Privacy at Adventure Apps, LLC

Our privacy vision

Adventure Apps, LLC makes money when you buy our apps, not by showing you ads or collecting your data. We don't use an ad model, and we don't collect analytics. Privacy and simplicity come first, ahead of any other feature or business consideration. We're a user-first company, not an ads or analytics company, and every decision we make starts from that principle.

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Timesewn Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how the Timesewn app ("Timesewn," "the app," "we," "us") handles your information, on the iOS, Android, and macOS versions, including Timesewn on Apple Watch and on Wear OS watches. Timesewn is designed to keep your data on your device. Where the app works differently between platforms, that's called out below.

Summary

Timesewn does not collect, sell, or share your personal data, and we do not operate servers that receive it. The information the app uses (your location, your alarms on iOS and Android, your counters on every platform, and your tracked cities and reminders on macOS) stays on your device, except in three ways that keep it in your own hands. On iPhone and Mac, iCloud sync keeps your cities, counters, working hours, and time-server choice in your own iCloud account, through Apple, so the two apps match; alarms and reminders are never synced. On Android, the system's app backup can store the app's data in your own Google account. And if you install Timesewn on a watch, your phone sends a copy of your cities, counters, and alarms to your own Apple Watch or Wear OS watch. On iPhone and Android, Timesewn Pro is bought through the App Store or Google Play, and the app only learns whether you own it. We do not use third-party analytics or advertising.

The one exception is if you choose to contact us. If you use the in-app email link to send feedback or request support, you will be sending us an email directly, and we will receive the information you include in it. See "If you contact us" below.

Information the app uses

Location

Timesewn takes your current timezone from your device's own date and time settings, from where you are when you allow location, or from a timezone you pick yourself. With your permission, it also uses your device's location to show your actual city and follow its timezone, for example as the default city for a new alarm or counter, or as your home city on the Mac. A phone or Mac kept on your home zone while you travel still shows the local time where you are. Turning your position into a city name is handled by the operating system's geocoding service (Apple's on iOS and macOS, Google's on Android), governed by that provider's own privacy policy. The timezone of that place comes from the same service, or from the city list built into the app. Your exact coordinates are never stored by the app or sent to any server operated by us; on iPhone, an approximate position (about a kilometer) is kept on your device for the widgets. The city name that comes back is kept on your device, can be shown in widgets and on your watch, and becomes part of any alarm or counter you create with it. If you deny or revoke location access, you can still use the app normally and pick your cities and timezone yourself.

Alarms, cities, and settings

The alarms you create on iOS and Android, including times, timezones, labels, repeat days, and selected sounds, are stored locally on your device so the app can function. On every platform, the cities you track, any custom names you give them, your working hours, and your settings are likewise stored locally, as are your reminders on macOS. The counters you create are stored locally too, including each counter's moment, timezone, label, and the timestamps you record against it. None of this information is transmitted off the device by the app, except through iCloud sync, Android backup, and your watch, as described below. If you export a counter's timestamps as a CSV file, the file goes only where you choose to save or send it.

Times in other cities, the time planner, the overlap view, daylight-saving notices, sunrise and sunset, and times you type in plain words (such as "5pm Tokyo") are all worked out on your device, from the city list bundled with the app and your device's own timezone data. None of it involves a network request.

iCloud sync (iOS and macOS)

Timesewn on iPhone and Timesewn on Mac can keep your tracked cities (with their order and any custom names), your counters and their timestamps, your working hours, and your Time Hack server choice in step through your own iCloud account. Sync is on by default. Apple stores and transfers this data under its own privacy policy; we have no access to your iCloud account and never receive any of it. Alarms on iPhone, reminders on Mac, each counter's alarm or reminder setting, city pins on Mac, and your calendar setting are never synced. You can turn sync on or off in the app's Settings (General, on Mac). Android does not use iCloud.

