Last updated 26 October 2026
This policy describes what the AutoMind app collects, where it is stored, and who it is shared with. It is written to match what the software actually does.
Account. Your email address. During the closed beta an account can only be created by invitation. If you sign in with Google, AutoMind receives your email address, whether Google has verified it, and your display name. Nothing else from your Google account.
Your vehicle. Make, model, year, engine, fuel type, transmission, tyre size and VIN, as you enter them.
Engine data. Readings your car's own computer reports over OBD2. These include coolant temperature, engine speed, torque, engine load, road speed, fuel rail pressure, fuel rate, oil pressure, battery and control module voltage, intake air temperature, manifold and barometric pressure, and diesel particulate filter soot level, flow, differential pressure and regeneration status.
Trips. The start time, end time and distance of each drive.
Location. Only if you turn it on. AutoMind uses your phone's location to measure how far a trip went. The distance in kilometres is sent to the AutoMind servers. Your position, your route and your coordinates are not sent, and they are not saved on your phone either. If you leave location off, AutoMind estimates distance from the car's own speed instead.
Diagnostics and history. Fault codes read from the car, alerts AutoMind raised, the learned baselines it builds for each measurement, filter regeneration events, and any service records you enter, including dates, mileage, parts, workshop, cost and notes.
Shared measurement contributions. Some cars report extra measurements beyond the standard set. If you set one up, you can contribute its definition so that other drivers with the same car can use it: a name for the measurement, the make and model it applies to, how to ask the car for it, how to convert the answer, its unit, its expected range, and which part of the car it belongs to. A contribution describes a car, not you. It is held separately from your account and shared with other drivers. AutoMind also records which of these extra measurements you switched on for your own car.
To show you your car's current state, to learn what is normal for your car so that drift can be detected, and to produce your weekly summary and health report. AutoMind does not sell your data and does not share it with advertisers.
Amazon Web Services stores it. All data is held in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region and is encrypted at rest.
Anthropic receives vehicle data, with no identifiers, when AutoMind writes an explanation. Some features send a short summary to Anthropic's Claude API to turn it into readable text. AutoMind does not add your email address, name, account ID or vehicle ID to what it sends, and it does not send your raw reading history.
What is sent depends on the feature. Alert explanations send the measurement involved and its values, counts and dates. The weekly summary sends the findings for that week as figures and dates. Service interval and mileage checklist lookups send your car's year, make, model, engine description, fuel type, transmission and tyre size — the engine description and tyre size are text you typed. If you use the follow-up question feature to ask about an alert, the question you type is sent, along with the earlier questions and answers in that conversation. Your service records are not sent: not the notes, the workshop, the cost, or the parts.
Google receives nothing beyond the sign-in itself, and only if you choose to sign in with Google.
Amazon Simple Email Service sends your account email.
Expo delivers app updates. The app checks Expo's servers for updates.
AutoMind does not include third-party analytics, crash-reporting, or advertising software.
Usage counters and follow-up conversation history are deleted automatically after 48 hours. Everything else — your vehicle, readings, trips, alerts, fault codes, baselines, regeneration events, health snapshots, weekly reports and service records — is kept until it is deleted on request. There is no automatic deletion schedule for it. Operational logs and backups are different: they expire on their own, on the shorter limits described under Deleting your data below.
AutoMind does not yet have a delete button in the app. To have your account deleted, email support@driveautomind.com from the address you signed up with. See the support page for what to include.
Deletion removes your sign-in, and for every vehicle on the account: your vehicle details, your readings, your trips, the fault codes read from the car, the alerts AutoMind raised and the explanations written for them, the learned baselines, the filter regeneration events, the health snapshots, the weekly reports and summaries, your maintenance and service records, and which extra measurements you switched on for that car. Your daily usage counters and your follow-up conversations go with them. Your invitation is withdrawn at the same time, so the account cannot be created again without a new invitation.
Your measurement contributions are kept, because other drivers with the same car rely on them, but the link between a contribution and you is removed.
Four things deletion does not reach. It is fairer to name them than to let the sentence above sound complete.
Operational logs. The servers keep short technical logs so that a failure can be understood after the fact. A log line can contain a vehicle identifier, fault codes, and a brief extract of text that was generated for you. Logs hold no names and no email addresses. They are not deleted on request: they expire on their own after 30 days, and after 90 days for three logs kept longer because they are the ones used to diagnose faults.
Backups. Everything stored is continuously backed up so that it can be recovered if something goes wrong, and those backups reach 35 days into the past. Data deleted from the live service can therefore still sit in a backup for up to 35 days, after which it falls outside the window and expires. Backups are used only to recover from failure.
What was already sent to Anthropic. The features that turn your data into readable text send the relevant details, and any question you type, to Anthropic, as described above. AutoMind cannot delete Anthropic's copy of what was sent. Anthropic handles it under its own terms.
What is on your phone. Your signed-in session, your settings, and any readings not yet uploaded are stored on your phone. Deleting the app removes them.
You can export a Vehicle Health Report from the app as a PDF and a CSV file. This covers one vehicle's current state and history, not everything stored about you. For a full copy, email support@driveautomind.com.
Every request to the AutoMind API requires you to be signed in, over HTTPS. Every request that names a vehicle is checked against the signed-in account, so one account cannot read or change another's data. Data is encrypted at rest.
AutoMind is not intended for children.
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change with it.