Privacy Policy for Sperata
Effective date: 26 October 2026
Policy version: 1.2
1. Who is responsible for Sperata
Sperata is developed and provided by Andrii Pokatylo, an individual developer. In this policy, “Sperata” means the iPhone app, Apple Watch companion, widgets and Live Activities. “Andrii”, “I”, “me” and “my” refer to Andrii Pokatylo.
For privacy questions or requests, email Gudviktorovich@gmail.com.
This policy covers information handled by Sperata and information that you choose to send directly to Andrii for support. It does not claim to describe an unrelated website or service merely because it links to this policy.
2. The short version
- You do not need a Sperata account to use the app. An Apple Account may be needed for App Store purchases and subscription management.
- Sperata processes and stores your contraction records in its local app storage on your Apple devices. Apple-managed backup limits are explained in section 6.
- Sperata does not send your contraction history to Andrii or to a developer-operated server.
- Sperata has no advertising, tracking or developer-operated analytics.
- Apple handles App Store purchases and the Apple services used by the app.
- If you deliberately contact Andrii, he receives the information you choose to send. Apple may separately make seller reports available under Apple's own services and terms.
3. Information processed on your devices
When you use the contraction features, Sperata processes the information needed to provide them. This can include:
- the start and end time of a contraction;
- the duration calculated from those times;
- the interval calculated between successive start times;
- an optional intensity rating that you choose;
- locally generated record and session identifiers;
- the current timer state;
- summaries calculated from your records; and
- technical state needed to store records and keep Sperata's Apple-device surfaces consistent.
Contraction timing and intensity information can reveal information about pregnancy and health. It is therefore sensitive even though Andrii does not receive it.
Technical state includes a locally generated device identifier used to keep records and queued Watch actions consistent, command identifiers and timestamps, and cached Pro-access status. These are not advertising identifiers or a developer-operated account profile.
Sperata does not ask for your name, postal address, telephone number or an app profile in order to record contractions.
Sperata does not read from or write to Apple Health. The optional breathing exercises run on the device and do not create a personal breathing history.
3.1. Sounds
Where your installed version includes Sounds, bundled white, pink and brown noise files play locally on your iPhone. Sounds does not use the microphone, record you or your surroundings, or send audio or playback choices to the developer.
The audio player runs in memory. To display the current state in widgets and Live Activities, Sperata also stores a local snapshot in preferences shared by the app and its extensions (App Group). It contains the selected sound, duration, remaining time, playing/paused state, update time, playback-session identifier and Pro background-playback access flag. This snapshot is overwritten with the latest state; it is not a listening history and contains no contraction records. The app does not apply its contraction-storage encryption to this snapshot. Cached Sounds state can remain after playback stops; deleting contraction history does not clear this separate Sounds snapshot.
Existing StoreKit entitlement checks determine access to Pro background playback and direct Sounds controls from widgets and Live Activities. Opening the optional AAP guidance link takes you to an external website with its own privacy practices.
4. Your controls in the current app
The current app does not present a separate explicit-consent screen, store a privacy-consent record or provide a consent-withdrawal control in Settings. Opening the app can load saved records and update its summaries and connected Apple-device surfaces. Reading this policy, using the app or buying Pro does not create a separate record of explicit consent to health-data processing.
You choose when to start and end a contraction, whether to add an intensity rating and whether to create or share a PDF. You may stop using the contraction features at any time. Stopping use alone does not erase previously saved data.
History includes “Delete all records”, available without Pro. This clears the saved contraction history and active timer state on the iPhone and updates the app's connected surfaces. It also attempts to remove its known temporary PDF exports. Individual record deletion requires Pro.
Deleting history is not a privacy-processing switch: it does not prevent you from starting a new record. The app does not offer a verified consent-withdrawal workflow or a withdrawal retry screen.
An offline Apple Watch may retain its last local copy until the devices reconnect. To remove that local copy without waiting, remove Sperata from the Watch separately. Deleting history cannot recall a shared PDF, remove a recipient's copy or directly erase a previously created Apple-managed backup.
5. What Sperata does with on-device information
Sperata uses on-device information only to perform actions you request, such as:
- running the timer;
- saving and displaying history;
- calculating durations, intervals and descriptive summaries;
- showing recent information on a paired Apple Watch, widget or Live Activity;
- allowing available records to be corrected or deleted; and
- creating a Pro PDF report when you choose to export one.
Sperata does not use contraction information for advertising, cross-app tracking, profiling, marketing, developer analytics or research. It does not use it to make a legal or similarly significant decision about you.
