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Privacy policy

Last updated 31 October 2026

ReminDIY is published by Mother Road Innovations, LLC of Oklahoma, USA. This policy covers the ReminDIY mobile app for Android and iPhone.

The short version: ReminDIY has no account and no server. Your records — the things you own, their jobs, history, readings, costs and notes — stay on your phone, and we never see them. From version 1.14 the app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to tell us, in totals, how many people open the app and add maintenance, so we can see which of our ads work; it carries none of your records. Separately, the optional safety recall check asks two U.S. government agencies about a vehicle or product's make and model (or a VIN), and the Fill in from VIN button sends a VIN to a U.S. government service when you tap it.

What we collect

Very little, and none of your records. ReminDIY does not ask you to register, does not sign you in, and has no server of its own to send anything to. There is no advertising network showing ads in the app and no crash-reporting service; if the app crashes, the details are kept on your phone. There is no payment or in-app-purchase library either: the app is free and sells nothing.

The one thing that reports back is usage analytics, described next.

Usage analytics (Google Analytics for Firebase)

From version 1.14, ReminDIY includes Google Analytics for Firebase, a service from Google. We use it for one purpose: to learn how many people who install the app — including from our Google ads — go on to open it and use it, so we can tell which ads are worth paying for.

What is recorded:

Events Firebase records on its own — that the app was opened for the first time, and when a session starts.
One event the app sends — "reminder created", when you save on the Add maintenance screen. It says only that it happened: not what was added, to what, or how many.
What Firebase attaches to those events — a random identifier for this installation of the app, the app's version, your phone's model, operating system and language, and an approximate location (country or region) worked out from your connection. On Android it can also include the phone's advertising ID, which Google uses to match an install to the ad that led to it.

What is never sent: the names you give your things, their makes, models, VINs or serial numbers, your jobs, notes, readings, fill-ups, costs, parts, photos, documents or contact numbers, how many things you track, or your name or email — the app doesn't know them.

Google processes this data under its own privacy policy, and Google Ads uses it to report how our ads perform. We see it only as totals in Google's reports, not as a record of any one person. ReminDIY does not ask to track you across other companies' apps on iPhone, so your iPhone's advertising identifier is not shared. On Android you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings (Settings › Google › Ads, or Privacy › Ads). Deleting ReminDIY ends its analytics; reinstalling starts a new, unconnected identifier.

There is no setting inside ReminDIY to turn analytics off. If you'd rather not be counted, you can contact us at the address below, and you can limit what Google keeps through your Google account and phone settings.

If you turn on recall checks, a few details about your vehicles and equipment are sent to U.S. safety agencies — not to us. What is sent, and to whom, is set out under Safety recall checks below. Likewise, tapping Fill in from VIN sends that one VIN to NHTSA — see Filling in from a VIN.

What the app stores, and where

Everything you enter — the things you own, their maintenance items, service history, readings, fill-ups, part numbers, costs, serial numbers, VINs and plate numbers, purchase and warranty details, notes, how-to video links, and any phone number you save with a service record — is written to storage on your own device and stays there. It is not uploaded, backed up to us, or shared, and none of it goes into the analytics described above.

To show dates, money and units the way you expect, and to choose its language (English, Spanish, German, French or Italian), the app reads your phone's language and region settings. That happens on the phone; the setting is not sent anywhere.

That includes files you attach. A photo added to a service record, and a manual or warranty added to one of your things, are copied into the app's own private storage on the device and kept there. ReminDIY asks your phone for access to your photos or files only at the moment you tap to add one, sees nothing else in your library, and never sends what you attach anywhere.

Automatic backups work the same way. On the schedule you set in Settings (weekly unless you change it), the app saves a copy of your records into its own private storage on the device and keeps only the most recent few. They are never uploaded, and you can turn them off at any time. On iPhone, that storage is also visible to you in the Files app, under On My iPhone › ReminDIY, so you can copy a backup, photo or manual out yourself. Nothing is moved or shared unless you do.

Because it lives on the device, that data is included in whatever device backup you already use (iCloud or Google's backup, if you have it switched on). Those backups are governed by Apple's and Google's own privacy policies, not ours. Deleting the app deletes the data with it, automatic backups included, so export or note down anything you want to keep before you uninstall.

Safety recall checks (optional)

ReminDIY can check whether any of your things have a safety recall. This is the only part of the app that connects to the internet on its own, and it is off unless you turn it on in Settings. Turning it on on one phone does not turn it on anywhere else, and restoring a backup never switches it on.

When it is on, for each of your things that has enough detail to look up:

Vehicles. The model year, make and model are sent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) at api.nhtsa.gov. If you have entered a 17-character VIN but not the year, make and model, the VIN is sent to NHTSA's decoding service at vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov to work them out first.
Home and other equipment. The manufacturer's name and a starting date are sent to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) at saferproducts.gov. The model is not sent; the app compares the agency's list against the model you entered on your phone. Matches found this way are shown as possible recalls for you to confirm.

