Pumpwise Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 November 2026

Pumpwise shows official fuel prices near you. It is built to need as little of your information as possible. This policy explains what the app does and does not do with data.

The short version

Your location

With your permission, Pumpwise reads your location while the app is open. It uses it on your device to work out which stations are near you and how far away they are, and to show the name of your area (looked up by Apple's own map service on your iPhone).

To get prices, the app downloads public price files from the Pumpwise feed on GitHub Pages. Each file covers an area of roughly 50 by 50 kilometres, so the request shows only which broad area you are in, in the same way any web request reveals an approximate location from your internet address. GitHub may keep routine server logs as described in the GitHub Privacy Statement at https://docs.github.com/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement. Pumpwise does not receive, keep or see these logs.

Pumpwise never collects location in the background and never stores your location history. You can turn location off at any time in the iPhone Settings app and search around a suburb, town or postcode instead.

The fuel price website

The fuel price pages at https://pumpwiseapp.com/prices/ have no accounts and no analytics, and Pumpwise itself sets no cookies.

If you tap "Show stations near me", your browser first asks whether the page may use your location. If you allow it, the location is used only inside your browser to work out which stations are closest and how far away they are. The page then downloads the same public price files the app uses, each covering roughly 50 by 50 kilometres, so the request shows only which broad area you are in. Your location is never sent to us or stored, and the page forgets it when you leave. You can say no and search for a town instead.

The search box downloads one public list of place names and searches it inside your browser; what you type is not sent anywhere. Directions links open Google Maps, which is covered by Google's own privacy policy.

Adverts on the website

To keep the website free, its pages show adverts from Google AdSense (the Tasmania pages show none). Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technology to show adverts and to measure them, including adverts based on your visits to this and other websites. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland first see a consent message from Google and can change their choice at any time with the privacy settings button Google shows on the page. Anyone can turn off personalised adverts at https://adssettings.google.com. How Google uses information from sites that show its adverts is explained at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Pumpwise receives only totals from Google, such as how many adverts were shown and clicked and in which countries, never anything about you. The Pumpwise app shows no adverts.

Place search

If you search for a place, the words you type are sent to Apple's map service to find it, as when you search in Apple Maps. UK postcodes are looked up with postcodes.io, a free public service built on Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics open data (https://postcodes.io/about). Nothing else is sent with a search.

On the website, a town or postcode you type is matched inside your browser and is not sent anywhere. If what you type is not a town or postcode and you press Go, it is sent to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service (https://nominatim.org) to find the address, under the OpenStreetMap Foundation's privacy policy (https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy). Nothing else is sent with it. The search area you pick is remembered in your browser only.

Directions

When you tap Directions, Pumpwise opens Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze with the station's position. What happens next is covered by that app's own privacy policy.

Data you choose

Your fuel, search area, fill-up size, fuel economy, members-only choice, appearance and recent places are saved in the app's private storage on your iPhone. They are never transmitted. Deleting the app removes them.

Children

Pumpwise is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at https://pumpwiseapp.com/privacy.html with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: pumpwiseapp@gmail.com