Privacy Policy

Flipside · last updated 15 October 2026

Flipside keeps your records on your iPhone and in your own iCloud account. There is no Flipside account, and we do not run a server that stores your vehicles, costs, photos or hours. We cannot see your data.

What we collect

Nothing. Flipside has no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party SDKs that report on you. We do not know who you are, whether you use the app, or what is in it.

Where your data lives

• On your device. Everything you enter — vehicles, costs, receipt photos, hours, partners — is stored locally.
• In your iCloud. If you are signed in to iCloud, your data is backed up to your own private iCloud database so it survives a lost phone. Two plan settings — which car stays free if Pro ends, and when you first saw that rule — are kept in iCloud's key-value storage, so your other devices agree on them. All of it is held under your Apple Account and governed by Apple's privacy policy. We have no access to it.
• Shared cars and garages. If you invite someone to a car, that car and its records are shared through Apple's iCloud sharing with the person you invite. If you share a garage, the cars you put in that garage are shared the same way. Nothing else in your inventory is shared. You can remove access at any time from the car's or garage's sharing screen.

When the app contacts anyone else

Only when you ask it to, and only with what the task needs:

• Decoding a VIN sends that VIN to the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's free public vPIC service (vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov) to look up the vehicle's specifications. Nothing else about you is sent.
• Links you tap — a parts carrier's tracking page, a vehicle history or recall check, a price search on a marketplace — open that website in an in-app browser, with the tracking number, VIN or the car's year, make and model in the address, because that is what the page looks up. Flipside sends nothing else, and what those sites do is covered by their own privacy policies.
• Subscribing to Flipside Pro is handled entirely by Apple. Payment is processed by Apple; we never see your payment details, and we receive no personal information about you as a result of a purchase.

Camera and photo library

Flipside asks for camera access so you can photograph a vehicle, damage, a part or a receipt, and for photo library access so you can attach pictures you already have. Those images are stored with the vehicle on your device. They are not uploaded anywhere except your own iCloud, and — for a car you have chosen to share — to the person you shared it with. If you save a before-and-after card, Flipside asks for permission to add that one image to your photo library; it does not read your library to do so.

On your device only

Some features keep a small amount of data on your iPhone outside the app itself. None of it leaves the device through Flipside.

• Reminders (for example, an auction starting soon or a clock left running) are scheduled as local notifications on your device.
• Widgets and the Lock Screen clock read a short summary, such as the car on the clock and its hours, from storage shared between the app and its widgets on your device.
• Trips you log for the mileage deduction stay in your own book and iCloud, like everything else, and are never shared with partners.
• Background lifting on listing photos is done by Apple's on-device image tools; the photos don't leave your device for it.
• Siri, Shortcuts and Search can find your cars by name or VIN. Apple keeps that index on your device.

Children

Flipside is a tool for running a vehicle business and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age.

Deleting your data

Settings → Erase all data removes everything from the device, including your cars, partners and garages. Deleting the app removes its local data with it. To remove the iCloud copy, delete Flipside's data from iCloud settings on your Apple device. Because we hold nothing, there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf and no request to make of us.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects you, the updated date above will change and the new version will be published here before it takes effect.