Privacy Policy

The short version

Rounds doesn’t have accounts, doesn’t run analytics, doesn’t show ads, and doesn’t use any third-party tracking or SDKs. The only thing Rounds handles is the content you create: the things you track, when you last did them, and, if you share a household, the names of the people you share with. All of it lives in your own iCloud account, using Apple’s CloudKit. I never see it, receive it, or store a copy of it myself.

Information Rounds handles

Rounds handles only the content you create:

• Item names and categories: whatever you name the things you track (for example “Change car oil” or “Descale coffee machine”) and which category you file them under.
• Log timestamps and history: when you tapped to log something, building the “how long since” history the app is built around.
• Household member identifiers: if you invite people to share a household tracker, Apple’s CloudKit sharing shows the participants’ identifiers to each other so the household can see who logged what. This only exists if you choose to invite someone.
• Your name (optional): when you create or join a household, Rounds asks for the name to show next to the things you log (for example “Logged by Alex”). You can skip it or change it at any time in a household’s settings. It is stored in your own iCloud (Apple’s iCloud key-value storage, so your iPhone and Apple Watch share it) and is attached to the entries you log in a household, so the people in that household can see it.
• Your iCloud user identifier: each entry you log carries the anonymous CloudKit identifier Apple assigns to your iCloud account within Rounds. It lets your own devices recognise your entries (so you are not notified about things you logged yourself) and is visible to the people in a household you share, just as CloudKit sharing already shows them each participant. It is not your Apple Account email or name, and it means nothing outside Rounds.

Where it lives

All of the above is stored in Apple’s CloudKit: your own private iCloud database for trackers you keep to yourself, and a CloudKit shared database, visible only to the people you specifically invite, for household trackers. I do not operate a server, I do not have a copy of this data, and I cannot see it. Apple’s handling of iCloud data is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy (apple.com/privacy).

Rounds has no sign-up, no password, and no developer-side user account. Your identity in the app is simply your existing iCloud account.

Apple Watch

The Rounds app for Apple Watch shows and logs the same items, using the same iCloud data as the iPhone app. It does not collect anything extra, has no analytics, and its complications read only the items already on your watch.

Notifications

If you enable them, Rounds sends soft reminder notifications and shared-household activity alerts (for example “Alex logged Oil Change”). Notification permission is requested through the standard system prompt and can be turned off at any time in Settings.

Feedback, purchases, and exports

• Send Feedback: opens your device’s own Mail app addressed to my support inbox. Your message and the address you send it from become visible to me only because you chose to send it. Rounds does not collect or transmit feedback automatically.
• Purchases: Rounds Unlocked is processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. I never see your payment details, card number, or billing address.
• Export My Data: creates a JSON or CSV export of your items, log history, and household name on your device. The app does not transmit it anywhere.

What Rounds does not do

• No analytics of any kind, not Apple’s and not a third party’s.
• No advertising, no ad networks, no ad identifiers.
• No third-party SDKs: no analytics, crash-reporting, or ad libraries.
• No tracking across other apps or websites.
• No developer-side account database, and no password to leak.
• No selling, renting, or trading of any information.

How household sharing works

When you invite someone to a household, you are using Apple’s own CloudKit sharing, the same system behind Shared Albums and shared Notes. Everyone in that household can see the tracked items, their elapsed times, and who logged what, for anything shared to that household. Removing yourself or someone else from a shared household is available in the app’s Household screen, and Apple’s CloudKit sharing then stops that person’s access.

Retention and deletion

Because everything lives in your own iCloud account, you control retention directly:

• Deleting an item or log entry in the app deletes it from your iCloud data.
• Deleting the app does not by itself delete your iCloud data. It remains in your iCloud account until you delete it in the app or through iCloud’s own data-management tools.
• Leaving a shared household removes your access to its shared items. It does not delete the household for its other members.

Children

Rounds is a general home and personal upkeep app, not directed at children, and not intended for use by children under 13. I do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.

Your rights

Because I never receive or store a copy of your data, you already control it directly: view, edit, delete, and export your items and history in the app, and manage the underlying storage through your iCloud account settings. For anything else, contact me at the address below.

EU residents (GDPR): your content is processed solely to provide the app’s own functionality, under the lawful basis of performance of the service. There is no marketing use, no profiling, and no automated decision-making.

California residents (CCPA): I do not sell or share personal information, and there is no advertising or data-broker relationship to opt out of.

Changes to this policy

If I make a meaningful change to what Rounds collects or how it is handled, I will update the effective date above and, for significant changes, note it in the app’s release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to nicolae.nicolaev@oktocore.com.