Privacy at DagdaForge
The short version
Every DagdaForge app is built the same way: it runs on your phone, and we never receive your data. There is genuinely very little to say here — and that's the point.
- No account. No sign-up. You don't give us your name, email or anything else to use an app.
- Your data stays on your device. What you create — records, photos, notes, settings — is stored only on your phone. We have no servers that hold a copy, because we have no user servers at all.
- No analytics. No tracking. No ads. No third-party SDKs that phone home.
- We can't see your data, sell it, or lose it in a breach, because we never receive it.
This page covers the whole portfolio. Where an individual app does something specific — a particular network call, a particular permission — it says so in the app and, once it ships, in its own privacy note.
1. Who we are
DagdaForge is an independent app studio based in Scotland, United Kingdom, building a small family of private, fully on-device apps. For any privacy question, contact:
For UK GDPR / EU GDPR purposes, the developer is the "data controller" for the very limited processing described below. In practice, almost all processing happens locally on your own device and never reaches us.
2. What our apps store, and where
Everything you create in a DagdaForge app is stored on your device only — in the app's private storage (a local database, plus any photos or files copied into the app's private files area). Depending on the app, that can include the records you keep (subscriptions, receipts and warranties, vehicles and fuel logs, travel documents, home-inventory items, trips and purchases), any photos you attach, your reminders, and your settings.
We never send any of this to a server. There is no DagdaForge account and no DagdaForge cloud — there is nothing for it to sync to.
A note on security, in plain English
Your data is protected by Android's app sandbox and the device's disk encryption — other apps can't read it, and on a modern, locked, PIN/biometric-protected phone it stays private. Some apps add a further layer (for example, a document vault locked behind your fingerprint, and encryption-at-rest where it matters); each app is honest in-app about exactly what protection it does and doesn't add, rather than overclaiming.
You're in control: backup, export and delete
- Backup: apps let you create a single, user-initiated backup file you can save wherever you trust (your own cloud drive, a USB stick, wherever). The backup is yours; we never see it.
- Export: where offered, you can export your data to a CSV or PDF file via the system "Save to…" dialog — it goes wherever you choose to save it.
- Delete: you can delete individual items within an app, and uninstalling removes its on-device database and files entirely.
3. When our apps use the internet
Most DagdaForge apps work fully offline and make no network calls at all. Where an app does reach the network, it is for a narrow, non-personal purpose — and none of it sends your personal data. Examples across the portfolio:
- Public reference data — e.g. exchange rates from a public, ECB-backed rates service, or a small versioned public data file (such as typical card fees). These are plain, anonymous, read-only lookups that carry no account and no device identifiers from us; the result is cached on your device so the app keeps working offline.
- Links you tap — if an app opens an external link (including any clearly disclosed affiliate link), it opens in your normal web browser. We add no tracking of our own to that hand-off; once you're on the destination site, that site's own policy applies.
There are no analytics endpoints and no advertising networks in any DagdaForge app. If a specific app makes a network call, it tells you what and why, in the app.
4. Crash logs and diagnostics
Where an app keeps a crash/diagnostics log, it stays on your device and is never sent anywhere automatically. If you want to report a problem, you can choose to share it yourself (e.g. by email) — at which point it goes only where you send it. Nothing leaves your device unless you actively share it.
5. Device permissions (asked only when needed)
Apps request permissions at the point of use / opt-in — not all up front — and keep working with them denied (you just lose that one feature). Depending on the app, you may be asked for:
- Camera — to photograph a receipt, document or item, or to scan text. Image processing (including any text recognition) happens on your device; images are not uploaded.
- Notifications — for the reminders you opt into (a renewal, a warranty expiry, an MOT, a passport expiry).
- Biometric unlock — to lock a sensitive app behind your device fingerprint/PIN.
- Approximate location — only where an app uses it in the moment (e.g. to suggest a local currency); it is not stored remotely or sent anywhere.
You can change or revoke any of these in your Android settings at any time.
6. Children
DagdaForge apps are general-audience tools and are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect any data from children — in fact, we don't knowingly collect personal data from anyone, since the apps keep your data on your own device.
7. Your rights (UK / EU GDPR)
Because your data lives on your device and we don't hold a copy, you already have direct, hands-on control: you can view, export and delete everything from within the app, and uninstalling removes it all.
Under UK GDPR and EU GDPR you also have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection. For the limited processing we control (see section 1), contact us at the email above. You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority — in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), ico.org.uk.
8. Changes to this policy
If we change how our apps handle data, we'll update this page and revise the "Last updated" date above. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect in a new app version.
9. Jurisdiction
DagdaForge is operated from Scotland, United Kingdom, and this policy is governed by the laws of Scotland / the United Kingdom, without affecting any mandatory consumer or data-protection rights you have where you live.
Your data lives on your phone. We never see it — we couldn't if we wanted to.