Forget Me Not: Privacy Policy

Effective date: 11 October 2026

The short version

• Your people, notes and history stay on your iPhone, and in your own private iCloud only if you turn on sync.
• There are no accounts, no servers, no adverts, no analytics and no tracking.
• The developer cannot see who you keep in touch with, or anything else you store in the app.

Who I am

Forget Me Not is made by Andrew Dodson ("I", "me"). If you have any questions about this policy, write to andrewcjdodson@me.com.

What the app stores

Everything below is kept on your device, in the app's private storage (and in your private iCloud, if you turn on sync):

• The people you add: their name, how often you want to keep in touch, your goal for the relationship, and any notes you write.
• If you choose someone from your Contacts: a copy of their name, their email addresses and a small copy of their photo. These are used to show their picture and to match them to calendar events.
• The contact you log: the date, the type (for example a call or a meeting) and an optional note.
• Suggestions from your calendar: the title and date of an event that looked like time with someone, and who it might involve.
• Suggestions written from your notes (a conversation starter and a goal tip for each person), so they don't need rewriting every time. These are never synced, and are removed when you delete the person.
• Your settings, such as your reminder time and your choice of appearance.

The app's widgets show some of this on your home screen. They read it from the same private storage on your device.

What leaves your device

Nothing reaches me. The app does not send your information to me or to anyone else, and it does not connect to any server of mine (I don't have one).

Your device may back up to iCloud or your computer as part of your normal iPhone backup. That is controlled by you in iOS Settings, and it is between you and Apple.

Optional iCloud sync

iCloud sync is off unless you choose it. The app asks when you first open it, and there's a switch in Settings.

• If you turn it on, your people, notes, logged contacts and calendar suggestions are copied to your private iCloud storage using Apple's CloudKit, so they come back if you reinstall the app or get a new iPhone.
• Your private iCloud storage belongs to your Apple Account. I can't see it, and nor can anyone else apart from Apple, under Apple's privacy policy.
• Your settings (reminder time, appearance and calendar choices) are not synced.
• Turning sync off deletes the copy in iCloud. Everything stays on your iPhone.

Permissions, and what each is for

The app asks for these only when you use a feature that needs them. You can change any of them in iOS Settings at any time.

• Contacts. Used when you sort your contacts into how often you want to keep in touch, or refresh photos and emails for people you added. iOS lets you share only some of your contacts, and I recommend that. The app only reads. It never changes or deletes anything in your Contacts.
• Calendars. Optional. The app reads the last 14 days of events on the calendars you choose, on your device, to suggest "Looks like you saw Jess on Saturday, log it?". You decide which calendars are used. The app never changes your calendar, and nothing is logged unless you confirm it.
• Notifications. Used for reminders when someone is overdue. They are scheduled on your device.
• Siri and Shortcuts. Lets you log contact or ask who you're due to catch up with by voice or through the Shortcuts app. The request is handled on your device by the app. Siri itself is handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.
• Apple Intelligence. If your iPhone has it, the app uses Apple's on-device language model to read messy calendar titles (for example "Drinks w/ T & Jess"). It also reads a person's notes (and the notes from your recent catch-ups with them) to suggest something to talk about and a tip for your goal with them, and reads what you tell Siri when you log a catch-up ("Lunch with Tom and Jess today") to work out who, when and any news. This all happens entirely on your device, and nothing is sent anywhere. For calendar suggestions only the event title is read.
• Background refresh. iOS may briefly wake the app from time to time so that it can look for calendar suggestions.
• iCloud. Only if you turn on sync (see above). iOS may also wake the app briefly when there are changes in your iCloud, so it stays up to date.

What I don't do

• I don't collect, sell, rent or share your information.
• I don't use advertising, analytics, crash-reporting services or tracking of any kind.
• I don't use third-party code libraries that handle your data.

TestFlight

If you install a pre-release version through Apple's TestFlight, Apple collects and shares with me some information under Apple's own terms, such as your email address if you're invited by email, crash reports, and any feedback you choose to send. The app itself adds nothing to that.

Children

Forget Me Not is not directed at children, and I don't knowingly collect information from anyone.

Deleting your data

Archiving a person hides them. Once archived, you can delete them, which permanently removes them and their history. You can also delete a single logged contact from someone's history, or delete the app to remove everything it stores on your device.

If you use iCloud sync, turning it off in the app's Settings deletes your data from iCloud. Deleting the app does not remove the iCloud copy, so turn sync off first if you want that gone too.

If you use iCloud backup, backups are managed in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud.

Changes to this policy

If I change this policy, I will update it here with a new effective date. I will do so before making any change that affects how your information is handled.

Contact

Andrew Dodson, andrewcjdodson@me.com