Privacy Policy
CheckSpector
The short version
CheckSpector collects nothing. It has no network connection of any kind. Your receipt is photographed, read, and checked entirely on your own iPhone, and the app sends nothing anywhere.
There is no account, no login, and no server. The app transmits nothing, so there is nothing for us to see, store, sell, or lose.
What is collected
Nothing. The app makes no network requests. There is no account, no login, no identifier, no analytics service, and no advertising.
This is structural rather than a policy promise: the app contains no networking code at all, and an automated check refuses to build a version that adds any.
Camera and photo access
The app asks for the camera so you can photograph a receipt, and for your photo library if you would rather pick an existing picture.
The photograph is read on your device and then discarded. The app never saves your photo, and never transmits it. The text on your receipt is recognised on the iPhone itself — the image is never uploaded anywhere for processing.
You can refuse either permission, or withdraw it later in Settings → Privacy & Security. CheckSpector will keep working; you will just enter the amounts by hand.
What is stored on your device
If you tap Save to history, the app keeps a short record of that scan — the merchant name printed on the receipt, the date, the amounts, the tip you chose, and the text recognised from the receipt itself. Recent scans only.
That record is written to the app's own private storage with iOS file protection at its strongest setting. If you have a passcode or Face ID set, iOS encrypts the file with a key tied to it, and the file cannot be read while your iPhone is locked — not by us, not by another app. If you have no passcode set, iOS has no key to derive from, and this protection does not apply.
We are not doing the encrypting: this is iOS's own file protection, and the app holds no keys of its own.
If iCloud Backup is switched on, your iPhone's backup includes this file along with the rest of the app's data. That backup goes to Apple under Apple's terms — we never receive it, because there is no "us" to receive it.
Deleting the app deletes the history with it, and you can delete individual entries at any time by swiping.
Data Apple may collect
If you have turned on Share With App Developers (Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements), Apple may share aggregated statistics and crash reports with us. This is Apple's collection under Apple's privacy policy, not ours, and you control it in that setting. It contains no receipt data and cannot identify you.
Purchases
Any purchase made in CheckSpector is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card number, billing address, or payment details. Refunds are requested through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
Your rights
We hold no personal information about you. There is nothing for us to sell, share, or disclose, and no third party receives your data.
Because we hold nothing at all, there is no account to access, correct, or delete, and no request you need to send us. Everything the app has is on your iPhone and under your control:
- Delete a single scan — swipe on it in the history list.
- Delete everything — delete the app, and it is gone.
If you would like to ask us about any of this, contact us at the address below and we will respond.
Children
CheckSpector is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If we ever begin collecting personal information — we have no plans to — we will say so here before it happens, not after.
Contact
Ascent Envision LLC
support@ascentenvision.com