Last updated: 6 August 2026 Authoritative version: the German `Datenschutzerklaerung.md`. This translation is provided for readability.
In short
Everything you enter stays on your device. This app has no account, no server, and sends your data to no one — not even to us.
1. Controller
Christopher Seidemann
c/o MDC #1054, Welserstraße 3, 87463 Dietmannsried, Germany
Email: kontakt@auswandernusa.app
2. What the app processes
You can enter names of family members, a departure date, household characteristics, the status of tasks and your own notes. This information is stored in the app's protected storage area on your device.
We have no access to it. Nothing is transmitted to a server, because there is no server. The app contains no analytics, advertising or tracking components and does not request an advertising identifier.
3. Reminders
The app can schedule reminders for deadlines. These are local notifications: they are created on your device and triggered there. No push service is used and no device token is transmitted — the corresponding entitlement has deliberately been removed from the app.
You grant notification permission to the operating system and can withdraw it there at any time.
4. External links
The app links to government bodies and other organisations. Such links open in a browser window inside the app. From that point the privacy policy of the site you visit applies, and that provider will receive your IP address among other data. We receive no information about which links you open.
5. Backup and restore
You can export your data as a file. Where that file goes is entirely your choice, made through your device's share sheet — for example to a cloud service, by email or to the Files app. The terms of the destination you choose then apply.
When restoring, you pick a file through your device's file picker. The app reads only the file you select.
6. Recipients
There are none. We use no processors and disclose nothing.
Separately, Apple and Google process data in connection with downloading the app from their stores and, if you have consented, crash reports. That processing is their responsibility, not ours, and their privacy policies apply.
7. International transfers
None take place through the app.
8. Retention
Your entries remain on your device until you delete them. Inside the app you can remove everything at once under Household → Settings. Uninstalling the app removes the storage area entirely.
9. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
In practice these rights have little to bite on here, in your favour: we hold no data about you that we could disclose or erase. Access and portability are served by the export function, erasure by the reset function.
10. Children
The app is aimed at adults organising a relocation. We do not knowingly collect data from children — technically, we collect no data at all. If you enter your children's names and years of birth, that information likewise stays only on your device.
11. Security
Data is held in the app's protected storage area, which the operating system shields from other apps. The most effective additional protection is a device passcode or biometric lock, which is under your control.
12. Changes
If the behaviour of the app changes, this policy will be updated. The version linked from within the app, bearing the date above, is the applicable one.
13. Contact
Privacy enquiries: kontakt@auswandernusa.app