MigrainePilot Privacy

In short

MigrainePilot is a migraine diary for iPhone. It is published by Unyven LLC. Your diary is stored on your device. There is no MigrainePilot account and no Unyven diary server, and in normal use the app sends no diary data to Unyven. The only way diary information reaches Unyven is if you choose to send it yourself, for example in a support message or subsequent email correspondence. The app contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code from Unyven or anyone else.

A small number of Apple services are used for specific features, and this notice describes each of them: Apple Weather for pressure context, Apple Maps and location services for a place, and the App Store for subscriptions. Apple also provides Unyven with certain information about the app's distribution, as described below.

MigrainePilot is an observational diary. It does not diagnose, predict, prevent or treat migraine, and nothing in it is medical advice.

Your diary

Everything you record in MigrainePilot, such as attacks, pain, symptoms, medication, sleep, exposures, suspected factors and notes, is stored in a database on your iPhone. The app and its Home Screen widget share that on-device storage. Nothing is synchronised to a MigrainePilot or Unyven server, because there is none, and the app does not use iCloud syncing.

The app does not send your diary to Unyven, and there is no account or backend that could hold a copy, so Unyven cannot remotely view, recover or delete the diary on your device. You edit and delete entries in the app itself. Anything you deliberately send to support is the separate case described under Contacting support.

Analytics and Apple-provided information

MigrainePilot contains no analytics, advertising, tracking or crash-reporting code from Unyven or from any third party. It records no usage events and sends no product telemetry.

Separately from the app itself, Apple provides developers with information about how their apps are distributed. This information reaches Unyven through Apple, on Apple's terms, and each channel works differently:

• App Store business information. Apple reports figures such as downloads, sales and subscription counts that it derives from its own App Store records.
• App usage information. Apple provides aggregated usage figures, such as active devices and sessions, only from people who have chosen to share diagnostics and usage information with app developers in their iPhone settings.
• App Store crash reports. Apple can make crash reports available to Unyven from App Store installs whose users share diagnostic and usage information with developers.
• TestFlight. If you test a pre-release version of MigrainePilot through Apple's TestFlight, Apple collects crash logs and usage information for that beta and shares them with Unyven regardless of the device sharing setting. Feedback, screenshots and comments you choose to submit through TestFlight are also shared with Unyven. Depending on how you were invited, Unyven may also see the name and email address you were invited with; Apple states that testers who join through a public link have this information hidden from the developer.

None of these channels carries your diary, beyond anything you choose to include in TestFlight feedback. Apple describes them in its App Store & Privacy and TestFlight & Privacy notices.

Apple Weather

MigrainePilot can record the barometric pressure around the time an attack started, as observational context. This is not a forecast, not a prediction, and not a statement that weather caused anything.

To do this the app requests weather data from Apple Weather. The app passes a location coordinate and a time range derived from the recorded attack start. It passes no pain ratings, symptoms, medication, notes, suspected factors or other diary content. The coordinate is your device's location if you have granted location access, or a place you have chosen, as described under Places and location.

To show the required Apple Weather attribution, the app also asks Apple Weather for attribution details and downloads the Apple Weather attribution images from the addresses that Apple supplies with those details. Those downloads carry no diary content. Downloaded images are stored on the device, and the app may download them again when it refreshes the attribution details.

Apple's data sources and legal attribution for Apple Weather are at weatherkit.apple.com/legal-attribution.html.

Places and location

You can choose a place for pressure lookups by typing a search. The search text you type is sent to Apple Maps to find matching addresses, and the address you select is resolved through Apple Maps. The app sends the text you type as the search. It passes nothing from your diary with it, and does not pass your device's location as part of the search.

When you use your current location for a place, the app asks Apple's location services to turn the coordinate into a readable place name. That request carries the coordinate and nothing from your diary.

When current location is used automatically

If you have granted location access, the app may obtain your phone's current location on its own, without asking again, to capture pressure for an attack you are logging. In addition, if a recent attack missed its pressure capture, the app may obtain your current location automatically and look up the pressure for the attack's start time, as long as no more than two hours have passed since that start. After two hours, filling in pressure with your current location happens only when you choose it in the attack's details. The app never silently substitutes your saved place for your current location on this automatic route.

