Privacy Policy — Glossa

Last updated: 31 July 2026

Glossa keeps your skincare routine on your phone. This policy explains, in plain language, what stays on your device, what leaves it, and why.

The short version

Everything you write in Glossa — your products, your routines, how your skin felt — lives on your iPhone and nowhere else. We have no servers, no accounts, and no way to read your entries. The only information that ever leaves your device is what Apple and our payments provider need to handle a subscription.

What stays on your device

All of it, unless listed in the next section:

• Your products — names you typed and the product type
• Your routines — steps, order, schedule, reminder times
• Your history — which routines you completed and when
• Your skin diary — the states you selected and anything you wrote in your own words
• Your diamonds and decor — everything you earned and placed
• Timer sessions — when you started and finished

This data is stored in the app's private container on your iPhone. It is included in your device backup if you use iCloud Backup or a computer backup — that backup belongs to you and is governed by Apple's terms, not ours. We cannot access it.

You can export everything at any time as a JSON file from Settings.

Camera and photo library

When you set up your shelf, Glossa can read your product labels from a photo.

• The photo is processed entirely on your device using Apple's built-in text recognition. It is never uploaded anywhere.
• We do not keep the photo. Only the product type we recognized is saved. The image itself is discarded as soon as it has been read.
• You can skip the photo entirely and add products by hand.

Access to your camera or photo library is requested only at the moment you choose to use it, and you can decline without losing the ability to use the app.

Notifications

Reminders are scheduled locally by your iPhone. Nothing is sent through a server, and we never see whether you opened a reminder or completed a routine.

If you start a free trial, Glossa schedules a local reminder one day before it ends, so a charge never surprises you. Declining notifications does not change your subscription in any way.

Subscriptions — the one thing that leaves your device

Glossa Pro is sold through Apple's In-App Purchase. We use RevenueCat to manage subscription state.

This is what is shared, and nothing beyond it:

• With Apple: your purchase, handled entirely by the App Store under Apple's Privacy Policy. We never see your payment details.
• With RevenueCat: an anonymous identifier generated by the app, your purchase and subscription status, and basic device and app information (device model, OS version, app version, country). This is used solely to tell the app whether your subscription is active. RevenueCat's policy: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy

In Apple's own vocabulary — the one you see on our App Store page — this is a single category: purchase history. It is declared there as Purchases, used for app functionality and nothing else, not linked to your identity, and not used for tracking. We do not declare any other category, because there is nothing else to declare.

What is never shared: your name, email, products, routines, history, or anything from your skin diary. The anonymous identifier is not linked to your identity, and we do not combine it with anything you write in the app.

When this happens. The app asks RevenueCat whether your subscription is active when it starts, and again each time you bring it back to the foreground — not only when you open the subscription screen. That check sends the anonymous identifier and the basic device information listed above, and receives back one thing: whether Pro is active. It never sends anything you wrote.

What we do not do

• We do not have user accounts, and we never ask for your name or email
• We do not use analytics or advertising SDKs, and we do not track you across apps or websites
• We do not sell or share your data with data brokers
• We do not send your skin diary, photos, or routines anywhere, at any time, for any reason

Your data, your control

• Export: Settings → Export data. You get a JSON file with everything, which you can save or share wherever you like.
• Delete: deleting the app removes all of it from your device. There is nothing left behind on our side, because there is no our side.
• Subscription: managed in your Apple ID settings. Cancelling does not delete or lock anything you have written — your history and diary remain readable in the free version.

How long we keep it

We have no retention schedule, because we have nothing to retain.

• On your iPhone: what you write stays as long as the app is installed. Nothing expires, nothing is trimmed after a month, and nothing is archived away from you. Removing the app removes it all.
• On our side: there is no our side. No servers, no database, no backups of your entries.
• Purchase history: Apple keeps your purchase records under Apple's Privacy Policy, and RevenueCat keeps subscription status under its own, each for as long as their policies say. We cannot delete records on their side, and neither can we read anything in them beyond "active" or "not active".

Taking permissions back

Every permission the app asks for can be revoked. You can revoke consent at any time, in the place iOS keeps it, and we do not argue with that decision or ask again.

• Notifications: iOS Settings → Glossa → Notifications. Reminders stop; nothing else changes.
• Camera and photo library: iOS Settings → Glossa. Both are system permissions, so they are withdrawn there rather than inside the app. You can keep adding products by hand.
• Subscription: your Apple ID settings → Subscriptions.

Withdrawing consent never costs you anything you already had. Nothing is deleted, nothing is locked, and no history disappears. Your entries stay readable and exportable in the free version, exactly as they were.

Children

Glossa is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and material changes will be surfaced in the app. Because we hold no contact information, we cannot email you — which is exactly why we keep the amount of data we handle as small as it is.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@glossa.beauty