Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 19, 2026

Basky is built to be private by default. It has no account, no login, no advertising, and no third‑party analytics or tracking SDKs. The short version: Basky doesn't collect your personal information, and your data stays on your device. The details are below.

What Basky stores, and where

Everything Basky needs to work — your skin type, daily light goal, clothing choice, session history, streaks, the looks and companions you've picked, and whether you've unlocked Basky Forever — is stored locally on your device. None of it is sent to us or to any server we run. We don't operate a Basky account system or a Basky backend, so there's nothing for us to see.

If you delete the app, this on‑device data is removed with it.

Location

If you allow it, Basky uses your approximate (coarse) location for one purpose: to look up today's UV forecast where you are, so your safe‑sun window is tailored to you.

• Your coordinates are sent only to the weather provider (see Third‑party services below) to fetch the UV forecast.
• Basky does not store your coordinates, does not keep a location history, and does not tie your location to any identity.
• Location is optional. If you decline, Basky falls back to a generic default location so the app keeps working, and clearly notes on the Home screen that the UV shown isn't for where you are. (Tap that note any time to switch to your real location.)

Apple Health

Saving to Apple Health is optional and off until you turn it on.

• When enabled, Basky only writes your basking time to Health as Time in Daylight.
• Basky never reads any of your health data.
• Anything written to Health lives in your Health app and is governed by Apple's privacy protections, under your control in iOS Settings.

Basky never writes its vitamin D estimate to Health — that figure is a friendly, general‑wellness estimate, not a medical record.

Notifications

The optional daily reminder is a local notification scheduled on your device. There is no push server and no message is sent to us.

Purchases

Basky Forever is a one‑time purchase handled entirely by Apple's App Store (StoreKit). Apple processes the payment; Basky never sees your payment details. The purchase supports Family Sharing and can be restored on your devices. Your purchase status is determined from your Apple App Store receipt.

Sunshine Circles (optional)

A Sunshine Circle is an optional group you can start or join to "bask together." It is off until you choose to create or join one. Circles are synced through Supabase, a hosted database provider Basky uses as its backend (servers in the United States). There is still no Basky login — your circle identity is an anonymous random ID generated on your device, not an email or account.

When you're in a circle, the only things stored for it are:

• the first name you set for the circle (you choose it; it can be anything),
• your chosen Basky (the cosmetic skin/companion), and
• the time you last caught the sun, so the group can celebrate today's sun together (shown to members as a simple "caught the sun today" ☀️).

A circle is reachable only by its unguessable invite code — there is no public directory and no way to browse circles. Members never see your location, your vitamin D estimate, your streak, your session times, or any ranking — there are deliberately no leaderboards. You can leave a circle at any time from the circle screen, which deletes your member row from the circle.

Bask Together (live) is an optional SharePlay session you can start while on a FaceTime call. During the call, the same minimal details (your first name, chosen Basky, and "caught the sun" status) are shared live and directly between participants through Apple's SharePlay — they are not stored on Basky's server, and the sharing ends when the call does.

Third‑party services

• Open‑Meteo (open-meteo.com) provides the UV forecast. To return a forecast, Basky sends the coordinates being looked up to Open‑Meteo's API. No name, account, device ID, or other identifying information is attached. See Open‑Meteo's terms and privacy information at https://open-meteo.com/en/terms.
• Apple processes in‑app purchases and, if you enable it, stores your Time in Daylight entries in Apple Health. Apple's handling is covered by Apple's own privacy policy.
• Supabase hosts the database behind Sunshine Circles (only if you create or join one). It stores the minimal circle details listed above, tied to an anonymous device ID — never your name, email, location, or health data. See Supabase's privacy policy at https://supabase.com/privacy.

Basky does not sell or rent your personal information, runs no third‑party advertising or analytics trackers, and never shares anything except the minimal circle details above — and only with the circle members you choose, at your initiation.

Children

Basky is a general‑audience wellness app. It is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Your control

Because your data lives on your device, you're in control:

• Turn location, notifications, or Apple Health on or off in iOS Settings or in Basky's own Settings at any time.
• Remove all Basky data by deleting the app.

A note on what Basky is

Basky offers general wellness guidance, not medical advice, and its vitamin D and safe‑sun figures are friendly estimates, not medical measurements. Always use your own judgment in the sun.

Changes to this policy

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

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email andrewkittridge@icloud.com.