ROOZ — Privacy Policy

This policy describes how ROOZ — the Persian calendar for iPhone, with its widgets, its Live Activity and its Siri and Shortcuts actions, and for the Mac — handles information. It describes the app as it is released; the date above changes whenever this policy does.

In short

ROOZ does not collect, sell or share your personal data. It has no account, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking and no third-party code that does any of these. It connects to the internet for one thing only — the weather, if you turn it on — and then only to Apple's weather service (Weather, below). What you put into ROOZ is kept on your device, and leaves it only through Apple features you control (below). The developer of ROOZ never receives it.

What ROOZ keeps on your device

• Your events: the events you add yourself — their title, date, whether and how they repeat, their type, and your reminder choices.
• Your settings: language, calendars, digits, week, which occasions are shown, theme, colour and app icon, whether the Hijri date, the verse of the day, prayer times and the weather are shown, the city you chose for prayer times, and the place you chose for the weather — a city, or My Location (never the location itself) — with its temperature unit.
• The last weather: if weather is on, the last conditions fetched — the temperature and the condition — and when they were fetched (Weather, below).

This information is stored in ROOZ's own storage on your device, which ROOZ's widgets on the same device also read. No one else has access to it through ROOZ, and the developer cannot see it. ROOZ keeps no copy of it anywhere else. When you delete ROOZ from your iPhone, iOS deletes this storage with the app (on a Mac, see ROOZ on the Mac, below); a backup of your device made before then still holds a copy until that backup is deleted (see Backups, below).

What ROOZ reads from your device

To choose sensible defaults and show the right day, ROOZ reads your device's language, region, time zone and clock, and whether you have allowed notifications and Live Activities. It uses them on the device and does not send them anywhere. ROOZ asks for your location only if you choose My Location for the weather (Weather, below). It does not ask for or use your contacts, photos, calendars, health data, microphone or camera.

Everything is worked out on your device

Dates and calendar conversions, the Moon's phase and prayer times (for the city you choose from a list, not from your location) are calculated on your device; holidays, occasions and the moment of the Persian New Year (Tahvil) come from tables built into the app, and the verse of the day from texts built into it. ROOZ does not fetch any of them from the internet. The weather is the one exception (below).

Reminders

If you turn on a reminder for one of your events, ROOZ schedules a notification on your device. ROOZ asks for permission to send notifications only when you choose to allow reminders. A reminder shows the event's title and its date; whether it appears on a locked screen or on a paired Apple Watch depends on your iOS settings. ROOZ does not use push notifications: no reminder is sent from a server.

Widgets and the Live Activity

ROOZ's widgets show today's date and your upcoming events, read from ROOZ's storage on your device. Titles you wrote yourself are marked as private, so iOS can hide them on a locked device according to your settings. The New Year countdown (a Live Activity), offered in the hours before the Persian New Year for years whose moment ROOZ holds, carries only the year, the moment and your display preferences — never your events — and runs on your device, without push updates.

Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight

ROOZ offers four actions to Siri, the Shortcuts app and Spotlight: converting a date, converting a Jalali date, today's date, and what's next. Their answers are prepared on your device from your settings and events. "What's next" can name one of your events, so iOS runs it only when your device is unlocked. When you use Siri, your request is handled by Apple according to Apple's privacy policy; ROOZ receives only the action you asked for and the date you gave it, if any.

Apple features you control

Some features of iOS and macOS move information without ROOZ taking part:

• Backups: if you back up your device to iCloud or to a computer, or your Mac with Time Machine, ROOZ's data is included, as it is for any app.
• Copying: when you copy a date in ROOZ, the system — iOS or macOS — places it on the clipboard, which Apple may make available on your other devices.
• Crash reports: if you have chosen in iOS or macOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple may share crash reports about ROOZ with its developer. ROOZ itself contains no crash-reporting or analytics code.
• The App Store: your download of ROOZ, from the App Store or the Mac App Store, is handled by Apple. ROOZ has no in-app purchases.

ROOZ on the Mac

ROOZ for the Mac — the date in the menu bar, a window and Settings — follows this policy as the iPhone app does, with these differences:

• Storage: your events and settings — including the menu-bar date format and whether holiday alerts are on — are kept in ROOZ's own storage on your Mac, inside the container macOS gives the app. The Mac and the iPhone do not share or synchronise them: each keeps its own. Removing ROOZ from your Mac may leave this storage in your user Library folder until it is deleted.
• Notifications: besides reminders for your events, ROOZ can show a holiday alert at 08:00 on each public holiday where you are — Iran's, when ROOZ follows Iran's week and shows Iran's occasions — worked out from the tables built into the app. Both are off until you turn them on, and ROOZ asks for permission to send notifications only when you choose to allow them — for a reminder or in ROOZ's Settings — or turn holiday alerts on.
• Open at Login: if you turn it on, ROOZ asks macOS to open it when you log in; you can remove it in System Settings, under Login Items. It is off unless you turn it on. ROOZ reads whether it is on, to show it in Settings.
• The keyboard shortcut: ROOZ registers one key combination, ⌥⇧S, with macOS, which brings its window forward. ROOZ receives that combination only; it does not monitor or record any other key you press, and asks for no permission to do this.
• Weather: as on the iPhone (Weather, below): off until you turn it on, a city or My Location, Apple's weather service the only one asked; macOS asks for your location only when you choose My Location.
• Not on the Mac: widgets, the Live Activity, the Siri and Shortcuts actions and the seasonal app icon belong to the iPhone app only.

Weather

Weather is off until you turn it on. If you do, you choose where it is for: a city from ROOZ's list, or My Location.

• What is sent, and to whom: when ROOZ opens — at most once every 30 minutes while your place stays the same — or when you choose a place, and never in the background, ROOZ asks Apple's weather service (WeatherKit) for the current conditions at the coordinates of the city you chose or, with My Location, at your device's approximate position. Nothing else is sent: not your events, not your settings. Apple uses the location only to provide the weather, does not associate it with personally identifiable information and does not track it between requests. The developer of ROOZ does not receive it.
• Your location: ROOZ asks for permission to use your location only when you choose My Location, and asks for an approximate position only. It reads one position each time it fetches the weather, only while ROOZ is open, and keeps none. You can turn location off for ROOZ in your device's settings at any time, or choose a city instead.
• What is kept: the last conditions fetched — the temperature, the condition and when they were fetched — so ROOZ can show them, with their time, when you are offline. They are kept on your device with your settings — with the place they are for, never your position — and are deleted when you turn weather off.
• Attribution: weather comes from Apple Weather. Its legal page, linked from the weather card, opens in your browser only when you tap it.

Children

ROOZ does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If ROOZ's handling of information changes, this policy will be updated before the version that changes it is released, and the date at the top will change.

Who is responsible

ROOZ is developed by Milad Ahmadi.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@roozcalendar.app.