Privacy Policy
This policy explains what happens to your information when you use Inflation Tracker (“the app”), including its widgets, its Apple Watch app, its Siri and Shortcuts actions and its Mac app. “We” and “us” mean the developer of Inflation Tracker.
- We don't collect your personal information. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.
- The only thing we receive is feedback you choose to send. It isn't linked to your name or your Apple Account.
- What you enter stays on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your own iCloud account. We can't see it.
- The app goes online only to download public inflation and interest rates, to receive announcements, to sync through your iCloud, to send feedback you write and to handle purchases through Apple.
- We use your feedback and your emails only to improve the app and to answer you.
1. What we don't collect
Inflation Tracker doesn't ask you to create an account or sign in, and we don't run servers that receive your data. Apart from feedback you choose to send (section 9), the app doesn't collect or send us anything. In particular, it doesn't collect or send us:
- your name, email address, phone number or any other contact details;
- your expenses, income, prices, notes or any other financial information you enter;
- your location, contacts, photos, receipts, calendar events, health data or browsing history;
- advertising identifiers or device identifiers used for tracking.
The app contains no advertising and no third-party analytics, advertising or tracking code. It doesn't track you across other companies' apps or websites, and we never sell or rent information about you.
2. What you enter and where it's stored
To work, the app keeps the information you give it:
- expenses and income: amounts, dates, categories and notes, including the merchant names you or an automation enter;
- items whose prices you track, with their quantities and unit prices;
- baskets, custom categories, quick-add buttons, budgets and recurring expenses;
- the tags, notes and reminders you add to days in the app's Calendar;
- profiles, with the names and avatars you give them;
- official rates you add or choose, and your settings, such as your currency and appearance.
This information is stored on your device, inside the app's own storage. The widgets and the Apple Watch app read the same information from a container that only Inflation Tracker can access on your devices.
Sample data
If you choose to try the app with sample data, made-up examples are added to your data. They contain nothing about you and can be removed at any time.
3. iCloud sync
If you're signed in to iCloud and iCloud is allowed for Inflation Tracker, your information syncs between your devices that use the same Apple Account. It's kept in your private iCloud database and in iCloud key-value storage, which belong to your iCloud account. We have no access to them.
iCloud is a service provided by Apple, and Apple's handling of iCloud data is described in Apple's Privacy Policy. You can stop syncing by turning off iCloud for Inflation Tracker in your device's iCloud settings. Your data then stays only on that device.
4. When the app goes online
Official rates
About once a week, the app downloads a public file of official inflation and interest rates from GitHub Pages (github.io), the website this policy is published on. The request doesn't contain any information about you or your data. Like any web server, GitHub receives the request's IP address and basic technical details, as described in GitHub's privacy statement. We don't receive or keep them.
Announcements
The app can show occasional announcements, such as news about a new feature. They're on by default. While they're on, your device keeps a notification subscription on Apple's iCloud servers. It contains only the language the app is in, so each announcement arrives in your language. Announcements are delivered through Apple's notification service, and you can turn them off at any time in the app's Settings ▸ Notifications.
Sync notifications
Apple's notification service also tells the app when your data changed in iCloud, so your devices stay in sync. These notifications carry no content we can read.
Feedback
Feedback you send from the app goes to Apple's iCloud servers, as described in section 9.
Links
Links in the app, such as the Terms of Use, this policy or the App Store's review page, open in your browser or in the App Store, where those services' own policies apply.
5. Features that stay on your device
- Assistant and category suggestions. On devices that support Apple Intelligence, monthly summaries, answers to your questions and category suggestions for card payments come from Apple's on-device model. Your data is processed on your device and isn't sent to us or to Apple for this.
- Receipt scanning. When you scan a receipt with the camera or choose a photo or a PDF, its text is read on your device to fill in the total, date and shop. The picture isn't kept and isn't sent anywhere. The photo picker gives the app only the photo you choose, not your photo library.
- Apple Calendar. If you turn on Show in Apple Calendar, the app adds your payments due and the reminders you set to a calendar of its own, named Inflation Tracker, keeps it up to date, and lists your other events on each day of its Calendar. This happens on your device. Your calendars sync through your own calendar accounts as they always do, and nothing is sent to us.
