Privacy

The short version: the app collects nothing, and we cannot see your data.

What we collect

Nothing. There is no sign-up, no login, no password and no email address. Clan has no server that receives your data, and its developer cannot see the people, dates, notes, photos, memories or birth details you add. There is no advertising, no advertising identifier, no analytics and no tracking, and nothing is ever sold or shared.

Where your data lives

• On your iPhone, in the app's private storage, protected by iOS while the device is locked.
• In your own iCloud, if iCloud is on for Clan. Sync uses your private iCloud database, which only your Apple Account can reach. The developer has no access to it, and you can turn it off in the app or in iOS Settings.

Apple services

These are provided by Apple under Apple's privacy policy, not by Clan.

Live location and Safe Arrival

You can share where you are with one person at a time — for an hour, until tonight, or until you arrive somewhere you chose, which is when they are told you got there. Only the person you invite through Apple's own invitation sheet can see it, and only while it lasts. Your position is kept in a record in your own iCloud and read from there by their device; when the session ends, the record and the invitation are deleted. Nothing goes to the developer — there is no Clan server — and your location is never shared unless you start a session, never in the background without the system's location indicator. The Private Vault is sealed on your device with a key kept in your iCloud Keychain, so only your own devices can open it.

You can also ask someone who has Clan where they are. The request travels through Apple’s iCloud sharing, they decide whether to answer and for how long, and a request nobody answers is deleted after a day.

Permissions

Clan asks only when you use a feature, and every feature still works if you say no and type things in yourself. Importing contacts uses Apple's own picker, so the app never sees your address book — only the contacts you tap. Adding a birthday, an important date or a plan to Calendar asks only to add events, never to read them; saving someone to Contacts opens Apple’s own new-contact form, so Clan never sees your address book.

Spotlight and sharing

If you search from the Home Screen, iOS can show your people and memories. That index is built on your iPhone and stays there, and holds only what you would recognise: a name, a city, the title of a memory. Clan never posts anything anywhere.

Your control

• Export your whole library as a file encrypted with a passphrase only you know. We keep no copy and cannot open it for you if you forget it.
• Import a file you exported. Records are matched by their own identifiers, so importing twice updates instead of duplicating.
• Delete everything, on the iPhone and in your iCloud, along with your reminders and the Spotlight index.

This website

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Children

Clan is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from anyone.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version is published here with its date, and anything significant is noted in the app's release notes. Questions: [email protected].