Privacy, in plain language.

What the app stores, and where

Everything you put into Giftory is written to a database on your iPhone, inside the app's own storage. It never leaves the device on its own. That database holds:

• People — first name, surname, birthday, and a photo if you add one.
• Occasions — a date, a title, notes, and whether the day repeats each year.
• Gifts and ideas — a title, notes, an optional value, an optional photo, who gave it and who received it, and when you captured it.
• Your settings — plus a few one-time flags, such as whether you have seen the first run, which hints you have dismissed, and whether the 2020 offer has been shown.

There is no iCloud sync and no server of mine. Your Giftory data is included in your iPhone's own backup — iCloud Backup, or an encrypted backup on your computer. Those backups are Apple's, under Apple's terms, and a new phone gets your gifts through one of them or through a device-to-device transfer.

Contacts

Reading your contacts is optional, and only two places ask: Choose from Contacts when you add a person, and the picker offered on first run. Giftory reads four things from a card and nothing else — given name, family name, birthday, and the picture on the card.

The first-run picker lists the contacts that have a birthday, and imports only the ones you tick. No phone numbers, e-mail addresses, postal addresses or notes are read, and nothing is sent anywhere: what you import is copied into the same on-device database as everything else.

Photos and the camera

Also optional. Giftory uses Apple's photo picker, which hands the app only the item you pick — it never gets a look at your library. You can also take a photo of a person or a gift with the camera.

Either way the picture is downsized and stored in the app's database on your iPhone, next to the person or the gift it belongs to.

Purchases

Giftory Plus and the optional tips are sold through Apple's App Store using StoreKit. Apple processes the payment; I never see your name, your payment details or your Apple Account. Whether you own Giftory Plus is checked on your device.

The app also asks the App Store, on the device, which build you originally downloaded. That is how it knows to offer the 2020 Lifetime price to people who have had Giftory since the beginning.

What can leave the device

Giftory makes no network requests of its own. There is no networking code in it and no third-party SDK — only Apple's own frameworks. Three things can still travel, and each one is something you start:

• A purchase, handled by Apple as described above.
• An e-mail you send from Settings — the app opens your Mail app with a message addressed to me. Nothing is attached that you cannot see, and you can cancel before sending.
• A link you tap — the App Store review page, or my Instagram. Those open in their own apps, and what happens there is between you and them.

What Giftory doesn't do

• No account — there is nothing to sign up for and no password to invent.
• No server and no sync of mine — I hold no copy of anything.
• No analytics and no crash reporting — I don't know how you use the app.
• No advertising — and no ad identifiers.
• No tracking — in Apple's App Tracking Transparency sense, and in the everyday one.
• No selling or sharing of data — there is nothing to sell.

That is how the app is built, not a promise added afterwards: it contains no code that could do any of it.

Children

Giftory is made for adults who buy gifts. It records a person's name and days only because you typed them in, and they stay on your iPhone. No personal information is collected from anyone — children included.

Deleting your data

• Delete any person, gift or idea inside the app. Deleting a person takes their days with them.
• Remove this day takes an occasion off the string for everyone on it and stops it repeating. Gifts you already logged stay in the ledger, unfiled. Birthdays can't be removed that way — they come off with the person.
• Deleting the app removes everything it stored on the device.

There is nothing for me to delete on your behalf, because there is nothing on my side. The flip side is worth saying plainly: if the only copy is on a phone you lose, it is gone. Keep your iPhone backed up.

Changes to this policy

If the app changes in a way that changes this page, the new version appears here with a new effective date. I'll keep it as short as it is now.

Contact

Questions about any of this? Email support@thomasaj.com. You can also read the terms of use or browse support.