Privacy
Privacy policy
The short version. Today, Revnote is a waitlist and nothing else. If you joined it, we hold your email address, plus your car's make, model and year if you filled those in. That is the whole dataset.
When the app ships, your driving stays on your phone. Trips, routes and vehicle readings are stored on the device. What leaves it is a summary — computed statistics, not your raw log — and only to produce the insights you asked for.
We do not sell your information, we do not run advertising, and there are no tracking pixels on this website.
Who we are
Revnote is a small product built in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We are responsible for the personal information described here under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Quebec's privacy legislation.
Questions, requests and complaints go to contact@revnote.app. A person reads that address.
What we collect today
If you join the waitlist
- Your email address. Required, because it is the entire point of a waitlist.
- Your car's make, model and year, if you chose to give them. Optional.
- Technical details our form processor records when it receives a submission, typically your IP address and a timestamp, used for spam filtering.
We use the email address for one thing: writing to you when there is something to buy, and occasionally when there is real news before then. The vehicle fields decide which cars we test for compatibility first. They are research, not segmentation, and we do not build a marketing profile out of them.
You gave consent by submitting the form. You can withdraw it at any time, and every email we send will have a way to do that in one click.
If you only read this website
We do not use analytics, advertising pixels, or cookies for tracking. We do not know that you were here.
Two things still happen automatically, and you should know about both. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, which include IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting. And this site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google receives your IP address and browser user agent when the fonts are fetched. That request is governed by Google's own privacy policy.
What the app collects when it ships
The app does not exist publicly yet. This section describes how it is being built, so that you can judge it before you commit anything. If the design changes before launch, this page changes with it.
What stays on your phone
- Trip records: start and end time, distance, duration, fuel used.
- GPS route traces, recorded by your phone during a trip.
- Vehicle readings from the OBD-II port: engine speed, road speed, coolant temperature, fuel trims, throttle position, battery voltage at start, diagnostic trouble codes and their freeze-frame data.
- Performance runs and dyno estimates you record.
- Your vehicle profile: make, model, year, and the mass and gearing figures the estimates need.
All of it is stored locally on the device. We do not upload your trip history or your routes wholesale, and there is no web dashboard holding a copy. The practical consequence is worth stating plainly: if you lose the phone or uninstall the app, that history goes with it. Export it if it matters to you.
What leaves your phone
Computed statistics, for insights. When the app generates an insight, it sends derived figures rather than your raw log. That means values like an average long-term fuel trim over a period, fuel consumption per 100 km, the direction and size of a trend, or a fault code together with the conditions recorded when it set. It does not mean your route, your addresses, or a second-by-second dump of the drive.
Bounding boxes, for maps. To draw a map behind a trip, the app needs map tiles. It asks Mapbox for the tiles covering a rectangle that contains the route, not for the route itself. Mapbox receives the corners of that rectangle and nothing about the path taken inside it. Mapbox's own telemetry collection is switched off in our integration.
Your question, for an AI answer. When you ask the app something, the question and the relevant computed statistics are sent to Anthropic, whose model writes the answer. We do not send your email address or your name with it. Anthropic's commercial API terms state that inputs sent through the API are not used to train their models.
Permissions, and why each one is needed
- Bluetooth, to talk to the adapter. There is no other way to reach it.
- Location, for the route on a trip, and because Android requires location permission before an app may scan for Bluetooth devices at all.
- Running in the background, so that a drive records itself without you remembering to open the app. This is the feature, and it is also the reason the app can see location while you drive rather than only while you look at it.
You can refuse any of these. Refusing Bluetooth leaves the app with nothing to read. Refusing location leaves you with trips that have no route on a map.
Who else touches your information
We use a small number of service providers. They process information on our instructions, for the purposes below, and for nothing else of their own.
| Provider | What it receives | Why | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Formspree | Waitlist submissions: email, optional vehicle details, IP address, timestamp | Receives and stores the form submissions | United States |
| Google Fonts | Your IP address and user agent, when this site loads | Serves the typefaces | Global |
| Our hosting provider | Standard server request logs, including IP address | Serves this website | To be confirmed |
| Mapbox | Bounding box coordinates around a trip | Map tiles behind a route | United States |
| Anthropic | Computed vehicle statistics and your question | Generates the AI answer | United States |
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. If we are ever legally compelled to hand something over, we will comply only to the extent the law actually requires, and we will tell you unless we are forbidden to.
Information held outside Canada
Most of the providers above operate in the United States, so your information may be stored or processed outside Canada. While it is there, it is subject to the laws of that country, including lawful access requests by foreign courts and authorities. Canadian privacy law requires us to say so, and there is no way to use services like these without it being true.
How long we keep things
- Waitlist entries: until launch, and for twelve months after it, or until you ask us to delete yours, whichever comes first.
- If you unsubscribe: we delete the record. If you ask never to be contacted again, we keep your email address alone on a do-not-contact list, because the only way to honour that request is to remember it.
- App data on your device: for as long as you keep it. You control it and can delete it in the app or by uninstalling.
- Computed statistics on our server: kept while they are useful for the insights you asked for, and no longer than twenty-four months.
- Questions sent for AI answers: held briefly by Anthropic under their standard API retention, then deleted.
- Server logs: a short rolling window kept by our host for security purposes.
Your rights, and how to use them
Under PIPEDA and Quebec law you can ask us to tell you what we hold about you, give you a copy of it, correct it if it is wrong, or delete it. You can also withdraw your consent, which for a waitlist means the same thing as deletion.
Email contact@revnote.app. Write from the address you signed up with, or tell us which address to look for. We will answer within thirty days, which is the limit the law sets, and it costs nothing. If a request were ever so repetitive or broad that it carried a real cost, we would tell you before doing anything, not bill you afterwards.
Deleting a waitlist entry is immediate and total. There is no archive copy, because we never made one.
If our answer does not satisfy you, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at priv.gc.ca, or, in Quebec, to the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec. You do not need our permission to do that.
How it is protected
Traffic to this site and to our server is encrypted in transit. Data on your phone is protected by the phone's own storage protections, which is another way of saying that a device passcode is doing real work. Access to the waitlist is limited to the people who need it, which today is a very small number of people.
No system is perfect and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. If a breach ever creates a real risk of significant harm to you, we will notify you and the regulator, as the law requires.
Children
Revnote is meant for people who drive. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under thirteen. If you believe a child has given us something, write to us and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
This page will change as the product does, particularly as the app moves from being built to being shipped. The date at the top always shows the last revision. If a change materially affects what we do with information we already hold, we will email the waitlist rather than quietly editing the page.
Contact
Revnote, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
contact@revnote.app