Kilnship ("the App") is a pottery notebook developed by Alan Dangerfield ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the App keeps, where it keeps it, and the one thing it sends us.
Everything you put into Kilnship — pieces, photos, notes, firings, glazes, prices, goals and settings — is stored only on your device, inside the App's own storage. There is no account, no sign-in, no cloud sync and no Kilnship server holding your work. We cannot see it, and we cannot recover it for you.
Kilnship asks for the camera and your photo library so you can photograph your pieces and glazes or pick existing pictures. Photos you choose are copied into the App's storage on your device. They are never uploaded.
Kilnship uses the microphone only while you are dictating a note. Speech is turned into text on your device by Apple's on-device speech recognition. Audio is not saved and is not sent to us or anyone else.
On devices that support Apple Intelligence, Kilnship can suggest sentences about a glaze drawn from your own notes. This runs entirely on your device using Apple's on-device model. Nothing is sent off the device.
The Goal Progress widget reads your goal's progress from storage shared between the App and the widget on your device. Nothing leaves the device.
To learn which parts of Kilnship are used and to find problems, the App sends anonymous usage signals through TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service. A signal says that something happened (for example, that the App was opened or a screen was viewed), sometimes with a count rounded into a range. Signals also carry technical details: device model, iOS version, App version, language, region and time zone, and accessibility settings such as text size.
Each install is represented by a random identifier that is hashed before it leaves your device, so signals cannot be traced back to you. Signals never contain your name, contact details, photos, notes, the names of your pieces or glazes, or your location. We do not combine this data with any other source.
Because your data lives on your device, deleting a piece removes it, and deleting the App removes everything it stored. Anonymous analytics signals cannot be linked to you, so there is nothing personal for us to delete; you may still contact us with any request.
If you test Kilnship through Apple's TestFlight, Apple shares with us the information described in Apple's TestFlight privacy notice, such as the email address you were invited with, crash reports and any feedback or screenshots you choose to send. We use this only to improve the App.
Kilnship is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
If this policy changes, we will update it here and revise the effective date above.
Questions about privacy: privacy@kilnship.xyz