- Importing files. CSV and Excel files you choose to import are read on your device. They aren't uploaded anywhere.
- Exporting files. Exports are saved or shared only where you choose.
- Siri, Shortcuts and automations. When Siri, the Shortcuts app or an automation you set up, such as one that runs after a card payment, gives the app an amount, a merchant or a category, it's saved on your device as an expense, and nothing more.
- Reminders and reports. Daily reminders and monthly report notifications are scheduled on your device.
6. Permissions
The app may ask for permission:
- Notifications, for reminders, monthly reports and announcements.
- Camera, on iPhone and iPad, only when you scan a receipt (section 5).
- Calendars, only when you turn on Show in Apple Calendar (section 5). Full access is needed so the app can update and remove the events it added and show your own events.
You can change these at any time in your device's settings. When you import or export a file or choose a photo, the app reaches only the file, folder or photo you pick. The app doesn't ask for access to your location, contacts, photo library, microphone or health data.
7. Purchases
Inflation Tracker Pro subscriptions and the one-time lifetime purchase are processed by Apple through the App Store. We don't receive your payment details or your Apple Account information. The app checks with the App Store, on your device, which purchases are active. Apple shares only aggregated sales reports with developers.
8. What Apple may share with us
If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device's settings, Apple may share crash reports and usage statistics with us. Apple provides them in a form that doesn't identify you, and we use them only to find and fix problems. You can turn this off in your device's privacy settings.
9. Feedback and email
Feedback in the app
When you tap “Send Feedback” in the app (Settings ▸ Enjoying Inflation Tracker? ▸ Not happy? Send us feedback), we receive what you wrote, the topics you picked and, if you picked one before, your star rating. The app adds its version number, your device's system version (such as iOS 18.5), its model (such as iPhone17,2) and the app's language, so we can match a problem to a build. The form says so before you send it.
Your feedback is saved as a record in the app's public iCloud database, on Apple's servers. Only we can read these records; other people using the app can't. They don't contain your name, email address or Apple Account details. iCloud adds only an identifier that is random and specific to Inflation Tracker, which we don't use and can't link to you. Sending feedback this way needs you to be signed in to iCloud; if you aren't, the app offers to send it by email instead.
We use feedback only to fix problems and improve the app, we don't share it, and we delete it once we no longer need it. Because it isn't linked to you, we may not be able to find a particular note later; if you want an answer, email us instead.
When you email us, including when the app opens an email for your feedback, we receive your email address and whatever you write. An email from the app also contains the topics you picked, the app's version and your device's system version and model. You see and can edit all of it before you send. We use this information only to reply to you and to improve the app. We don't share it, and we delete it when it's no longer needed or when you ask us to. Emails are stored by our email provider.
10. Keeping and deleting your data
Your information stays on your devices and in your iCloud account until you delete it:
- Settings ▸ Delete All Data in the app removes your expenses, income, items, baskets and every other record from that device and from every device signed in to the same iCloud account.
- Deleting the app removes its data from that device.
- You can delete what's left in iCloud on iPhone or iPad in Settings ▸ [your name] ▸ iCloud ▸ Manage Account Storage, and on a Mac in System Settings ▸ [your name] ▸ iCloud.
Because we don't hold your app data, you control it directly. Feedback you sent from the app is deleted once we no longer need it. To have your emails to us deleted, write to us at the address below.
11. Security
Your data is protected by your device's built-in security, such as your passcode and data protection, and by iCloud, which encrypts data in transit and on Apple's servers. With Advanced Data Protection turned on for your Apple Account, more of your iCloud data is end-to-end encrypted.
12. Children
Inflation Tracker isn't directed at children under 13, and it doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included.
13. Changes to this policy
If we change how the app handles information, we'll update this policy and its effective date on this page. If a change affects what happens to your information in a significant way, we'll also tell you in the app or in its release notes.
14. Contact
Questions about this policy or your privacy: trackerinflation@gmail.com