Privacy Policy

The short version

HomeLevels does not collect anything about you. It has no account to sign into, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and it does not send anything to a server run by Ujvary Design — the app makes no network requests of its own at all. What it shows comes from your own home, and everything it keeps stays on your device.

What the app reads on your device

HomeLevels reads your HomeKit home: which accessories are in it, which rooms they are in, how much battery each one reports, and details HomeKit holds about each accessory — its manufacturer, model, firmware version and the bridge it connects through. iOS asks your permission before the app can do this, and you can withdraw it at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › HomeKit.

The app reads this while you are using it, and also in the background, when iOS allows it — no more often than every four hours — so that the widget and any low-battery alert stay up to date. You can stop background reads by turning off Background App Refresh for HomeLevels in Settings.

What the app keeps on your device

To do its job, HomeLevels keeps a small amount of information about your accessories. All of it stays on your device, none of it is sent to Ujvary Design or anyone else, and all of it is removed when you delete the app.

From version 1.1:

• Battery history. One battery reading per accessory per day, kept for up to a year, to draw each accessory’s battery graph and work out when its battery was changed. HomeKit keeps no history of its own, which is why the app records this. It is not synced between your devices, so each device builds its own.
• Accessories it has seen. Each accessory’s name, its room, when it was last seen and its last battery reading, so an accessory that drops out of HomeKit stays listed rather than disappearing without a word.
• A summary for the widget. Your home’s name, how many accessories are low, fair or fine, and the one that needs attention first. It is saved where only HomeLevels and its own widget can read it; the widget itself never reads HomeKit.

In every version, your settings — which home to show, sort order, appearance, and your alert level, frequency and time — are stored the same way.

Like any app’s data, this is part of your own device backup if you make one.

Notifications

If you turn on low-battery alerts, HomeLevels schedules them on your device for the time you choose, and iOS delivers them there. Nothing is sent anywhere to produce a notification, and no notification you receive tells anyone else what it was about.

Purchases

Low-battery alerts are unlocked by a one-time purchase. Apple handles the payment. Ujvary Design does not receive your card details, your name, your address or your Apple Account — only Apple’s confirmation that the purchase belongs to your device. Apple’s own privacy policy covers what Apple does with that transaction.

Crash reports

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements, Apple may pass on crash reports and usage statistics. Apple aggregates these before Ujvary Design sees them, and they do not identify you. Turning that setting off stops it.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of HomeLevels ever collects anything, or keeps more on your device than this page describes, this page will say so before that version ships, and the date at the top will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does with your data, go to support@ujvary.hu.