Privacy policy for Project Milepost.
Project Milepost is local-first for user-created events, but the free release includes Google advertising components. Calendar and Photos access are optional and user-initiated. Advertising consent and Apple tracking permission can affect ad personalization and measurement, but declining tracking does not block the app.
Current release: local-first event data, optional Calendar/Photos permissions, Home Screen widget, Google AdMob/UMP advertising path, no account system, no in-app purchases.
Effective date: June 15, 2026. This policy applies to Project Milepost version 1.7, Build 63, for iPhone and iPad. Update this page before submission whenever permissions, SDKs, data collection, ads, purchases, accounts, sync, or third-party services change.
1. Data the app handles, how it is collected, and how it is used
| Data | How it is collected | How it is used |
|---|---|---|
| User-created events | Entered by the user or copied from selected Calendar events. | Creating, displaying, sorting, searching, and editing milestones, countdowns, birthdays, goals, deadlines, and memories. |
| Calendar event preview/import data | Accessed only after the user starts Calendar import and grants readable Calendar permission. | Previewing candidate events and copying selected event titles, dates, and optional details into Project Milepost. The app does not modify Apple Calendar events. |
| Optional event photos | Selected by the user from the photo library. | Showing custom event backgrounds or related event imagery locally in the app. |
| Preferences, colors, view choices, and widget snapshot | Stored locally on the device and, for the widget, in the app group snapshot. | Remembering app appearance, event display, and one widget-visible milestone snapshot. |
| Advertising and consent signals | Handled through Google Mobile Ads, Google User Messaging Platform, SKAdNetwork, and Apple App Tracking Transparency where applicable. | Serving ads, measuring ad performance, applying privacy choices, and complying with regional consent requirements. |
| Support email content | Collected only when the user chooses to contact support. | Responding to support, privacy, accessibility, or App Review questions. |
2. Third-party services and sharing
The app shares data with third parties only for the app functions described below or when you choose to contact support. Third-party services used by the app must provide protection for user data consistent with this policy, the App Store Review Guidelines, and applicable law.
- Google AdMob: May receive ad-related device, network, consent, and interaction information for ad serving and measurement according to Google’s SDK behavior, your consent state, and Apple tracking permission.
- Google User Messaging Platform: May present consent or privacy options where required and helps apply regional advertising choices.
- Apple frameworks: EventKit, Photos, WidgetKit, StoreKit/App Store infrastructure where applicable, SKAdNetwork, and App Tracking Transparency are used through Apple platform controls.
- Email provider and website host: If you contact support or visit this website, ordinary email/server data may be processed to provide those services.
3. Tracking, advertising, and consent
Project Milepost may request Apple App Tracking Transparency permission for Google advertising and advertising measurement. You may decline tracking and continue using the app. Depending on region, consent status, and Google SDK availability, ads may be personalized, non-personalized, contextual, or limited.
4. Retention, deletion, and revoking consent
Local app data remains on the device until you change it, clear it, or remove the app, subject to normal iOS backup, restore, and operating-system behavior. Support emails may be retained as reasonably necessary to respond, troubleshoot, maintain service records, and comply with legal obligations.
- Edit or delete events: Use the app’s event controls to change or remove user-created milestones and imported event copies.
- Revoke Calendar access: Use iOS Settings to revoke Calendar permission. Existing imported copies remain local until you delete them in the app.
- Revoke Photos access: Use iOS Settings to revoke Photo Library permission and remove selected event images in the app where controls are available.
- Manage ad privacy choices: Use the in-app Privacy Choices / Ad Choices path when available. If Google UMP does not require an in-app form for your region, use Google My Ad Center for Google-level ad settings.
- Control Apple tracking permission: Use iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking to allow or deny tracking permission for Project Milepost.
- Remove local app data: Delete the app to remove app-local data managed by iOS, subject to normal iOS backup and system behavior.
5. Children and age suitability
Project Milepost is a date and milestone utility. It does not include public chat, social networking, real-money gaming, gambling, user-generated public feeds, or location tracking. The current free release includes advertising, so age-rating answers in App Store Connect must disclose ads and any content descriptors that apply to the exact submitted binary.
6. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when the app’s privacy practices change. The effective date at the top of the branch should be updated whenever material changes are made.
7. Contact
For privacy questions or support-record deletion requests, email [email protected].