Privacy Policy
B-Day Keeper has no accounts and no servers of its own. The people you keep, their dates, your gift notes and everything else you write stay on your device and in your own iCloud (iPhone and iPad) or your own Google account backup (Android). We never receive them. The only data that leaves the device is listed below, including what Google receives when the free version shows ads.
What stays with you
- Your big days. Names, relationships, dates, photos, gifts and notes are stored on your device. On iPhone and iPad, if iCloud is on, they sync through your own private iCloud database, which only you can read. On Android, the system backs them up to your own Google account so they come back when you reinstall or change phones; on Android 9 and later this backup is end-to-end encrypted with your screen lock. Gift photos are left out of the Google account backup and move only with a direct phone-to-phone transfer or an export file you make yourself. We cannot see any of it.
- Your contacts. When you pick people from Contacts, the app reads names and dates on the device and copies only what you choose into your big days. Your address book is never uploaded, and you can use the app without granting access. On Android this is the Contacts permission, which you can turn off at any time in system settings.
- Reminders. Reminders are scheduled as local notifications on your device. Nothing is sent to us to deliver them.
- Calendar, widgets and Search. If you turn on the calendar option, the app writes your big days into a calendar on your device. On Android this is a local calendar on the device, created with the Calendar permission. Turning the option off removes it. Widgets, and Spotlight search on iPhone and iPad, read from the same data on the device.
- Privacy Lock. Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode is checked by iOS itself; on Android your fingerprint, face or screen lock is checked by Android itself. The app only learns whether it succeeded.
- Your settings. Reminder time, appearance and every other preference stay on the device.
Purchases
B-Day Keeper is free to start. Unlocking more big days is a one-time purchase or a yearly or monthly subscription, handled entirely by Apple. We use RevenueCat to check whether a purchase is active: it receives the App Store purchase record and a random ID created by the app, never your name, email or card details. We receive no payment details, no card numbers and no billing address. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple ID settings.
On Android, purchases are handled entirely by Google Play. The app checks your purchases with Google Play on the device; RevenueCat is not used and nothing is sent to us. You can manage or cancel a subscription in the Google Play app. Purchases do not carry over between iPhone and Android.
Analytics
We use Google Firebase Analytics to count a few anonymous events — for example that a big day was added, that a reminder was delivered or opened, or that a purchase was completed — so we can tell whether the app does its job. These events never contain names, dates, gifts, notes or anything else you write. Firebase uses an app-specific device identifier (not the advertising identifier) and basic device information, and advertising personalisation is switched off for these statistics. You can stop this at any time with Send anonymous usage data in Settings.
Ads
The free version shows a small number of ads from Google AdMob (Google LLC). Any purchase removes every ad. There are no ads in the first three days after you install the app, and never in the screens where you add or edit a big day, pick from Contacts, buy, change settings, export or import, or unlock Privacy Lock, nor in widgets, notifications, Siri or your calendar. Where ads do appear, they are a banner at the bottom of browsing screens, an occasional full-screen ad after you finish something (at most once a day), and a video you can choose to watch for one more big day.
To show and measure these ads, the Google Mobile Ads SDK in the app sends Google: your IP address (used to estimate a general location), device and app information, an identifier for the device, which ads you were shown and how you interacted with them, and performance and crash data of the ad SDK. It never receives your big days, names, dates, contacts, gifts or notes. Google handles this data under its own policy: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
- iPhone and iPad. The app asks for permission to track only once, just before the first banner or full-screen ad is shown. If you allow it, the advertising identifier (IDFA) is shared with Google and ads can be personalised. If you decline, the IDFA is never shared and only non-personalised ads are shown; every feature works the same. You can change this at any time in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
- Android. The SDK reads the Android advertising ID. You can reset or delete it at any time in Android settings › Privacy › Ads; once deleted, only non-personalised ads are shown.
- Europe, the UK and Switzerland. Before ads use any personal data, the app shows Google's consent message (Google User Messaging Platform), with Consent and Do not consent given equal weight. If you do not consent, ads are non-personalised or not shown at all. You can change your choice at any time from the app's settings.
Crashes
Crash reports are collected by iOS. They reach us only through Apple, and only if you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone settings. On Android, crash and stability reports are collected by Google Play and reach us only if you have chosen to share usage and diagnostics with Google.
Children
B-Day Keeper is not directed at children. It has no chat, no user-to-user content and no social features. Ads are limited to content rated PG or below, and categories such as dating, gambling, sexual content, politics and religion are blocked.
Your rights
We hold no data that identifies you, so there is nothing of yours on our side to access or erase. For data Google collects to show ads, use the choices described under Ads or Google's own controls at My Ad Center. Deleting a big day in the app removes it from your device and your iCloud. To remove everything, delete the app and, if you like, its data under iCloud settings on your device. On Android, delete the app; its backup lives in your Google account and is managed in your Google account backup settings. For the anonymous statistics described above, or anything else, write to us and we will help.
Changes
If a future version of B-Day Keeper collects anything new, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will tell you when.