SalaryMan

Privacy Policy

What you enter about your work stays on your device and in your own iCloud. It is never sent to us. The news and market features download public information from our server; sections 5 to 7 say exactly what those requests contain.

Last updated October 12, 2026

1. What We Collect

We keep no record of you.

SalaryMan has no accounts and no sign-in. It contains no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party SDKs.

Your figures — pay, hours, costs, shifts, wishes — never leave your device, except to your own iCloud account and your own Apple Watch (sections 3 and 4).

The app does contact a server we operate, to download the news briefing and the market prices shown on the Home page. Those requests carry no account, no device identifier, and none of your figures, and we do not store them. Sections 5 to 7 describe them in full.

The one case in which we receive something you wrote is if you choose to email us. Section 12 explains that.

2. What You Enter

To calculate your earnings, SalaryMan asks you for your monthly pay and currency, your working hours, your fixed monthly costs, the days you mark as leave, any one-off bonus, and any part-time shifts you schedule. Part-time work also has a name you type in yourself, which may be an employer’s name or anything else you like — it is treated exactly like every other figure below.

It is stored in the app's own storage on your device, and — if you are signed in to iCloud — a copy is kept in your own iCloud account so that it survives reinstalling the app or moving to a new device. Sections 3 and 4 describe both of these.

3. iCloud

If you are signed in to iCloud, SalaryMan stores a copy of your settings in Apple's iCloud key-value storage. This copy lives in your own iCloud account, under your own Apple Account. It is not sent to us, and we cannot read it: it is held by Apple under your account, and we have no way to access it.

Its only purpose is to give your settings back to you if you delete and reinstall the app, or set up a new device. If you are not signed in to iCloud, this does not happen and everything stays on the one device.

You can turn this off at any time in the iOS Settings app, under your Apple Account. Apple's handling of iCloud data is governed by Apple's own privacy policy.

4. Apple Watch

If you use SalaryMan on Apple Watch, your settings are sent from your iPhone to your paired Watch using Apple's WatchConnectivity framework. That transfer happens directly between your two devices. It does not pass through us, and it does not pass through any third party.

5. World Brief (News)

The Home page shows a short briefing of world and financial news. To display it, the app downloads one file from a server we operate, hosted on Cloudflare. It does this when you open the Home page or return to the app, and at most once every ten minutes.

Everyone receives the same file. The request contains no account, no device identifier, and nothing you have entered in the app — not even the news language you chose: the file holds every language, and the choice is made on your device.

The briefing is prepared on our server from the public headline feeds of the news organisations named under each item, and its summaries are written by an automated AI system. Nothing about you is involved in preparing it.

As with any internet request, our hosting provider necessarily sees the IP address a request comes from in order to answer it. We do not record it, we keep no logs of individual requests, and we make no attempt to identify anyone. Cloudflare handles that traffic as our hosting provider, under its own privacy policy.

6. Market Board and Stock Search

The Home page also shows market prices. While that page is open, the app asks our server for current prices about once a minute. The request lists the ticker symbols on your board — the built-in ones and any you added yourself.

When you search for a stock, the text you type is sent to our server to find a match. When you open a chart, the symbol and the time range you picked are sent, and sent again about once a minute while that chart stays open so that it keeps up with the market.

When the chart you open is a company's stock, the app also asks our server once for a few published financial ratios about that company (such as its price-to-earnings ratio and net margin). Only the ticker symbol is sent; the answer is kept on your device for about a day.

To answer, our server passes those symbols and search words on to a public market-data source (Yahoo Finance) and returns the result to your device. The market-data source receives the request from our server, not from your device, so it learns nothing about you.

These requests carry no account and no device identifier. We do not store your search text or your list of symbols on the server, and we cannot link one request to another or to a person.

The Ask AI button on a chart opens ChatGPT or Claude — whichever you pick — with that page’s figures filled in as a question, in that service’s app if you have it and otherwise on its website; the same text is placed on your clipboard. Nothing happens until you pick one. The figures then go from your device to that service directly, not through our server, and that service’s own privacy policy applies to what you do there.

The Share button on a chart makes a short link to a page on our server. To make that link short, the figures shown on the page at that moment — the symbol, price, chart points and reference figures, nothing about you — are stored on our server under a random-looking code for 36 days and then deleted automatically; the page simply lays them out. The stored copy carries no account, no device identifier, and nothing that links it to you. Whoever opens the link fetches that page from our server, so our server sees that device’s IP address in passing, as any website does; we keep no record of it (request logging is off).

