Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 18, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how IFIGO collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you use the IFIGO mobile app, related cloud services, backup features, sendout features, and this website.

IFIGO is a private journaling, vault, backup, reminder, and emergency-sendout app. It helps you prepare selected information for trusted recipients and send it only under the conditions you choose.

IFIGO is designed so that sensitive recipient packages are prepared and protected on your device before they are uploaded for delivery. The password or secret needed to open a recipient package is not sent to, stored by, or known by IFIGO's servers.

1. Information you provide or create

Depending on how you use IFIGO, you may provide or create the following types of information:

  • Account information, such as your email address, display name, sign-in provider, and account identifier.
  • Journal and vault content, such as notes, text, attachments, files, URLs, usernames, passwords, secrets, and other information you choose to store in the app.
  • Recipient information, such as recipient names, email addresses, relationship labels, security questions, security answers, and delivery settings.
  • App settings and status, such as check-in preferences, reminder settings, lock settings, backup status, subscription status, package status, and sendout preferences.
  • Notification and delivery information, such as notification tokens, reminder timing, package status, delivery status, timestamps, and email delivery results.
  • Backup information, such as backup files, backup status, timestamps, sync status, and related backup metadata.
  • Support information, if you contact us directly by email or through another support channel.

You choose what information to enter into IFIGO. Because IFIGO can store sensitive personal information, you should only add content you are comfortable protecting, backing up, or potentially sharing with the trusted recipients you select.

2. Information stored on your device

IFIGO stores your app data locally on your device so the app can work properly. This may include your journals, vault items, recipients, attachments, app settings, lock status, backup status, package status, and other app-related records.

Some security-related information may be stored using device-provided secure storage where available. The exact protection depends on your device, operating system, device lock settings, backup settings, and security capabilities.

If you delete the app, reset your device, disable backups, lose access to your device, or lose access to device security features, some local data may become unavailable.

3. Encryption and package protection

IFIGO is designed to protect sensitive content before it leaves your device.

  • App data stored locally is protected by the app's local encrypted storage where supported.
  • Backup files are encrypted on your device before they are saved to a supported cloud backup provider.
  • Recipient packages are generated on your device as password-protected PDF files before they are uploaded for delivery.
  • The password or secret needed to open a recipient package is not sent to, stored by, or known by IFIGO's servers.

Some non-content metadata is still processed by IFIGO's cloud services so the app can operate. This may include account identifiers, recipient email addresses, package status, delivery status, timestamps, file references, file size, notification status, and subscription status.

No app, device, network, cloud provider, email provider, or storage provider can guarantee complete security. You are responsible for keeping your device, device lock, cloud accounts, app access, and package passwords secure.

4. Cloud services used by IFIGO

IFIGO uses Firebase and related cloud services to support account sign-in, cloud storage, notifications, server-side workflows, package delivery, app reliability, and security.

Cloud processing may include:

  • Signing you into your account.
  • Storing app metadata needed for sync, reminders, and delivery.
  • Uploading encrypted recipient packages for later delivery.
  • Sending reminders, notifications, and delivery emails.
  • Managing subscription and entitlement status.
  • Detecting errors, preventing duplicate processing, and maintaining service reliability.
  • Protecting the app against abuse, misuse, or unauthorized access.

Firebase is not used as a general cloud copy of readable journal body text, readable vault secrets, raw attachments, or recipient security answers. When sendout features are used, selected content is placed into recipient-specific password-protected packages before it is uploaded.

5. Backups to Google Drive or iCloud Drive

If you enable backups, IFIGO may create encrypted backup files of your app data. Depending on your device and settings, backups may be stored in your Google Drive or iCloud Drive account.

IFIGO does not control Google Drive or iCloud Drive. Their own privacy policies, terms, storage limits, retention rules, account security, and availability apply.

Deleting your IFIGO account does not necessarily delete backup files already stored in your Google Drive or iCloud Drive. You may need to delete those backup files directly from your cloud storage provider.

6. Sendouts and recipient packages

When automatic sendout functionality is enabled and active, IFIGO prepares recipient-specific packages on your device. Each package contains only the journals, vault items, and attachments assigned to that recipient.