Nothing else goes with those requests: not the names you gave your things, not your notes, service history, readings, costs, photos or contact numbers, and no identifier for you or your phone. The requests go straight from your phone to the agencies; they do not pass through us, and we never learn what was asked or what came back.

The check runs about once a week while the app is open, and whenever you tap Check now in Settings. Like any internet request, it lets the agency's servers see your phone's IP address and the time of the request. Those services are run by the U.S. government under their own privacy policies, not ours.

Any recalls found are stored on your phone with the rest of your records (and so are included in your backups). If a new one turns up, the app shows it under Alerts and posts a notification from the phone itself. Turn recall checks off and nothing more is sent; recalls already found stay until you clear them.

A recall check is a convenience, not a guarantee. The agencies' lists are only as complete as what manufacturers report, a possible match may not apply to your exact model, and a check that finds nothing does not mean there is no recall. For vehicles, a search by VIN on nhtsa.gov or with your dealer is the definitive answer.

Filling in from a VIN

When you add or edit a vehicle and its VIN is 17 characters long, ReminDIY offers a Fill in from VIN button. Tapping it sends the VIN — and nothing else — to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's free decoding service at vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov, which answers with the vehicle's year, make and model for the app to fill in. The request goes straight from your phone to NHTSA, not through us; like any internet request it lets NHTSA's servers see your phone's IP address and the time. It happens only when you tap the button, never in the background, and the service is run by the U.S. government under its own privacy policy.

Leaving the app

Besides the recall check and VIN lookup above, nine things in ReminDIY hand something to software outside it. Each one happens only because you tapped it or switched it on:

Finding a part. Tapping to look up a part opens Amazon (the Amazon store for your phone's country) or, in the U.S., Advance Auto Parts in your browser or the store's app, with the part description or number as the search. What happens after that is between you and that store, under its privacy policy. If we earn a commission on a purchase made through one of those links, the app says so where the link appears.
Rating the app or sending feedback. Now and then, after you finish something, the app asks whether you're enjoying it. Rate opens ReminDIY's page in the App Store or Google Play. Send feedback opens your email app with a message to us, pre-filled with the app's version and your phone's system version so we can reproduce problems; you can read or change it before sending, and nothing is sent unless you do. Your answer to the question is kept only on your phone.
Calling a shop. Tapping a phone number you saved hands it to your phone's dialler. The number came from you and is stored only on your device.
Exporting a backup. The export builds a file of your records — including receipt photos and attached documents, up to about 25 MB of them — and passes it to your phone's own share sheet, so you choose what receives it — a cloud drive, an email to yourself, a cable to a computer. Whatever you pick governs it from then on, and ReminDIY cannot see where it went. Nothing is sent to us at any point.
Saving backups to a folder (Android). If you choose a folder under Settings → Also save to a folder, a backup of your records is saved there on the schedule you set, using the access Android granted when you picked it. If that folder is synced by another app or service, that service's terms govern the copy. ReminDIY only ever writes and removes its own backup files there, and you can stop it or revoke the access at any time.
Sharing a service history. Share service history builds a PDF of one thing's records — its details, services, schedule and fill-up readings — and passes it to your phone's share sheet. As with a backup, you choose where it goes, and ReminDIY cannot see where it went.
Watching a how-to video. Tapping Watch opens the video link you saved on a job. Tapping Search YouTube opens YouTube with a search made from the job's name and the thing's year, make and model — or, if those are blank, the name you gave it (never for a home). For example: "how to Oil & filter change 2019 Ford F-250". What happens next is under YouTube's (or the linked site's) privacy policy.
Opening a manual. A document you attached is opened by whichever app on your phone handles that file type, again through the share sheet. The file stays in ReminDIY's storage; a copy of it goes wherever you send it.
Reading a recall notice. Tapping through on a recall opens the agency's own page for it in your browser. That page is run by NHTSA or the CPSC under their privacy policies.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, reminders are scheduled by your phone and delivered by your phone. Nothing is sent from us, and the content of a reminder does not leave the device. Recall alerts work the same way: the phone posts them itself once a check has finished.

Children

ReminDIY is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The analytics described above is the same for everyone and carries no name, email or records.

Your rights

Rules such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data a company holds about you — to see it, correct it, or have it deleted. Your records are on your device, under your control, and you can change or delete any of them in the app at any time; we have no copy. The only data about your use of the app is the analytics described above, which Google holds against a random app identifier rather than your name. We can't look it up by person, but you can ask us about it at the address below.

We do not sell personal information. Analytics data goes to Google only for the purpose described above — measuring our own app and ads.

Changes to this policy

This page was last changed to describe Google Analytics for Firebase, added in version 1.14. If a future version collects anything more — a paid unlock, for instance, would be handled by Apple or Google, who would tell us that a purchase had happened — this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy: privacy@remindiy.com.