Your list of stocks, its order, and your news language are stored only on your device.

7. Reading Original Articles

Tapping a source under a news item opens the original article inside the app, in a built-in web view. That page is loaded directly from the publisher’s website, exactly as it would be in a browser: the publisher receives your IP address and standard browser information, and it may use cookies, advertising, or analytics of its own. The publisher’s privacy policy applies to that, not this one.

SalaryMan does not record which articles you open, and nothing about your reading is sent to us.

The web view uses temporary storage. Cookies and sign-ins from those websites are discarded when you close the reader. If you choose to sign in to a publisher’s website there, what you type goes to that publisher only; SalaryMan does not read it or keep it.

The Share button hands the article’s link, with a line naming SalaryMan and its App Store link, to the iOS share sheet. Nothing is sent until you pick where it goes.

8. Other Network Access

At most once an hour, when you open the app, it asks Apple’s public App Store lookup service whether a newer version of SalaryMan has been released. The request contains the app’s bundle identifier, your App Store country and the current time (which only stops Apple’s servers from returning a cached, out-of-date answer). The reply contains a version number. Nothing about you is sent.

That, together with sections 5 to 7, is every network request SalaryMan makes. There are no analytics, no advertising and no third-party SDKs.

The only other data that leaves your device is the iCloud copy described in section 3, which is handled entirely by Apple’s own system frameworks, and the transfer to your Apple Watch described in section 4.

Your figures — pay, hours, shifts, wishes, everything you type about your work — are never transmitted to us.

9. Face ID / Touch ID

Before erasing all of your data, SalaryMan asks iOS to confirm it is you — with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. This is the only place the app asks for it.

The check is performed entirely by iOS. SalaryMan never sees your face, your fingerprint, or your passcode; it is told only whether the check succeeded. If it does not succeed, nothing is erased.

10. Calendar

Sync To Calendar is off unless you turn it on. If you do, SalaryMan asks iOS for calendar access and creates its own calendar, named “SalaryMan”, on your device. Your Arbeit shifts are written there, and kept in step when you add, change, or remove one.

SalaryMan writes only its own events and never reads the rest of your calendar. iOS grants full calendar access rather than add-only because updating and removing an event we created is not possible with add-only access — without it, changing a shift would leave a duplicate behind.

Nothing is sent to us or to anyone else. The events live on your device and, if you use iCloud for calendars, in your own iCloud account — the same as any event you create yourself.

Turning the switch off deletes every event SalaryMan created and removes its calendar. Events you made yourself are never touched.

11. Notifications

If you turn on Notifications in Settings, SalaryMan schedules reminders on your device: one when your workday ends showing what you earned that day, one on the day this month’s fixed costs are covered, one 30 minutes before a part-time shift, and one when that shift ends showing what you earned from it.

Every notification is composed and scheduled entirely on your iPhone, using the figures you typed in. Nothing is sent to us or to anyone else — there is no server involved. Turning the switch off cancels them all.

12. If You Email Us

The app has a Feedback button. Tapping it opens your own email app with our address, a subject line, and the app and system version already filled in. Nothing is sent until you send it.

If you do send it, we receive whatever you wrote and the email address you sent it from — the same as any email. We use it only to answer you and to fix what you reported. We do not add you to a mailing list, and we do not pass it to anyone else.

Your figures are never attached. If you want us to see a number, you have to type it in yourself.

13. Deleting Your Data

Deleting SalaryMan from your device deletes everything stored on that device, including your list of stocks and the copies of the news and prices it last downloaded.

If iCloud is enabled, the copy in your iCloud account remains — which is what allows your settings to return when you reinstall.

To remove everything at once, use Clear All Data at the bottom of Settings inside the app. It erases the data on this device and the copy in your iCloud account, and it asks you to confirm with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode first. This cannot be undone.

You can also delete SalaryMan’s data from iCloud in the iOS Settings app, under your Apple Account. Because we hold no copy of anything about you, there is nothing for you to request from us.

14. Children

SalaryMan is not directed at children, and it does not knowingly collect information from anyone.

15. Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will appear in the app and the date at the top will change.

16. Contact

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