sun.apps / Flashboard

Privacy Policy for Flashboard

Introduction

Flashboard ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information the Flashboard app for iPhone and iPad (the "App") handles, where it is kept, and how you can delete it.

In short: we do not collect any data. We have no servers, no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party SDKs. We cannot see your displays, drawings, photos or how you use the App.

Information We Do Not Collect

• Personal information: no names, email addresses, phone numbers or contacts
• Your content: we never receive the text, drawings, photos, templates or clock and pomodoro settings you create
• Audio: no recordings and no sound data of any kind
• Usage and analytics: no tracking, no crash or usage analytics, no behavioral data
• Device and location: no device identifiers, no advertising identifier, no location

Where Your Data Is Kept

On your device

Your displays (including the drawings and photos in them), templates, recent unsaved displays, settings and pomodoro statistics are stored on your device. The App's widgets read the same data through a shared container on your device. Recent displays that you haven't saved to your library stay on this device only.

In your own iCloud (optional)

If iCloud Sync is turned on (Settings in the App; on by default), the displays and templates in your library, including their drawings and photos, are also stored in the private iCloud database of your own Apple Account, so they are the same on all your devices. This storage is provided by Apple under Apple's Privacy Policy. Only your devices signed in to your Apple Account can read it; we have no access to it. You can turn iCloud Sync off at any time.

If you sign in to a different iCloud account on your device, the displays and templates already on the device stay there and are added to that account's iCloud, alongside the ones it already has. If you sign out of iCloud, the data on your device stays and syncing pauses.

Photos

When you add photos to a display, you pick them in the system photo picker. The App receives only the photos you choose; it does not ask for access to your photo library. The chosen photos are kept as described above.

Microphone

The microphone is used only if you turn on an ambient light that follows the music. While that light is showing, the App measures the loudness and beat of the sound around you on your device to set the light's colour and brightness. Nothing is recorded, saved or sent anywhere, and the microphone is turned off as soon as the light stops. You can allow or revoke microphone access at any time in the Settings app → Privacy & Security → Microphone.

Notifications and Other Features

• Notifications: if you use the pomodoro timer, the App asks for permission to show reminders when a focus session or break ends. These notifications are scheduled on your device; nothing is sent to us.
• Live Activities, widgets and controls: the pomodoro countdown and clocks on the Lock Screen, Home Screen and in Control Center are drawn on your device from data on your device.
• External displays and Shortcuts: showing a display on a connected screen, or running the App's actions from Siri and Shortcuts, happens on your device.
• Contacting us: if you choose to email us from the App, your Mail app opens a new message; we receive only what you decide to send.
• The App does not use your location, camera, contacts or health data.

No Purchases

Flashboard contains no in-app purchases, subscriptions or advertising. The App does not process any payment information.

Data Sharing and Third Parties

We do not share any data, because we do not collect any. The App uses only Apple's system frameworks and services (such as CloudKit for iCloud Sync); it contains no third-party analytics, advertising or tracking code.

Data Retention and Deletion

We keep no data about you. You are in full control of the data the App stores for you:

• In the App: delete individual displays, templates or recent displays at any time (swipe or select them in the library).
• iCloud: turn off iCloud Sync in the App to stop syncing. To delete the copy in your iCloud, open the Settings app → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage → Flashboard.
• On your device: deleting the App removes all data it stored on the device.

Children's Privacy

Flashboard does not collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13 years of age.

International Data Transfers

We do not transfer any data. Data you keep in iCloud is stored by Apple as described in Apple's Privacy Policy.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

If this policy changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date above and describe significant changes in the App's release notes.

Apple Privacy Requirements

• The App includes privacy manifests (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy) for the App and its widget extension.
• No tracking takes place and no data is collected.

Summary

• Data collected by us: none
• Stored on your device: displays (with their drawings and photos), templates, recent displays, settings, pomodoro statistics
• Stored in your own iCloud (optional): displays and templates, readable only by your devices
• Microphone: used only for the music-following light, processed on your device, never recorded
• Purchases: none; the App has no in-app purchases
• Tracking, analytics, advertising: none