In every case the location is used to obtain pressure context for that attack and is not sent with any other diary content.

From a chosen place the app keeps a coordinate and a display label on your device: as your standing place for pressure lookups if you set one, and alongside an attack's recorded pressure. The location kept alongside an attack is part of your diary and is included in the data package when you export it. The standing place is not part of the export.

Purchases

The optional MigrainePilot Pro subscription is sold through Apple's App Store. Apple handles the purchase, billing, renewal, cancellation and refunds. Unyven operates no payment system and does not receive your payment card details. Restoring a purchase uses the App Store as well.

Apple provides Unyven with information about subscriptions to the app, which Apple states includes the subscription purchased and the App Store country or region for the purchase. That is the storefront the purchase was made in, not necessarily where you are. Apple states that the receipts it provides to developers do not include personal data.

Exports and sharing

MigrainePilot can create an Appointment Report PDF, a text summary and a data package of your diary. Each is created on your device only when you ask for it in the app or through a Shortcut you have set up, and it is handed to the iPhone share sheet or returned to the Shortcut you ran. You choose where it goes. The app never selects a destination on its own, never sends an export in the background, and Unyven does not receive your exports.

Once you share an export, the copy you shared is outside MigrainePilot. Deleting entries in the app does not change copies you have already shared. The data package is a copy of your recorded facts for your own use; it is not a backup that the app can restore.

Backups

Your diary is ordinary app data on your iPhone. Whether it is included in a device backup depends on your iPhone's own backup setup, such as iCloud Backup or a computer backup. MigrainePilot does not manage device backups and cannot guarantee a backup or a restore. Exporting is the way to keep a copy outside the app.

Permissions

The app may ask for three iPhone permissions, and all are optional:

• Notifications. Used for the optional daily check-in reminder. The reminder is scheduled on the device; the app uses no push notification service.
• Location, while using the app. Used to obtain a coordinate for Apple Weather pressure lookups and for the current location place option. If you start an attack from the Home Screen widget and location access has already been granted, the widget can take a single location reading for the same purpose; the widget never asks for permission itself.
• Motion and fitness. Used to read the iPhone's barometer so the app can record the air pressure where the phone is, for example in an aircraft cabin. This reading is taken on the device and does not involve any service.

Granting a permission gives Unyven no access to your device or your diary. These permissions can be changed at any time in the iPhone Settings app.

Deleting and controlling your information

Five different things are involved, and they are controlled in different places:

• Your diary on your iPhone. You edit and delete individual entries in the app. Because Unyven does not hold your diary, there is nothing for Unyven to delete on request. Deleting the app is expected to remove the data it stores on the device, but does not necessarily remove copies that may exist in your own device or computer backups.
• Copies you have exported or shared. These are wherever you sent them, and are managed there.
• Messages you send to Unyven. See Contacting support, below. You can ask us to delete correspondence we hold.
• Information held by Apple. Apple processes the information it handles for the App Store, TestFlight, Apple Weather, Apple Maps and location services under its own privacy terms, and controls the copies and retention within its own systems. Unyven cannot delete those.
• TestFlight information made available to Unyven. TestFlight also makes the crash logs, usage information, feedback and tester details described above available to Unyven. Apple directs requests to access or delete TestFlight data to the app's provider, so you can write to us about the information made available to us. Apple states it separately retains beta feedback for one year and may retain crash and usage data until bugs are resolved; that retention is Apple's. See Apple's TestFlight & Privacy notice.

Contacting support

The app sends nothing to Unyven support automatically. When you use the website contact form, Unyven receives the name and email address you provide and whatever you choose to write. What you write may include health or diary information if you choose to include it. The form does not accept attachments.

If Unyven replies and the conversation continues by email, we receive whatever you choose to send in that correspondence, including any attachments you choose to send then. Messages are read by a person and kept for as long as it takes to answer you and hold the thread if the matter comes back. They are not used for marketing. Website-form processing is described in the Unyven privacy notice.

Contact

MigrainePilot is published by Unyven LLC. For questions about this notice or about your information, use the Unyven contact form.

This notice covers the MigrainePilot app. Visits to this website are covered by the Unyven privacy notice. The app's licence is described on the MigrainePilot Terms page.

When this notice changes, the date at the top changes with it.