CatchCrop Privacy Policy

1. Who this policy is for

This policy covers the CatchCrop iPhone app. Our website is covered separately by the Mirentha privacy policy.

CatchCrop is published by Mirentha Ltd (“Mirentha”, “we”, “us”), a company incorporated in England and Wales (company number 17207914), registered office 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ. For anything in this policy, contact [email protected].

2. What CatchCrop collects

Nothing. CatchCrop does not ask you to create an account, does not ask for your name, email address or phone number, and contains no analytics, attribution, advertising or crash-reporting SDK of any kind. No data reaches us from the app, so we process no personal data in connection with your use of it.

The app carries no third-party code at all. Its only outside dependencies are two typefaces, Nunito and Bricolage Grotesque, which are bundled files rather than services and are covered by the SIL Open Font License.

3. What the app stores, and where

Everything you enter is held in the app's own private storage on your iPhone:

Your site. A garden name, your last spring frost date and your first autumn frost date, and whether you prefer centimetres or feet and inches.

Your beds and plantings. Bed names, kinds and sizes, which squares each planting occupies, the crop and variety, and the sowing, planting-out and harvest dates the app worked out from your frost dates.

Your jobs. The weekly list, and which of them you have ticked off.

Your journal. Dated notes, and any photographs you attach. Notes are held in the app's database. Photographs are stored as ordinary image files on the device, re-encoded to at most 2048 pixels on the longest edge when you add them.

Deleting the app removes all of it from that device.

4. iCloud sync

The Site tab tells you the truth about this, and it is the answer that counts. Open CatchCrop, go to Site, and look at the Sync row: it says either On or Off, and that is the state your copy is actually in. There is no switch to throw — sync is not a setting inside CatchCrop. It depends on the version you have and on the Apple Account signed in on your device.

When it says Off, nothing leaves your iPhone. Your garden exists on that device and nowhere else, and CatchCrop opens no connection to iCloud at all.

When it says On, your garden is mirrored through the private database of your own iCloud account, which is what lets it appear on your other devices. Sync is between you and Apple; we are not in it. That data is held by Apple under Apple's privacy policy and Apple's iCloud terms. Mirentha has no access to it, cannot read it, and cannot recover it for you.

Journal photographs are excluded from sync either way. Only the text of an entry is ever mirrored; the pictures are not. Photographs are large, the iCloud storage they would fill is yours rather than ours to spend, and quietly filling it would be a poor trade for a feature nobody asked for.

Photographs being excluded from sync is not the same as their never being copied anywhere. They are ordinary files in the app's own storage, so if you use iCloud Backup for your iPhone they are included in that backup, exactly as any other app's files are, and will be restored onto a replacement phone. That is Apple's backup of your device rather than anything CatchCrop does, and it is governed by your own iCloud settings.

5. What the app does not do

No location. CatchCrop does not use location services and contains no location code at all. Your frost dates are the two dates you type in, optionally started from one of a short list of named reference climates that ships inside the app. Nothing looks up your postcode, and nothing infers where you are.

No weather service. The crop library and the reference climates are bundled with the app. CatchCrop fetches no forecast, no frost data and no seasonal advice from anywhere.

No network of ours. The app makes no requests to any Mirentha server, because there isn't one. The only connections it can open are to Apple: the App Store, for the one thing the app sells, and — where sync is on — iCloud.

6. Permissions the app asks for

Notifications. Requested only at the moment you switch on Remind me on the day in Site settings — never at launch, and never if you leave the setting alone. Reminders are scheduled locally on your device for 08:00 on the day a job is due. There is no push server, nothing is sent from us, and nothing goes out for a job you have already ticked off. You can turn them off again in the app or in Settings › CatchCrop.

Photographs. CatchCrop uses the system photo picker, which runs outside the app. The app is handed only the specific pictures you choose and never gets access to your photo library, which is why iOS does not ask you for permission.

CatchCrop asks for nothing else. It does not request your location, camera, microphone, contacts, calendars, health data or motion data, and it contains no tracking permission request because it does not track.

7. Paying for CatchCrop

CatchCrop plans two beds for nothing; a subscription lifts that limit. Apple sells the subscription and takes the payment, and records it against your Apple Account rather than against your phone. Apple's StoreKit tells the app only whether a subscription is active. We never see your payment details, your billing address or your Apple Account.

Apple also processes your download as the operator of the App Store, and, if you have opted in to sharing analytics with developers, may give us anonymised, aggregated statistics such as crash counts and device types. That data comes from Apple, cannot identify you, and is governed by Apple's privacy policy.

8. Children

CatchCrop is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children.

9. Your rights

UK GDPR gives you rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection over personal data held about you. Because CatchCrop sends us no personal data, we hold none in connection with the app, and there is nothing for you to access or erase with us. Deleting the app removes everything it held on that device. Anything of yours in iCloud — whether from sync or from an iPhone backup — is in your own account and managed by you, in Settings › your name › iCloud, where you can also delete it.

If you email us about CatchCrop, we hold your message and address in order to reply, on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering support enquiries; that is covered by the Mirentha privacy policy. You can ask us to delete the correspondence at any time at [email protected], and you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint.

10. Changes to this policy

If a future version of CatchCrop ever collects anything, this policy will be updated before that version ships and the change will be described here rather than buried in a version number. The date at the top always reflects the current text.

11. Contact

Mirentha Ltd, 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom. Privacy questions: [email protected]. For help using the app, email [email protected] or see CatchCrop support.