Privacy Policy

1. What stays on your devices

WatchFaces stores the following in the app on your iPhone:

• the faces you save as favorites;
• the face files you download, and a list of them with their size;
• the Apple Watch model and watchOS version you choose under My Watch, used to show which faces suit your watch;
• your complication settings: the title and dates of a Countdown and the words of a Custom text;
• a short record of each Add request (the time, the face, the app and iOS version, the device type and whether the request succeeded or failed), used to show the request’s status and to help fix problems;
• a copy of the latest catalog and the preview images you have viewed, so the app works offline, and settings such as whether you have seen the introduction.

WatchFaces has no account, no cloud sync of its own and no server that receives this information. If your iPhone is backed up to iCloud or a computer, the backup may include the app’s data according to your device settings.

2. Your Apple Watch

To guide you through setup, the app checks with iOS whether an Apple Watch is paired and whether the WatchFaces Watch app is installed. This check happens on your iPhone.

When you set up a Countdown or Custom text complication, the app sends only those settings to the WatchFaces app on your paired Apple Watch using Apple’s Watch Connectivity framework, which moves data between your own paired devices. The Watch app stores them on your watch to show the complication and confirms receipt to your iPhone. We do not receive them.

3. The catalog and face files

The catalog, preview images and face files are delivered by a content service we run on Cloudflare (Cloudflare Workers and R2 storage). Like any web server, it receives what is needed to answer each request: your IP address, the time, the file requested and basic information your iPhone sends with it, such as the app and iOS version. Cloudflare keeps standard request logs for a limited time, and we use them only to run the service, find errors and prevent abuse. The app does not send an account, advertising or device identifier with these requests. See Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.

4. Adding a face to your Apple Watch

When you tap Add, the app downloads that face file from the content service, checks its size and checksum, and hands it to Apple’s Watch app with the system’s ClockKit face-sharing feature. Apple’s Watch app then asks you whether to add the face. We are not told which choice you make, and WatchFaces cannot see the faces on your watch. Faces you add are kept and managed by Apple under the Apple Privacy Policy.

Downloaded face files stay on your iPhone so you can add them again. You can remove them one by one or all at once in Saved → Downloaded, also reachable from Settings.

5. Sharing a preview

Share preview on a face’s page creates an image of its preview and opens the iOS share sheet. The image goes only where you choose to send or save it. Face files themselves are not shared from the app.

6. Permissions

WatchFaces does not ask for access to your camera, photo library, location, contacts, calendars, health data or notifications.

7. Analytics and crash reports

WatchFaces does not include any analytics, advertising or crash-reporting SDK, does not track you and does not use the advertising identifier. The app notes a few events, such as opening a face, saving a favorite and starting an Add request (with an error category if it fails), only in your iPhone’s own system log; they do not leave your device. If we later want to count such events on a service we run ourselves, we will update this policy before that version of the app is released.

If you choose to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone’s settings, Apple may provide us with crash reports and aggregated usage information under the Apple Privacy Policy.

8. Support and this website

If you email us, we receive your email address, your message and anything you attach, and use them to answer and fix the issue. Please do not send passwords or payment details. These pages are hosted through Cloudflare, which processes request information such as IP address and browser details to deliver and protect the website. The WatchFaces pages do not include advertising or analytics scripts. See Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.

Support emails are kept as long as needed to resolve the request and meet legal obligations.

9. Children

WatchFaces is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13. The app does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.

10. Your choices and requests

Because your data stays on your devices, you can change or remove it in the app at any time: remove favorites, remove downloads, and edit or remove your Countdown and Custom text. Deleting WatchFaces from your iPhone and Apple Watch deletes its data from those devices; data already in your device backups is not affected. Faces you added remain in Apple’s Watch app until you remove them there. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information; for anything you sent us by email, contact contact@hiennv.dev. You can also contact your local data protection authority.

11. Changes and contact

If the app ever starts handling data differently, we will update this policy before that change ships. The current version and its effective date are on this page. For privacy or support questions, contact Hien Nguyen at contact@hiennv.dev.