Fields — Privacy Policy

01 Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes how Fields (“the app”, “Fields”) handles information when you use it on an Apple device. Fields is published by The Gaurav Rangnekar Company (also referred to as “GR Co.”, “we”, “us”, “our”) a company founded by Gaurav Rangnekar. Fields was designed, from the first line of code, around one rule: the information you put into Fields is yours, stays with you, and is never exposed to us or to any third party.

02 Who we are

The Gaurav Rangnekar Company is an independent software studio that builds privacy-first products. Fields is one of those products. For any question regarding this policy, write to privacy@gauravrangnekar.com.

03 What data Fields handles

Fields lets you create custom named text fields (for example: Passport number, Social Security number, Home address, or anything else you choose) and store values inside them. The categories of information that can exist inside Fields are determined entirely by you, and may include:

• Identification numbers (passport, national ID, social security, driving licence).
• Contact details (addresses, phone numbers, emergency contacts).
• Financial references (card last-4 digits, account nicknames, tax IDs).
• Notes, codes, or any free-form text you choose to save.
• App settings and your biometric/passcode preferences.

Fields never asks you to create an account, sign in, or provide an email address. No such information is ever collected by us.

04 Local-only storage & encryption

Every field you create is stored locally on your device only. Before being written to disk, the value is encrypted using industry-standard AES-256 symmetric encryption. The encryption key is generated on your device, stored inside the Apple Keychain, and protected by your device passcode and biometrics. It never leaves the device.

This means:

• We cannot read your data — ever — because we do not hold the key.
• Apple cannot read your data — because the key lives in your Keychain, which is itself hardware-protected on modern Apple devices.
• If you lose your device and did not enable iCloud Drive backup, the data is unrecoverable. This is an intentional privacy property, not a bug.

05 Face ID, Touch ID & Passcode

Fields requires Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode to unlock the app. Apple’s biometric frameworks are used locally; Fields never sees or stores your face scan, fingerprint, or passcode. Fields only receives a pass/fail signal from iOS.

Individual fields can additionally be hidden behind a show/hide toggle, or all at once via the global hide-all toggle. Revealing a sensitive field may, at your option, require a fresh biometric check.

06 Encrypted Backup & Restore

Fields allows you to export an encrypted backup file to a storage location of your choice, including iCloud Drive, external storage, or any location supported by the iOS Files app. Important details about exported backups are listed below:

• All backups are end-to-end encrypted on your device before the backup file is created or exported.
• You can choose a custom PIN while exporting the encrypted backup. This PIN is required to decrypt and restore the backup later.
• If you lose or forget the PIN used during export, the backup cannot be recovered or decrypted by Fields or by us.
• Backup files are stored only in the location you select. We do not upload, host, access, or manage your backups on any server operated by us.
• If you choose to store the backup in iCloud Drive or another third-party storage provider, their respective terms, security practices, and privacy policies additionally apply.
• You can export backups at any time from Fields → Settings → Export .

07 Sharing & third parties

We do not share, sell, rent, or transfer your information to any third party. Fields has no advertising partners, no data brokers, no affiliates, and no marketing integrations. The only network calls the app may make are:

• To Apple iCloud, and only if you enable backup.
• To Apple’s App Store, for app updates (handled by iOS itself).

08 Tracking & analytics

Fields contains no analytics SDKs, no crash reporters tied to your identity, no advertising identifiers, and no behavioural tracking of any kind. Under Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework, Fields declares that it does not track you.

09 Children

Fields is a general-audience productivity utility and is not directed at children under 13. No personal information is knowingly collected about children, because no personal information is collected about anyone.

10 Your rights

Because your data never leaves your device (except as an encrypted backup in your own iCloud), the usual data-subject rights are satisfied directly by the app:

• Access. Open the app — you see everything.
• Correction. Use the edit action on any field.
• Deletion. Delete individual fields, or delete the app to remove all local data. Delete the backup from iCloud Drive to remove it from Apple.
• Portability. Export your vault from Settings as an encrypted file.
• Objection / restriction. Simply do not use Fields — no residual data remains anywhere after deletion.

Residents of the EU/UK (GDPR/UK GDPR), California (CCPA/CPRA), and other jurisdictions with equivalent privacy laws have these rights by default. For any questions, email privacy@gauravrangnekar.com.

11 Security practices

• AES-256 encryption for all stored values.
• Encryption keys held in the iOS Keychain with hardware protection on supported devices.
• Biometric/passcode gate before the vault is readable.
• Fields that are saved become read-only by default; they can be explicitly edited or copied, but never silently modified.
• No background sync to third-party servers.
• Security issues can be reported privately to privacy@gauravrangnekar.com.

12 Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will appear on this page with a new effective date. Material changes will additionally be surfaced in-app on next launch. Continued use of Fields after a change indicates acceptance.

13 Contact

For any question, concern, or request related to your privacy in Fields:

• Email: privacy@gauravrangnekar.com
• Support: fields@gauravrangnekar.com
• Web: gauravrangnekar.co