6. Storage and Apple-device synchronization
The main contraction history is stored in Sperata's local app storage on the iPhone. Sperata uses Apple platform technologies to provide information to its widgets and Live Activities and to exchange current status, summaries and a limited recent history with the paired Apple Watch.
The Apple Watch and app extensions may keep local cached copies so that their interfaces continue to work. A Watch action made while the iPhone is unavailable may remain queued locally until the devices reconnect.
Information shown by a widget, Live Activity or Apple Watch can be visible to someone who can see your Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy display, Smart Stack or Watch. You control access to your devices and Apple system surfaces.
Sperata encrypts its main contraction history and shared contraction snapshots with a key stored in the Apple Keychain. The protected files can remain available for background operation after the device has first been unlocked following a restart. This is not a promise that the app's data is inaccessible whenever the screen locks.
The current app does not exclude its main history, shared snapshots or Watch storage from future device backups. Encrypted app data may be included in Apple-managed backups depending on your device settings and Apple's rules. The app's encryption key does not synchronize through iCloud Keychain; its backup and migration are governed by Apple's Keychain rules. Sperata does not guarantee either inclusion in or recovery from a particular backup.
Restoring a backup may restore an earlier app state, including records you subsequently deleted. Deleting records in Sperata does not erase earlier backups. Andrii cannot access or delete those backups for you. After restoring a device, review the app's history and delete records again if necessary.
7. No developer backend, advertising or tracking
Sperata does not operate an account system or a server for contraction history. The app version described by this policy does not include a third-party advertising, tracking, analytics or crash-reporting SDK. It does not transmit contraction records, intensity ratings or generated reports to Andrii automatically. Andrii receives such information only if you deliberately send it to him, for example in a support email.
Apple may independently process device, diagnostic and service information as part of iOS, watchOS, the App Store or other Apple services. If you have chosen to share diagnostics and usage information with app developers in your Apple device settings, Apple may make privacy-protected App Store usage, performance and crash information available to Andrii. Sperata does not intentionally put contraction records or intensity ratings into those reports. Apple controls their collection and privacy protections under its own privacy information and your device settings.
8. Sperata Pro purchases
Sperata Pro purchases are offered through Apple's StoreKit and the App Store. StoreKit provides the app with product and subscription-entitlement information so that Sperata can show available products, verify access and restore an eligible purchase.
Apple, not Andrii, processes your Apple Account and payment-card details. Andrii does not receive your full payment-card number. Apple may make sales, transaction or financial reports available to the App Store seller. Apple determines how it retains and uses information within its services.
You can review Apple's Privacy Policy for information about Apple's processing.
Deleting records, stopping use or removing the app does not cancel an existing subscription. Manage or cancel it through Apple's subscription settings. “Restore purchases” re-checks eligible Pro access; it does not restore deleted contraction records.
9. PDF reports and sharing
Sperata Pro lets you create a formatted PDF report from History. The current app does not offer JSON export. A Watch contraction that is still queued only on an offline Apple Watch is not part of the iPhone report until it has synchronized to the iPhone.
When you request a PDF report, Sperata creates the file locally in temporary app storage. It uses Apple's complete file-protection option and requests exclusion of the temporary file and its directory from future backups. If these operations report an error, the export is not offered. The app checks that the PDF exists and is readable; it does not independently verify the operating system's protection or backup behavior. Backup exclusion is a request to the system, not a guarantee. Sperata does not automatically upload or send an export to Andrii. He receives it only if you deliberately choose him as a recipient.
You decide whether to share it and which person, app or service receives it. After you share or save an export, the selected recipient or service controls its copy under its own privacy practices. Sperata attempts to remove its temporary export after the share sheet closes, after an export error, when the app starts or returns to the foreground, and when you delete all records. Cleanup can fail and files currently being shared may remain until sharing finishes. The app does not promise verified removal of every temporary copy. The operating system can separately manage temporary storage.
Review the destination before sharing because a report can contain sensitive contraction information.
10. Optional email support
Opening an email support link does not automatically send a message. If you choose to send an email, the app adds only a generic support subject. It does not automatically attach or insert contraction, health, device or diagnostic data.
Technical support, bug reports and feature requests go to support@sperata.app, hosted by Namecheap Private Email. Privacy and legal questions go to Gudviktorovich@gmail.com, a Gmail mailbox. Depending on the address you use, Namecheap or Google, your own email provider and delivery services process the message and its metadata. This can include your email address, account display name, headers, message and attachments you choose to add. See the Namecheap Privacy Policy and Google's Privacy Policy.
