Privacy policy

Brotpan for iPhone · last updated 12 November 2026

Short version: no account, no ads, no tracking. Your words, stars and seams stay on your iPhone. A few things leave the device only to make a feature work — they are all listed below.

Who is responsible

Brotpan is published by Barbara Wilson. Questions about this policy: support@brotpan.info.

What stays on your iPhone

The words you open, the words you star, the seams you keep, and your settings (your language, transliteration, haptics). Nothing of this is uploaded or shared. Settings → Erase everything deletes it; deleting the app does the same.

What leaves your iPhone

When	What is sent	To whom, and why
You search in Find, or open a word that is not built in	The text you typed, your interface language, and the id of the chosen item	Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), to return matching items and their words in 43 languages. No identifier is attached. Wikimedia's own policy applies to its servers: foundation.wikimedia.org.
Each launch	The app's bundle id and version, and a device identifier (the push subscription id, or Apple's vendor identifier for this app)	Our server (api.brotpan.info), to tell whether this version of the app is current. Not used for anything else and not linked to you.
If notifications are turned on	A push token and the same device identifier	OneSignal, our push service, to deliver occasional notifications. You can turn them off at any time in the iPhone Settings.
Only when you press Send in Help and feedback	Your message, its type, and — only if you add them — your e-mail address, attachments (photos without location data, files), and device details (app version, iOS version, model, region setting)	Our server (api.brotpan.info), which forwards it to our support inbox, so a person can read and answer it. If our server cannot be reached, the app hands the same message to your Mail app instead.

What we don't do

No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no advertising identifier, no tracking across apps or websites, no sale of data. The app asks for no location, camera, microphone, contacts or photo-library permission; attachments are picked with the system pickers.

Keeping and deleting

Support messages are kept as long as needed to answer them and then deleted, at the latest after 12 months. The launch check keeps no history beyond ordinary server logs, kept for at most 30 days. To have a support message deleted sooner, write to support@brotpan.info.

Your rights

If you are in the EU or EEA, you may ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, object to its use, and complain to your data protection authority. Write to us and we will answer within one month.

Children

Brotpan is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.