Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 6, 2026
Developer: Daniel Radu Betiu
Contact: mineprodan@gmail.com
The short version
Widgetdeck is free and doesn’t collect your personal data. There’s no account, no purchases, no ads and no tracking. Your data stays on your iPhone, and anything that syncs goes through your own iCloud account, which we can’t see.
What the app uses, and where it stays
| What | Why | Where it stays |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar (only if you allow it) | To find your classes for the Student widgets | Read on your iPhone. We save event identifiers and your own labels (like course names), never the events themselves. We never change your calendar. |
| Event notes (part of calendar access) | To suggest a room name (like “ICS 192”) when you set up a class | Read on your iPhone only while the app is open. Notes are never saved; only a room you confirm is kept, with the course. |
| Location (only if you turn on “Leave by”, While Using the App) | To estimate travel time to class for leave-by times and alerts | Your current location and the class address are sent to Apple Maps for one travel-time estimate. Widgetdeck never stores your location. The resulting travel times are kept on your iPhone for up to 12 hours, labelled by a scrambled code instead of the address. |
| Reminders (only if you import assignments) | To copy to-dos with a due date from one list you choose | Read on your iPhone. We never change your reminders. |
| Photos you pick | Photo widget and Theme Sync | Resized copies are stored on your iPhone. We never see your photo library; you choose each photo. |
| Notifications (only if you allow them) | Class reminders and an optional evening mood reminder | Scheduled on your iPhone. |
| Habits, mood check-ins and notes | Wellness section and widgets | On your iPhone and in your iCloud private database. Mood notes are end-to-end encrypted by iCloud. We can’t access any of it. |
| Battery, storage, heat, CPU and memory readings | Tech section and widgets | Calculated and stored on your iPhone. Recent readings are kept for 7 days, then deleted. |
| Sync log | A short record of when data synced and widgets refreshed, to help fix widgets that stop updating. It never includes calendar contents. | On your iPhone only (the last 400 lines). It leaves your iPhone only if you share it from Settings → About → Sync log. |
| Your courses, themes, reminder settings and widget settings (including the room, travel mode and leave-by choice you set for a course) | So they appear on your other devices | Synced with Apple’s iCloud private database, in your iCloud account. We can’t access it. |
What we don’t do
- We don’t sell, share or rent any data.
- We don’t use advertising or analytics SDKs, and we don’t track you across apps or websites.
- We don’t run our own servers holding your data.
Network requests the app makes
- Apple services: iCloud (CloudKit) sync, and Apple Maps for travel-time estimates when you use “Leave by” (Apple’s privacy policy applies to those requests).
- Feature settings file: the app downloads a small settings file (
flags.json) from this website, which is hosted by GitHub Pages. The request contains no personal information. Like any web request, GitHub can see your IP address; we have no access to GitHub’s request logs. See GitHub’s Privacy Statement.
Crash reports
If you’ve chosen to share analytics with app developers in iOS Settings, Apple may give us anonymous crash and performance reports. You control this in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.
Exporting your data
Settings → Export my data makes one file with your profile, courses, assignments, grades, reminder settings, habits, mood check-ins (with notes) and goals. It’s created on your iPhone and goes only where you save or share it.
Deleting your data
Open Widgetdeck → Settings → Delete All Data. This removes the app’s data from your iPhone and deletes Widgetdeck’s data from your iCloud. Deleting the app also removes its on-device data. You can also manage iCloud data in Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage.
Children
Widgetdeck isn’t directed at children under 13 and doesn’t knowingly collect data from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, we’ll update the effective date above. If a change affects what data leaves your device, we’ll mention it in the app’s release notes.