Privacy

Who runs DashM8

DashM8 is operated by Vigilainte Inc., registered in Delaware, United States. We are the controller of the data described here. Write to support@dashm8.com about anything on this page.

DashM8 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Tesla, Inc.

What your car sends us

Once you connect your Tesla account and approve DashM8 as a virtual key, your car streams its own telemetry to us. We do not wake your car to ask it questions. The categories are:

• •Location and speed: your car's position while it drives, so trips can be drawn on a map and places can be named.
• •Battery: state of charge, rated range, capacity, state of health, and pack-level readings such as brick voltage spread, module temperatures, pack current and voltage, and isolation resistance.
• •Charging: each session's energy, power, duration, charge limit, and where it happened.
• •Driving: trips, odometer, energy used and consumption.
• •Car status: doors, locks, climate, software version, Sentry events and the alerts your car raises.

What you give us

Your e-mail address and name, through our sign-in provider. Your preferences: language, units, currency, electricity tariffs, the places you name and the costs you type in. Records of what you bought, which never include your card number (the payment providers keep those, not us).

Why we hold it

To provide the service you asked for: showing your car, keeping its history, pricing your charging and sending the notifications you turn on. That is the contract between us. We do not sell your data, and there are no ads in DashM8. Your car's data is never used for advertising. The iPhone app does measure which of our own ads brought you to DashM8; the next section explains how.

Measuring our advertising

We advertise DashM8 on Meta, TikTok, Google and X. In the iPhone app only (not on this website), AppsFlyer, our measurement partner, learns which of our ads led to an install, a sign-up or a purchase, and passes that to those ad networks so they can measure and optimise our ads.

Apple's own ad measurement, SKAdNetwork and AdAttributionKit, also plays a part. It tells an ad network that one of its ads led to an install, without identifying you or your device.

Outside the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, Google's on-device conversion measurement may also run in the app. It matches a Google ad to an install on your iPhone itself, using signals that do not identify you, derived from things like your IP address. Google says no identifiable information leaves your device.

What AppsFlyer's measurement involves, and what it never touches:

• •Device identifiers, including your iPhone's advertising identifier, but only if you allow tracking in iOS.
• •Approximate location: worked out from your IP address.
• •App events: the install, opening the app, signing up, and purchases, including trials and renewals. Purchases reach AppsFlyer from RevenueCat, which handles in-app purchases for us.
• •Your DashM8 account ID: a code that is not your name or e-mail address, so a purchase can be matched to the install it came from.
• •Never included: your car's data, your car's location, your name or your e-mail address.

Your choice about ad measurement

In the European Economic Area, the UK, Switzerland and Türkiye, ad measurement runs only with your consent. The app asks before anything is shared. If you decline, nothing is sent to AppsFlyer and every part of the app keeps working.

Everywhere else, iOS asks whether DashM8 may track you, and the advertising identifier is read only if you allow it. If you don't, AppsFlyer still measures installs, sign-ups and purchases with the other details above, until you turn ad measurement off in the app.

You can change your mind at any time:

• •On your iPhone: Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. Turning DashM8 off there stops the app reading the advertising identifier.
• •In DashM8: More › You › Data & privacy › “Ad measurement”. Turning it off stops ad measurement altogether: AppsFlyer stops, and nothing more is passed through it to the ad networks. Where you gave consent, this withdraws it. In US states that let you opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, this switch is that opt-out.

Where it lives

Your vehicle data is stored in EU (Germany). Some of the companies below operate outside that region; where they do, the transfer rests on a safeguard the GDPR recognises, such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

Who else handles it

These are our sub-processors, followed by the ad networks our ad measurement reaches. Each sub-processor does exactly the job named beside it, and nothing else with your data. The ad networks (Meta Platforms, TikTok, Google and X) receive only the ad measurement described above, and handle it under their own privacy policies:

• Tesla Fleet APIYour vehicle's data, sent by your car on your instruction.
• ClerkSign-in and identity.
• StripePayments made on the web.
• Apple and RevenueCatPurchases made inside the iPhone app.
• MapboxTurning coordinates into place names.
• Apple APNs and browser push servicesDelivering the notifications you turn on.
• HetznerServers and databases, in Germany.
• VercelHosting this website.
• CloudflareCounting visits to this website, without cookies and without identifying visitors.
• AppsFlyerMeasuring which of our ads led to an install, a sign-up or a purchase in the iPhone app, and passing that to the ad networks below.
• Meta PlatformsAn ad network we advertise on. Receives our ad measurement, to measure and optimise our ads.
• TikTokAn ad network we advertise on. Receives our ad measurement, to measure and optimise our ads.
• GoogleAn ad network we advertise on. Receives our ad measurement, to measure and optimise our ads.
• XAn ad network we advertise on. Receives our ad measurement, to measure and optimise our ads.

AI assistants you connect

If you connect an AI assistant to DashM8, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok or a tool you give a personal access token, its provider receives what it reads on your behalf: your cars' live state, trips, charging sessions, battery health, monthly reports and costs, with places as names and never as coordinates, routes or VINs. It reads only because you connected it, it cannot change anything, and its provider handles what it reads under its own terms and privacy policy, not ours. You see and disconnect every connected assistant on the AI assistants page of your account; DashM8 keeps a 30-day record of which assistant asked for what kind of data and when, never what it read.

How long we keep it

Until you delete it. Your history is the product, so nothing expires on its own. You can export everything we hold, at any time, on any plan, from your account page. The export is free and always will be.

Deleting your account removes your account, your Tesla links, your preferences and your vehicle data. A minimal deletion marker is kept so an old sign-in session cannot quietly recreate a deleted account.

Your rights

You can see, export, correct and delete your data, object to how we handle it, and complain to your data protection authority. The first two you can do yourself from the account page; for anything else, write to support@dashm8.com. We answer people, not ticket numbers.

Disconnecting Tesla inside DashM8 stops the collection and erases the vehicle history. Removing DashM8's access in your Tesla account, and its virtual key in the Tesla app, finishes revoking consent on Tesla's side.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so in the app before it takes effect, not only here.