Widgetsmith Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy & Terms

I take your privacy very seriously. I neither want nor need to know anything about your personal data. To that end I’ve designed Widgetsmith from the ground up to ensure that your data stays completely private.

Widgetsmith can optionally access a variety of your personal data for display within the app. This includes your health data, your calendar data, your reminders, your photos and your location data. All of this access is handled using the standard iOS/watchOS privacy prompts. If you give Widgetsmith access to this data it will be read and displayed only within the app, with the following exceptions:

  • A GPS coordinate (either provided by your search or current location) is necessarily sent along with any weather data requests. This goes to Apple Weather and is governed by their privacy policy.

  • A GPS coordinate (either provided by your search or current location) is necessarily sent along with any tide data requests. This goes to WorldTides and is governed by their privacy policy.

  • A GPS coordinate (either provided by your search or current location) is necessarily sent along with any Air Quality and Pollen data requests. This goes to Breezometer and is governed by their privacy policy.

Other than these cases, no personal data ever leaves your devices. Unless you email me for support, I will have no information about you or what you do within the app.

I don’t want the responsibility of managing your data correctly, so I don’t collect it, which I think is better for both of us.

If you sign-up for a Widgetsmith Premium subscription, additional non-personally identifiable data will be kept. Your billing information, address, and name are all maintained by the App Store and are not visible to me. I will simply get information about whether or not you have purchased a subscription, the term you signed up for and when it is due to expire. This is all made available to me in an anonymous fashion. This anonymous data is also shared with my purchase provider (RevenueCat).

For non-subscribers Widgetsmith may display advertisements within the application. These are managed by Google’s AdMob system. I have configured my advertising to minimize the privacy considerations often inherit with advertising. I don’t show personalized ads within the app. Additionally, I have disabled all of Google’s user tracking and analytics capabilities for ads shown within Widgetsmith. You can read more about Google’s Privacy policies here.

–Dave

(Now for the legal boilerplate part of the Privacy Policy. I always prefer to start with plain English before I get into that part of things.)

Email Newsletter

By signing up for the optional Widgetsmith email list, you are providing your first name, last name and email address. This data will be used to send occasional promotional emails. You can opt out of these emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of these emails. SendGrid Analytics are used to track the open and click-through rate of these emails. None of your personal data is used for any uses other than associated with these marketing messages.

Personally-Identifying Information

Widgetsmith does not gather or transmit any Personally-Identifying Information outside of your local device. It only stores preferences about the user interface within its local database.

Business Transfers

If Widgetsmith, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Widgetsmith goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, this policy and its effects may change or be amended. (As Widgetsmith does not collect any information about you there is very little effect this would likely have in practice.)

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Widgetsmith may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Widgetsmith’s sole discretion. Your continued use of this app after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of use of this app or any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.

Updated: October 23, 2020 by David Smith.