Privacy Policy

GPS Speedometer HUD (com.pando.gpsspeedometerhud) — Last updated: 25 August 2026

1. Overview

GPS Speedometer HUD (“the app”) is a free Android speedometer published by Stronghealth. It reads your speed from the satellites your phone already listens to, mirrors the display for a windscreen head-up view, and totals a trip when you finish it. There is no account, no sign-up and no server of ours. Apart from loading ads, the app sends nothing off your device.

2. Everything runs on your phone

Speed, distance and trip totals are worked out on the device from the fixes your phone’s own GNSS receiver produces. Nothing is fetched while you drive, and the speedometer works with no signal and no data connection.

The only things the app keeps between runs are your choice of km/h or mph and the counters that limit how often an ad may appear. They live in the app’s local storage on this device. Deleting the app removes them.

3. Your location

The app asks for location permission, because reading a speed from satellites is what it does. How that permission is used is deliberately narrow:

• Location is read only while the app is open and on screen. Close it or switch away and it stops reading.
• There is no background location permission in this app, and there is no foreground service. Both are blocked in the app’s manifest, not merely left unused. The app cannot follow you when it is not open, and it does not log trips in the background.
• Your position is never stored. A fix is used to work out the speed and the distance travelled and is then discarded; only the running totals for the current trip stay in memory, and they are gone when the trip ends or the app closes.
• Your position is never sent anywhere. We operate no server that could receive it, and the app makes no network request of its own.

4. Information we collect

The app does not collect, store or transmit personal information. We do not operate a server or database holding user data. Speeds, distances and positions never leave the phone.

5. Permissions

Location (precise and approximate) — asked for when you first open the app, used only while the app is on screen, as described above. If you refuse it, the app opens and tells you why it cannot show a speed; nothing else in it is locked.

The remaining manifest entries are normal permissions granted without a prompt: internet and network state for ads, the advertising ID, wake lock to keep the screen on while you are driving, and vibration for a short tick when a trip starts or stops. The app does not ask for background location, photos, files, storage, the camera, the microphone, contacts, notifications or physical activity.

6. Third-party services and ads

The app uses one third-party service.

• Google AdMob — used to show ads. There are three placements: a banner at the bottom of the screen; one full-screen ad when the app is opened, at most once a day and never on your first run; and a full-screen ad that can appear when you finish a trip — at most twice a day, never twice inside ten minutes, and never on the calendar day you install the app. No ad of any kind appears while the vehicle is moving, while a trip is running, or while HUD mode is on — not a full-screen ad, not a banner, at any frequency. While you are driving the app does not so much as request one. Nothing in the app is locked behind watching an ad, and there is no subscription or in-app purchase of any kind.
  For advertising the app declares the advertising ID permission (com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID). Google’s Mobile Ads SDK may collect the advertising identifier, IP address (from which an approximate location can be inferred), app interaction and diagnostic data in order to serve and measure ads — this is separate from the GNSS position the speedometer uses, which the SDK never receives. See Google’s Privacy Policy and How Google uses advertising data. You can reset or delete your advertising ID under Settings > Privacy > Ads on Android.
  If an ad fails to load, the app carries on. It is never a condition of opening the app or of reading your speed.

No analytics, crash reporting or push services are used.

7. Accuracy, and what the numbers are for

This is not a certified speedometer. A phone reads speed from satellites, so it lags a sudden change by about a second and needs a view of the sky — in a tunnel, a covered car park or a dense city street it may show nothing at all. Below about 5 km/h a phone cannot tell walking pace from standing still, so the display reads zero rather than drifting. The vehicle’s own instrument is the one that counts in law.

Please set the phone up before you set off, and do not operate it while driving.

8. Children’s privacy

The app is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

9. Changes to this policy

This policy may change. Any change will be posted on this page with a new date.

10. Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to [email protected].