Jellybean — Privacy Policy

Last updated 21 September 2026

Jellybean does not collect any data about you. There is no account, no server, and no analytics — the app contains no networking code at all. That makes this a short page, and the rest of it is spent being specific about what the app stores on your phone and what can leave it, because "we collect nothing" is a claim worth showing rather than asserting.

The short version

• There is no account and no sign-in.
• There is no analytics, advertising, or tracking of any kind, and no third-party code at all.
• Jellybean makes no network connections. It works with the phone in airplane mode, for the whole eight weeks.
• Your log and your photographs stay in the app's own storage on your device.
• Nothing is ever uploaded automatically. Everything Jellybean makes — reports, baby books, listing cards, handoff packets, the export — goes where you send it, through the iOS share sheet.

What Jellybean stores

Everything you log — your litters, the kittens, their weights, feeds, eliminations, milestones, medications, and any photographs you take — is written to a file inside the app's own storage on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere.

That data is included in your device's backups, iCloud or a computer, because it lives in the app's Documents folder. Backups are governed by Apple's privacy policy and your own iCloud settings rather than by us, and we never see them. This is deliberate: a foster record that vanished with a broken phone would be worse than one that rides along in the backup you already make.

What leaves the phone, and only when you send it

Jellybean builds documents out of your record: a vet report, a baby book for the adopter, a chart for the fridge, a handoff packet for whoever covers a weekend, adoption listing cards, and a full export of everything. Each one is built on your device and handed to the iOS share sheet. Where it goes from there is entirely your choice — mail, Messages, Files, AirDrop, or nowhere. Nothing is uploaded automatically, ever.

Two of them are worth being specific about, because they exist to be given away:

• An adoption listing card carries a kitten's name, the traits you observed, and photographs — the three most recent by default, and you can choose others. It is built to go to your rescue and be published, so treat anything on it as public. Jellybean shows you the card before you send it, which is the whole reason it is a document and not a button.
• A handoff packet is written for a substitute foster, so it includes the phone numbers you typed in — your rescue's, your vet's — next to each kitten's routine and quirks. It is meant for the person taking your litter, not for a group.

The copy buttons beside the listing cards put that same text on your phone's clipboard so you can paste it into a rescue's form. If you use Universal Clipboard, iOS offers your clipboard to your other Apple devices — that is a feature of iOS, between you and Apple, and Jellybean plays no part in it.

A shared protocol — the jellybean:// link or the QR code in Treatment — is the odd one out, because it carries a care sheet rather than a kitten. The roster, the clearances, the isolation clock and the dates are deliberately left behind, so a protocol arriving in a new home starts today, on nobody. The link is not a pointer to a server: the sheet is encoded in the link itself, decoded on the receiving phone, and shown for review before anything is added. There is nothing behind it, and nothing to look anyone up in.

The call button on a signal card dials the rescue's phone number, the one you typed in yourself, using your phone's dialler. Jellybean does not know or store anyone else's number.

The feedback link in Care opens a draft email in your mail app, addressed to the developer. It arrives pre-filled with the app version, your iOS version, and three facts about the current litter — whether it is bottle-fed or under a queen, what day it is on, and how many kittens are in it. No names, no photographs, and none of your log. It is a draft: you see every word, and nothing is sent until you press send.

What is never sent

• Your log, your kittens' names, their weights, or anything else you record.
• Any photograph.
• Your name, email address, phone number, contacts, or location. Jellybean never asks for location at all.
• Any advertising identifier. Jellybean does not ask for tracking permission, because it does not track you — in the App Store's sense or any other.
• Any usage or behavioural analytics. There is none to collect and nowhere to send it.

Permissions

• Camera — only when you tap the camera button, to photograph a kitten. The photograph is written to the app's own storage. Jellybean cannot see your photo library unless you pick from it yourself.
• Notifications and alarms — only to tell you a feed is due, at times worked out from your own log on your own device. Nothing is sent to us, and no notification is delivered from a server, because there isn't one.

You can decline either. The app keeps working without them.

Who else is involved

Nobody. Jellybean uses no outside service, no analytics vendor, no crash reporter, and no advertising or data-broker relationship of any kind. If you buy nothing and send nothing, no company other than Apple — who delivered you the app — learns that you use it.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes everything it stored, including the photographs. There is no copy anywhere else and no way for us to restore it, so export first if you want to keep the record — a foster's log is worth keeping, and it is yours.

Depending on where you live you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port your personal information. Because Jellybean holds nothing outside your own device, there is nothing for us to produce or erase on your behalf: the data is in your hand, and deleting the app is the deletion. If you have a question about that, use the address below.

Children

Jellybean is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone. There is no account, no user-generated content that anyone else can see, and no messaging.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it.

Contact

Jellybean is made by Limit Cycle LLC, an independent software studio. Questions about this policy, or about the app: jellybean@limitcycle.net.