Privacy policy
Last updated: November 7, 2026.
- An account is optional and only needed for the screenshot reader and for reporting gas prices. It takes a username and password, or signing in with Google. We don't ask for your real name or phone number.
- Your shifts and your car stay on your phone, even with an account: they're not sent to any server of ours. To search for gas, your approximate location passes through our server, but it isn't stored.
- Offer screenshots are read on your phone. The image is never uploaded.
- We only use one cookie, to keep you signed in if you have an account (the Google map, on the Gas page, may set its own). We don't use tools that follow you from page to page.
What's saved on your phone
So you don't have to type everything every time, the site saves a few things in your browser's storage. Only you can see them, and they stay on this phone or computer:
- Calculator: your car details (make, model, miles per gallon, gas price and wear).
- Shifts: the shifts you log (date, hours, app, what you earned and miles).
- Busy hours: your last ZIP code and app, and the list of places near you (kept for 30 days so it doesn't have to search again).
- Gas: your last ZIP code, your fuel type and a list of gas stations from OpenStreetMap, so it doesn't have to search again.
- Gadgets and dark mode: the filter you picked and whether you prefer light or dark mode.
- Installed app: if you install Neto on your home screen, your phone keeps copies of the pages so they work without internet. If you share a screenshot with Neto, it's kept only for a moment while it's read, and then deleted.
If you clear your browser data, all of this is deleted. You can also delete it here:
Your account
If you create an account, we store on our server (on Cloudflare):
- With a username and password: your username and your encrypted password. We never store the password as-is, and nobody can see it.
- With Google: an ID number Google gives us to recognize you, your email and your first name. We never see your Google password.
- How many screenshots you use each day, to see how much the reader gets used. We don't store the screenshots or what they say.
- To stop people guessing passwords, we count failed sign-in attempts for each username and each connection for a few minutes, using a fingerprint of your IP instead of the IP.
Your session is kept with a cookie that lasts 90 days or until you tap “Sign out”. You can delete your account anytime from My account: your data and your screenshot count are deleted.
Gas and your location
If you tap “Use my location”, your phone asks for permission. We use an approximate point (within about 100 meters) to find nearby gas stations. We don't store your location. So no one uses up all the searches, we count the ones each connection makes using a fingerprint of your IP that changes every day and is deleted after 2 days; the IP itself isn't stored.
If you report a price, we store the price, the fuel type, the station's location and your account, to stop fake reports. Others see the price, but not who reported it. Reports are deleted after 7 days, or sooner if you delete your account. Each report also updates a nameless figure about that station: how far above or below the area average it tends to be. That figure doesn't say who reported, is used to estimate prices, and is deleted after 60 days without new reports.
With your location, Neto checks on your phone whether you're at a gas station; that exact location never leaves it.
Offer screenshots
When you upload a screenshot in the calculator, the image is read inside your phone by a text recognition program (Tesseract). The image is not sent to any server. The only thing downloaded from the internet is the program and the language data it uses, from jsDelivr.
Free services the site uses
Some tools need data from other services. When you use them, your browser connects to those services and, like with any website, they see your IP address. This is what they get:
| Service | What for | What it gets |
|---|---|---|
| Zippopotam.us | Finding the city for your ZIP code (Busy hours and Gas) | Your ZIP code |
| National Weather Service (weather.gov) | The weather forecast (Busy hours) | The approximate location of your ZIP code |
| Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) | Finding nearby Walmarts, restaurants, grocery stores and gas stations (Busy hours and Gas) | The approximate location of your ZIP code or your phone |
| OpenFreeMap and cdnjs | Drawing the map (Busy hours and Gas) | The part of the map you're looking at |
| jsDelivr | The program that reads screenshots (Calculator) | Nothing from your screenshot, just the program download |
| EIA (U.S. government) and US Gas Gauge | The weekly gas price average (Gas) | Nothing of yours: our server requests it, not your phone |
| Google Maps (Gas) | Finding gas stations with prices and showing the map of the station you pick | Our server sends your approximate location, without your IP. The map loads directly from Google, which sees your IP and may use its cookies |
| Google (only if you sign in with Google) | Signing in with your Google account | What Google gets when you use its button; it sends us your email and name |
| Bing News | The news for drivers | Nothing of yours: our server fetches it, not your phone |
| Cloudflare | Where the site is hosted | What any visit sends: IP, browser and page visited, so the site works and stays protected |
Each service has its own privacy policy. None of them get your shifts, your car or your screenshots.
Links to other sites
News stories, Gadgets products and GasBuddy links lead to other sites, like newspapers or Amazon. Once you're there, their privacy rules apply, not ours.
Affiliate links: some Gadgets links may be Amazon affiliate links. If you buy through them, Amazon may pay us a small commission at no extra cost to you. Amazon may use cookies to know you came from here.
Ads
The site has no ads today. If we add them someday (for example, from Google), we'll update this page first and explain what data they use and how to turn off personalized ads.
Children
The site is made for adult delivery drivers. It's not directed to children under 13 and we don't knowingly collect data from them.
Contact
Questions about your data, or want us to delete something? Email us at [email protected].
Changes to this policy
If we change anything, we'll post it on this page with the new date at the top.