Privacy Policy

This policy explains how Printer — Smart Print (the “app”) handles information. The app is published by Cheese Quake LLC (“we”, “us”). If anything here is unclear, write to contact (at) cheese-quake (dot) com and we will answer.

What we collect

The app has no sign-up and no user account. It contains no advertising SDK, no attribution SDK and no tool that records how you move around the app. It does not collect the advertising identifier (IDFA) and never asks permission to track you across other companies’ apps or websites. We do not sell your information, and we have nothing to sell.

Before version 2.0, nothing at all leaves your device. The app has no backend, and everything it makes stays in its own storage on your iPhone.

From version 2.0 onwards, exactly one thing is processed off your device: the state of your Printer Pro subscription, handled on our behalf by RevenueCat. It is set out in full under Subscriptions and RevenueCat below. It contains no documents, no scans, no contacts and no payment details.

Your scanned pages, imported files, notes and lists are never part of this, in any version. They are not uploaded anywhere, at any point, for any purpose.

What the app stores on your device

Everything the app makes stays in the app’s private storage area on your iPhone, which only this app can read:

• Documents — pages you scan, photos and files you import, notes you type, and the PDFs the app builds from them, together with a small index file holding their names, dates and page counts.
• Lists — your shopping list and travel checklist.
• Preferences — the appearance setting, the printer you paired, your most recent QR code text, and whether onboarding is finished.
• Subscription status — whether Pro is currently active, cached so the app does not have to ask the App Store before it can draw its first screen.

None of this is transmitted anywhere. Deleting a document in the app deletes the file. Deleting the app removes all of it. Whether any of it is included in an iCloud or encrypted local backup is controlled by your own iOS backup settings, not by us.

Permissions the app asks for, and why

Camera

Used only when you start a scan. The camera feed is processed on your device by Apple’s document scanner, which finds the page edges and straightens the result. Images are never streamed anywhere; the captured pages become a PDF in the app’s own storage.

Photos

Used only when you pick images to print. The picker runs outside the app, so the app receives only the specific photos you tap — it cannot browse your library. The app never writes to your photo library.

Local network

Used to find AirPrint printers. The app looks for printers advertising themselves on the Wi-Fi network you are connected to, using the standard Bonjour printing services (_ipp, _ipps, _printer, _pdl-datastream). It reads the names those printers broadcast about themselves. It does not scan for anything else on your network and sends nothing off it.

Contacts

Used only when you choose to print a contact card. Apple’s contact picker runs outside the app and hands back only the one contact you select, which the app lays out as a printable page. The app has no access to the rest of your address book.

Every one of these is optional. Declining a permission disables the feature that needs it and nothing else.

Where your information goes

• To your printer. A print job travels from your iPhone to the printer you selected over your local network, through Apple’s AirPrint system. It does not pass through us.
• To a website, if you ask. The “Web page” feature loads an address you type so it can be printed. That website receives a normal browser request from your device — your IP address and user agent — exactly as it would in Safari. We do not see which pages you open, and that site’s own privacy policy governs what it does with the visit.
• To Apple, for purchases. Subscriptions run through the App Store. Apple processes the payment and tells your device whether a subscription is active. We receive no card number, billing address or name.
• To RevenueCat, from version 2.0. The record of your subscription — and nothing else — so that it survives a reinstall or a new phone. Described in full above.
• To Apple, if you contact support. Tapping “Contact us” opens an email draft in your mail app. Sending it is your choice, and the message reaches us by email like any other.

Text recognition

The Text Recognizer runs entirely on your device, using the recognition built into iOS. The document and the text pulled out of it never leave your iPhone.

Subscriptions and RevenueCat

Printer Pro is sold as an auto-renewing subscription through the App Store. Apple processes the payment in every version of the app, and we never receive your card number, billing address or name. Apple’s handling of your purchase is covered by Apple’s Privacy Policy.

Before version 2.0, the app simply asks the App Store on your device whether a subscription is active and remembers the answer locally. Nothing is sent anywhere.

From version 2.0, we use RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc., United States) to manage subscriptions. It lets us confirm your subscription reliably — including after you reinstall the app or move to a new iPhone — and shows us how many people subscribe overall. RevenueCat acts as our processor under a data processing agreement and may only use the data to provide the service to us.

What RevenueCat receives

• An anonymous user ID that RevenueCat generates for your installation. We do not attach your name, email or Apple Account to it.
• The purchase itself — the App Store transaction for your subscription: which plan, when it started, when it renews or expires, whether a free trial or introductory offer was used, the price and currency, the store country, and whether it was cancelled or refunded.
• Basic device and app context — device model, iOS version, app version, language and region, and the vendor identifier (IDFV). The IDFV is an identifier for our apps on your device; it is not shared with other developers and is reset when you delete the app.

What RevenueCat does not receive

• Your documents, scans, photos, notes, lists or contacts — none of it ever leaves your device.
• Your payment details. Those stay with Apple.
• Your name or email address, unless you write to us yourself.
• The advertising identifier (IDFA). We do not enable RevenueCat’s attribution or device-identifier collection, so no advertising ID is gathered and no cross-app tracking takes place.

RevenueCat’s own handling of this data is described in its Privacy Policy. Data may be processed in the United States; where you are in a region that restricts international transfers, the transfer is covered by the standard contractual clauses in our agreement with RevenueCat.

We keep subscription records for as long as the subscription is active and for a reasonable period afterwards for accounting and dispute purposes. You can ask us to delete them — see below.

Your choices and your rights

The data on your device is yours to remove. Delete a document in the app and the file goes with it. Delete the app and everything it stored — documents, lists, preferences — goes too. Each permission can be withdrawn at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security, or for this app in Settings → Printer; the feature that needed it stops working and nothing else changes.

Subscription records. From version 2.0 there is a record held by RevenueCat, so there is now something to ask about. Write to contact (at) cheese-quake (dot) com and we will, depending on what you ask for, tell you what is held, correct it, or delete it. Deleting it does not cancel your subscription — Apple handles that — and if you later reinstall the app, restoring your purchase will create a fresh record.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA or a comparable law — to access, correct, delete or port your data, to object to processing, and to complain to your local supervisory authority. We will honour those requests regardless of where you live. We ask for no proof of identity beyond the email address you write from, because there is nothing in the record that identifies you by name in the first place.

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, as those terms are used in US state privacy laws.

Children

The app is not directed at children, and nothing in it is designed to collect information about a child. A subscription record created from a child’s device would contain no name, email or contact details — but if you believe a child’s information has reached us and you want it removed, write to us and we will delete it.

Security

Your documents sit in the app’s sandboxed storage, protected by iOS and by your device passcode and encryption. They are never uploaded, so there is no server-side copy of them to be exposed. The weakest link is physical access to an unlocked device, so a passcode and Face ID or Touch ID remain worth having.

The subscription records held by RevenueCat are protected by its own security programme; RevenueCat reports a SOC 2 Type II audit. Traffic between the app and RevenueCat is encrypted in transit.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever starts handling information differently, this page will be updated before the change ships, and the date at the top will say when. Material changes will also be noted in the App Store release notes.

Contact

Cheese Quake LLC
contact (at) cheese-quake (dot) com

See also the Terms & Conditions.