Privacy policy

Autonovus studies how people experience self-driving cars, delivery drones and air taxis. This page explains what we collect and what we do with it.

The short version

• We never sell information that identifies you.
• Survey answers are anonymous. We don't ask your name.
• We may share or sell research findings that combine many people's answers and identify no one.
• We don't use advertising trackers.

Our website

Like any website, ours sees your IP address and browser, and keeps server logs to keep the site running and secure. One cookie remembers your place in a survey, and Cloudflare, which protects the site, may set one that tells people from bots.

If you use our contact form, your message is emailed to us. We don't keep a copy in our database.

Our surveys

We keep your answers, including anything you write in your own words, and when you answered. Questions about you, such as your ZIP code or age range, are optional. There is no name, account or sign-in, and we can't connect answers to a person. That also means we can't look up or delete your answers later.

At the end you can leave an email address to enter our monthly prize drawing. It is kept apart from your answers and used only for the drawing. See the drawing rules.

The FSD Anomaly Recorder app

The app lets drivers report unusual moments with their car's self-driving features. When you log an event, we keep:

• your account: name, email address and password
• your car, as you describe it
• the time, and your location and speed at that moment, if you allow location
• what the microphone hears while you speak your report, if you allow the microphone

We keep the words, not the voice. A service turns your recording into text, and then we delete the recording. We keep the text and your reports while you have an account.

Location is used only while the app is open and only when you log an event. Download your data at any time from Settings.

Deleting your account

Settings → Delete my account. We delete your account and everything in it, right away. We keep only a record that someone agreed to the driver terms, with no name or email on it. If you ask us to email you a short follow-up survey, we keep your email address for that.

Companies that help us

DigitalOcean and Hatchbox run our servers, Cloudflare protects the website, Resend sends our email, OpenAI turns recordings into text, and OpenStreetMap supplies maps. Each uses information only to do that job for us. We share information if the law requires it.

Security

Information is encrypted on its way to us, only a few staff can see it, and survey answers and contact details are kept out of our logs.

Children

Our surveys and the app are for people 18 and older.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top. Questions, or a request about your information? Email hello@autonovus.net.