An on-vehicle recording apparatus comprising: a captured image data acquiring unit configured to acquire captured image data captured by an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle; an event detecting unit configured to detect an event occurred with respect to the vehicle; a recording control unit configured to store the captured image data acquired by the captured image data acquiring unit as normal recording data that is not based on the event and as event recording data that is based on the event; a communication control unit configured to establish a connection with a communication terminal; and an access control unit, wherein when the communication terminal in which the connection has been established by the communication control unit is a registered terminal that is the communication terminal that has been registered in advance, the access control unit is configured to allow the registered terminal to access the normal recording data and the event recording data, and when the communication terminal in which the connection has been established by the communication control unit is an unregistered terminal that is a communication terminal that has not been registered in advance, the access control unit is configured not to allow the unregistered terminal to access the normal recording data, wherein, when a connection request is received from the unregistered terminal within a predetermined time period after the event has been detected by the event detecting unit, the access control unit is configured to allow the unregistered terminal to access the event recording data that is most recent data and configured not to allow the unregistered terminal to access the event recording data that is not the most recent data, and wherein when the predetermined time period is exceeded, the access control unit is configured not to allow the unregistered terminal to access all of the pieces of captured image data including the most recent event recording data. a captured image data acquiring unit configured to acquire captured image data captured by an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle; an event detecting unit configured to detect an event occurred with respect to the vehicle; a recording control unit configured to store the captured image data acquired by the captured image data acquiring unit as normal recording data that is not based on the event and as event recording data that is based on the event; a communication control unit configured to establish a connection with a communication terminal; and an access control unit, wherein when the communication terminal in which the connection has been established by the communication control unit is a registered terminal that is the communication terminal that has been registered in advance, the access control unit is configured to allow the registered terminal to access the normal recording data and the event recording data, and when the communication terminal in which the connection has been established by the communication control unit is an unregistered terminal that is a communication terminal that has not been registered in advance, the access control unit is configured not to allow the unregistered terminal to access the normal recording data, wherein, when the communication terminal in which the connection has been established by the communication control unit is a registered terminal that is the communication terminal that has been registered in advance, the access control unit is configured to allow the registered terminal to access the normal recording data and the event recording data, and when the communication terminal in which the connection has been established by the communication control unit is an unregistered terminal that is a communication terminal that has not been registered in advance, the access control unit is configured not to allow the unregistered terminal to access the normal recording data, wherein, when a connection request is received from the unregistered terminal within a predetermined time period after the event has been detected by the event detecting unit, the access control unit is configured to allow the unregistered terminal to access the event recording data that is most recent data and configured not to allow the unregistered terminal to access the event recording data that is not the most recent data, and wherein when the predetermined time period is exceeded, the access control unit is configured not to allow the unregistered terminal to access all of the pieces of captured image data including the most recent event recording data.