Plain English, short on purpose.

Who is responsible

Deskdew is made by Kent Roksvåg, who is the data controller for anything described here. Questions and requests: kent.roksvaag@gmail.com.

What stays on your device

Your working hours, chosen exercises, activity history, end-of-day check-ins, and your selected location are stored locally on your device, in storage sandboxed to the app. We never upload this data anywhere and have no way to read it. It is not additionally encrypted beyond what iOS provides. It is a record of how your working days went, so treat it the way you'd treat anything else stored on this phone.

You can delete all of it from inside the app, whenever you like:Settings → Privacy → Erase all data. It asks once to confirm, then removes your working hours, routine, activity history, check-ins, saved location and cached forecasts from this device. It cannot be undone, and there is no copy we could restore or hand over. Deleting the app removes the same data. Erasing is free and always available — deleting your own records is never a paid feature. Your App Store purchase is not affected either way.

Deskdew does not ask for your name, and there is no free-text field anywhere in the app. Earlier versions had both; if you used either, that data is still only on your device and is removed with the app.

What leaves your device

Weather. To show the forecast, the app sends your selected location (a city you picked, or your device's coordinates rounded to about four decimal places, roughly 11 metres) directly to MET Norway's free weather service (api.met.no). Like any web request, MET can see your IP address alongside the coordinates and logs requests to operate and protect its service. MET says IP addresses for public services are retained for up to 90 days. See MET's terms of serviceand privacy policy.

City search. If you search for a city by name, the text you submit is sent to Apple's geocoding service to find its coordinates. Search happens only when you press Search; it is not sent as you type. Add a country or region when a city name is ambiguous.

Place names. If you tap "Use my location", the coordinate from iOS is passed once to Apple's geocoder to turn it into a label like "Oslo". The label is shown to you; Deskdew rounds the coordinate before storing it or sending it to MET.

Apart from App Store purchase checks described below, that's the complete list. Deskdew does not send your working hours, your routine, your history, or your check-ins.

Turning weather off

Weather is the only feature that contacts anyone on its own, so it has a single, real off switch:Settings → Weather. With it off, neither the app nor the home-screen widget contacts MET at all, and the cached forecasts — the short-lived copies Deskdew keeps to avoid refetching — are deleted. Weather already recorded against a past day stays part of that day's check-in, and is removed by Erase all data along with the rest of your history. Your day still works either way: you lose the weather-aware suggestions, not the routine.

Setup asks before anything is sent. The weather switch starts off, with the explanation next to it, so the first forecast request only happens after you turn it on.

Third-party protection, retention, and choices

Deskdew uses MET and Apple only to provide weather, geocoding, and purchase features you request — never for advertising or tracking. We require any service receiving data from Deskdew to protect it to the same or an equivalent standard as this policy and applicable privacy law, and to use it only to return the requested service, operate and secure that service, or meet legal obligations. If a provider cannot meet that standard, Deskdew will stop sending data to it.

MET states that public-service IP logs may be kept for up to 90 days. Apple controls the retention of geocoding and App Store records underApple's privacy policy. Deskdew cannot read or delete those providers' logs. You can stop all future weather requests with the Weather switch in Settings, stop geocoding by choosing a bundled city and not searching or using GPS, revoke location access in iOS Settings, and erase Deskdew's local data with Settings → Privacy → Erase all data (or by uninstalling the app). Requests about provider-held records should be made directly to MET or Apple; you can also contact us for help.

Location permission

Location access is optional and used only to show local weather. You can search for a city manually and never grant it. The app asks for "While Using the App" access only, never in the background, and defaults to reduced accuracy. A GPS coordinate is sent once to Apple's geocoder for a place label, then rounded before Deskdew stores it or sends it to MET.

Notifications

Reminders are scheduled locally on your device using the system notification scheduler. No push servers are involved and no notification content leaves your phone. They're optional and can be turned off per activity or system-wide at any time.

Purchases

Deskdew Pro is bought through Apple's App Store. The purchase runs entirely between your device and Apple, under your Apple ID and Apple's own privacy policy: we never see your name, payment details, or billing address, we run no purchase servers, and we use no third-party billing services. The app checks your subscription or lifetime purchase locally through Apple's StoreKit and remembers the result on your device. Subscriptions are managed and cancelled in your device's Settings under your Apple ID; refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Analytics and tracking

Deskdew contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party trackers. This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics either.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have rights to access, correct, delete and port your personal data. Because Deskdew has no servers, we hold no copy to produce, correct or erase, so those rights are exercised on the device itself: your data is visible in the app, your schedule and routine are editable in Settings and on the Exercises tab, andSettings → Privacy → Erase all datadeletes all of it on demand (as does deleting the app). Deskdew has no export function; the data is readable in the app rather than downloadable as a file. MET and Apple are responsible for requests concerning records they hold under their policies. If you believe something here is wrong, contact us. You always have the right to complain to your data protection authority (in Norway, Datatilsynet).

Children

Deskdew is a workday tool and is not directed at children. It does not ask for an age or account. If a child nevertheless uses weather, city search, or "Use my location", the same limited network data described above is sent to MET or Apple.

Changes

If the app's data practices ever change, this page and its date will change with them, and material changes will be called out in the app's release notes.