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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Call Ya Mother ("the App") handles information when you use it. The App is published by Human Industries, LLC ("we," "us," or "our"), which is the data controller for the information described here.

Call Ya Mother is designed to keep your information on your own devices. We do not operate servers that store your personal data, and we cannot access the contacts or reminders you create in the App.

1. Information the App Uses

There are two kinds of information involved in using the App, and the difference between them is the most important thing on this page. Nearly everything stays with you. A small, pseudonymous slice reaches us.

Information that stays with you — we never receive it

When you choose someone from your device's address book, the App stores that person's name and phone number so it can show the reminder and place the call. Alongside it, the App stores the reminder schedules and notification preferences you set, any groups you create, any notes you write, and the record of check-ins you log.

All of that stays within the App on your device and, if you have iCloud switched on, in your own iCloud account. It is never transmitted to us or to any third party. We have no access to it, no keys to it, and no technical means of retrieving it. For this information we are not the data controller — you are the one holding it, and Apple's terms govern the iCloud copy. See Apple's Privacy Policy and Section 3 below.

Information we do receive

To understand how the App is used overall and to improve it, the App uses TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service. These signals are pseudonymous: each is tied to a one-way, non-reversible identifier derived from your installation rather than to your name, email address, phone number, or any account. No advertising identifier is used, and the signals are not used to track you across other apps or websites. We cannot work backwards from that identifier to you — but because it stays the same for your installation, data protection law still treats it as personal data. That is why this policy states a legal basis for it in Section 9 — which differs depending on where your device's region is set — and gives you the matching right in Section 13, to object or to withdraw your consent.

These are the events the App sends, in full:

• Session start — recorded automatically by TelemetryDeck when you open the App.
• A contact was added, and whether it was imported from your address book or entered by hand. The contact itself is never included.
• A group was created. Not its name, and not who is in it.
• A check-in was logged. Not who with, not when you spoke, and not anything you wrote.

Each of those signals also carries general technical and context details that the TelemetryDeck SDK attaches automatically. These include your device model and screen characteristics, iOS version, App version and build, language, region, timezone, and color scheme; details of your device's accessibility settings, such as whether you use larger text, bold text, or reduced motion; the date and time context of each signal, such as the day of the week, whether it was a weekend, and the hour of the day; and usage-pattern measures such as how many sessions you have had, how long they typically last, and how many distinct days you have used the App.

This is not a complete list. The SDK attaches a wider set of these details than the examples above, and TelemetryDeck describes them in its own developer documentation. We do not use the accessibility details to draw conclusions about you, and we do not query or filter our analytics by them.

The region in that list is your device's own region setting — a preference you choose in your device's Settings, not a measurement of where you are. Country is not sent by the App at all. When the App sends a signal, your device's IP address reaches TelemetryDeck's servers, as it does with any internet connection. TelemetryDeck does not use it to determine your country or any other location, and it is not included in the analytics we can see. An IP address is itself personal data, so we would rather say plainly that one is processed at that moment than leave it unmentioned.

Support correspondence. If you email us, we receive whatever you choose to put in that email — at minimum your email address and your message. We use it to answer you and nothing else.

Subscription purchases. If you buy a subscription, Apple processes the payment. The App does not receive, collect, or store your payment card details, your billing address, or any payment credentials. It also sends us no signal at all when you subscribe, renew, or cancel: whether a subscription is active is worked out on your device from Apple's own records and stays there. What reaches us is the ordinary sales reporting Apple gives every developer in App Store Connect — units, proceeds, and country-level totals. It is aggregated, it identifies nobody, and we cannot connect it to an installation, a device, or a person.

The App does not collect payment information, precise location, health data, browsing history, or advertising identifiers. The App contains no advertising, and your contacts, reminders, notes and other personal content are never included in analytics and are never transmitted to us.

2. How Your Information Is Used

Information in the App is used solely to operate its core features: reminding you to call the people you have chosen and initiating those calls. It is not used for any other purpose.

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information. We have no ability to do so, because we never receive it.

3. Data Storage and Syncing

Your App data is stored on your device. If you have iCloud enabled, it also syncs through Apple's iCloud service so your reminders stay consistent across your devices. This uses CloudKit's private database, which means it lands in your own iCloud account rather than anywhere we control.

This syncing takes place entirely within your own iCloud account. Data is transmitted and stored by Apple under Apple's security practices and privacy policy, and the developer has no access to it. We cannot view, retrieve, or export your data.

You can stop syncing at any time by disabling iCloud for Call Ya Mother in your device's Settings.

4. Who Else Receives Data

Three companies are involved in running the App and this website. Each is named here with what it actually does.

