Watchdog — Privacy Policy
Last updated 2026-09-01 · Flotilla Labs · support@flotillalabs.com
The short version
Watchdog stores the web pages you ask it to watch — URL, keywords and check interval — on our server, because our server does the checking (your device stays out of it). Delete a watch and everything about it, including its hit history, is permanently erased.
Across all our apps: no account (no signup, no email, no profile), no ads (no advertising identifiers, no ad SDKs, no data brokers, no cross-app tracking), and no location — none of our apps ever reads your device’s GPS.
What we store
- Your watch list. each URL you paste, the keywords, a label and the check interval, tied to an anonymous device identifier.
- Hit history. when a keyword appears, we record that it happened and when — we do not store the page’s content.
- An anonymous device identifier — a random string generated on your device on first launch. It contains no personal information and is not linked to your identity.
We use this data only to make the feature work. We do not sell it, share it with advertisers, or use it for profiling.
Anonymous usage statistics
We record a few product-usage events — app installed, first time you completed the core action, price page opened, purchase made — tied to a random identifier generated on your device. They tell us whether the app is worth keeping alive. They go only to our own server (api.flotillalabs.com) — never to any third-party analytics service. For each event our server stores the event name, that anonymous identifier and a timestamp; from those it also keeps a per-device tally: when the identifier was first and last seen, how many events it has sent, and which of the steps above it has reached. Nothing you type or create is ever included. If you make a purchase, the event records which tier you bought (the product identifier only — never payment details).
Third-party services
- The sites you watch. our server fetches the pages you asked us to watch. Those sites see our server’s address, not yours — your browsing identity is never exposed to them.
We have no analytics, advertising or data-sharing relationship with any of these services.
Purchases
Purchases are processed entirely by Apple. We never see your name, card or payment details. Restore your purchases anytime from inside the app.
Deleting your data
Delete a watch target and it is permanently erased from our server — URL, keywords and its whole hit history, immediately. To wipe everything tied to your device, email us — we delete on request, no questions asked.
Security & retention
Everything sent to our server travels over TLS (HTTPS) and is stored on access-restricted infrastructure we operate. Feature data is kept only for as long as it is needed to provide the feature — deleting it in the app deletes it on the server, as described above. Anonymous usage events are kept as aggregate statistics. To have everything associated with your device erased, email support@flotillalabs.com — we delete on request, no questions asked, and that is also how you revoke any consent you have given.
Children
Our apps are not directed at children and collect no personal information from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date above changes with it. We will never quietly weaken it.
Who we are
Flotilla Labs · flotillalabs.com · privacy contact: support@flotillalabs.com