Android backup

Timesewn for Android, like most Android apps, takes part in Android's standard app backup. If backup is turned on for your device, Android may store the app's data (your alarms, cities, counters and their timestamps, and settings) in your own Google account, and may use it to restore the app on a new device. This is handled by Google under its own privacy policy, and we never receive any of it. You can turn backup off, or delete backups, in your device's settings or your Google account.

Widgets, shortcuts, and system features

Timesewn's widgets and other system features show your information outside the app. They read a copy of your cities (including any custom names and your home city), counters, upcoming alarms or reminders, and working hours that the app keeps in a private storage area on your device. Nothing they use is sent to us. Anything they display can be seen by anyone who can see your screen, so choose what you place on a Lock Screen or watch face accordingly. The app writes to your clipboard only when you ask it to copy a time, and it never reads your clipboard.

Apple Watch and Wear OS

If you install Timesewn on your watch, your phone sends it a copy of your tracked cities (including custom names and your home city), your counters, your upcoming alarms, and your working hours, and keeps that copy up to date. The watch stores the copy so it can show it in the app, its complications, and its tile. When you record a timestamp on the watch, the watch sends it to your phone, which saves it like any other timestamp (and, on iPhone, includes it in iCloud sync). A complication shows a city's name and time to the watch face you add it to. Nothing is sent to us. Deleting Timesewn from the watch removes its copy.

Calendar (optional)

Timesewn can show your next calendar event with its start time in each of your cities (Next Event on iPhone and Android, Show Next Event on Mac). This is off until you turn on Show Next Event in Settings, and the operating system then asks for your permission to access your calendars. While it is on, the app looks at the events in your calendars for the next 24 hours, on your device, refreshing about once a minute, and uses each event's title, start and end times, and status, along with your own response to an invitation, so it can skip canceled and declined events. It keeps only the next event, in memory, to show it. Nothing from your calendar is stored, synced, backed up, shown in widgets, or sent to us or anyone else. Turning the setting off, or revoking calendar access in your device's settings, stops it immediately.

Convert Time and Share a Time

Convert Time reads a time in text you select in another app (through the share sheet on iPhone, the text-selection menu or share sheet on Android, and the Services menu on Mac) and shows it in your cities. The text is read on your device and is not stored or sent anywhere. If you start a counter from it on iPhone or Mac, a few words of that text become the counter's name; on Android, only the time and city are filled in. Share a Time creates a picture or text of a planned moment in your cities and hands it only to the app you choose.

Timesewn Pro purchases (iOS and Android)

Timesewn for iPhone and Android is free to download, and Timesewn Pro is an optional one-time in-app purchase. The App Store or Google Play processes the purchase, refunds, and restores, under Apple's or Google's own privacy policy. The app asks the store, on your device, whether your account owns Timesewn Pro (and, on iPhone, reads the App Store's record of your original download to recognize earlier buyers; on Android, a note left on your phone by paid versions before 4.0 does the same), and keeps only whether Pro is unlocked. We never receive your payment details or your Apple or Google account. The stores send us standard sales reports, which we use only for accounting and to help you if you contact us about a purchase. Timesewn for Mac is a paid app with every feature included and has no in-app purchase.

System alarm and reminder scheduling

When you create an alarm (iOS and Android) or a reminder (macOS), or set a counter to alert you when it reaches zero (an alarm on iOS and Android, a reminder on macOS), the app registers it with the operating system's alarm and notification facilities so it can alert you at the chosen time.

Time Hack

The Time Hack (the Hack tab on iOS and Android, the Time Hack window on macOS) asks a public network time server run by Apple, Google, NIST, or Cloudflare for the current time, so it can show the exact time to the second. The request is a standard time query that carries no personal information, it is made only while the Time Hack is open, and nothing is sent to us. The time servers are governed by their operators' own privacy policies.

App permissions

Beyond location, each platform requires a few additional permissions so alarms can reliably wake you. None of these permissions cause Timesewn to send your data off the device.

