Privacy Policy

Nothing about you is collected

There is no sign-up, no login and no profile. BivouacNight runs no analytics, no crash reporting and no advertising or attribution code, and it never asks for your contacts or your location. We do not know who you are and there is no account for us to attach anything to.

Your log stays on this phone

Sessions, job cards, timers, notes, the parts inventory, the crew list and the photos you take are written into the app's own private container on the device. They are not uploaded anywhere and other apps cannot read them. If you use iCloud device backups, those files may be included in your own encrypted backup, which is controlled by you and by Apple.

The assistant is the only thing that uses the network

The Chief tab stays shut until you read the notice on it and agree. After that, pressing send transmits your question, up to the last twelve turns of that conversation, and a summary the app builds from your own log — the session, the job cards, the crew names and hours you entered, the crate contents — to OpenAI, which generates the answer with the model gpt-4o-mini. Nothing else is attached. OpenAI handles what it receives under its own policy at openai.com/policies/privacy-policy. Decline, and the on-device assistant still orders your board with no connection at all.

A team that would rather run the assistant on its own OpenAI account can enter a key in Settings. That key is kept in the iOS Keychain on the device and is used only to authorise the calls you trigger; clearing it removes it from the Keychain.

Photos you send for a reading

Photo inspection has its own notice and its own agreement. When you use it, one compressed photo, the system you picked and the question you typed go to the same service and come back as a reading. No location data, no other photos and nothing else from your phone goes with it. The picture itself is kept in the app's storage and appears in your log; deleting the inspection deletes the photo from the device.

What the answers are worth

The app records what you enter and works out estimates from it. It is not a workshop manual, and a language model cannot inspect a vehicle — from a photograph or from a description. Every reading and every suggestion is something to verify on the car before you act on it.

Permissions the app may ask for

Each of these is requested only at the moment you use the feature, and the app works without any of them.

• Camera — so you can photograph a part or a piece of damage and file the picture in your service log.
• Photo library — so you can attach a picture you already took to your log.
• Notifications — an optional evening reminder to open the session. It is scheduled by the device itself: no push server, no token, nothing leaves the phone.

Erasing everything

We hold nothing, so there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf. Settings can wipe the whole log, the inventory, the photos and the assistant threads in place, and clearing a key you added removes it from the Keychain. Deleting the app removes the entire container.

Age and changes

The app is made for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13, and we knowingly gather information from no one. If the app's behaviour changes, this text and the date above change with it.