Privacy Policy

Fuel Prices UK: Cheap Petrol · Effective date: 8 October 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026

Summary: No accounts. We never ask for your name, email address or phone number. Your exact location stays on your phone: to show nearby prices the app only requests the map squares (about 17 miles across) around you from our server. Favourites and settings are stored on your device. If you create a price alert, a notification token and the alert are stored on our server until you delete them. The app uses Google AdMob for ads, Firebase Crashlytics for crash reports and RevenueCat for the optional Pro purchase.

1. Who we are

Fuel Prices UK: Cheap Petrol (the app) is published by Emir KIZILIRMAK (md9.net), who is the data controller for the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Turkey's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK). Contact: destek@md9.net

The app shows open data from the UK Government's Fuel Finder scheme. It is not affiliated with the UK Government or the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and does not send them anything about you.

2. Location

The app asks for location only while it is in use ("While Using the App"). It never tracks you in the background.
Your position is used on your device to work out distances and sort stations. It is not sent to us.
To load prices, the app asks our server for the grid squares around you. Each square is about 17 miles (28 km) across, so the request reveals only a broad area.
If you search a town or postcode instead, the text you type is sent to postcodes.io, a free UK postcode service, to find it on the map.
The map is drawn from tiles downloaded from OpenFreeMap; like any web request, this shows the map area you are looking at and your IP address to that service.

3. Stored only on your device

Favourite stations, settings (fuel, radius, filters, theme) and the last place you searched
A cache of recently loaded prices, so the app works with a weak signal
Your Pro status

More › Delete my data or deleting the app removes it.

4. Our server

Prices are served by our own server, fuelprices-api.md9.net, which runs on Cloudflare (data stored in Western Europe). Requests for prices contain no account or advertising identifier. As with any internet request, your IP address and basic request details are processed by Cloudflare to deliver the data and protect the service from abuse. We do not use them to identify you and we keep no separate logs of them.

5. Price alerts

If you create a price alert, the app asks for notification permission and stores on our server:

a push notification token from Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google) and the platform (iOS or Android);
the alert: station, fuel and your target price, and when it was created and last sent.

This is used only to send you the alert. It is kept until you delete the alert, use More › Delete my data, or the token stops working, in which case it is deleted automatically.

6. Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics)

If the app crashes, Firebase Crashlytics (Google) receives a crash report: device model, operating system and app version, the technical details of the crash and a random installation identifier. It contains no location, name or contact details. We use it only to fix bugs.

7. Advertising (Google AdMob)

If you have not bought Pro, the app shows ads from Google AdMob: banners, sometimes a full-screen ad when opening a station page, and an optional rewarded ad for an extra price alert.

Your choice: in the UK, the EEA and Switzerland, Google's consent form asks whether you agree to personalised ads before any ads are requested. You can change your choice any time in More › Ad privacy choices. On iOS, the advertising identifier (IDFA) is only available to AdMob if you allow tracking; you can change this in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
Data Google may process: device and app information, IP address and approximate location derived from it, advertising identifier (if allowed) and ad interactions. Without consent or tracking permission, Google shows non-personalised ads using limited data.
Purpose: showing, measuring and protecting ads (including fraud prevention), and personalising them where you agreed.

Google acts as an independent controller for this data. See How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and Google's privacy policy.

8. Pro purchase (Apple and RevenueCat)

Pro is a one-time in-app purchase processed by Apple (or Google Play on Android); we never see your payment details. We use RevenueCat to check whether Pro is active and to restore it. RevenueCat receives a random app user ID created on your device, purchase details (product, price, date, storefront) and basic device information. See the RevenueCat privacy policy.

9. Legal bases

Processing	UK GDPR / GDPR	KVKK
Showing prices near you, keeping the service secure	Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f))	Art. 5(2)(f)
Price alerts (token and alert on our server)	Performance of a contract you ask for (Art. 6(1)(b))	Art. 5(2)(c)
Crash reports	Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f))	Art. 5(2)(f)
Personalised ads, use of the advertising identifier	Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)); you can withdraw it at any time	Explicit consent, Art. 5(1)
Non-personalised ads	Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f))	Art. 5(2)(f)
Pro purchase and restore	Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b))	Art. 5(2)(c)

10. International transfers

Google, Cloudflare and RevenueCat may process data in the United States and other countries. They rely on safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, the EU–US / UK–US Data Privacy Framework. For KVKK purposes, transfers abroad take place under Article 9 of KVKK.

11. How long data is kept

Data on your device: until you delete it or the app.
Alert data on our server: until you delete the alert or your data, or the notification token stops working.
Cloudflare request data, Crashlytics, AdMob and RevenueCat: under their own retention policies.

12. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask for access to, correction or deletion of your personal data, restrict or object to processing, ask for data portability, and withdraw consent at any time. More › Delete my data deletes your alerts and notification token from our server immediately. For other requests, email destek@md9.net and we will reply within one month.

You can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk), your local EU data protection authority, or Turkey's Personal Data Protection Authority (kvkk.gov.tr).

13. Children

The app is for drivers. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them.

14. Changes

If we change this policy, we will update this page and the "Last updated" date. Significant changes will also be shown in the app.