Sweep — Privacy Policy
The short version
Sweep has no account and nothing syncs. Your errand list is kept on your phone. When you add an errand, the words you typed are sent away to be sorted into a category. We keep no copy of them.
What stays on your phone
Your errands, their categories, the ones you have finished, and your settings are all kept on your iPhone. There is no account to create, and nothing is copied to another device or to us.
What leaves your phone
When you add an errand, Sweep sends the words you typed to our server in the United States. Our server passes them to an outside company, whose software reads the errand and decides which kind of store it belongs to. The category comes back to your phone and is saved there.
The words of that one errand are all that travels. Your list as a whole, your settings, and your finished errands stay on your phone.
We keep no copy of what you send. The outside company handles it under its own terms, which set how long it keeps anything.
If the connection fails, the errand arrives without a category and you pick one yourself. The rest of the app works as usual.
What our server writes down
For each request, our server records a short, partial ID for your installation of the app, and a code saying how the request turned out. These notes are kept for 30 days. They let us stop any one installation from making too many requests, and help us find faults. The words of your errand are never written down.
That ID stands for the installation rather than for you. It is not joined to anything else, and it changes if you delete Sweep and install it again.
Location
If you allow it, Sweep uses your location to find nearby stores while you have the app open. Your location is used to carry out that search and is not kept by us or sent to our server. Searching for nearby places uses Apple Maps, so those searches are handled by Apple underApple's privacy policy. You can turn location off and use the rest of the app normally.
Advertising and tracking
Sweep has no advertising, no analytics, and no third-party tracking of any kind.
Children
Sweep is not directed at children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.