. We have no copy to restore if you lose your phone.
In the app you make a backup file of all your journeys, vehicles, addresses and settings yourself (Menu › My data › Backup). The file also contains your first name and email address. You decide where to keep it, for example by emailing it to yourself or putting it in your own cloud, and on a new phone you restore it. The file is not encrypted, so keep it somewhere you trust. You cannot delete a backup file in the app.
For a new phone you use your own backup file, because your journeys are not included in the iCloud or Google backup.
Deleting
You delete a single journey in the journey list. Under My data you wipe all your journeys, GPS points, addresses and visits in one go; your vehicles, your profile and your settings stay. No deletion request is needed: your journey history is not held by us.
Reports you made are on your phone as files under My reports, and you delete them there. You cannot delete a backup file in the app: on Android it is in the Documents folder, on iPhone it disappears when you delete the app.
If you delete the app, your journeys are gone from your phone; on Android, reports and backup files stay in the Documents folder.
Do you have a subscription? You cancel it in the App Store or Google Play; deleting the app does not stop it.
Common questions
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Where are my journeys stored?
On your own phone, in the app. MoveJack keeps no central copy of your full journey history.
Can my employer or client see my journeys?
They get the report you send, and nothing more. Through MoveJack they cannot look in: your journeys are on your phone, and there is no central place where someone else can see them.
How do speed limits, addresses and the map work?
With the help of map services, which receive only the positions those features need: while driving, about every 8 seconds one position for the speed limit, and also outside a journey, while the app is processing your location, at most once every 8 seconds; after the journey, the start and end for the address plus a few route points for a train, tram or bus check; when you open a journey with missing speed limits, a sample of route points to fill them in; and map tiles and searches via Mapbox. All of this happens with no name or account, though together those requests show your route. Your journey history as a whole is never uploaded, and MoveJack keeps no central copy.
Do I need an account?
You do not create an account with us. During setup the app asks for your first name and, if you wish, your email address. Both stay on your device.
What happens if I lose my phone?
Then you put your journeys back on a new phone with your own backup file. You make that file yourself in the app, and you decide where to keep it. It is not encrypted, so keep it somewhere you trust. We cannot restore your journeys for you, because we have no copy of them.
Are my journeys included in the iCloud or Google backup?
No. For a new phone you use your own backup file, which brings your journeys back.
How do I delete my data?
You delete a single journey in the journey list. Under My data you wipe all your journeys, GPS points, addresses and visits in one go; your vehicles, your profile and your settings stay. No deletion request is needed: your journey history is not held by us. Reports you made are on your phone as files under My reports, and you delete them there. You cannot delete a backup file in the app: on Android it is in the Documents folder, on iPhone it disappears when you delete the app. If you delete the app, your journeys are gone from your phone; on Android, reports and backup files stay in the Documents folder.
Is there tracking or analytics in the app?
There is no analytics or crash reporting in the app. Mapbox’s map software reports that the map was used, with a random ID and without coordinates. On this website we measure usage only if you agree, and we use no advertising cookies.
What does the store or the subscription service see of my journeys?
Nothing about your journeys. Your subscription runs through the App Store or Google Play. Journey data does not come into it.
What rights do I have under the UK GDPR?
Your rights under the UK GDPR continue to apply. If you think we are not handling your personal data properly, you can complain to us, and to the Information Commission. On your journey history we can tell you nothing, because we do not hold it. The detail is in our privacy policy.
Technical and legal details
- Map services
- Speed limits and the train, tram and bus check come from Overpass, addresses from Nominatim, the map and search from Mapbox. Exactly what is sent there is listed under Speed limit, address and map: how it works
- Validity
- This explanation applies to the current app: App Store version 2.0.44 or later and Google Play version 2.0.45 or later. Up to and including version 2.0.47 on iPhone and 2.0.45 on Android, the app looks up every number plate you enter with the RDW; from version 2.0.48 it does so only for a Dutch plate. Checked on 1 October 2026.
- Privacy policy
- Your rights and all processing are set out in the privacy policy.
Record everything. Share only what you choose.
No account with us, no tracker needed.