Do not send a contraction record, PDF report, medical record or information about your health, pregnancy or baby in a support email. Sperata support does not need this information and is not an emergency or clinical service. Email is handled outside the app; Sperata cannot automatically remove messages, attachments, trash, backups or recipients' copies. Mail providers may retain backup or security copies under their own policies.
For questions about correspondence retained by Andrii, or to request access to or deletion of a message you have sent, including sensitive information sent by mistake, email Gudviktorovich@gmail.com. Copies held by your email provider or other recipients are subject to their own privacy practices.
11. When information leaves your devices
Andrii does not sell personal information and does not share it for behavioral advertising or cross-context tracking.
Information can leave your devices in the following user-directed or Apple-controlled situations:
- Apple provides App Store, subscription, device-backup or other platform services;
- you send an email and the email services deliver it;
- you export a PDF report to a destination you select; or
- disclosure of information actually held by Andrii is required by applicable law or is reasonably necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.
These providers or recipients may process information in countries other than the country where you live. Their own notices explain their processing and any transfer safeguards they use. Contraction history that remains only inside Sperata is not transferred to Andrii internationally.
12. Retention and deletion
Different information is retained in different places:
- Contraction records remain in Sperata's local storage until you delete them, remove the relevant app data or remove the app. Showing only the latest five records in the free interface does not delete older records.
- A paired Watch or extension cache is updated when Sperata publishes a new state. An offline device can retain its previous state until it reconnects or the app is removed from that device.
- Sperata attempts to remove temporary PDF exports at the events described in section 9. Copies that you save or share are controlled by you and the selected recipient or service.
- Apple controls retention within App Store, payment and backup services. Deleting app data does not delete an Apple backup that already exists.
- Sperata may keep a local, time-limited record of a verified Pro entitlement so eligible Apple-device surfaces continue to work between StoreKit status refreshes. It contains no payment-card details and is refreshed or cleared as the verified entitlement changes.
- For email correspondence and related requests, see section 10.
You can delete all saved contraction history from History without Pro. The app then updates its connected surfaces; an offline Watch may still hold an earlier copy until it reconnects. Removing the iPhone app does not promise to remove a separate Watch installation, a shared PDF or an Apple backup. Because Andrii cannot access your local history, he cannot retrieve it or delete it remotely for you.
13. Privacy rights and requests
The privacy laws and rights that apply depend on your circumstances and the processing involved. Where applicable, you may request access to personal information, a copy, correction, deletion, restriction of processing or data portability, object to certain processing, or complain to the relevant data-protection authority. Where processing is based on consent, applicable law may give you the right to withdraw that consent.
The current app does not provide a separate consent or consent-withdrawal setting for its on-device contraction features. “Delete all records” removes the stored contraction history and active timer state; it does not disable future recording. The limits concerning Watch copies, backups and exports are explained in sections 4, 6 and 9.
Andrii does not receive your on-device contraction history and cannot retrieve or erase it remotely. The app provides controls to view available records and delete all saved history. PDF reports require Sperata Pro; the app does not offer a user-facing JSON export. These product features and limitations do not determine or replace your rights under applicable privacy law. A Pro purchase is not required to send a privacy-rights request.
For a privacy question or rights request, including a request concerning correspondence that Andrii holds, email Gudviktorovich@gmail.com.
14. Security
Keeping contraction history on your devices limits transmission to the developer. Sperata relies on Apple platform security, your device passcode and the access controls you choose. Protect access to your iPhone, Apple Watch, widgets, Live Activities and exported reports.
No storage or communication method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
15. Children
Sperata is not designed as a service for children. It does not verify age or collect parental permission in the app. Requirements concerning children's data and parental permission depend on the law that applies; this policy does not claim that an age check or parental-consent process is implemented.
If you believe a child has sent personal information to Andrii by email without appropriate permission, contact Gudviktorovich@gmail.com.
16. Medical limitation
Sperata is a self-tracking and comfort tool. Its timers, intervals, summaries, charts and reports describe the entries you record. They are not a diagnosis, treatment, clinical monitoring, an assessment of labor or advice about when to seek care.
Do not use Sperata to make or delay a decision about care. Follow guidance from your midwife, maternity unit, doctor or another qualified healthcare professional. Contact an appropriate healthcare professional or emergency service if you are concerned about your health, pregnancy or baby.
17. Changes to this policy
This policy may be revised if Sperata's features, data handling or legal requirements change. The effective date at the top identifies the version in force. Additional notice will be provided where applicable law requires it.
18. Contact
Privacy controller and app provider: Andrii Pokatylo, individual developer
Email: Gudviktorovich@gmail.com