Last updated 26 September 2026
Privacy Radar looks for nearby Bluetooth signals and possible lens reflections, entirely on your iPhone. It has no account, no server and no analytics. Every scan runs on the device and every result stays on the device — nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere for it to be uploaded to.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Do you collect my data? | No. |
| Do I need an account? | No. There is no sign-up and no login. |
| Does the app use the internet? | It opens no connections and sends nothing. Its one use of the networking framework is asking iOS a yes/no question — "is this phone on Wi-Fi right now?" — so the Full Privacy Scan can report your connection status honestly. |
| Do you track me or advertise? | No. There is no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK and no third-party code of any kind. |
| Can you see my scan results? | No. They never leave your phone, so there is nothing for us to look at. |
| Does the camera record? | No. Optical Check analyses the live feed in memory and draws markers on it. No photo or video is ever saved, and no frame ever leaves the phone. |
Everything the app keeps is written to its own private storage area on your iPhone:
iOS protects that storage area so other apps cannot read it. If you delete Privacy Radar, iOS deletes all of it with the app. There is no copy anywhere else, so deleting the app really does delete the data. You can also wipe everything without deleting the app: Settings → Clear all data.
Privacy Radar does not use iCloud sync. If you have iPhone backups switched on in iOS Settings, its data is included in that backup the same way as every other app’s — that backup is between you and Apple, and is covered by Apple’s privacy policy, not this one.
Scanning listens for advertisements — the short public broadcasts every Bluetooth device sends so that phones can find it. That is a receive-only act: the app does not connect to the devices it hears, does not pair with them, and cannot read anything they have not already broadcast to everyone in range.
What was heard is analysed on the phone, against a signature list built into the app. Nothing about your surroundings — no device names, no identifiers, no locations — is sent anywhere.
Optical Check uses the rear camera to look for small, bright, lens-like reflections. Frames are analysed live, in memory, on the device: the app reduces each frame to a small brightness grid, looks for point highlights, and immediately moves on to the next frame.
No photograph or video is taken, nothing is written to your photo library or to the app’s storage, and no frame is ever transmitted. When you leave the screen the camera stops.
Alerts are optional and off by default. If you switch them on, they are local notifications — created by the app, on the phone. There is no push-notification server and no token identifying your device is sent to anyone.
Privacy Radar can produce a report of a scan for you to keep or show someone. That happens only when you tap the share button, and iOS then asks you where it should go — Messages, Mail, Files, wherever you choose.
The report is created on your phone and handed straight to iOS. It does not pass through any server of ours at any point. Once you have shared it, where it ends up is up to you and whoever you sent it to.
Privacy Radar is a tool for adults thinking about their own privacy and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.
Data protection law — including the GDPR, which applies here in Ireland — gives you the right to see a copy of your personal data, to correct it, and to have it erased.
Those rights are satisfied by the app itself. We hold no personal data about you, so there is no file to request and nothing for us to delete. Your data is on your phone: you can read it in the app, delete individual scans, use Settings → Clear all data, or delete the app to remove all of it at once.
If you believe otherwise, or you want any of this confirmed in writing, email the address below and you will get a straight answer.
If a future version of Privacy Radar ever does something this page does not describe — syncing across devices, say, or adding an account — this policy will be updated in the same release, not afterwards. The date at the top is the date it last changed.
Privacy Radar is made in Ireland by Joshua Allen, an independent developer. Questions about this policy, or about anything above: allenjoshsamson99@gmail.com.