Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 August 2026

Nala is a household organiser for iPhone and iPad. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it. The short version: Nala has no servers, no accounts and no analytics, and the developer cannot see your data.

Who we are

Nala is developed by Fred Whitten.
Contact: developer@fjw.design

What Nala stores

Everything you put into Nala — shopping lists, meal plans, pantry inventories, household names and members' display names, bin collection schedules and notice-board notes — is stored:

1. On your device, and
2. In your own private iCloud account, using Apple's CloudKit.

There is no Nala account, no Nala server and no Nala database. Your data is held in the private database of your iCloud account. The developer has no access to it and no ability to read, export or recover it.

Sharing a household

When you invite someone to a household, Apple's CloudKit sharing creates a private share between your iCloud account and theirs. The people you invite can see everything in that household — lists, meals, bins and notes — and their display name becomes visible to other members. Only people you explicitly invite can access it. You can stop sharing at any time from Manage Home.

Information Nala never collects

Nala does not collect, transmit or store any of the following, anywhere:

• Your name, email address or contact details
• Analytics, usage statistics or crash telemetry
• Advertising identifiers — Nala contains no advertising and no ad networks
• Location data
• Any tracking identifier of any kind

Nala contains no third-party SDKs. Nothing is shared with any other company.

Device permissions

Nala asks for these only when you use the feature concerned, and each is optional:

• Camera — scanning a printed recipe's ingredients. Images are processed on device and are never uploaded or saved to your photo library.
• Reminders — two-way sync between your shopping list and a "Shopping" list in Apple Reminders, so Siri can add items. Reads and writes only that one list. Stays within Apple Reminders and your iCloud.
• Calendar — mirroring your meal plan into a "Nala Meals" calendar, and showing events from calendars you choose on the home screen. Stays within Apple Calendar and your iCloud.
• Notifications — household activity alerts and defrost reminders.

Declining any of these leaves the rest of Nala fully functional.

Network connections

Nala makes network connections in only two situations:

1. Apple iCloud / CloudKit, to sync your data between your own devices and any household members you have invited. Governed by Apple's Privacy Policy.
2. Recipe import. If you share a recipe web page into Nala, the app fetches that page in order to read its ingredient list. The request goes directly from your device to the website you chose, and that website may see your IP address in the ordinary course of serving the page. Nala sends nothing else, and no record of the request is kept anywhere outside your device.

On-device intelligence

If your device supports Apple Intelligence, Nala can use the on-device model to check whether a scanned line is really an ingredient. This runs entirely on your device. No recipe text is sent anywhere.

In-app purchases

Nala Pro is a one-off purchase handled entirely by Apple's App Store. Nala never sees or stores your payment details. The app only asks Apple whether a purchase exists for your account.

The optional 14-day free trial is tracked by the app itself — a start date stored in your device's settings and your private iCloud key-value storage. It requires no payment details and involves no third party.

Children

Nala is rated 4+ and is safe for family use. It does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone, of any age, because it does not collect personal information at all.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes its data from that device. To remove data from iCloud, delete the household from Manage Home → Households, or remove Nala's data via Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage on your device. Because the developer holds no copy, there is nothing to request deletion of from us.

Your rights

Under the UK GDPR and equivalent laws you have rights of access, correction, deletion and portability. In Nala's case these are satisfied directly: you hold the only copy of your data, in your own iCloud account, and you can view, change, export or delete it at any time from within the app or from iCloud settings.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "last updated" date above will change and the revised policy will be posted at this URL.

Contact

Questions about this policy: developer@fjw.design