Bday Wishes does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal data. Your birthdays never leave your phone unless you choose to share a backup yourself.
Everything you put into Bday Wishes — the people you add, their birthdays and photos, the notes and yearly memories you write, gift ideas, and your own profile — is stored only on your device, in the app's local database. Nothing is uploaded to us, because we do not run a server for this app.
There is no sign-up, no login, and no email required. The app works fully offline. We have no user accounts and no database of users, because there is nothing to sign in to.
iCloud sync is turned off until you switch it on yourself in Settings → Data. If you enable it, your birthdays sync across your own Apple devices through your private iCloud account, handled entirely by Apple. It never passes through us and we have no access to it. Turn it off and everything stays only on the device.
If you choose to import birthdays from Contacts, the app asks for Contacts permission and reads them only on your device to find birthdays to add. Contact information is never sent to us or to anyone else. You can decline and add people by hand instead.
Birthday reminders are scheduled locally on your device by iOS. There are no push servers and no remote notifications — nothing about who you are reminded about leaves the phone.
You can export your data as a backup file. Backups are encrypted with AES-256 using a passphrase you choose. The passphrase is never sent anywhere and we cannot recover it for you — that is the privacy trade-off. The backup file stays on your phone until you decide to share it.
The App Store listing declares Data Not Collected across every category, and the app ships with Apple's Privacy Manifest signed with zero data-collection types. This page says the same thing in full sentences.
Bday Wishes is suitable for all ages. Because we collect no data from anyone, we collect none from children either.
If anything changes, the updated policy is published at this URL with a new "last updated" date at the top.
Questions or corrections: nevintom2018@gmail.com · Built and operated by Nevin Tom in South Africa.