This Privacy Policy explains how this application handles your information. It covers all of Ben Richardson's apps, so some sections only apply to apps with that feature. The short version: no accounts, no ads, no tracking, and your data stays on your device.
Privacy at a Glance: This app does not collect, sell or share your personal data. What you create in it is stored on your device. Where a feature needs the internet, it sends only what that feature needs, and nothing is kept about you.
Information Collection
This app does not collect personal information. It works without:
- User accounts or registration
- Personal identification information
- Contact information
- Usage analytics, crash reporting or tracking
- Advertising or advertising identifiers
Data Storage
Data created within the app is stored locally on your device. This includes:
- Any content you create or save, including history and results
- App preferences and settings
- Cache and temporary files
Where an app offers iCloud sync, that data is stored in your own private iCloud account, managed by Apple. We cannot see it.
On Android, app data may be included in your own Google account's device backup if you have backup turned on. Google manages that backup and we cannot see it.
You can delete all app data at any time by uninstalling the app or clearing app data in your device's settings.
On-Device Processing
Some apps use Apple Intelligence or other on-device frameworks from Apple or Google (such as machine learning and network analysis) to provide their features. Where they do:
- Processing happens on your iPhone, iPad or Android device
- Your data is not sent to external AI services
- Processing uses the platform's own privacy-focused frameworks
Network Features and Our Servers
Some apps have features that need to connect to the internet, for example to test the network you're on or to look something up. Where they do:
- The app sends only what the feature needs, and never your name, contacts, location or any identifier for you or your device.
- Like any connection on the internet, the server that answers sees your device's public IP address while it responds.
Some of these features use small servers we run on Cloudflare Workers. For example, a server may tell an app which public IP address, internet provider and approximate location your connection appears to come from, so the app can show you where your traffic leaves the network. Another gets public data and passes the same copy to every user: for FireWatch AU, the official warnings, fire danger, road closures, weather and other map information the app shows, asked of each publisher once for everyone. FireWatch AU sends it no identifier, and never your location or saved places. It asks for the weather at fixed points across Australia and at fires and heat detections, for map data around fires and for the part of the map on screen, for what a burnt area map shows where you tap, and, while rain radar is on or the weather heatmaps show rain, for the images of the radars that cover the map on screen. Our servers:
- Don't store or log your IP address, and keep no record of who asked for what
- Where a server limits floods of requests, it only ever sees a scrambled one-way code made from your IP address, never the address itself. The flood limit forgets it within a minute. FireWatch AU's map limit (for fire history, vegetation and burnt area maps) keeps it only in memory, never written anywhere, with a count for the hour, and clears both no later than the next time it fetches new map data after the hour ends, or when that part of the server stops. Its weather limit keeps it with a count until midnight UTC, then deletes both
- Send the answer only to your device
- Keep the public data and weather they fetch (FireWatch AU's also in a data library for research), but nothing about who asked for it
- Are hosted by Cloudflare, which processes the traffic under Cloudflare's Privacy Policy
Third-Party Services
The app does not integrate with third-party analytics, advertising networks or data brokers. There is:
- No selling or sharing of your data
- No advertisements
- No tracking across apps or websites
Some features contact public services directly to do their job, such as well-known websites, public DNS resolvers, IP lookup services, or the fire agencies, weather services and map providers that publish the information an app shows. These services see your IP address and the request, and handle it under their own privacy policies: for a map, which area is being downloaded (in FireWatch AU the map opens where you are, and an offline map you save covers the area around the place you chose), and for a camera, which camera you open. The app does not send them anything that identifies you, and never sends them your location or saved places. In FireWatch AU, what you type to find a place to save goes to Apple's map search, and the preview map of a place you add or edit comes from Apple Maps.
Storeboard connects to Apple and Google with the App Store Connect and Google Play keys you add. The keys stay in your iPhone's keychain, set so they aren't synced to iCloud or included in backups, and are only ever sent to Apple and Google to sign requests for your own sales, download and review reports. Those reports are stored on your device. To show money in one currency, Storeboard fetches daily exchange rates from Frankfurter and, if that's unavailable, ExchangeRate-API, sending only currency codes and dates.
Where an app lets you choose an encrypted DNS provider (such as Cloudflare, Quad9, AdGuard, Mullvad or NextDNS), your device sends its DNS lookups directly to the provider you choose, under that provider's privacy policy. We never see your lookups.
Apple's standard frameworks and services are subject to Apple's Privacy Policy. On Android, Google Play and Android's system services are subject to Google's Privacy Policy.
Permissions
Apps only ask for permissions a feature needs, and you can change them at any time in your device's settings:
- Location: iOS and Android require location permission to read the name of the Wi-Fi network you're connected to (and Android to list the Wi-Fi networks nearby), and some apps use your location to show what's near you, such as fire warnings and how far away they are. Either way your location is used on your device only: it is never stored on our servers or sent to anyone.
- Local Network: used to find devices and services on your network, for example to check it for security problems. Nothing found is sent off your device.
- Notifications: created on your device, for example to tell you the result of a check.
- Accessibility (Android): Unplug for Android uses Android's Accessibility service only to know which app is open, so it can show its reminder screen in front of an app you've unplugged while one of your blocks is on. It doesn't read what's on your screen or what you type, keeps no record of the apps you open, and sends nothing off your device.
- Notification access (Android, optional): if you allow it, Unplug for Android reads which app each notification comes from and removes the notifications of apps you've unplugged while a block is on. It doesn't keep or send anything about your notifications.
- Calendars, Photos and other personal data: where an app asks for access, it uses that data on your device to provide the feature. We do not collect it.
In-App Purchases
Where an app offers in-app purchases, payment is handled entirely by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). We never receive your payment details or account information; the store only tells the app whether a purchase is active.
Children's Privacy
Because the app does not collect personal information, it is safe for users of all ages and complies with COPPA by design.
Your Rights
You have complete control over your data:
- Access: Your data is stored on your device (or your own iCloud or Google backup) and accessible only to you
- Deletion: Remove all data by uninstalling the app
- Portability: Your data exists only on your devices, under your control
For users in the EU, UK, Australia, California or other regions with privacy regulations: because we keep no personal data on our servers beyond the short-lived scrambled codes described above, there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete. If you have any questions, contact us below.
Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date. Material changes will be noted in the app's store update notes.
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