Privacy Policy: Countdown Widgets

Privacy Policy for Countdown Widgets

Last updated: April 5, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Countdown Widgets (“the App”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) handles information when you use our iPhone, iPad, widgets, and Apple Watch app experience.

We designed Countdown Widgets to be privacy-friendly. Your countdowns, themes, and widget settings are intended to stay on your device. We do not run analytics, ads, tracking SDKs, or external user profiling inside the App.

1. Overview

Countdown Widgets lets you create countdowns, count-ups, timers, and home screen widgets with custom themes. The App primarily stores and processes your data locally on your device.

The App does not require an account, sign-in, or cloud profile to work.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information stored locally on your device

The App may store the following information locally so it can function:

Event titles
Emoji/icons you assign to events
Start and target dates
Timer and recurrence settings
Sort order and archive state
Theme and appearance settings
Widget customization settings
Optional background image data you choose for a theme
Local app preferences such as notification settings

This information is stored on-device using Apple’s local app storage technologies. It is also shared locally with the widget extension and watch components through Apple’s App Group container so your widgets and companion experiences can display the same events.

2.2 Information we do not collect

We do not collect, transmit, or sell:

Your name, email address, phone number, or account credentials through the App
Analytics or behavioral tracking data
Advertising identifiers
Crash analytics or telemetry
Contact lists
Location data
Browsing history
Health data
Photos you did not explicitly choose
Your countdown content on our servers

3. Permissions and Device Access

3.1 Notifications

If you enable reminders, the App may request permission to send local notifications. These notifications are scheduled on your device so the App can remind you when a countdown reaches its target.

If notifications are enabled, iOS may locally process limited event information such as:

event title
emoji/icon
scheduled date and time

We do not use notifications for advertising or third-party marketing.

3.2 Photos

If you choose to add a background image to a theme, the App uses Apple’s system photo picker so you can explicitly select an image.

Important details:

We only access the image you choose
We do not scan your full photo library
The selected image is stored locally for your theme/widget rendering
We do not upload the selected image to our servers

Countdown Widgets includes widgets and companion components that need access to your saved events and theme settings.

To make this work, the app and its extensions use Apple’s App Group shared container. This is local device storage provided by Apple so related app components can access the same data on your device.

This sharing is limited to your own Apple device environment and is not a cloud sync service operated by us.

5. Purchases and Apple Services

If the App offers subscriptions or in-app purchases, payment processing is handled by Apple, not by us. We do not receive your full payment card details.

Apple may process information related to:

your Apple ID
billing and payment
transaction receipts
subscription management

Please review Apple’s Privacy Policy for details about how Apple handles that information.

6. Data Processing and Storage

The App is designed so your event data and customization data remain local to your device.

We do not operate a backend service for storing your countdown events.

Please note:

If iCloud Backup is enabled on your device, Apple may include app data in device backups under Apple’s own policies
If you use widgets, iOS may cache rendered widget content locally on your device

7. Third-Party Services

Countdown Widgets does not include third-party advertising SDKs, analytics SDKs, or user-tracking frameworks.

The App relies on Apple system frameworks and Apple platform services only, such as:

WidgetKit
SwiftData / local Apple storage
UserNotifications
PhotosUI system picker
App Store / StoreKit, if purchases are offered

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with data brokers, advertisers, or third-party marketers.

Because the App is designed to function locally, we generally do not receive your countdown data in the first place.

9. Data Retention and Deletion

Your app data remains on your device until you:

delete specific events
remove selected images
reset the app’s local data
uninstall the App

If you uninstall the App, local app data is typically removed by iOS, subject to Apple’s device and backup behavior.

10. Children’s Privacy

Countdown Widgets is not designed to collect personal information from children. Because the App does not require accounts and is designed for local-only use, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the App.

11. International Users

If you use the App outside your home country, the App still follows the same privacy model described here: local-first storage, no in-app analytics, and no server-side storage of your countdown content by us.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the Last updated date on this page. Continued use of the App after changes means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

13. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or the App’s privacy practices, please contact:

Name: Yaroslav Mykhailov
Email: yaroslav91@gmail.com
Website: https://docgpt.ai

14. Apple App Review Compliance Summary

For clarity:

Countdown Widgets does not require account creation
Countdown Widgets does not include third-party tracking or advertising SDKs
Countdown Widgets stores countdowns and theme data locally on-device
Notifications are optional and local
Photo selection is optional and limited to images you explicitly choose
Widgets and companion extensions access shared local data using Apple’s App Group container