Privacy Policy

Who is responsible

Vowtable is published by Alpenlume, the name under which Mariusz Maliszewski — a private individual resident in Switzerland, trading as a sole proprietor — publishes apps (“we”, “the developer”). Mariusz Maliszewski is the controller for the purposes of this policy.

For anything to do with your privacy, write to alpenlume@gmail.com; we answer every message ourselves. Our full postal address is given on request, and is shown with the app on the App Store in the European Union.

What we collect

Nothing. Vowtable has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no advertising identifier, no crash-reporting service and no tracking of any kind. We run no server for the app. We do not build profiles, and we do not sell, rent or share personal information — we do not have any.

The App Store's “App Privacy” label for Vowtable is therefore “Data Not Collected”.

What stays on your device

The information you put into Vowtable is stored only on your iPhone or iPad, protected by iOS encryption and your passcode. That includes:

• the wedding you plan, kept in a Vowtable file that you save where you choose (on your device, in iCloud Drive or in another place in Files): names, date, venue, time zone, currency and menu choices
• the room: its walls, the things in it, the tables and — if you add one — a picture of your venue's floor plan
• your guests' names, households, groups, answers, meal choices, dietary notes, access needs, notes and seats, as you enter them
• your seating wishes, the running order of the day, costs, payments and tasks

If your device backs up to iCloud or a computer, that backup is made by Apple's iOS under your settings and Apple's privacy policy; we never see it. Deleting the app deletes everything it stored.

Files and sharing

Each wedding is a document. It stays where you save it; if you keep it in iCloud Drive, Apple stores it under your Apple Account and its own privacy policy, and if you share it, it goes only to the people you choose. The developer never receives it.

Contacts

When you add guests from your contacts on iPhone or iPad, you pick them in the system's own contact picker; the app receives only the names you pick and never reads the rest of your address book.

Photos and files

A floor plan you add is chosen in the system's own picker; the app receives only that picture or the first page of that PDF, and keeps a smaller copy inside the wedding file.

Camera and room scanning

On iPhone and iPad models with LiDAR, the camera is used only while you scan the room with Apple's RoomPlan. Only the walls and doors it finds are kept, as lines in the plan; no picture or video is recorded or stored, and nothing is sent anywhere.

Seating wishes and Apple Intelligence

Wishes you write, such as “keep two people apart”, are read on your device: by Apple's on-device language model where Apple Intelligence is available, otherwise by a reader built into the app. The names are matched to your guest list on the device. Nothing is sent to the developer, to Apple or to anybody else.

Notifications

If you ask for reminders, the app schedules notifications on your device for the moments of the day. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Printing, PDF and exports

Seating boards, place cards and other printouts are made on your device as PDF. The guest list (CSV) and the running order (calendar file) are also made on your device. They go only to the printer or app you pick.

Find your seat

When you turn on Find your seat, guests can type a name and see only names and table numbers. Meals, notes, answers and access needs are never shown there.

Permissions

Vowtable asks for a permission only at the moment a feature needs it, says why, and works without it where it can. You can change any of them at any time in Settings › Vowtable.

• Camera (only while scanning the room)
• Notifications (only if you ask for reminders)

Apple, Siri and purchases

Purchases are handled entirely by Apple. Vowtable never sees your name, card or address; you buy it on the App Store, and the app itself asks the App Store nothing. Apple's privacy policy (apple.com/legal/privacy) governs the transaction.

Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight. If you use Vowtable's actions with Siri or the Shortcuts app, your request is processed by Apple under Apple's privacy policy, and the app receives only the action and the values it needs to carry it out.

Sharing. When you share something from the app, iOS hands it to the app you pick, which sends it under its own privacy policy. Nothing is sent unless you send it, and we never learn where it went.

If you write to us

If you email alpenlume@gmail.com, we receive your email address, your message and anything you attach, and use them only to answer you. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering, or the performance of our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(f) and (b) GDPR; Art. 31 FADP). Messages are kept for as long as the conversation needs and deleted within 24 months after it ends, unless the law requires us to keep them longer.

Our email is provided by Google (Gmail), which processes messages on our behalf and may do so in the United States and other countries, under Google's safeguards for international transfers, including standard contractual clauses. We share support messages with nobody else.

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us what personal data we hold about you (usually none), and have it corrected, deleted or handed to you. In particular:

• Switzerland (FADP): the rights to information, correction, deletion and data portability, and to complain to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC, edoeb.admin.ch).
• EU and UK (GDPR): the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, to withdraw consent, and to complain to the supervisory authority where you live or work.
• California (CCPA/CPRA): the rights to know, delete and correct personal information, to opt out of its sale or sharing, and not to be discriminated against for using these rights. We have not sold or shared personal information in the past 12 months, do not use sensitive personal information, and have collected none except what you send by email, which is used only to answer you.

To use any of these rights, email alpenlume@gmail.com. We answer within 30 days and never charge for it.

Children

Vowtable is not directed at children under 13, or under the minimum age for consent in your country, and collects nothing from anybody. If you believe a child has sent us personal data by email, write to us and we will delete it.

Security and automated decisions

Because nothing leaves your device, your information is protected by your device's own security: its passcode or password, Face ID or Touch ID, and its encryption. Vowtable makes no automated decisions about you and does no profiling.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new effective date, and a significant change will be noted in the app's release notes. A change will never permit collecting data retroactively.