Privacy policy

Gearit is an iOS app that scans a creator's equipment setup and scores it to find the weakest link, made by The It Group. This policy explains what Gearit does with your information, in the order it matters.

The short version

• Gearit collects only what the service needs to work. The whole list is below — there is nothing beyond it.
• Everything you save in Gearit stays on your device. What leaves it, and what makes it leave, is listed below.
• The only third-party services involved are: Anthropic, which is sent the words you typed when you look up gear Gearit doesn't already know, and answers with what that product is — the words alone, with nothing attached that identifies you; Apple, whose Sign in with Apple page you use if you choose to sign in — Gearit never sees a password, and asks for no name and no email; Vercel, which hosts Gearit's own lookup service and the store behind it: the search cache, shared rig pages, and the backup kept for anyone who signs in; Two public exchange-rate services — Frankfurter, for the European Central Bank's daily rates, and open.er-api.com for four currencies the ECB doesn't publish. They receive nothing about you at all: Gearit's own service fetches one rate table for everybody, and the currency you view prices in never leaves your phone.
• Your data is never sold, and never used for advertising or tracking.

What Gearit collects

Only what the service needs to work — and if you never sign in, almost none of this happens at all:

• The words you type into gear search, sent on their own to look up real products. Nothing identifying you goes with them — no name, no account, no device details. They are never written to a log, but because they travel inside the web address they sit in a cache for up to a week.
• Those same typed words, where you name a piece of gear Gearit doesn't already know. They go to Anthropic's Claude, which answers with what the product is — its brand, its year, roughly what it costs and how good it is.
• What that lookup found, which is then added to a catalogue every copy of Gearit can search. It is a product's specifications rather than anything about you, and it stays there for everyone once it has been looked up once.
• A sign-in identifier, only if you choose to sign in. Apple is asked for no name and no email, only whether you are the same person as last time.
• Your saved setup, only while you are signed in, so a device that isn't an iPhone can reach it. Signed out, it never leaves the phone.
• What you put on a shared rig page, if you make one: the names, brands and categories of the gear, plus how it is wired together — which sockets join to which. Nothing identifying goes with it, and serial numbers, receipts and prices cannot reach it — the page is built from those fields rather than by stripping others out. It lives at a random address with no account attached, and is deleted a year after you last edit it.

Where your content lives

Everything you make or save in Gearit is stored locally on your device unless a feature explicitly says otherwise. If you use Apple’s own device backups (such as iCloud Backup), your Gearit data may be included in them — that backup is governed by Apple’s privacy policy, and we have no access to it.

Third parties

Gearit uses these services, and each receives only what it needs to do its job:

• Anthropic, which is sent the words you typed when you look up gear Gearit doesn't already know, and answers with what that product is — the words alone, with nothing attached that identifies you
• Apple, whose Sign in with Apple page you use if you choose to sign in — Gearit never sees a password, and asks for no name and no email
• Vercel, which hosts Gearit's own lookup service and the store behind it: the search cache, shared rig pages, and the backup kept for anyone who signs in
• Two public exchange-rate services — Frankfurter, for the European Central Bank's daily rates, and open.er-api.com for four currencies the ECB doesn't publish. They receive nothing about you at all: Gearit's own service fetches one rate table for everybody, and the currency you view prices in never leaves your phone

There are no advertising SDKs and no trackers in the app.

The App Store

If you download Gearit from Apple’s App Store, Apple may provide us with aggregated, anonymised statistics — download counts and crash reports, for example. These contain no personal information and cannot be traced back to you by us.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app takes everything Gearit kept on your device with it. If you signed in, you can delete that account from inside Gearit at any time — no email, no waiting, no retention offer — and everything it was holding for you goes at the same time.

Children

Gearit is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. If you believe a child has given us information, tell us and we will delete it.

Your rights

UK GDPR applies. You may ask for access to your data, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and object to how it is used. Write to us and we will answer within one month.

Changes to this policy

If Gearit ever changes how it handles data, this page will be updated first and the effective date above will change. A promise kept simple: if the app starts collecting something, this policy will say so plainly before it does.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about Gearit: theitgroupapps@gmail.com