If you contact us

Timesewn includes a "Contact Us" link that opens a pre-addressed email in your device's mail app. This feature is optional and is only used if you choose to email us. If you do, you are sending information to us directly by email, and we will receive whatever that email contains: typically your name (as configured in your mail app), your email address, and the contents of your message, including any details you choose to provide about your device, your feedback, or a support issue. To help us troubleshoot, the email starts out with the app's version and your device's operating system version filled in; you can remove them before sending. We use this information solely to read and respond to your message. We do not use it for advertising, tracking, or profiling, and we do not sell it. Your email is handled by your email provider and ours, each under its own privacy policy. Please don't include sensitive personal information in your message that isn't needed to help you.

How your information is used

The information above is used solely to provide the app's features: displaying local and target-timezone times, planning across timezones, keeping your counters and timestamps, showing your information in widgets and on your watch, and scheduling and delivering the alarms and reminders you set. It is not used for advertising, tracking, or profiling.

Sharing with third parties

Timesewn does not share your data with third parties for their own purposes. Apart from iCloud sync to your own account, Android backup to your own account, and the copy sent to your own watch, the app does not move your data off the device, and we do not integrate third-party analytics, advertising networks, or tracking SDKs. If you email us (see "If you contact us"), your message is necessarily handled by the email providers that carry it, but we do not otherwise share its contents.

Data retention and deletion

Because your data is stored only on your device and, if you use them, in your own iCloud or Google account and on your own watch, you control it directly. Turning off iCloud sync stops syncing; data already in iCloud can be removed in your device's iCloud storage settings. Android backups can be managed in your device's settings or your Google account. You can delete individual alarms, cities, counters, timestamps, and reminders within the app at any time, and you can remove all app data by deleting the app from your device and your watch. Removing a widget, complication, or tile removes that display. Revoking location or calendar permission in your device's settings stops the app's access immediately.

If you have emailed us, we keep that correspondence only as long as needed to address your request and for our reasonable records, and you can ask us to delete it by contacting us at the address below.

Children's privacy

Timesewn is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted at this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us here.

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Portell Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how the Portell app ("Portell," "the app," "we," "us") handles your information, on the iOS, Android, and macOS versions. Portell is a private journal designed to keep your data on your device. Where the app works differently between platforms, that's called out below.

Summary

Portell has no account, no ads, and no trackers. You don't sign in to use it. Everything you put in the app — your journal entries, any photos you attach, and your first name — stays on your device by default. The app does not operate any server that receives your data, and it uses no third-party analytics or advertising. Portell on Mac has no network access at all; on iPhone and Mac, anything that leaves the device goes only through iCloud, which Apple handles on your behalf. The only ways your data leaves the device are ones you start yourself: turning on iCloud (on iOS and macOS) or Android's backup, exporting your journal, or emailing us. On iPhone and Android, Portell Pro is bought through the App Store or Google Play, and the app only learns whether you own it.

Portell on iPhone and Portell on Mac are separate apps that can share one journal through your own private iCloud storage. That sharing is between your own devices only — we are never a party to it, and we never receive your entries or photos.

Information the app uses

Your journal entries

The lines you write, together with their date and time, are stored on your device so they appear in your journal. They are not transmitted off the device by the app unless you turn on iCloud or Android backup (below) or export them yourself.

Photos you attach

If you attach a photo to an entry, Portell copies it into the app's own storage on your device. The app does not browse, catalog, or upload your photo library. Attached photos are treated the same as your entries — kept on device, included in iCloud or a cloud backup only if you enable it, and included in an export only when you run one.

Your name

The first name you enter is stored on your device and used only to greet you on the home screen and to title your exports (for example, "[your name]'s Portell Journal"). It is not transmitted off the device by the app.

iCloud sync and cloud backup (optional)

Portell keeps your journal on your device unless you turn on iCloud or your platform's cloud backup. If you do, your entries and photos are stored in your own private cloud account, accessible only to you. We do not operate that storage, cannot see its contents, and never receive your entries or photos.

