License and Privacy Policy

Privacy updated 29/11/2021

When using the services provided by ApnaCharge you may be required to supply location related information in order to query our data services. In addition your browser software (or app you use) may supply certain standard information such as your IP address, browser version etc. Standard temporary web server logging is in place but is discarded periodically and is not distrbuted to any third party.

Features which require an accountable editor or submitter (comments, photos, data edits etc) are associated with your ApnaCharge user account. This association is part of our public database and data set therefore other users will be able to identify you as the source of the submitted information. In some case they may be able to correlate the location data in submissions with your own location.

Data you submit to us becomes part of our publically redistributed data set and may be further copied to other 3rd party systems. By submitting information to us you are certifying that you are the originator of the information and are granting us the permission to use and redistribute the information as required by our systems without restriction.

Services and Data Licensing

Use of the services and data hosted by us is subject to the following terms (updated 29/11/2021):
  • Data supplied by ApnaCharge is derived from a wide variety of public sources and contributions. We accept no liability for the accuracy of this data and provide no assurances.
  • Data contributed to us by our users which we then redistribute is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
  • You agree that we may substitute this license at any point (where applicable) for an alternative Open Data license (http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/) if required by ApnaCharge.
  • By submitting data to us you are certifying that you are the originator of the data and have not copied any information which is subject to the copyright of another organisation or individual, or you are certifying that you have the authority to submit this information to us under the terms stated here.
  • We will respond promptly to any DMCA or equivalent copyright protection request, please use our Contact page to lodge these requests, detailing the exact infringing items.
  • Use of our API or data in an application or service requires that the appropriate Data Provider attribution (including license terms) be provided in a way which is visible the end user.

Sharing Your Organisation's Information

If your organisation has electric vehicle charging equipment location information then we would like you to share that information with ApnaCharge.

We ask that you explicitly license your information under a recognised Open Data license such as Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) which will allow our users and data consumers (apps, websites etc.) to benefit from the information you have. In return we will provide attribution for your organisation as the source of this information and make updates available to you. Your contributed information will aid the adoption of electric vehicles globally by making it easy for people to find and use charging locations using the most accurate information available.