• TelemetryDeck — the recipient of the App's analytics data. It receives the pseudonymous signals described in Section 1 and nothing else. Its handling of that data is governed by its Privacy Policy.
• Apple — distributes the App, provides the frameworks it uses for contacts and notifications, stores your iCloud copy, and acts as merchant of record for any subscription you buy. Apple is a separate controller for your App Store account and purchase data, governed by Apple's Privacy Policy. We receive no payment details from Apple.
• Vercel — hosts callyamother.com. It handles ordinary web requests for the pages you are reading. See Section 16.

That is the complete list. The App integrates no advertising networks and no other third-party services or software development kits. We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with advertisers, and we run no ad SDKs.

We have a written agreement with TelemetryDeck, executed on September 1, 2026. Under that agreement, TelemetryDeck does not act as our data processor and treats the data it receives as anonymous from its side. We nonetheless treat this data as personal data in our own hands, and this policy describes it on that basis.

5. Your Choices and Controls

Usage analytics can be turned off. In the App, go to Menu → Settings → Privacy and switch off Share Usage Analytics. On devices with their region set to a country in the European Economic Area they start switched off; on every other device region, including the United Kingdom, they start on. Section 9 explains how that is decided. Once you switch them off, the App stops sending any further signals immediately. The App is fully functional either way — see Section 13 for your right to object or to withdraw your consent, and what we can and cannot do about signals already sent.

At any time, through your device's Settings app, you can also:

• Revoke the App's access to your Contacts
• Turn off notifications
• Disable iCloud syncing for the App

Deleting the App removes its data from your device. To remove synced data, delete the App's data from your iCloud storage in Settings. Because we hold no copy of your contacts, reminders or notes, requests to access, correct, or delete that information are satisfied by these controls. Your formal rights under data protection law, and their limits, are set out in Section 12.

6. Children's Privacy

Call Ya Mother is intended for users aged 13 and older, consistent with our Terms of Use. The App is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Where the applicable age for digital services in your country in the EEA is higher than 13, that higher age applies to you.

Whatever a user's age, we receive no contact details, no account information, and nothing a user writes in the App. Contacts, reminders, and settings stay on the user's own device and in their personal iCloud account — none of it is transmitted to us, and we have no technical means of accessing it. We therefore hold no such information to disclose, correct, or delete. The only data we receive from any user is the pseudonymous usage analytics described in Section 1, which can be switched off.

If you are a parent or guardian and wish to control a child's use of the App, you can revoke its access to Contacts, turn off notifications, or disable iCloud syncing in the device's Settings. Apple's Screen Time parental controls can also restrict installation and use.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Every change is reflected in the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

If a change is material — if it alters what we collect, why, who receives it, or your rights — we will tell you before it takes effect, either in the App or on this website, so that you have the opportunity to review it and to stop using the App if you disagree.

Recent changes

September 22, 2026. Section 1 has been corrected. An earlier version said that TelemetryDeck works out your country from the IP address of your device's connection, and that the resulting country was what reached our analytics. TelemetryDeck has confirmed that it does not do this for the SDK the App uses. Your IP address does reach its servers, as it does with any internet connection, but it is not used to determine your country or any other location, and it does not reach the analytics we can see. The region figure in our analytics comes from your device's own region setting, as Section 9 already describes. This correction removes something we described as collected. Nothing new is collected, and nothing about the App's behaviour changes.

September 2, 2026. Section 4 now describes TelemetryDeck as the recipient of the App's analytics data rather than as our processor, reflecting a written agreement executed on September 1, 2026 under which TelemetryDeck does not act as our processor. Sections 10 and 11 were updated to match. Section 10 now says we will ask TelemetryDeck to erase archived analytics on that schedule, rather than direct it to — that agreement means we are not in a position to instruct TelemetryDeck, and the earlier wording claimed more than we can deliver. The schedule itself is unchanged. We continue to treat this data as personal data in our own hands, and every legal basis, retention period and right described in this policy is unchanged. Nothing new is collected, and nothing about the App's behaviour changes.

September 1, 2026. Section 1 now describes the date and time context that TelemetryDeck attaches to each signal — the day of the week, whether it was a weekend, the hour of the day, and similar. This was already being sent and is not a change to what the App collects; it is a category the previous description did not name. Section 1 previously said that TelemetryDeck's own documentation lists the full set of parameters its SDK sends. That was not right: the documentation describes a subset, and the sentence has been corrected to say so rather than to promise a complete list elsewhere. Nothing new is collected, and nothing is collected from more people. This policy also carries a version number from this revision onwards; the two entries below are numbered 1.1 and 1.0 respectively.

