Privacy policy

Who is responsible

The controller under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the app Nearly and for nearly.day is:

The app Nearly

Your countdowns stay on your devices

Everything you create in Nearly is stored only on your iPhone or iPad: titles, dates, notes, checklists, photos and settings. The widgets read it from there. Nearly has no account, no analytics, no advertising and no third-party SDKs, and it sends nothing to servers of ours or anyone else’s. We cannot see your countdowns.

Apple Watch

If you use Nearly on an Apple Watch, your iPhone sends your countdowns directly to the watch over Apple’s connection between the two devices. They are stored on the watch, not with us.

Backups

In Settings you can save a backup: one file with every countdown, its checklist and its photo. You decide where the file goes. If you keep it in iCloud Drive or another cloud service, that provider’s terms apply. If iCloud Backup or a backup on your computer is turned on, iOS or iPadOS also includes Nearly’s data in that backup. Apple is responsible for it.

Permissions

• Calendar, only if you import events: Nearly reads your calendar on your device so you can turn an event into a countdown. It keeps only the events you pick.
• Notifications: reminders are scheduled on your device by iOS or iPadOS. No server sends them.
• Photos: a photo you choose as a background is copied into the app. Nearly asks to add to your photo library only when you save a countdown picture there.
• Live Activity: it runs on your iPhone and is updated there, without a push server.

You can withdraw any of these permissions at any time in the Settings app.

Purchases

Nearly Pro is sold through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles the payment and the data it needs for it, as a controller in its own right, under Apple’s privacy policy. We receive neither your name nor your payment details. The app asks Apple whether you own Pro, and Apple sends us only aggregated sales reports.

Crash reports and statistics from Apple

If you have agreed in your device’s settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple passes us crash reports and usage statistics that do not identify you. This rests on your consent to Apple (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it under Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

The website nearly.day

Hosting

This site is delivered by Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. When you open a page, your browser sends what any visit needs: your IP address, the date and time, the page you asked for, the address you came from, and the type of browser and operating system. Cloudflare uses this to deliver the site and to protect it from attacks and abuse, and deletes or anonymises it once it is no longer needed for that. Without this data your browser could not load the site.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a secure, reliable website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Cloudflare processes the data on our behalf under a data processing agreement. It is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, so transfers to the USA rest on the European Commission’s adequacy decision (Art. 45 GDPR).

No cookies, no analytics

The site sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and uses no tracking pixels or analytics. Fonts and images come from this site itself, so your browser makes no requests to services such as Google Fonts. The countdown you try on the page is worked out in your browser and is gone when you leave.

When you write to us

If you email us, or use “Send feedback” in the app, we process your address, your name if you give it, your message and, for mail from the app, the app version, system version and device model at the bottom of the message. You can delete those before you send. We use all of it only to answer you. You are not obliged to give us any of it, but without your address we cannot reply.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your message concerns a purchase or a contract, and otherwise our legitimate interest in answering questions (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We delete the messages once your request is settled, unless the law requires us to keep them, for example as business letters (§ 257 HGB).

Mail to support@nearly.day is forwarded by Cloudflare to our mailbox at Google (Gmail), where we read and answer it. Our replies are sent through Resend, Inc., which delivers them on our behalf. Data may be transferred to the USA in the process. Cloudflare, Google and Resend are certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, so these transfers rest on the European Commission’s adequacy decision (Art. 45 GDPR).

Your rights

You have the right to access your data (Art. 15 GDPR), to have it corrected (Art. 16) or erased (Art. 17), to restrict its processing (Art. 18) and to receive it in a portable format (Art. 20). Consent you have given can be withdrawn at any time for the future (Art. 7(3)). A short email to support@nearly.day is enough.

We make no automated decisions about you and build no profiles. Because your countdowns are only on your devices, we cannot look them up or erase them for you: you delete them in the app, or by deleting the app.

Your right to object

Where we process your data on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), you can object to it at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR). We then stop, unless we can show compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. An email to support@nearly.day is enough.

Complaints

You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR), in particular in the EU country where you live or work.

Changes

When the app or the website changes, we update this policy. The current version is always on this page. If the English and the German versions differ, the German one applies.