Privacy
Where your
data lives.
This page describes what each of our apps asks for, and where that information goes, as they ship today. If an app starts doing something different, this page changes before it does.
Last updated 14 October 2026
How our apps work today
- No accounts. None of our apps currently ask you to sign up or sign in.
- No servers of ours. We don’t operate a backend for these apps. Where one syncs, it talks only to your own iCloud account, and where one uses an Apple service such as Maps, it talks only to Apple, never to us, and never to anyone else.
- No analytics or advertising. The current versions include no analytics, tracking, or advertising SDKs, and no identifiers for advertisers.
- Your content stays with you. It lives on your device. Where an app syncs, it goes through your own iCloud account, under arrangements between you and Apple that we can’t see into.
So as things stand, there is no personal data about you sitting on our side. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with third parties for advertising.
App by app
Each app asks only for what it needs to do its job. Here is what that means in each one as it ships today, and where the data goes.
Scratchbook
Your park collection, wildlife sightings, the dates you add, favorites, and field notes are stored on your device. iCloud Sync is on by default where your device is signed into iCloud, and you can turn it off per device in Settings; while it is on, all of that travels through your own Apple Account so it follows you to a new phone.
You can add one photo to each park or species. Apple’s photo picker gives the app only the photo you choose, not your library. Photos stay on your device; with iCloud Sync on, a copy is also kept as an asset in your own private iCloud database, which counts against your iCloud storage and is removed when you delete the photo. If a photo carries the date and place it was taken, the app keeps those details with it: the date so it can offer it as a suggestion you can accept or ignore; the place is not used for anything today. They are removed with the photo, and sync with the rest of your collection while iCloud Sync is on.
If you save a poster or reveal video, iOS asks for permission to add it to your photo library. That lets the app add what you save, and nothing more; it cannot read your library.
Sorting parks by distance is optional. If you use it, the app asks for your approximate location while you have it open, works out which parks are nearest, and keeps nothing; your current location is never saved, synced, or sent anywhere. Decline it and every other sort still works.
In-app purchases are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details.
Another Cup?
Your drink history, including the times, sizes, and caffeine amounts you log, saved drinks, favorites, and preferences are stored on your device. This includes any optional answers you give to personalize your caffeine estimates, such as your age group, smoking status, pregnancy, or use of hormonal contraception. We do not receive those answers or your drink history.
iCloud sync is on by default where your device is signed into iCloud. Your history, saved drinks, and preferences sync through your own private iCloud database so they can follow you between devices. You can turn sync off per device in Settings. That stops syncing new changes; it does not delete an existing iCloud copy. Turning it back on reconciles your local and iCloud data.
Caffeine forecasts are calculated on your device. On supported devices, the app can use Apple's on-device Apple Intelligence model for short summaries of your logged drinks and suggestions when entering custom drinks. Home Screen widgets read a local copy of your log and settings. With your permission, reminders are scheduled locally on your device.
Calendar images leave the app only when you choose to save or share them. The app passes the image to the destination you select in the iOS share sheet. Monthly and annual subscriptions are handled by Apple, and the app checks your entitlement with Apple. We never see your payment details.
Daisy Journal
Your check-ins, notes, and journal are stored on your device. iCloud sync is on by default where your device is signed into iCloud, and you can turn it off per device in Settings; while it is on, your check-ins travel through your own iCloud account so they follow you between your devices. With your permission, the app can save check-in images and journey videos to your photo library, and can send you reminders at a cadence you choose; those notifications are scheduled locally on your device.
Daisy Journal Unlimited, a monthly or annual subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details, and the app checks what you are entitled to with Apple on each device rather than storing it with us.
Peach & Pea
Peach & Pea uses your location, while you have the app open, to work out which of seven US growing regions you are in. It asks for kilometre-level accuracy only, and your coordinates are never saved: the app keeps the resulting region, or a region you pick by hand, and nothing more. That preference is stored on your device.
What Apple tells us
Because our apps are sold through the App Store, Apple gives us aggregate sales figures and, if you have agreed to share diagnostics with developers, anonymised crash reports. These come to us in a form that doesn’t identify you individually.
Deleting your data
Deleting an app removes its data from your device. Where an app syncs through iCloud, you can remove that copy in Settings → your name → iCloud. Some of our apps also offer an in-app reset, which erases your history and starts you over.
Children
Our apps aren’t directed at children, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them.
This website
smalltrailstudio.com counts visits with Vercel Web Analytics, run by Vercel, the company that hosts the site, so we can see which pages people read. It doesn’t use cookies to identify you, and it doesn’t follow you across other sites. Each page view is recorded anonymously with the page’s address, the link that brought you, an approximate location (country, region and city), and your browser, operating system and device type. To tell one visitor from another within a day, Vercel works out a hash from the incoming request and discards it after 24 hours. We see totals, not who anyone is.
This covers the website only. None of it reaches our apps, which still include no analytics.
Changes to this policy
The studio is young and the apps are still growing. We may add things that change the picture above: optional accounts, iCloud sync in an app that doesn’t have it yet, or crash and usage reporting to help us fix what breaks.
If we do, we’ll update this page and the App Store privacy labels by the time that version ships, and change the date at the top. Where a new feature involves collecting something about you, we’ll ask before turning it on rather than switching it on quietly.
Get in touch
Questions about any of this are welcome. Write to support@smalltrailstudio.com and a person will answer.