Privacy Policy

1. Who this policy covers

This Privacy Policy explains how Notify ("we," "us," or "our") handles information when you use the Notify iOS app, its support service, and its related website. The developer responsible for Notify is identified on Notify’s App Store listing.

Notify helps you keep an archive of notifications forwarded by automations you choose to configure in the Shortcuts app. It does not sign in to your messaging accounts or obtain your message history directly from another service.

2. Notification content stays on your device

Your selected automation may send Notify the originating app, notification title, subtitle, and message. Notify stores accepted records in a local database on your device. Statistics are calculated on the device from records still in that archive.

We do not upload your notification archive to our servers as part of registration, trial checks, subscription verification, or connection checks. If you voluntarily include notification content in a support message, that content is handled as support correspondence.

Notifications may contain sensitive information or information about other people. Choose the apps you archive carefully and protect access to your device. Notify does not currently provide its own cloud synchronization or guaranteed archive recovery. Local records may be included in device backups according to your system settings and the backup service you use.

3. Information processed by our servers

Notify performs a technical registration at launch and updates it as needed. This does not require a messaging-account login, your phone number, or a profile photo. We process the following information to operate the app:

• Device registration: an app-generated device identifier, a push-notification delivery token, app language and version, registration time, and last activation time. The identifier is stored in the device’s Keychain and may remain after reinstallation.
• Network information: our infrastructure receives your IP address when you connect. The server may use it to determine an approximate country and to operate and secure the service. This is not precise GPS location.
• Trial and subscription information: trial start and end times, purchase transaction identifiers and signed purchase information, subscription status, renewal status, purchase environment, and related verification records supplied by the app or Apple.
• Apple advertising attribution: when available, an Apple attribution token and the attribution result returned by Apple, such as campaign, ad group and keyword identifiers, country or region, and conversion information. We use this to understand whether an installation came from our advertising on Apple’s platform.
• Support correspondence: messages you send to support, our replies, timestamps, delivery and read states, an identifier for the conversation, and a credential used to protect access to it. Your conversation is associated with your app registration; a separate name or email address is not required.

We use these records to deliver requested app services, determine trial access, validate purchases, restore subscription access, respond to support requests, deliver replies, and prevent fraud or abuse. A device identifier is not a guarantee that information is anonymous.

4. Permissions and notifications

Notify does not request access to your address book, precise location, microphone, camera, or messaging-account credentials for notification archiving. It processes the notification fields your configured automation forwards.

Notification permission lets Notify show setup reminders, a first-record message, support-reply alerts, and archive reminders that can also check whether your automation is responding. Setup and connection-check messages are excluded from your archive. A notification-delivery token may be registered with our server; visible alerts remain subject to your iOS notification settings.

You can change notification permission in iOS Settings. To stop forwarding other apps’ notifications to Notify, disable or remove the relevant automation in Shortcuts. Turning off Notify’s own visible alerts does not, by itself, delete or disable an automation.

5. Sharing and service providers

We do not sell your notification archive or send its contents to advertisers. The current app does not include a third-party advertising SDK or request the advertising identifier used for cross-app tracking.

Apple processes information necessary for App Store purchases, subscription validation, advertising attribution, and push delivery under its own terms and privacy practices. Hosting and database providers may process the technical registration, purchase-verification, and support data needed to provide our services. Support personnel can access support correspondence to assist you; they do not gain access to your on-device notification archive through the support service.

We may disclose necessary server-held information when required by law or to address fraud, security incidents, or legal claims. If the business or service is transferred, relevant service records may be transferred with it, subject to applicable privacy obligations.

6. Retention, deletion, and your choices

On-device records

Records are kept indefinitely by default. You can choose a retention period, delete selected records, or clear the archive. Automatic cleanup runs when the app is open or a new record arrives; it is not guaranteed to run at an exact background deadline.

The app’s data-clearing options distinguish between deleting records and resetting local data and setup. Resetting local data does not delete automations from Shortcuts, cancel an App Store subscription, reset the server-assigned trial, or erase your server-held registration and support conversation. Delete Shortcuts automations separately if you want to remove them.

Server-held information

Technical registration, trial, purchase-verification, and support records remain on our servers while needed to operate the service, handle requests, prevent abuse, and meet applicable obligations. The app does not currently offer an automatic retention-period setting for these server records.

To request access, correction, or deletion of information held by us, contact us through Notify’s in-app support. Depending on the request, we may need to verify your association with a device registration or conversation. Limited transaction, fraud-prevention, or compliance records may need to be retained where legally permitted or required. Clearing the local app is not a server-data deletion request.

Your rights may vary with your location and applicable law. We will consider requests under the rules that apply to your information. Information handled by Apple, your backup provider, or another service must also be managed through that provider.

7. Security and international processing

Notify uses HTTPS for app-to-server communication, system file protection for local storage, and Keychain storage for selected credentials and passcode-related protection. An optional app passcode helps restrict access to the app. Your passcode is not sent to our servers.

No device or service can be guaranteed completely secure. Keep your device and software up to date and do not share access with people you do not trust. Server-held information may be processed in countries other than your own by infrastructure providers; applicable safeguards and legal requirements remain relevant to those transfers.

8. Children and other people’s information

Notify is not designed specifically for children. If you are below the age at which you may independently consent to the service where you live, use it only with appropriate parental or guardian permission. If you believe a child has provided personal information to our support or registration services contrary to applicable requirements, contact us.

You are responsible for using Notify lawfully and respecting the privacy and rights of people whose information appears in notifications you choose to archive.

9. Policy updates

We may update this policy when the app or our practices change. We will update the date above and provide additional notice or seek consent where required. A future feature that changes data handling must be reflected in the applicable disclosures.

10. Contact

Open Notify, go to Settings, and select Contact Support. If you cannot access the app, use the developer contact information available through Notify’s App Store listing.

For subscription, trial, and service conditions, see our Terms of Use.