Privacy Policy

75 Hours · last updated 1 August 2026

Your logbook never leaves your phone. There are no accounts, no servers of ours, and no analytics. We cannot see your hours, and there is nothing in the app that uploads them.

The app does make two kinds of request to Apple, and only to Apple: it asks for map images to draw your route, and it asks for the weather at the time and place of a drive. Both send a location and nothing else — no name, no permit number, no logbook. Both are optional and can be switched off in Settings.

What the app stores

Everything you enter is written to storage on your iPhone and stays there:

• Your name and learner's permit number
• The name, licence number and (where relevant) interstate or overseas licence details of your supervising drivers
• For each drive: date, start and finish times, duration, the suburbs you drove from and to, and the road, weather and traffic conditions
• The signatures you and your supervising driver draw in the app
• If you allow it, the coordinates of where a drive started and finished, and the route you took

Who can see it

Only you, and anyone who can unlock your iPhone. The developer of this app cannot see your logbook and has no way to request it. None of it is transmitted anywhere.

You share your information only when you choose to — by exporting a PDF or a backup file and then sending, printing or saving it yourself.

Location

Location access is optional and the app works fully without it.

• Suburbs. A single position reading when you start a drive and another when you finish, to suggest the suburb. The name is worked out on the device from a boundary dataset bundled inside the app — this lookup involves no network at all.
• Route recording. If you leave this on, your position is recorded continuously between tapping Start and Finish, and stored with that entry. iOS shows the blue location indicator for the whole drive. Recording stops the moment the drive ends. You can turn route recording off entirely in Settings.

The app never requests “always” location access and cannot record you when a drive isn't running.

Maps, weather and road names

These are the only features that use the internet, and all three are optional.

• Maps. If routes are shown on a map, Apple's map service is asked for the images covering that area. Choosing “Traced line” in Settings draws your route from the recorded points instead, with nothing fetched.
• Weather. If automatic weather is on, the app asks Apple Weather for the conditions and the exact sunrise and sunset for the time and place of a drive. Only that time and coordinate are sent. Turn it off and the app calculates sunrise and sunset itself, on the device.
• Road types. If automatic road types are on, the app asks Apple's geocoder for the names of up to five points along a recorded route, which is what tells a freeway from a back street. Only those coordinates are sent. Turn it off and road types are suggested from the speeds in your own recording, worked out on the device, or left for you to choose. Either way the suggestion is only ever a suggestion.

Requests to Apple are handled under Apple's privacy policy, not ours. We receive nothing from them and never see that they happened.

Backups, and what happens if something goes wrong

• Automatic snapshots. The app keeps recent copies of your logbook inside its own storage on the device, so a problem during an app update or an unexpected crash doesn't lose your hours. You can restore from these in Settings › Backup and restore.
• Backup files. You can export your whole logbook as a file and save it wherever you like — Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop, email. The app only hands the file to iOS; it never uploads anything itself, and where the file goes is entirely your choice.
• Changing phones. The app's data is included in your normal encrypted iPhone backup, so restoring a new phone from that backup brings your logbook with it. That is Apple's backup of your own device, not a copy held by this app or its developer.
• Deleting the app removes your logbook and its snapshots from the device. Export a backup file first if you want to keep it.

Children

Learner drivers in South Australia may be under 18. The app collects nothing, shows no advertising, and sends nothing to any third party, so no personal information about a minor is ever transmitted or shared.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published on this page with a new date. Because the app collects nothing, any change is likely to be a clarification rather than a change in practice.

Contact

Questions about this policy: 75hoursapp@gmail.com