Your subscriptions stay yours

Effective 2 September 2026 · Last updated 2 September 2026

The short version.

What you type into KindBell — the services you pay for, what they cost, when they renew — is stored on your iPhone and backed up to your own iCloud account. It never reaches a KindBell server, because there isn't one. We cannot read it. There is no account to create, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Nothing about you is sold or shared.

The rest of this page is the same statement, in the detail a policy needs.

Who we are

KindBell is an iPhone app made by Nobrix. Where this policy says "we" or "us", it means Nobrix as the developer of KindBell. You can reach us at nobrixstudio@gmail.com about anything on this page.

What KindBell stores, and where

Your subscriptions: The name, amount, currency, billing cycle, next renewal date, category, colour, any note you add, and whether you've marked it to cancel. This is stored in KindBell's database on your device and mirrored to the private database of your own iCloud account, which is what carries it to your other devices and what restores it after a reinstall. Access is governed by your Apple Account: we have no key to it and no way to look inside.
Your settings: Default currency, category and billing cycle, reminder preferences, appearance, and whether amounts are hidden. Stored on the device and in your iCloud key-value storage, so you don't have to set them again on a second device.
Your reminders: Scheduled by iOS on your device from the renewal dates you entered. The reminders and their contents never leave the phone, and no server is told when your charges are due.
Your purchase of KindBell Pro: Whether Pro is active. See Purchases below for who is involved in that.

KindBell asks for no name, no email address, no phone number, no contacts, no photos, no location, and no access to your bank or to any of the services you track. It cannot sign in to them and has no way to see your statements.

What leaves your device

Three things, and nothing else:

1. Apple — iCloud, and the App Store

Your subscription data and settings sync through your own Apple Account. Apple stores that data on your behalf under Apple's Privacy Policy; we are not a party to it and cannot read it. If you turn iCloud off for KindBell, everything stays on the device and nothing syncs.

KindBell also uses a silent Apple notification channel purely so that a change made on one of your devices shows up on the others. The app sends no push messages of its own and never asks for permission to.

2. RevenueCat — purchases

Payment is taken by Apple; we never see your card, your billing address, or your Apple Account. To know whether Pro is active on a device, KindBell uses RevenueCat, a purchase infrastructure provider acting as our processor. Their SDK sends a randomly generated identifier that is not linked to your name or email, the purchase and receipt information Apple issues for the transaction, and basic device and app information such as device model, operating system version, country and IP address.

That identifier is created by the app; KindBell never asks you to log in, so nothing that identifies you personally is attached to it. Your subscription list is never sent to RevenueCat.

3. An exchange-rate feed — currency conversion

If your subscriptions are in more than one currency, KindBell converts them so that a total means something. Once a day it fetches published rates from ExchangeRate-API's open endpoint. The request asks only "what are today's rates against the US dollar" — it contains none of your data, no identifier, and no indication of which currencies you actually use. As with loading any web page, the provider can see the IP address the request came from.

What we don't do

No analytics or usage tracking of any kind — no third-party analytics SDK is in the app.
No advertising, no ad identifiers, no App Tracking Transparency prompt, because there is nothing to track you with.
No accounts, no passwords, no sign-in.
No selling, renting or sharing of personal information. We hold nothing to sell.
No profiling and no automated decision-making about you.

If you have opted in to share analytics and crash reports with app developers in iOS Settings, Apple may pass us crash diagnostics for KindBell. Those come from Apple, describe the app rather than you, and contain none of your subscription data. You can turn this off in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.

Links out to other services

When you open a subscription, KindBell can link you to the page where that service is managed or cancelled — Netflix, Spotify, Apple's own subscription list, and so on. Following one of those links takes you to a site we don't run, under its own privacy policy. We are not told whether you went, and nothing about you is passed along.

How long anything is kept

Your subscription data stays until you delete it. Settings → Delete all data in the app removes it from the device and from your iCloud, on every device. Deleting the app removes the local copy; the iCloud copy is removed by that in-app deletion, or through Apple's own controls for iCloud storage.

Because it is your iCloud account holding the data, deletion is immediate and complete on our side by construction — we never had a copy. Purchase records held by RevenueCat and by Apple are kept under their own retention policies, and are needed to prove a purchase you have already made.

Your choices

Export. Settings → Export to CSV writes every subscription to a spreadsheet file you control. Where you then send it is up to you and outside this policy.
Delete. Settings → Delete all data, as above.
Reminders. Turn notifications off in the app or in iOS Settings, at any time.
Sync. Turn iCloud off for KindBell in iOS Settings to keep everything on one device.

Your rights

If you are in the UK, the EEA, California, or another place with data protection law of this kind, you have rights over personal data held about you — to access it, correct it, delete it, take a copy elsewhere, and object to certain processing.

In practice you already hold those keys: the data lives in your own iCloud account, and export and deletion are both in the app. For the one category we can reach — purchase records at RevenueCat — write to nobrixstudio@gmail.com and we will action the request and reply. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

Where UK or EU law applies, our lawful basis is performance of the contract to provide the app you asked for — the app cannot sync, remind you, or unlock a purchase you made without doing the things described above. Data may be processed on servers outside your country, including in the United States, by Apple and RevenueCat under the safeguards their own policies set out. If you believe we've got this wrong, you may complain to your local supervisory authority.

Security

Data on your device is protected by iOS and by your device passcode. Data in transit to Apple, to RevenueCat, and to the rate feed travels over encrypted connections. The strongest protection here is structural rather than technical: there is no KindBell server holding a database of what people subscribe to, so there is no such database to breach.

Children

KindBell is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. It asks for no personal details from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If what the app does changes, this page changes with it, and the "last updated" date at the top moves. A change that materially affects how your information is handled will be announced in the app before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions, requests, or anything on this page that doesn't match what you see in the app:

nobrixstudio@gmail.com