On iPhone and Mac, this is what lets one journal appear on both: each app reads and writes the same private iCloud storage under your own Apple Account, so a line you write on one device shows up on the other. Nothing is shared with anyone else, and no copy is sent to us. Turn iCloud off and each app simply keeps its journal on that device.

Biometric unlock (optional)

You can optionally lock Portell with your device's biometrics — Face ID or Touch ID on iOS, fingerprint/face unlock on Android, or Touch ID on a Mac that has it. This uses the operating system's on-device authentication; the app is only told whether authentication succeeded. Your biometric data is handled entirely by the operating system, never leaves your device, and is never accessed by or shared with us.

Daily reminder (optional)

If you turn on the daily reminder, Portell schedules a local notification on your device at the time you choose. The reminder is generated on the device; no reminder data is sent to us or anyone else.

Exports

When you export your journal to a spreadsheet or PDF file, the file is created on your device — and handed to your device's share sheet on iOS and Android, or written to the folder you pick in the save panel on macOS — so you can save or send it wherever you choose. The export is not sent to us; where it goes next is up to you.

Portell Pro purchases (iOS and Android)

Portell for iPhone and Android is free to download, and Portell Pro is an optional one-time in-app purchase. The App Store or Google Play processes the purchase, refunds, and restores, under Apple's or Google's own privacy policy. The app asks the store, on your device, whether your account owns Portell Pro (and, on iPhone, reads the App Store's record of your original download to recognize earlier buyers; on Android, a note left on your phone by paid versions before 2.0 does the same), and keeps only whether Pro is unlocked. We never receive your payment details or your Apple or Google account. The stores send us standard sales reports, which we use only for accounting and to help you if you contact us about a purchase. Portell for Mac is a paid app with every feature included and has no in-app purchase.

If you contact us

Portell includes a "Contact Us" link that opens a pre-addressed email in your device's mail app. This is optional and only used if you choose to email us. If you do, you send the message to us directly and we will receive whatever it contains — typically your name, your email address, and the contents of your message. We use it solely to read and respond to you, never for advertising, tracking, or profiling, and we do not sell it. Please don't include sensitive information that isn't needed to help you.

How your information is used

The information above is used solely to provide the app's features: saving and showing your one-a-day entries, attaching photos, greeting you by name, titling your exports, reminding you if you ask, and locking the app if you ask. It is not used for advertising, tracking, or profiling.

Sharing with third parties

Portell does not share your personal data with third parties for their own purposes, and it integrates no advertising networks or tracking SDKs. Portell uses no third-party services to function. The only external service involved is Apple's or Google's cloud storage — Apple's iCloud on iOS and macOS, or Google's Android backup on Android — and only if you turn it on, which stores your data in your own account under Apple's or Google's privacy policy. On iPhone and Android, Portell Pro purchases also go through the App Store or Google Play, as described above. If you email us, your message is necessarily handled by the email providers that carry it, but we do not otherwise share its contents.

Data retention and deletion

Your data is stored on your device, so you control it directly. You can delete any individual entry within the app, and you can remove all app data by deleting the app from your device. If you enabled iCloud or cloud backup, your data is also in your own cloud account — iCloud (iOS and macOS) or your Google account (Android) — where you can manage or delete it through Apple's or Google's tools. Because Portell on iPhone and Portell on Mac share one iCloud journal, deleting an entry on either device removes it from both. Revoking photo access in your device's Settings stops the app's access immediately.

If you have emailed us, we keep that correspondence only as long as needed to address your request and for our reasonable records, and you can ask us to delete it by contacting us at the address below.

Children's privacy

Portell is a general-audience journaling app and is not directed at children. It does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted at this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us here.

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DriveVitals Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how the DriveVitals app ("DriveVitals," "the app," "we," "us") handles your information. DriveVitals is a macOS app that reads the health information your drives report about themselves and shows it on your Mac.

