Privacy policy

The short version: my apps do not collect your personal data, and this website does not track you.

Who I am

I’m Alex Scott, an individual app developer in the Isle of Man. I am responsible for this website and for the apps listed below. If you have a question about privacy, email me at alex@scott.co.im.

FiveStripe is run by On the Button Limited and has its own privacy policy. Everything else on this page covers this website and these apps: Eyes Down, BlinkFree, TiMMA, Action On You, Simple White Noise and Roomy.

What my apps collect

Nothing. Each app’s App Store privacy label says “Data Not Collected”, and that is accurate:

• None of them has an account, a sign-in or a server of mine behind it.
• None of them contains advertising, analytics, crash-reporting or tracking code, and none of them tracks you across other apps or websites.
• Whatever you create or choose in an app (settings, games, training logs, mixes, photos) stays on your device. Deleting the app deletes it.
• I never see your photos, your library, your settings or how you use an app.

Things every app shares

Purchases. Apps you pay for, and the BlinkFree and Roomy subscriptions, are sold and managed by Apple through the App Store. The app only learns from Apple whether you have bought it or whether a subscription is active. I don’t receive your name, email address or payment details. Apple’s privacy policy covers those purchases.

Ratings. Some apps occasionally show Apple’s standard prompt to rate the app. Apple handles that prompt and any rating you leave.

iCloud Keychain. BlinkFree and Roomy keep a single number in your device’s keychain: how much of the free allowance you have used. If you use iCloud Keychain, Apple may sync that number, encrypted, to your other devices. I can’t see it.

Email. If you email me, including through an app’s “Send feedback” button, I receive what you send and your email address. I use it only to reply and to improve the app, and I’ll delete it if you ask.

Children. None of the apps collects data from anyone, children included.

Eyes Down: Bingo Caller

The calls are spoken by your device’s built-in voice. If you turn on “Let Players Join”, Eyes Down uses your local network to connect directly to nearby iPhones and iPads in the same game, which is why it asks for local-network permission. Those connections stay between the devices in the room and nothing goes through the internet. The board can also appear in a Live Activity and in widgets, which read the game from the app on your device.

BlinkFree: Group Photo Fixer

BlinkFree combines several photos of the same group into one. To do that it has to look at the photos you choose and the faces in them. This is what happens to them.

Everything happens on your device. BlinkFree analyses the photos you choose, including the faces in them, only on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. It never uploads your photos, the faces in them or the result. It has no account and no server, and it makes no network connections of its own.

Faces. BlinkFree compares the faces in the photos you picked so it can tell which face belongs to which person across those photos. It does not recognise who anyone is, does not build a database of faces, and does not use faces for anything except making that one photo.

Apple Intelligence. BlinkFree asks Apple Intelligence, on your device, whether each face is smiling and looking at the camera. If Apple Intelligence is switched off, BlinkFree uses its own measurements instead.

What it keeps on your device. BlinkFree keeps copies of the photos you chose and the photo it made in its own private storage on your device, so you can reopen recent results. For older results it keeps only the finished photo and a small preview. You can delete them at any time in Settings → Clear recents, and deleting the app deletes them all. Photos in your library are never changed or deleted.

Your photo library. Choosing photos uses Apple’s photo picker, which shows BlinkFree only the photos you pick. BlinkFree asks for permission to add photos when you first save. It asks to read your library only if you turn on “Use Live Photo moments”, and only to read the moving part of the Live Photos you picked. When you save, the new photo carries the original’s date and place unless you turn that off in Settings.

Sharing from other apps. If you share photos to BlinkFree from another app, it copies them into a private folder on your device that only BlinkFree can read, and deletes them once they are opened.

The subscription is sold and managed by Apple. BlinkFree only learns from Apple whether your subscription is active.

Free saves. BlinkFree counts how many of your three free saves you have used, in your device’s keychain, as described above.

Feedback. If you choose Send feedback, BlinkFree opens an email to me in your Mail app. If you leave the option ticked, the email includes a short text report about your last photo: how many photos and people there were, what was changed, the app version, whether Apple Intelligence was on, and your device model and system version. It never includes images or face data. You can read and edit it before sending, and nothing is sent unless you send the email.

Sample photos. The sample photos in the app show computer-generated people, not real people.

TiMMA: Boxing, MMA and BJJ Round Timer

Your presets and training log are stored only on your device. If you allow notifications, TiMMA uses local notifications, scheduled on your device, to tell you when a round or rest ends while the app is in the background. If you add a gym logo, you choose it with Apple’s photo picker, which gives TiMMA only that one image. Spoken cues use your device’s built-in voice. The timer can also appear in a Live Activity and in widgets, which read it from the app on your device.

Action On You: Poker Timer

Action On You asks for no permissions and makes no network connections. Your settings stay on your device.

Simple White Noise

Your mixes, timers and focus sessions are stored only on your device. If you import your own sound, you pick the file in the Files app and Simple White Noise keeps a copy in its own storage on your device. It has no network access, and Now Playing, Live Activities and widgets read from the app on your device.

Roomy: Compress Photos & Video

On your device. Every photo and video is converted on your device. Roomy has no server, no account and no analytics, and it doesn’t send your photos, videos or anything about them anywhere. If an original is stored in iCloud Photos, Apple’s Photos framework downloads it to your device so it can be converted.

Photos access. Roomy needs full access to your photo library to find photos and videos in older formats, add the smaller versions to your library and, when you confirm, move the originals to Recently Deleted, where Photos keeps them for 30 days. Photos asks you to confirm before anything is removed.

Background work and notifications. If you allow it, Roomy converts in the background (for example overnight while your device charges) and uses local notifications to tell you when it has finished or needs your confirmation.

The subscription and free allowance work as described above: Apple handles the subscription, and the free allowance you have used is a number in your keychain.

Feedback. “Send Feedback” opens an email to me in your Mail app. Nothing is sent unless you send it.

This website

This website sets no cookies of its own, shows no advertising and runs no analytics. I don’t receive a record of who you are or which pages you read, and I don’t hold a copy of your data.

The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes the technical details of each request, such as your IP address and browser, in order to deliver pages and block attacks. Cloudflare shows me only aggregate figures, such as the number of requests, and may set a strictly necessary security cookie if it needs to check that a visitor isn’t an automated bot. Cloudflare’s privacy policy explains how it handles that information.

Some essays link to videos, podcasts and articles on other sites. If you follow one of those links, that site’s own policy applies. Nothing on this site loads those services until you choose to leave.

Your rights and changes

Because I hold no personal data from the apps or the website, there is normally nothing for me to access, correct or delete. If you have emailed me, you can ask me to delete those emails. You can also complain to the Isle of Man Information Commissioner.

If an app ever needs to handle data differently, I will update this page before that version is released.

Updated 11 November 2026.