Privacy Policy

What they would wantVerified annual kilometres, and the pattern underneath them — whether you do short cold runs or long highway stretches.

Usage-based premiums need a number the driver cannot flatter, and a full-tank-to-full-tank log with odometer readings is exactly that: dated, self-consistent and hard to fake after the event. It is among the most commercially useful things in the app.

They get nothing from here. Vantor has no account to attach a policy number to, no mechanism for exporting your history to a third party, and no commercial relationship with any insurer. Your kilometres live in the app on your handset. If you ever choose to show an insurer your figures, that is a decision you make with a screenshot, not something the software arranges behind you.

What they would wantWhen you buy, how much, at what price, and how your buying responds when the price moves.

Price-cycle behaviour is the retail fuel industry's favourite dataset: who fills at the top of the cycle, who waits for the trough, who panics. Vantor records the price per litre you actually paid and the date you paid it, which is the raw material for precisely that analysis.

It is not available. The app does not know which servo you were standing in — it never asks for your location and has no site list to match a price against. What it holds is a number you typed and a date, sitting on your own device, which is of no use to anyone who cannot reach it.

What they would wantReal-world consumption against the figure on the brochure, per model, per engine, per owner.

The gap between a laboratory economy figure and what a car actually drinks is worth a great deal to the people who published the laboratory figure. A fleet of Vantor logs, aggregated, would be a very clean answer to that question.

There is no fleet. Entries are not pooled, because they are not collected — each handset holds its own garage and nothing about your vehicle, its fuel type or its consumption is transmitted anywhere by this app. No manufacturer, importer or data broker has been given access, and there is nothing to give them access to.

What they would wantAn advertising identifier, tied to a vehicle type, a kilometre count and a monthly fuel spend. Few targeting signals are better.

"Drives a diesel four-wheel drive, twenty-eight thousand kilometres a year, spends four hundred dollars a month on fuel" is a rich description of a household, and it is assembled from exactly the fields Vantor stores.

The app reads no advertising identifier, no Android ID, no serial number and no list of your other installed software, and it generates no local token standing in for them. Nothing is profiled, nothing is segmented, and no advertising network has anything to receive.

What they would wantProof that the kilometres on the dash are the kilometres the car has done.

This one is different, because here the data works for you. Odometer tampering is a real and profitable fraud in the used market, and the ordinary defence against it is a consistent paper trail: dated readings that climb steadily, service records that agree with them, fuel consumption that makes sense for the distance claimed. A fuel log is all three at once.

Which is the argument for keeping it where only you can alter it. A history held on a company's server is a history somebody else can lose, change, or be compelled to produce. Yours sits on your phone, and if you want to hand a buyer a screenshot of five years of consistent readings, that is your evidence to produce or withhold.

What they would getEverything, if the handset is unlocked. This is the realistic threat, and no privacy notice should pretend otherwise.

Keeping data on the device rather than on a server removes most of the parties above from the picture. It does not remove this one. A log that lives in your pocket is as protected as your pocket, which in practice means your screen lock and your device encryption — both of which are Android's job and yours, not something an app can fix on your behalf.

What we can say is what is not made worse: Vantor adds no second copy anywhere, no shared folder, no export that happens without you pressing something, and nothing that would survive the app being removed. Android Settings → Apps → Vantor → Storage → Clear data, or uninstalling, removes the lot in one action.

What they would wantYour records, lawfully compelled.

A subpoena or a statutory notice can require a company to hand over what it holds. It cannot require a company to hand over what it does not hold, and no amount of legal process produces data that was never collected.

Served on QUA-IN SERVICES PTY LTD, such an order would reach our correspondence and nothing else — because that is the extent of what the company has. Your fuel log is not on our premises in any sense; an authority that wanted it would have to come to you and your handset, under whatever powers apply to that, which is a matter between you and them.

What we holdTwo things, and only if you start them.

That is the whole inventory. The basis for keeping a message long enough to answer it is the plain interest any business has in replying to its own post. Nothing is sold, nothing is shared, nobody is profiled, and no decision about you is taken by a machine anywhere in this app.

One practical caution: attach a screenshot of your garage or your consumption history to a bug report and that image sits with the rest of the thread until the report is closed out. Worth a thought before you press send.