August 28, 2026. Usage analytics now start switched off on devices whose region is set to a country in the European Economic Area, and start on for every other device region, including the United Kingdom. Section 9 describes how the App decides that and what each starting position means for the basis we handle analytics on; Section 12 and Section 13 set out the right to withdraw that comes with it; Section 5 has been corrected to match. Section 1 has separately been expanded to describe the full range of technical, accessibility, and usage-pattern details that the TelemetryDeck SDK attaches to each signal automatically, and to say plainly that the list is not exhaustive — a fuller description of what was already being sent, not a change to what the App collects. Nothing new is collected, and nothing is collected from more people — the effect of this change is that less analytics data reaches us, not more. It shipped in the App on the same date, and this update is the policy describing what the App now does.

August 27, 2026. The App now offers a subscription. Section 1 and Section 9 were updated to describe how subscription payments are handled by Apple and what we do and do not see. Sections 9 and 10 now state a defined retention period of 24 months for usage analytics, replacing the previous open-ended wording. Nothing new is collected. The optional tip jar has been retired, and the analytics signal that recorded a tip has been removed along with it — the App sends us no purchase, subscription, or renewal event of any kind.

8. Who We Are and How to Reach Us

The data controller for the information described in this policy is:

Email is the fastest way to reach us and the right route for any request about your data.

9. Legal Bases for Processing

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we must tell you the legal basis on which we handle each kind of information. This is the complete list.

Where analytics start switched off

The first time you open the App, it reads your device's region setting and compares it against the countries of the European Economic Area. If your device's region is one of them, the analytics switch is set to off. For every other region it is set to on. That check runs once, at first launch, and never again.

This is not based on your location. The App asks for no location permission and uses no location service. It reads a setting you chose yourself in your device's own Settings app, in the same way it reads your language or your time zone — and that setting stays the same whether you are at home or abroad.

What this sets is a starting position, not a gate. There is no consent banner, no prompt, and nothing to dismiss before you can use the App. Once you set the switch yourself, your choice is the one that stands — permanently, in either direction. Changing your device's region afterwards, or travelling, re-decides nothing. You can turn analytics on or off at any time, whatever your device's region is set to, at Menu → Settings → Privacy.

If your device's region is set to the United Kingdom, analytics start on. UK law takes its own approach to analytics of this kind: it allows a service to measure its own use in order to improve it, so long as you are told plainly that it happens and can turn it off freely. This section and Section 13 are how we do that, and the switch is in the same place — you can turn analytics off at any time, and your right to object under Section 13 applies in full. Switzerland sits outside the EEA too, and works the same way.

A few European Union territories that your device reports under their own region code — the French overseas departments, Saint Martin, and the Åland Islands — are counted as EEA regions here, because EU law applies there.

What we process, why, on what basis, and for how long.

What	Why	Legal basis	How long
App usage analytics	To see which features are used and keep improving a small independent app.	Depends on where your device's region is set. In the EEA regions described above, where analytics start switched off, turning them on is your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) UK/EU GDPR — and you can withdraw it at any time. For every other device region, including the United Kingdom, our legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f) UK/EU GDPR — and you can object at any time. Either way, see Section 13.	24 months from collection, after which it is no longer used for analysis or reporting — see Section 10.
Support correspondence	To answer your question and keep a record of what was asked in case you write again.	Our legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f) — running a supported product and responding to the people who use it.	24 months from our last reply, then deleted.
Website server logs	Ordinary records our host generates in serving pages, used to keep the site up and secure.	Our legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f) — operating and securing the site. Not used to build any profile.	Held briefly by our host under its own arrangements. We receive no copy and keep nothing.
App Store and subscription transactions	Apple distributes the App and processes any subscription you buy. Apple, not us, is the controller and merchant of record for this.	Determined by Apple under its own privacy policy. We receive no payment details and no purchase or renewal events — only the aggregate sales reporting described in Section 1, which identifies no one.	Set by Apple.

Why we think legitimate interests is fair outside the EEA

This part applies where analytics run on our legitimate interests — that is, everywhere outside the EEA regions described above, the United Kingdom included. In those EEA regions the basis is your own consent, freely given by switching analytics on, and the balancing question below does not arise.

Our interest is keeping a small, independent app working and knowing which parts of it people actually use. The data serving that interest is pseudonymous and minimal: it contains no contact details, nothing you write in the App, and no special categories of data, and it cannot be used to build a profile of you or to reach you.

Against that, the impact on you is correspondingly low — and you can end it entirely with one switch inside the App, at any time, without losing any functionality. We reviewed the balance on that basis and concluded our interest does not override your rights. If you disagree in your own case, Section 13 tells you exactly what to do — and whichever of the two bases applies to you, objecting and withdrawing consent are the same switch in the same place.

