Snipp — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 June 2026

Snipp is built to be private by design. It is a subscription tracker that works without accounts, without logins, and without your personal data ever being required. Your subscription data lives on your device and in your personal iCloud — not on our servers.

This policy explains, in plain language, what little data leaves your device, why, where it goes, and how you can control it.

1. Who we are

The data controller for Snipp is:

Matteo Giovene (sole proprietorship / ditta individuale)
VAT no. (P.IVA): 01846360335
Via Riglio 16, 29122 Piacenza (PC), Italy
Email: hello@trysnipp.app

We act as our own privacy contact. You can reach us at the email above for any privacy question or request.

2. The short version

• No account, no login. We never ask for your name, email, phone number, or address.
• Your subscriptions stay yours. Subscription data is stored on your device and, if you use iCloud, synced through your personal iCloud account. We cannot read it.
• Anonymous analytics, off with one tap. We collect a small set of pseudonymous usage events (no personal data, amounts rounded to the euro) to improve the app. You can disable this at any time in Settings → Privacy.
• Import is on-device. Screenshots, PDFs and emails you import are processed entirely on your iPhone and never uploaded.
• We never sell data. No advertising profiles, no data brokers, no cross-app tracking, no IDFA.

3. Data stored on your device and in your iCloud

Everything you enter in Snipp — your subscriptions, prices, renewal dates, notes, payment-method labels, cancellation history — is stored locally on your device.

If you have iCloud enabled, this data syncs through Apple CloudKit into the private database of your own iCloud account. Technically and by design, we have no access to it: it is encrypted and managed by Apple under your Apple Account. You can stop syncing at any time from iOS Settings or by disabling iCloud for Snipp.

Deleting the app deletes the local data. Data synced to your iCloud can be removed by deleting it in the app before uninstalling, or via iOS Settings → Apple Account → iCloud.

4. Anonymous usage analytics

To understand how Snipp is used and improve it, we collect a limited set of pseudonymous events. These are designed so that they cannot identify you:

• Device identifier: a random identifier created on your device and hashed (SHA-256). It is not your Apple ID, not your IDFA, and is not derived from any personal information.
• Country code (e.g. "IT") — never your city or precise location.
• App version, platform, language.
• Product events, such as: number of subscriptions tracked, which catalog brands are tracked (e.g. "netflix", "spotify"), subscription amounts rounded to the whole euro, cancellations marked in the app and the rounded amount saved, whether the Pro upgrade was purchased.
• Unrecognised service names: if you add a subscription that is not in our catalog, the app sends a normalised version of the name (lowercased, stripped of punctuation and company suffixes) together with a hash. Our team can only see such a name once at least 5 different devices have reported the same one (k-anonymity) — a safeguard against names that could contain personal details.

What is never included in analytics: your notes, free-text descriptions, exact amounts to the cent, raw bank or vendor names as you typed them, email contents, screenshots, receipts, IP addresses (not stored), Apple ID, or any direct identifier.

Your control: analytics is enabled by default and can be fully disabled at any time in Settings → Privacy → Analytics (opt-out). With analytics off, Snipp works 100% without sending any usage data.

We use PostHog Cloud EU (hosted in Frankfurt, Germany) and our own backend (hosted in the EU on Railway) to process these events.

Retention: snapshot-style usage events are kept for up to 12 months; aggregate, non-identifying statistics (for example total cancellations and community savings) may be kept longer in aggregated form.

5. Import

Snipp can import subscriptions from screenshots, PDFs, CSV files and shared emails. Import runs entirely on your device, using Apple's built-in Vision framework and on-device parsing. Your files, screenshots and emails are processed locally and are never uploaded to our servers or to any third party.

If we ever introduce an optional cloud-assisted recognition feature, it will be strictly opt-in and this policy will be updated before launch.

6. Purchases

Snipp Pro is purchased through the Apple App Store. Payments are handled entirely by Apple — we never see or store your payment details.

We use RevenueCat to validate purchases and manage entitlements. RevenueCat receives an anonymous app-generated identifier and transaction information from Apple (product, price, purchase status). It does not receive your name or payment details.

7. Catalog, logos and networking

The app downloads a public catalog of subscription services (names, plans, indicative prices, cancellation links) and brand logos from our servers (api.trysnipp.app and catalog.trysnipp.app, served via Cloudflare). These are ordinary content downloads: no tracking pixels, no third-party ad networks. Standard technical data (such as IP address) is processed transiently to deliver the response and protect the service against abuse (rate limiting); we do not store request logs tied to identifiers beyond short-term operational logs.

8. Advertising attribution (no tracking)

If we run paid advertising (Apple Search Ads, Meta, TikTok), campaign measurement uses Apple SKAdNetwork and the Apple Ads Attribution API only: aggregated, delayed, anonymous conversion data. We do not use the IDFA, we do not track you across apps or websites, and that is why Snipp never shows the "Allow tracking" (ATT) prompt — we have nothing to ask.

9. Service providers

We share data only with the processors below, only for the purposes described, under data processing agreements. All are EU-based or covered by appropriate safeguards (EU Standard Contractual Clauses):

We never sell personal data and never share it with advertisers or data brokers.

10. Legal bases (GDPR)

Where the GDPR applies, we process data on these bases:

• Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b)): delivering the app, catalog and purchases you request.
• Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)): pseudonymous, non-identifying product analytics — engineered as described in Section 4 and with an always-available opt-out in Settings → Privacy; security, abuse prevention and rate limiting.

If a future feature requires consent (for example optional cloud processing), we will ask for it explicitly in the app before any data is sent.

11. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to processing of, and port your personal data. The analytics opt-out in Settings → Privacy is a direct, immediate way to exercise your right to object.

An honest note: our analytics are engineered so that we cannot identify you. If you exercise these rights for analytics data, we may be unable to locate "your" events precisely because they are not linked to your identity (GDPR Art. 11). The most effective controls are in your hands:

• Settings → Privacy → Analytics — stop any future collection instantly;
• Export — your subscription data can be exported from the app at any time;
• Delete — deleting data in-app and uninstalling removes your data from the device and (if you choose) from your iCloud.

For anything else, write to hello@trysnipp.app. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority — in Italy, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (www.garanteprivacy.it).

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Snipp evolves (for example, if new features like bank synchronisation are introduced — which would always be explicit and opt-in). The current version is always available at trysnipp.app/privacy, with its "Last updated" date. For material changes we will notify you in the app.

13. Contact

Matteo Giovene — VAT no. 01846360335
Via Riglio 16, 29122 Piacenza (PC), Italy
hello@trysnipp.app