Each recipient package is password-protected before upload. IFIGO's servers may process package metadata needed to operate the sendout flow, such as recipient email address, package status, delivery status, storage reference, checksum, file size, timestamps, and error status.

If a sendout condition is reached, IFIGO may send the encrypted package to the recipient you selected. Email delivery necessarily shares the recipient's email address, email content, and encrypted PDF attachment with the email delivery provider and the recipient.

After a recipient receives a package, that recipient controls their copy. They may store, download, open, forward, or share it independently of IFIGO. You should only choose recipients you trust.

7. Notifications and inactivity monitoring

IFIGO uses local notifications and cloud messaging to support reminders, check-ins, inactivity checks, and sendout-related alerts.

To provide these features, IFIGO may process notification tokens, device platform, reminder timing, timezone, check-in status, missed-check-in settings, subscription status, and related operational timestamps.

Disabling notifications may prevent reminders or affect workflows that depend on timely check-ins.

8. Subscriptions and purchases

Purchases and subscriptions are processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play and may be managed through RevenueCat.

IFIGO may store subscription-related information such as product identifiers, entitlement status, active or inactive state, expiration date, renewal status, environment, event identifiers, and related timestamps so paid features can be enabled, paused, restored, or verified.

IFIGO does not receive or store your full payment card details from Apple, Google, or RevenueCat.

9. How we use information

  • To provide the app and its core features.
  • To authenticate your account.
  • To store, display, backup, restore, and protect your app data.
  • To generate, manage, upload, delete, and deliver recipient packages.
  • To send reminders, notifications, and delivery emails.
  • To process missed check-ins and operate sendout workflows.
  • To manage subscriptions, entitlements, and access to paid features.
  • To troubleshoot errors and improve reliability, security, and performance.
  • To respond to support requests.
  • To enforce our Terms and comply with legal obligations.

10. Sharing of information

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only as needed to operate IFIGO, including with:

  • Firebase and Google Cloud, for authentication, metadata storage, cloud functions, cloud storage, messaging, logging, security, and app infrastructure.
  • Google Drive or iCloud Drive, if you enable cloud backups.
  • RevenueCat, Apple, and Google Play, for subscription and entitlement management.
  • Email delivery providers, to send reminders, support messages, notifications, or recipient package emails.
  • Your selected recipients, when a sendout condition is reached or when you otherwise choose to share information with them.
  • Legal, safety, or security parties, if required by law or needed to protect rights, safety, users, or the service.

11. Your choices and controls

  • You choose what journals, vault items, attachments, recipients, questions, answers, and sendout assignments to create.
  • You can update or delete local content and recipients in the app.
  • You can enable or disable supported backup features.
  • You can manage camera, notification, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and related permissions in your device or provider settings.
  • You can manage subscriptions through the Apple App Store or Google Play.
  • You can delete your account in the app.

Account deletion attempts to remove account-related cloud data controlled by IFIGO, subject to technical limitations, service logs, legal requirements, backup retention, and operational records. Local app data and third-party cloud backups may need to be deleted separately.

12. Retention

We keep information only as long as needed to provide the service, operate the app, meet legal obligations, prevent abuse, resolve disputes, maintain security, and support account or subscription workflows.

Local data remains on your device until you delete it, delete your account, uninstall the app, or the operating system removes app data. Cloud metadata, notification records, subscription records, package records, delivery records, logs, and support records may be retained for a limited time depending on operational, legal, and technical requirements.

Backup files stored in Google Drive or iCloud Drive remain there until you or the provider delete them.

13. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information. IFIGO is designed to reduce server access to sensitive content by protecting recipient packages before upload and by not sending the package password to IFIGO's servers.

However, no security method is perfect. You are responsible for keeping your device, account, device lock, cloud account, backup access, and package passwords secure.

14. Children

IFIGO is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child provided information, contact us so we can help remove it.

15. International processing

IFIGO may use service providers that process data in countries outside your country of residence. These providers may process data in locations where they operate their infrastructure.

16. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect product, security, legal, or operational changes. The updated version will be posted here, and continued use of IFIGO after an update means the updated policy applies.

17. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact ifigoapp@gmail.com.