Privacy policy

Who operates PouchFree

PouchFree is operated by Aleyna İrem Taş Demirel, an individual. This policy covers the app and these information pages. You do not need a PouchFree account.

Records you choose to keep

Local records can include adult confirmation, assessment answers, a saved plan, pouch entries and their times, daily confirmations, optional nickname and costs, goals, a reported nicotine-free start, milestones and preferences. The app also keeps identifiers, time zone and local assessment screen/timing records.

How the app uses them

PouchFree uses your records to show your diary, plan and progress. Assessment drafts are not committed until you save. Logging a pouch saves that action. The app does not upload your personal records to a PouchFree server or enable iCloud record synchronization.

Widgets and Live Activities

The app shares a limited local snapshot with its widget extension. It can contain counts, targets, relevant times, plan day, estimated savings and a seven-day summary. A Live Activity starts when you choose it and can show a timer, count and target on your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island. Anyone who can see that screen may see those details. You can end the activity and remove widgets.

Apple Watch

If you use the paired Watch app, Apple WatchConnectivity transfers a limited progress summary and actions between your devices. This can include counts, targets, timer information, breathing-session times and your reported outcome. Pending actions remain on the Watch until the phone processes them. Complications can show limited progress on the watch face. PouchFree does not use a cloud backend for this transfer.

Subscriptions

StoreKit communicates with Apple to load products, process purchases, restore them and verify access. PouchFree receives signed purchase information, not your payment-card details. Apple applies its own privacy policy. Deleting records or removing the app does not cancel a subscription.

Subscription analytics with RevenueCat

Apple sends subscription transaction events to RevenueCat, our subscription service provider. These can include product and transaction identifiers, purchase dates, trial and renewal status, expiry or refund information, price, currency and storefront. We use these records to verify subscription transactions and understand purchases, trials and renewals.

RevenueCat assigns an anonymous customer identifier. We do not send your name, email, diary, assessment answers, goals or health records to RevenueCat, and do not connect this identifier to your local profile. No RevenueCat SDK is embedded in the app. This processing does not use advertising identifiers or track you across other apps or websites for advertising.

Subscription records are separate from your diary. Deleting local records or removing the app does not delete records held by Apple or RevenueCat, or cancel a subscription. Contact support about access, correction or deletion of subscription records. We may need a transaction reference to locate them. Do not send payment-card details or a full diary. Records are retained only as needed for subscription operation, reporting and applicable obligations. Apple may retain its records under its own policy.

Optional reminders

The trial reminder is off by default. If you turn it on and allow notifications, the app can schedule a local reminder two days before a verified seven-day weekly trial ends. The device stores its generic text, time and transaction reference. No diary is included. Delivery depends on device settings. Turning it off removes that reminder; it does not change billing.

Personal reminders and local summaries

Optional risk-time reminders use repeated hours in your saved pouch records from the last fourteen complete days. The app stores consent, quiet hours and recent scheduled times locally. It plans at most one generic reminder per day, up to seven days ahead and before verified Premium access expires. Turning them off removes these reminders.

Other support reminders are also off by default and can be enabled separately. They use your saved plan, recorded entries, confirmed past days, chosen check-in times, the last time you opened the app and a delay timer you explicitly start. Preferences, recent reminder identifiers and times stay on your device. The app schedules up to three of these reminders per day, up to fourteen days ahead, outside quiet hours and before verified Premium access expires. A background refresh can update the schedule when iOS allows it. Notification text can appear on your Lock Screen. These timers do not verify abstinence or health changes.

Reports are calculated on your device. If you choose the optional focus suggestion on a compatible device, Apple's on-device model receives only the report's numeric facts and chooses a focus and a suggested tool. Displayed facts use the app's templates. Your nickname and free text are not included. If the model is unavailable, the factual summary still works. PouchFree uses no hosted AI service.

Sharing, backups and removal

A progress image leaves the app only when you choose a destination in the system share sheet. The recipient handles that copy. Device backups may include app data, and restoring a backup may restore it. Offloading can retain data. Removing the app removes its app-local records; manage backups and shared copies separately. PouchFree has no server copy of your diary to retrieve or erase.

Exporting and deleting local records

The data settings screen lets you export a JSON copy to a destination you choose. The file may contain sensitive records; keep it somewhere you trust. Confirmed deletion removes local records and clears the app's widget snapshot, Live Activities and scheduled notifications. The paired Watch clears its copy after it receives the reset. Exported files, device backups, shared copies and Apple's purchase records are separate. Deleting local data does not cancel a subscription. Apple and RevenueCat subscription records are handled separately as described above.

Tracking and support

PouchFree has no advertising SDKs and does not track you across other apps or websites for advertising. RevenueCat processes subscription transactions as explained above. If you email support, the operator and email provider process your address, message and attachments to respond. Send only what is needed; do not send a full diary or payment-card details. Support correspondence is kept only as needed to handle the request and any applicable obligations.

Your privacy choices

You can contact the operator about information you send to support, ask to access, correct or delete it, or raise a concern with your data protection authority. The rights available depend on applicable law. The operator cannot access the diary stored on your device. You can withdraw notification permission in device settings.

Adults and changes

PouchFree is intended for adults aged 18 and over. It is a tracking and planning tool, not a medical service. This policy will be revised when information handling changes. The date on this page identifies the published version.