Privacy Policy

Hearth has no servers, no accounts, and no backend. Your contacts, notes, tags, reminders, and everything else you keep in Hearth stay on your device. We — Trey Leong and Hearth — never receive them, cannot read them, and have no way to access them. There is nothing to log in to, because there is nowhere for your data to go.

Hearth includes no third-party analytics, advertising, crash-reporting, or tracking software of any kind. We do not build a profile of you, and we do not track you across apps or websites.

With your permission, Hearth reads and manages the contacts in your device’s address book so it can be your contacts app. You can grant full access or limited access (choosing contacts one at a time), and Hearth works either way. You can also use Hearth entirely with contacts you create inside the app, without granting any Contacts access at all.

We never send your address book, or anything derived from it, to us or to anyone else. Hearth does not upload your contacts to any server, and does not use your contacts to build a database for our own use or for sale — there is no server for them to be uploaded to.

To change or revoke Contacts access at any time: Settings → Privacy & Security → Contacts → Hearth.

If you have iCloud enabled on your device, Hearth uses Apple’s CloudKit to sync your Hearth data between your own devices. This uses your own private iCloud account — the data goes into your personal iCloud storage, in transit and stored in an encrypted format, under your Apple ID. Hearth operates no servers and has no ability to access this data. It never passes through us.

This sync is between you and Apple. Apple’s handling of your iCloud data is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy and your iCloud terms. Depending on your iCloud settings — in particular whether you have turned on Apple’s Advanced Data Protection — the level of encryption Apple applies to this data differs; that is a setting you control in your Apple account, not something Hearth sets. To stop syncing, turn Hearth off under Settings → [your name] → iCloud, or turn off iCloud.

Hearth is a paid app: you buy it once from the App Store, and there is no subscription and no in-app purchase. The purchase is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Hearth does not process, receive, or store your payment details, and we do not receive a record of your purchase on any server of ours. Apple’s handling of your purchase is governed by Apple’s terms and privacy policy.

Because Hearth stores nothing on our side, there is nothing for us to retain or delete. You are in complete control of your data:

• Delete individual records inside Hearth at any time.
• Delete the app to remove Hearth’s on-device data from that device.
• Manage or delete the iCloud copy under Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage, or by turning off iCloud sync for Hearth.

Deleting a record or the app on one device removes it from your other devices through your own iCloud sync. We cannot delete your data for you, because we never have it — but you can always delete all of it yourself using the steps above.

Hearth is committed to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (the “PDPA”) of Singapore. Because Hearth holds none of your personal data, the practical way to exercise your rights — access, correction, and deletion — is directly on your own device and in your own iCloud account, using the steps in Section 5.

If you are in the EU/UK (GDPR/UK-GDPR) or California (CCPA/CPRA): Hearth does not collect, sell, or share your personal data, and operates no servers that process it. The same on-device and iCloud controls above are how you access and delete your data. We do not use your data for targeted advertising and there is no “sale” or “sharing” of personal data to opt out of.

Hearth is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from anyone — it collects no data at all.

Questions about this policy or your privacy: legal@hearth.contact. For PDPA purposes, the data controller is Trey Leong (Singapore), reachable at the same address.

When you contact us by email, your message reaches us through your own mail app; we receive only what you choose to send. If this policy links you to a webpage for support, that link is a plain address that carries no identifier about you or your device — we do not use support links to identify or track you.

If we change this policy, we will update the effective date above and post the new version at this address. Material changes will also be noted in the app.