Privacy Policy

Apps published by Jarle Hansen · Last updated 25 September 2026

Apps covered by this policy

• ScooterDash — live Bluetooth dashboard for e-scooters
• ScooterCheck — one-shot pre-purchase inspection for e-scooters

Advertising

ScooterDash and ScooterCheck are free and funded by advertising through Google AdMob. To serve and measure ads, Google may collect and process:

• your device's advertising identifier
• your IP address, and an approximate location derived from it
• precise location, but only if you agree to it on the consent form
• device model, operating system version and language
• which ads were shown and interacted with

Ads are personalised only where you have agreed to it. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland we show a consent form the first time you use the app, and you can change that answer at any time from Privacy options inside the app. On iOS you can also change or withdraw tracking permission under Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. Declining does not remove any feature; it only makes the ads less relevant.

Google acts as an independent controller for this data. Their practices are described at business.safety.google/privacy and policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

What leaves your device

By default, nothing does. An app reads what it needs, works on your phone, and keeps the result there. Only the apps listed below send anything, and only in the ways described.

ScooterDash

Your rides, telemetry and history stay on your device. There are three optional reports, and none is sent unless you review it and tap send:

• Diagnostic report. The scooter's brand and firmware version, the register values read during the session, timings, and your app and iOS version.
• Scan report. Details of Bluetooth devices your phone saw and the app could not identify: advertised names, service identifiers, manufacturer data and signal strength. Bluetooth names are sometimes personal, such as someone's earbuds or car, so you can untick any device before sending and you see the exact payload first.
• Feedback. The message you wrote, an email address only if you supply one so we can reply, plus app version, iOS version, device model and language.

These are used to support more scooter models and to fix bugs. They reach our own server and are not shared with anyone else or used for advertising.

ScooterCheck

Every inspection is read, scored and shown on your phone. After your first report the app asks you once whether it may send its inspections to us. If you say no, nothing is ever sent. If you say yes, each finished inspection is sent as it is produced, and you can turn that off again on the scan screen at any time.

• Inspection report. The scooter's brand, advertised Bluetooth name, detected model and firmware version; the health score, its confidence, the verdict, and every scored factor with the reading behind it; the raw telemetry those readings came from, such as battery charge, pack voltage, capacity, temperatures, odometer, speed limit and fault codes; and your app version, iOS version, device model and language.

Serial numbers are scrambled before they leave your phone. The scooter's serial and its battery serial are replaced with a one-way code, which lets us see that two inspections describe the same machine without us holding the number itself. Nothing that identifies you or your phone is included: no account, no advertising identifier, no Bluetooth identifier, and no location. The list of other Bluetooth devices your phone saw is never sent — it stays on the device.

This is used to correct the scoring model and to decide which scooters to support next. It reaches our own server, is not shared with anyone else, and is never used for advertising.

What we never collect

This section is about us. Advertising is described above and is separate: those partners are independent controllers, and what they may do depends on the answer you give the consent form.

• No accounts, names or contact details, unless you type an email into a feedback form.
• No analytics or tracking SDKs of our own, beyond the advertising described above. Nothing measures how you use an app, which screens you open or how long you stay.
• We never upload your location. An app may use GPS on your device where a feature needs it, such as ScooterDash showing speed when a scooter cannot report it, and that reading never leaves the phone. Advertising partners are the separate case: if you agree to it on the consent form they may use location data of their own, and you can refuse or change that at any time under Privacy options.
• Maps come from a map service. When ScooterDash shows a map (on the dashboard, and a saved ride's route), it downloads the map for the area on screen: from Apple on iPhone, and from OpenFreeMap (openfreemap.org) on Android. Like any website, that service sees your IP address and which area was asked for, which is roughly where you are. Your route, your GPS position and anything about your scooter are drawn on top of the map by the app itself and are never sent. If you tap Directions, Google Maps or the map app you choose opens, and what it does is covered by that app's own policy. On Android, choosing another map app gives that app your current position so it can start from where you are.
• ScooterDash asks our server for news. The app fetches a small file of announcements when it opens, so it can show you one the first time it is published. The request carries nothing about you or your scooter: no identifier, no version, no brand. Our web server records the request in its access log the way it does for any request, including your IP address, and we do not join that to anything else. Which announcements you have already seen is stored on your phone and never sent.
• ScooterDash asks our server for a list of parts links. The Scooter tab fetches a small file of AliExpress links when you open it, and picks the ones for your scooter on your phone. The request carries nothing about you or your scooter, and is logged like the news request above. The links are affiliate links: if you open one and buy something, AliExpress pays us a commission and knows that the visit came from ScooterDash. What AliExpress collects once you are on its site or in its app is governed by its own privacy policy, not this one. Nothing about you or your scooter reaches AliExpress unless you tap a link.
• Where an app reads a Bluetooth device it has not identified, it deliberately does not read that device's serial number or hardware address, and says so in the report rather than omitting it silently.

Retention and your rights

Reports you choose to send are kept only as long as they are useful for supporting the device in question, and feedback is deleted once it has been dealt with.

You can ask what we hold, ask for it to be deleted, or withdraw your consent to advertising at any time. Consent is withdrawn in the app under Privacy options; for anything else, contact us at the address below and we will respond within 30 days.

Children

These apps are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect data from children under 13. Ads are not served as child-directed treatment.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top of this page changes with it.