Privacy Policy
Last updated 2 August 2026
Dane collects nothing. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no third party. Everything you capture stays in your own iCloud and on your own devices.
The short version. The developer of Dane cannot see your photographs, your videos, your recordings, your notes, your locations or your child's name. There is no mechanism by which he could — the app makes no network calls except to Apple's own services, on your behalf, using your own iCloud account.
Who this policy is from
Dane is made by Andrew Ranley, an individual developer, and is distributed as an unlisted app — it is not searchable on the App Store and is installed only by people given a direct link.
What Dane stores, and where
Dane is a private diary for one child. What you put into it is stored in three places, all of them yours:
- On your device, in the app's own storage.
- In your iCloud account, in a private CloudKit database belonging to your Apple ID. Apple's iCloud terms and privacy policy govern that storage.
- In your iCloud Drive, as an ordinary folder of photos, videos, audio files and plain-text files that you can open in the Files app or in Finder without Dane installed. This is deliberate: your archive is designed to outlive the app.
None of these is under the developer's control and none is accessible to him.
What Dane sends, and to whom
Nothing is sent to the developer, ever. Dane has no backend. It makes no network requests to any server operated by the developer or by any third party.
The only network activity is with Apple's own services, using your account:
- iCloud / CloudKit — to sync your diary between your devices and to share it with people you invite.
- Apple Maps geocoding — if you allow location access, to turn coordinates into a place name such as "Brooklyn, NY".
- Apple Push Notification service — used by iCloud to tell your devices that something has changed.
Sharing with other people
You may invite family members to your diary. When you do, Apple's CloudKit sharing gives those specific people — addressed individually by email or phone number, never by a public link — access to your diary's contents. You choose who; you can remove anyone at any time. The developer is not a party to this and cannot see who you have invited.
When someone is removed, their access ends. Content they added stays in your diary, still credited to them. A copy of the archive may remain on their own device, which they are free to keep or delete — the app tells them so plainly rather than pretending otherwise.
Permissions Dane asks for, and why
- Camera — to take photographs and video inside the app.
- Microphone — to record voice notes.
- Photo library — to import existing photos and video, and (with your permission) to save what you capture in Dane to your own camera roll.
- Speech recognition — to transcribe voice notes. Transcription runs entirely on your device. Dane requires on-device recognition, so your recordings are not sent to Apple for transcription. iOS shows a standard system message about speech data when it asks for this permission; it is Apple's wording and cannot be replaced.
- Location — optional, used only to label an entry with where it happened. Dane never tracks you in the background and works fully without it.
- Notifications — optional, and used for exactly one thing: a weekly reminder of a memory from the past. Notifications are scheduled locally on your device.
Every one of these is optional in the sense that declining it disables a feature rather than the app.
What Dane does not do
- No analytics, telemetry or usage measurement of any kind.
- No crash reporting services.
- No advertising, no ad identifiers, no tracking across apps or websites.
- No third-party SDKs or libraries. Dane uses Apple's frameworks and nothing else.
- No accounts, no passwords, no sign-up, no email list.
- No selling or sharing of data — there is no data held to sell.
Children
Dane is a tool for parents and family members to record memories about a child. It is intended for use by adults and is not directed to children under 13. Dane does not collect personal information from anyone, children included. Content about your child is yours, stored in your iCloud, visible only to people you invite.
Keeping and deleting your information
You control all of it. You can delete individual entries in the app; deleted items are
recoverable for 30 days and their underlying files are moved aside rather than destroyed, so
nothing is lost by accident. You can export your entire diary as a dated .zip at any
time. To remove everything, delete the Dane folder from iCloud Drive and delete the app; to remove
the synced copy, delete the app's data from iCloud in your device's Settings. Because the developer
holds none of it, there is no one to send a deletion request to.
Security
Your diary is protected by your Apple ID and by iCloud's own encryption in transit and at rest. Dane offers an optional Face ID lock. As the developer holds no copy of your data, there is no developer-side breach that could expose it.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. Because Dane collects nothing, any change is likely to be a clarification rather than a new practice.
Contact
Questions about this policy: support@dane42.com