Privacy Policy

When you sign in with Apple, Google, or email, we receive the name, email address, and profile photo (if any) that provider makes available. Apple may provide a private relay email. You also choose a display name and handle inside EVGrid.

A Tesla connection is optional. If you connect one, EVGrid uses Tesla’s own official sign-in page and never sees or stores your Tesla password. That connection is handled entirely on our server, not in your browser, and returns only what’s needed to verify you own a real Tesla vehicle and to operate the features you use: your vehicle’s VIN, model, color, trim, and, when you actively use a feature that needs it, live charge level. Your Tesla access token is stored encrypted on our server and is never sent to your device, a browser, or any client-side code.

EVGrid is a map, so it needs your device’s location to show you on it and to route you places. How precisely other drivers can see your location is controlled entirely by the privacy mode you choose in Settings:

• Ghost — you appear to no one; your location is not published.
• Nearby — approximate position visible to nearby drivers.
• Friends — precise position visible only to accepted friends.
• Convoy — precise position visible only to members of a convoy you’re actively in, for its duration.

These rules are enforced on the server, not just hidden in the app’s interface — a stranger’s app cannot request data your privacy mode doesn’t permit them to see, regardless of what the interface shows.

The public homepage map does not request or use your device location. If you manually search for places, click a starting point, or request a route, those search terms and coordinates are sent through an EVGrid server function to our mapping provider only to return the result. EVGrid does not store a history of those searches or routes. We keep a short-lived, one-way hash derived from the network address making the request solely to enforce anonymous request limits; the raw address is not stored in that counter.

Every driver, Wave, and Convoy shown in the anonymous preview is fictional and runs only in your browser. The preview cannot read real EVGrid profiles or live driver locations.

Nearby Radio is an optional, invite-only push-to-talk voice feature currently in beta. It is off by default. If you turn it on and join a channel, your device’s microphone is active for that session; your outgoing audio track is enabled only while you hold the talk control. Audio travels directly between participants’ devices (peer-to-peer) rather than through our servers. Supported browser sessions may keep a rolling local buffer of up to 30 seconds of incoming audio for an optional safety report. It is not uploaded unless you submit that report and is otherwise discarded automatically.

We collect ordinary technical data needed to operate the app: browser/device type, crash and error reports, and basic interaction data (e.g., which features you use) so we can find and fix problems.

EVGrid uses your browser’s local storage and session storage to keep you signed in and remember your preferences (map style, privacy mode, etc.). We don’t use third-party advertising trackers.