Privacy Policy

Goodbye Privacy Policy

The Goodbye app does not collect, sell, share or track any personal data. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no server of ours that receives anything you enter. This page explains that in full, for the Goodbye iOS app and for this website.

Effective 2 October 2026 · Last updated 24 October 2026

Who is responsible

Goodbye is made and operated by Jakub Sůva, an individual developer based in the Czech Republic, who is the data controller for the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. For anything in this policy you can write to hello@jakubsuva.com.

The short version

• The app does not collect your name, email address, location, contacts, photos, device identifiers or any other personal data.
• There is no account or sign-in.
• There is no advertising, no analytics, no crash-reporting service and no third-party SDK in the app.
• Nothing is used to track you across other companies' apps or websites.
• What you record stays on your device and, when your iPhone is signed into iCloud, in your own private iCloud.

The iOS app

What the app stores

Each time you let something go, the app records when it was and how many things it covered. It also keeps your settings: your rhythm and start date, whether reminders and suggestions are on, the reminder time, the appearance, whether you have finished the intro, and how many times you have swiped (so the swipe hint can retire). All of this is one file in the app's own storage on your device. We never receive a copy.

iCloud sync

When your device is signed into iCloud, the app automatically keeps a copy of that same file in your own private iCloud database (Apple's CloudKit), so it reaches your other devices signed in with the same Apple ID. This data lives in your iCloud account under Apple's terms and privacy policy. It is encrypted in transit and at rest by Apple, and we cannot read it or access it; Apple shows developers only anonymous totals, such as how much storage the app uses overall. Without iCloud the app works the same, using the device only. You can turn iCloud off for Goodbye at any time in Settings, your name, iCloud.

Reminders

If you turn on the daily nudge, the app asks permission to send notifications. Reminders are local notifications scheduled on your device, at most one a day and only while something is waiting. No push server is involved and nothing is sent to us. You can turn them off in the app or in iOS Settings.

Exporting your data

Settings has an "Export data (JSON)" button. When you open Settings, the app prepares a copy of your file in its own temporary folder on the device; the copy leaves the device only if you tap the button and choose where to send it in the iOS share sheet.

Diagnostics from Apple

If you have chosen in iOS Settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may give us aggregated usage figures and crash reports for Goodbye through App Store Connect. Apple collects and anonymises these under its own privacy policy; they do not identify you, and we cannot link them to you. You can turn this off at any time in Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements.

Permissions the app does not use

The app does not ask for access to your location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos, health data, tracking (App Tracking Transparency) or Bluetooth.

The website

This website (jakubsuva.com/goodbye/) is a set of plain static pages that describe the app. They run no code in your browser, store nothing in it and have no form or other feature that would keep anything you enter.

The site is served by Cloudflare, which processes technical request data (such as your IP address, browser type and the page requested) in order to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. The headings use the Bricolage Grotesque typeface from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address and browser details when your browser loads it. We do not use any of this to identify you, we add no analytics of our own, and the site sets no cookies.

If you write to us

The Support row in the app's Settings opens the support page, which gives our address. If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write, and use them only to answer you. We keep the conversation for as long as it is useful for helping you, and delete it on request.

Children

Goodbye is a general household tool and is not directed at children under 13. Because it collects no personal data from anyone, it also collects none from children.

Retention and deleting your data

• A mistake: right after you let something go, the Undo note at the bottom of the screen removes it again, from the device and from iCloud. Apart from that, the app keeps your history for as long as it is installed.
• Everything: in the app, Settings, Delete all data, erases your history, your count and your settings from the device and replaces your iCloud copy with an empty one. Your other devices pick up the empty copy too, so nothing comes back when you reinstall the app or open it on another device. The app asks you to confirm first, and this cannot be undone.
• If you only delete the app: that removes what is stored on the device, but the copy in your private iCloud stays, so reinstalling brings your history back. To remove that copy without the app, go to Settings, your name, iCloud, Manage Storage (or Manage Account Storage), Goodbye, and delete the data. Do it after deleting the app on every device: a copy of the app that is still installed puts its history back in iCloud the next time it saves.

Because we hold no copy of your app data, there is nothing on our side to delete, export or correct. The one exception is an email you send us, which we delete when you ask.

Your rights

Where laws such as the EU/UK GDPR or the California CCPA apply, you have the right to access, correct, delete and port your personal data, and to object to or restrict its processing. Since we do not collect any personal data through the app or the website, the only thing these rights could apply to is an email you have sent us, which we will show you, correct or delete on request. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority: in the Czech Republic that is the Office for Personal Data Protection (uoou.gov.cz), or the authority where you live.

Security

Data stays on your device and, when iCloud is on, in your private iCloud, protected by the security of iOS and your Apple ID. We run no database of user data, so there is none to be breached.

Changes to this policy

If this ever changes, for example because a future version of the app sends data anywhere new, this page will be updated first and the date at the top will change. For a material change, the App Store privacy details will be updated as well.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hello@jakubsuva.com. For help using the app, see the support page.