Privacy policy

Effective October 1, 2026 · applies to the Northline iOS app and web app

The short version

Your tasks, plans, photos and settings are stored on your device. Northline doesn't sell data, show ads or track you. The only time anything leaves your device is when you ask Northline Assistant for help (described below).

What is stored, and where

• iOS: tasks, projects, smart views and preferences are stored on your iPhone or iPad, in the app's private storage, which the Northline widget shares. They are included in your normal device backups (iCloud or computer), which Apple manages.
• Web: the same data is stored in your browser's local storage (IndexedDB) on the device you use.
• Backups you export are plain JSON files saved wherever you choose. You control them.

What we don't do

• No accounts, analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs.
• No crash-reporting services. If you share diagnostics with developers through Apple's settings, Apple's privacy policy covers them.
• No cloud sync: your tasks and plans are not stored on our servers.

Northline Assistant

Some features (Build it for me and its questions, Ask Northline, Show me how, Organize, and cleaning up a spoken task) can use Northline Assistant. The app asks for your permission the first time. Simple requests, like changing your weekly time or adding a step, are handled on your device. When the assistant is needed:

• What is sent: only what that request needs. That means your message and the plan it's about (its name, goal, steps, completed state and your decisions); for a new plan, your goal, the idea you describe and your answers, plus general planning preferences (areas you care about, weekly hours, best time of day); for Show me how, the step and its plan; or the notes or spoken task you asked to organize. Your name, your "About you" text, your other plans and your photos are not sent.
• Where it goes: to Northline's server, which forwards the request to our AI provider (OpenAI) to generate a suggestion, then returns it to your device. Nothing changes in your plan until you tap Apply.
• What we keep: Northline's server doesn't store your plan or message. It keeps short-lived technical logs (time, request type, size and success). It doesn't keep the text, and it uses a random identifier for this app installation, not your identity. Our AI provider may keep API requests for a limited time (up to 30 days) for abuse monitoring, under its own policy. It doesn't use them to train its models.
• On-device intelligence: on iPhones with Apple Intelligence, some suggestions are made by Apple's on-device model and never leave the device.

Notifications

Reminders are scheduled locally by your device. Their content never leaves it.

Future cloud sync

If an optional sync feature is added, this policy will be updated before it ships. It will explain what is sent, where it is stored, and how to delete it, and sync will be off unless you turn it on.

Children

Northline doesn't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Assistant requests are processed only to answer them, as described above.

Contact

Questions about this policy: email ostvint89@gmail.com. Northline was previously called ClearDay.