Privacy

Data controller: Mathieu Collet, Le Pré des Buis 16, 1315 La Sarraz, Suisse, contact@barnmate.app

See the legal notice

None, directly.

The app does not rely on any server operated by us. No analytics or crash-reporting SDK, no advertising identifier, no fingerprinting, no behavioral tracking of any kind.

All the data you enter in the app (horses, sessions, supplements, riders, care, photos, billing records) is stored:

1. 01Locally on your device, via Apple's Core Data framework.
2. 02Synced through your own private iCloud account, with Apple's CloudKit framework, automatically and at no cost to you.

We never see this data. Apple never gives us access to it.

If you choose to share a group with a co-rider or an owner via the app's Invite feature, BarnMate uses Apple's CloudKit Sharing.

Invitations are tied to the recipient's Apple ID.

Shared data is exchanged directly between your iCloud account and the guest's, via Apple's infrastructure.

BarnMate has no visibility into the content of the share.

You can revoke access at any time from the share-management screen in the app, which removes the invitation server-side via Apple.

Subscriptions and lifetime purchases (Solo and Share plans, monthly / annual / lifetime) are handled entirely by Apple's StoreKit framework.

Apple manages your payment, billing and receipt validation.

BarnMate only receives a non-identifying flag indicating whether your Apple ID currently holds an entitlement to one of our products.

We see neither your name, nor your email, nor your payment method, nor your transaction history.

Subscriptions, cancellation and refunds

Purchases are concluded with Apple and are subject to its terms, including Apple's standard licensed application end user license agreement (EULA).

Renewal: monthly and annual subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them.

Cancellation: on your iPhone, in Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions (Apple's help).

Withdrawal and refunds: request them from Apple, at reportaproblem.apple.com.

If you grant notification permission, BarnMate schedules local notifications (farrier reminders, vaccine reminders, etc.) directly on your device, via the standard iOS notifications framework.

No push notification is sent from a remote server.

No notification metadata is collected.

If you attach a photo to a horse passport or a care entry, the photo is stored with your other app data, locally and in your iCloud. It is never uploaded to BarnMate.

BarnMate uses only native Apple frameworks:

No third-party SDK, no ad network, no audience-measurement tool is integrated into the app.

Hosting

The barnmate.app website is hosted by Infomaniak Network SA, Rue Eugène-Marziano 25, 1227 Les Acacias, Suisse.

Server logs

To deliver a page, the server necessarily receives your IP address, the date and time of the request and the page requested, along with the technical information sent by your browser (such as its type). This data may be recorded in technical server logs. It is used only to deliver the site, keep it secure and working properly, and diagnose errors; it is never used to identify you or to build a profile.

Visitor statistics

To find out which pages are read, the site uses Umami, an open-source statistics tool that we host ourselves on the same server (stats.barnmate.app). Umami sets no cookie and does not store your IP address. It records the pages visited, the referring site, browser, operating system, device type, screen size, language and an approximate location (country, region, city), derived from the IP address, which is not kept. Clicks on the App Store buttons are counted the same way, with the button's position and the page language. This data is shared with no one.

No cookies

The site sets no cookie. If you arrive through a link carrying App Store campaign parameters, they are kept in your browser's session storage so they can be added to the App Store links; this storage is cleared when you close the tab and is never sent to us.

Fonts and external links

Fonts are served from our own server: your browser sends no request to Google. The site embeds no third-party content: the Instagram and App Store buttons are plain links, and Apple's or Instagram's privacy policy only applies once you follow them.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in operating a secure website and understanding how it is used (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

BarnMate is not specifically directed at children and does not knowingly collect any data concerning them. The app can be used by underage riders under the responsibility of their legal guardians, without any data being transmitted to us.

The GDPR and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) give you a right of access, rectification, erasure and portability over your personal data. Because the app holds none of your data, these rights are exercised directly from your device:

Access and rectify: all your data can be viewed and edited in the app.

Erase: delete a record in the app, or uninstall the app and clear BarnMate data from Settings › [your name] › iCloud › Manage Account Storage.

Portability: the app lets you export your session and billing records in CSV format.

Remove a share: revoke a participant's access at any time from the share-management screen.

For the website's data (see the Website section), write to contact@barnmate.app.

Your data is kept for as long as you keep it on your device and in your iCloud. We have no retention period to apply, since we hold no copy of it. Any deletion you make is permanent, both from our point of view and yours.

The app performs no data transfer. The hosting and location of your iCloud content are handled by Apple and your account, under Apple's terms and privacy policy.

The website and its statistics are hosted by Infomaniak in Switzerland, a country the European Commission recognises as providing an adequate level of data protection.

Swiss law applies. The place of jurisdiction is the publisher's domicile (canton of Vaud), subject to mandatory consumer-protection provisions.

If this policy changes, the last-updated date shown at the top of the page will be modified. Any substantial change will be flagged in the app's release notes.

A question about your data, or about this page? Write to us — we reply personally.

contact@barnmate.app