Privacy

In short

• Vacuum has no accounts, analytics, advertising or third-party code.
• We do not collect, sell or share your personal data. We have no servers that receive it.
• Everything Vacuum records stays on your iPhone.
• While the vacuum is on, website lookups that are not blocked are answered by Cloudflare's public 1.1.1.1 resolver.

About

This policy explains how the Vacuum app for iPhone ("Vacuum", "the app") handles information. Vacuum is made by acific.labs ("we", "us").

Information stored on your iPhone

Vacuum keeps the following only on your device, inside the app's own storage:

• Traffic log. While the vacuum is on, the names of the internet addresses your iPhone looks up (for example graph.facebook.com), how many times, when, and whether Vacuum blocked them. It does not record page contents, messages, or which app made a lookup.
• Your exceptions. Companies you chose to always allow and sites you chose to block.
• Deep Clean progress. Which checklist steps you marked as done.
• Your phone's name, if you type one into the app.

We never receive any of this. You can delete it at any time with Privacy & About → Erase all Vacuum data, or by deleting the app.

How the vacuum works on the network

When you turn the vacuum on, iOS asks you to add a VPN configuration. This VPN runs entirely on your iPhone; it is not connected to any server of ours. It receives only your iPhone's domain name (DNS) lookups. Lookups for known advertising, analytics and tracking services, and any you blocked yourself, are answered on your device so the connection never happens.

Lookups that are not blocked are passed to Cloudflare's public DNS resolver (1.1.1.1) so websites and apps keep working. Like any DNS provider, including the one your network uses when the vacuum is off, Cloudflare receives the name being looked up and your IP address. Cloudflare's commitments for this service are described in its 1.1.1.1 privacy policy. No other data is sent.

Photos and contacts

The My Phone tab can count your photos, videos, screenshots and contacts, and show a map of where your photos were taken. This happens only after you tap and allow access in the iOS prompt. Counting is done on your iPhone and the results are not stored or sent anywhere. The photo map is drawn with Apple Maps, which downloads map images for the area shown, under Apple's privacy policy. You can turn access off at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security.

Device details

The My Phone tab displays details iOS makes available to every app, such as your model, iOS version, storage, battery level, language and time zone. Vacuum reads them only to show them to you. They are not stored or sent.

Widgets

Vacuum's widgets read the same on-device traffic log to show today's count. They send nothing.

Children

Vacuum does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date. If a change ever means data leaves your device in a new way, the app will tell you before it happens.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected], or see Vacuum support.