You do not have to provide any of this. Nothing here is required by law or by a contract with us, there is no account to create, and the App is fully functional with analytics switched off. Nothing stops working and no feature is withheld.

10. How Long We Keep Information

• Contacts, reminders, groups, notes and check-ins — kept on your device and in your iCloud until you delete them, or until you delete the App. We never hold a copy, so there is nothing on our side to expire.
• Usage analytics — retained for 24 months from the date of collection. After that period we no longer use it for analysis or reporting. TelemetryDeck may hold archived copies beyond this period under its own storage arrangements; we do not query archived data, and we will ask TelemetryDeck to erase archived data on that schedule. The switch described in Section 13 stops any further data at source, which is the control with the most effect.
• Support email — 24 months from our last reply, then deleted.
• Website server logs — this site runs no server-side code of its own, so it produces no application logs. Our host processes ordinary request data in order to serve pages and protect the site, held only briefly under its own arrangements. We have set up no log delivery, receive no copy, and keep nothing.

11. Where Information Is Processed

Human Industries, LLC is established in the United States, so the limited information we receive — usage analytics and any support email you send us — is processed there.

Analytics are handled by TelemetryDeck, a German company. Every processing location it publishes is inside the European Union, in Germany and other EU countries. Analytics from users in the EEA and the UK are therefore processed within the EU rather than being sent to the United States, and we see only the results in a dashboard.

Your contacts, reminders and notes are not part of this. They never reach us, so they are never transferred anywhere by us; where your iCloud data is stored is a matter between you and Apple.

12. Your Rights

If you are in the EEA or the UK, you have the right to access your personal data, to have it corrected, to have it erased, to restrict how we use it, to receive it in a portable form (data portability), and to object to our using it — which, for analytics, is one of the two rights that matter most here, and has its own section below.

If your analytics are running on your consent — that is, if they started switched off, as Section 9 describes — then the right that matters most for you is the right to withdraw that consent, at any time and without giving a reason. Withdrawing is exactly as easy as giving it: the same switch, in the same place, in the other direction. Withdrawing stops anything further; it does not make what happened before it unlawful.

To exercise any of them, email support@madebyhumanindustries.com. We will respond within one month. If a request is complex we may extend that by up to two further months, and we will tell you within the first month if that happens and why.

There is one honest limit you should know about. Because the App has no accounts and the analytics are pseudonymous, we generally cannot connect a signal to an identifiable person. That means we may be unable to locate, export, or delete one individual's analytics data, as contemplated by Art. 11(2) GDPR. You are not required to give us extra identifying information to make this possible — we would rather not hold it. The effective remedy is the analytics switch in the App, which stops any further data at source.

For the contacts, reminders and notes you keep in the App, the controls in Section 5 give you direct access, correction and deletion without needing to ask us at all.

13. Your Right to Object or Withdraw Consent

Which of these two rights applies to you depends on the basis your analytics are running on, which Section 9 sets out. Both lead to the same switch.

If analytics started switched off for you — devices with their region set to the European Economic Area — then nothing was sent at all until you turned them on. They are running on your consent, and you can withdraw that consent at any time, for any reason or for none at all. Withdrawing is exactly as easy as giving it: the same switch, in the same place, in the other direction. Nothing else is asked of you.

If analytics started switched on for you — every other device region, the United Kingdom included — then we handle them on the basis of our legitimate interests, and you have the right to object to that processing at any time, for any reason connected to your situation. You do not have to explain yourself and there is no consequence for doing it.

We will stop processing your data for analytics on objection or withdrawal. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything we processed lawfully while it was given. Please note the limit described in Section 12: for signals already sent, we may not be able to identify which are yours in order to delete them.

14. No Automated Decision-Making

We do not carry out profiling, and we make no automated decisions that produce legal effects concerning you or that similarly significantly affect you.

15. Complaints

If something about how we handle your data concerns you, please email us first — most things are quicker to fix directly, and we would like the chance. This is not a precondition for anything below.

If you are in the EEA, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in the country where you live, where you work, or where you believe the problem occurred. The European Data Protection Board publishes the list of national authorities.

If you are in the UK, that authority is the Information Commissioner's Office.

16. The callyamother.com Website

This website sets no cookies. It runs no analytics and no tracking scripts of any kind, uses no local storage, and loads its fonts from this site's own server rather than from a third-party CDN. There is no advertising, no tag manager, and no embedded third-party widget on any page. Nothing here identifies you, and there is nothing to consent to — which is why you are not being shown a cookie banner.

The only records your visit generates are the ordinary request logs our host keeps in order to serve pages and keep the site secure. This site runs no server-side code of its own, so nothing here writes an application log. We have set up no log delivery, receive no copy of those records, and never see them. They are not used to build a profile of you or combined with anything else.

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