Privacy Policy

Who this covers

This policy covers the WhatchAlarm iPhone app and its companion Apple Watch app, published by Natalia Gurevich (“the developer”, “we”). It applies to everyone who installs the app.

What we collect

Nothing. WhatchAlarm operates entirely on your iPhone and Apple Watch. There is no WhatchAlarm server, no account, no sign-in, and no analytics, advertising, tracking, or crash-reporting service embedded in the app.

The information the app works with stays in your devices’ own storage:

• Your chosen wake-up times, weekly schedule, wake window, and sound, haptic and reminder preferences.
• A history of your last 14 wake-ups — when each happened, what triggered it, and that night’s movement readings — kept on the watch.
• The date the app was first launched, used to count your free trial.
• Whether the one-time unlock has been purchased.

None of it leaves your devices, and the developer has no ability to read it.

Health data

With your permission, the Apple Watch app reads heart rate samples from Apple Health. It uses them on the watch, during the wake window you set, to estimate when you are in lighter sleep and time the alarm. Heart rate data is read only while it is needed and is not copied into any separate store of our own.

WhatchAlarm does not write any data to Apple Health.

Specifically, and in line with Apple’s requirements for apps that access HealthKit, health data obtained through WhatchAlarm is never:

• transmitted off your device, to us or to anyone else;
• used for advertising, marketing, or any similar purpose;
• sold, rented, or disclosed to data brokers or third parties;
• used for any purpose other than timing your alarm.

You can withdraw this permission at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health. The alarm will still wake you at the deadline you set, but it can no longer choose a lighter moment to do it.

Motion data

The watch app senses wrist movement during your wake window, using the watch’s built-in motion sensors, to tell stirring apart from settled sleep. It is used to decide when to wake you. A single movement figure per minute of the window is kept in your wake-up history on the watch; the raw sensor readings are not stored. Neither is ever transmitted or shared.

Purchases

The one-time unlock is sold through Apple’s In-App Purchase system. Apple processes the payment and tells the app only whether the purchase exists for your Apple ID. The developer never receives your name, card details, or billing address. Apple’s handling of that transaction is governed by Apple’s own privacy policy.

Notifications

All alarms and reminders are local notifications created on your own device. Nothing is pushed from a server, and no notification content is visible to the developer.

Keeping and deleting your data

Because the data never leaves your devices, there is nothing for us to retain or delete on your behalf. Deleting WhatchAlarm from your iPhone and Apple Watch removes everything the app stored. Your record of past purchases remains with Apple, so the unlock can be restored if you reinstall.

Children

WhatchAlarm is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them. Since the app collects no information at all, this is a statement of intent rather than a data practice.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the revised version will be published at this address with a new effective date. Material changes will also be noted in the App Store release notes for the version that introduces them.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected].