Privacy Policy

01The short version

This is a clock. There is no account, no sign-in and no profile, and nothing you do with it is recorded: the dials you choose, the cities you set, the sounds you play and the times you look at it never leave this app.

Two things do leave the device, and both are about money rather than about you. Apple's App Store is asked for prices and for what you have already bought. RevenueCat, the service we use to count how many people have bought it, is sent a randomly generated identifier and the purchase itself. Neither is told your name or your email address, and nothing is used for advertising.

Nothing else in the app touches the network. Every dial, every material, every sound and every city works identically in Airplane Mode.

02Information we collect

When you buy or restore Dessau Clock Pro, our purchase provider RevenueCat, Inc. receives and stores: a randomly generated App User ID, created on your device, which identifies that installation and nothing else; the identifier for vendor that Apple gives this app on your device; the purchase — which product, when it was bought, whether it is still active and, if it is a subscription from the launch window, when it renews; and the technical details that accompany any network request, being the device model, the operating-system and app versions, the language, and the country derived from the address the request came from.

We do not collect your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, payment details, contacts, photographs, precise location, health data or an advertising identifier. Advertising identifiers and install attribution are switched off in this app, so nothing here follows you into another company's app or website.

The app is not instrumented. Nothing measures which dials you look at, how long you use it, what you tap or when, and there is no crash reporter. What RevenueCat records about itself — whether its own requests succeeded and how long they took — is how a failed purchase gets diagnosed, and it is the whole of the measurement in this app. Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared with anyone beyond the two companies named in this document.

03What is stored on your device

Your choices are saved so the clock looks the same the next time you open it: the dial and material you picked for each face, the printing, hands, ring, finish, date style and escapement, the tick pack and its volume, whether sound and haptics are on, the cities on each dial, the size of the dial, whether the screen stays awake, and whether you have seen the introduction.

Two further values are kept, both about the purchase rather than the clock: whether the extra dials are unlocked, remembered so the app draws the right thing on the very first frame of a cold launch; and RevenueCat's own cache of your App User ID and current entitlement, so the app can answer that question without waiting on the network.

All of it is held in this app's own preference store on your device, inside its sandbox, where other apps cannot read it. Your dial choices are never transmitted. Deleting the app removes everything stored on the device, and About → Erase All Data clears it at any time. The copy of the purchase record held on RevenueCat's servers is a separate thing, and is dealt with under 'Your rights' below.

04Widgets

A widget you add to the Home Screen or Lock Screen keeps its own configuration — its plate, hands, glow and city. That configuration is stored by iOS on your device as part of the widget itself, and is not visible to us.

05Purchases

Dessau Clock Pro is sold through Apple, as a one-off lifetime unlock. Apple takes the payment. We never see your card, your name, your email address or your billing address, and none of it reaches RevenueCat either.

To know whether you have paid, the app asks StoreKit — Apple's on-device purchasing framework. That is also what lets the unlock follow your Apple Account onto a second device and survive deleting and reinstalling the app: it is Apple's record of what you bought, and it would work exactly the same if RevenueCat did not exist. The transaction is additionally reported to RevenueCat, Inc., who keep a copy so we can see how many people have bought it. They act on our instructions and for no other purpose; their own privacy policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy.

That record is keyed to the random App User ID described above, not to a person, and there is no step we could take to turn one into the other. RevenueCat's servers are in the United States, so for customers in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area the record is transferred there under the standard contractual clauses in their data-processing agreement.

Restoring a purchase — and cancelling a subscription, if you started one while that plan was offered — are both handled by Apple in App Store settings. Apple's privacy policy governs everything on their side of that line.

06Permissions

The app requests no permissions. It does not use the camera, microphone, location, contacts, calendars, notifications, Bluetooth or the local network.

The city list is bundled inside the app and read offline. Choosing a city sets a time zone locally; it never tells anyone where you are.

07Children

The app is suitable for all ages and is not directed at children under thirteen. It asks nobody for personal information, and the only record it creates is the purchase record described above — which is keyed to a random identifier rather than to a person, and which can only come about through an Apple Account controlled by whoever set the device up.

08The App Store

If you obtained the app from Apple's App Store, Apple may collect information about the download, purchase and your device as part of operating the Store, and may provide us with anonymous, aggregated sales and crash statistics. That processing is Apple's, governed by Apple's privacy policy, and happens outside the app.

09Your rights

Data-protection law gives you the right to see, correct, export and delete the personal data held about you. For this app that means exactly one thing: the purchase record described under Purchases, being an anonymous identifier, the identifier for vendor, and what was bought and when.

Write to support@owedge.app and we will find that record, send you a copy of it, correct it or delete it. Deleting it does not refund or cancel the purchase — refunds are Apple's, at reportaproblem.apple.com — and it does not reach Apple's own record of the sale, which Apple keeps under Apple's policy.

Everything stored on the device is under your own control and needs no request: erase it in About → Erase All Data, or delete the app.

10Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will ship inside the app and the date above will change with it. If the app ever begins collecting something it does not collect today, that will be written here plainly before the release that does it.

11Contact

Questions about privacy can go to support@owedge.app.