Summary

DriveVitals has no account, no ads, and no trackers. You don't sign in to use it. Everything it reads about your drives stays on your Mac, or in your own private iCloud if you keep the history synced. The app's only request to us downloads our public list of drive ratings, and that request carries nothing about your drives. We do not use third-party analytics or advertising.

The one exception is if you choose to contact us. If you use the in-app email link to send feedback or request support, you will be sending us an email directly, and we will receive the information you include in it. See "If you contact us" below.

Information the app uses

Drive information

DriveVitals reads information that your drives report to macOS: each drive's model, serial number, firmware version, capacity, and its health data (SMART), such as temperature, power-on hours, and wear. The app uses this to show you each drive's health and estimated life remaining, and to keep a history of each drive's readings so you can see how it changes over time, including drives that aren't always connected. That history is stored on your Mac and, if you leave iCloud sync on, in your own private iCloud account, where your other Macs signed in to the same account can read it. It is never sent to us or anyone else.

iCloud sync (optional)

DriveVitals stores your drive history in your own private iCloud database, under your Apple Account, so it is backed up and appears on your other Macs. We do not operate that storage, cannot see its contents, and never receive it. Drive details and readings are marked for iCloud's end-to-end encryption, so with Advanced Data Protection turned on they are encrypted with keys only your devices hold. You can turn iCloud sync off in DriveVitals Settings to keep the history on your Mac only.

Health notifications (optional)

If you allow notifications, DriveVitals alerts you when a drive's health gets worse. These are local notifications created on your Mac; nothing is sent to us or through any server of ours.

Exports

When you use Share or Export, DriveVitals creates a PDF or spreadsheet of the drives and readings you choose, right on your Mac, and hands it only to the app or folder you pick. Nothing is sent to us.

Drive ratings list

To estimate life remaining, DriveVitals compares your drive's usage with ratings its manufacturer publishes. The app includes a built-in list of these ratings. If a drive isn't on that list, DriveVitals downloads our full, public ratings list from adventureapps.llc and looks the drive up on your Mac. The download does not include your drive's model or any other information about your drives or your Mac. As with any web request, the server that hosts our website sees your IP address in order to deliver the file; we do not use it to identify or track you. The downloaded list is kept on your Mac so the app doesn't need to download it again for a while.

If you contact us

DriveVitals includes a "Contact Us" link that opens a pre-addressed email in your Mac's mail app. This is optional and only used if you choose to email us. If you do, you send the message to us directly and we will receive whatever it contains: typically your name, your email address, the contents of your message, and the app and macOS versions the app adds to help us answer. We use it solely to read and respond to you, never for advertising, tracking, or profiling, and we do not sell it. Please don't include sensitive information that isn't needed to help you.

How your information is used

The information above is used solely to provide the app's features: showing each drive's health and details, estimating its life remaining, keeping its history, alerting you to problems, and creating the reports you export. It is not used for advertising, tracking, or profiling.

Sharing with third parties

DriveVitals does not share your personal data with third parties, and it integrates no advertising networks or tracking SDKs. It uses no third-party services to function. DriveVitals is a paid app sold through the Mac App Store, which processes your purchase under Apple's own privacy policy; we never receive your payment details or your Apple Account. If you email us, your message is necessarily handled by the email providers that carry it, but we do not otherwise share its contents.

Data retention and deletion

Your drive history stays on your Mac and, if iCloud sync is on, in your own iCloud account. You can delete any drive's history in the app with Forget This Drive, which removes it from your Mac and your iCloud. Deleting the app removes the copy on your Mac; you can remove the iCloud copy in your Mac's iCloud settings. The downloaded ratings list contains nothing about you or your drives. If you have emailed us, we keep that correspondence only as long as needed to address your request and for our reasonable records, and you can ask us to delete it by contacting us at the address below.

Children's privacy

DriveVitals is a general-audience utility and is not directed at children. It does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted at this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us here.