Privacy Policy
Ownio · last updated 23 August 2026
Ownio is a record of what you own, kept for the day you have to prove it. That record is unusually personal — it is a list of your possessions and what they are worth — so this page says exactly where every part of it lives and what, specifically, ever leaves your phone.
There is no account. Ownio never asks for your name, e-mail address, phone number or a password, and has no way to learn them. Nothing you document is tied to an identity, because there is no identity to tie it to.
What stays on your phone
All of it, by default. Your inventory lives in a database in the app's own storage and the photographs live as files beside it. Neither is uploaded, backed up to a server of ours, or readable by us.
- Every room, item, value, quantity, condition, note and serial number.
- Every photograph you take or import.
- The property address and policy number, if you enter them for the report. These are used only to print them on the PDF you create, and are never transmitted anywhere.
- Your currency, home type and the personal-property limit you type into the coverage check.
Deleting the app deletes all of it. There is no cloud copy to fall back on, which is the trade Ownio makes deliberately.
What leaves your phone, and when
Six things, each for one purpose.
| What | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| The photograph you are scanning, compressed and reduced in size (up to four at once in burst mode), together with your chosen currency code and the two-letter country of your device's language setting. | Only at the moment you tap to identify an item. | So the item can be recognised and valued for your market. The photo is held only for the length of that request and is not stored on our server. |
| A device attestation from Apple's App Attest or Google's Play Integrity. | The first scan, and occasionally afterwards. | To prove the request comes from a genuine, unmodified copy of Ownio rather than from someone who found our address. It identifies the app, not you. |
| An anonymous installation identifier. On iOS a random value created on your device; on Android a value derived from the Android ID by one-way hashing, so the original never leaves the phone. | Alongside the attestation. | To count your scans against the fair-use limit, to remember that you are a subscriber across app updates, and to hold the balance of any photographs you have bought. It is a random string, not a name, and cannot be traced back to you. |
| Your subscription receipt from the App Store or Google Play. | Alongside the attestation, if you subscribe. | So the subscription can be verified with Apple or Google directly. Ownio never simply trusts the app's word that you have paid. |
| Which screens you open, as counts. Nine named events such as "a scan started" or "the paywall was shown", and nothing else: no item, no value, no room name, no photograph, and no text you typed. | As you use the app. | So we can see which parts are used and which are ignored, and improve the ones that matter. This goes to Google Firebase Analytics. It carries no advertising identifier, so there is no cross-app tracking and no App Tracking Transparency prompt. |
| Your purchase receipt for a photograph pack, and the store's transaction identifier for it. | Only when you buy additional photographs. | So the purchase can be verified with Apple or Google, and so the same purchase cannot be credited twice. Unlike a subscription, the store does not remember a one-off purchase for us or tell us what you have spent, so the balance has to be kept on our side. |
Who processes a scanned photograph
Ownio's own server passes the photograph to an AI provider to be identified — Anthropic, or OpenAI if Anthropic is unreachable — and returns the result to your phone. The photograph is not kept by our server. These providers process it to answer the request under their own commercial terms; we do not permit its use to train models. If you would rather no photograph ever be sent, add items by hand: the pencil button beside the camera opens the same form, and nothing about a hand-entered item leaves the phone.
What we keep on our server
Counters and a photograph balance, stored against the anonymous identifier above. No photographs, no item names, no values, no inventory, and no request content of any kind is written to storage or to our logs.
- Counters — how many scans an installation has made this day and this month, and whether its subscription checked out. These sit on a short expiry.
- Your photograph balance — how many photographs remain in the current subscription period, and how many you have bought and not yet spent. The purchased half is kept until you spend it and does not expire, because that is exactly what you paid for: photographs that outlive the week. It is a number, not a history — we do not keep a record of which scans it was spent on.
- The transaction identifier of each photograph pack you buy, kept so the same purchase can never be credited twice. It is the store's reference for the sale, not a payment method; Ownio never sees your card, and Apple and Google do not give it to us.
What Ownio does not do
- No advertising, and no advertising SDK.
- No attribution SDK, and no advertising identifier. Ownio uses Firebase Analytics to count which screens are used, from a fixed list of nine events; it cannot record what you own, because there is no way in the app to attach that to an event.
- No tracking across apps or websites, and no App Tracking Transparency prompt. The analytics library ships in the variant that has the advertising identifier removed, so there is nothing to ask for.
- No location permission of any kind, and no access to your device's location. The country used for pricing comes from your language setting, not from where you are. Analytics requests, like any internet request, carry an IP address, from which Google can infer an approximate region for its country-level reporting; that is inference by the recipient, not a location this app reads or sends.
- No access to contacts, calendar, microphone, or your photo library beyond the individual images you choose to import.
- No selling or sharing of personal information. There is nothing to sell.
Permissions the app asks for
- Camera — to photograph the items you are documenting. Photographs are written to the app's own storage, not to your camera roll.
- Photo library — only when you choose to import an image you already have. Ownio sees the images you pick and nothing else.
Children
Ownio is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect anything from them. It has no account, no profile and no social features.
Your rights
Because Ownio holds no account and stores your inventory only on your own device, you exercise every right yourself and immediately: Settings → Delete everything removes the entire inventory and all photographs from the device. To have the anonymous counters attached to your installation cleared as well, write to the address below with the request; we can delete them, though they expire on their own within about a month.
One warning, because it is your money rather than your data: any photographs you have bought and not yet spent are held against that same anonymous identifier, and erasing it erases them. Apple and Google do not restore a one-off purchase, so we could not give them back. If you ask us to clear your installation we will tell you what the balance is first, and only proceed once you confirm.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what leaves your phone, the updated date at the top will change and the new version will be published here before the change ships.
Questions about any of this?
mustafasalimerek@gmail.com
Write in English or Turkish. Replies usually take a day or two.
Ownio is made by Mustafa Salim Erek (Erek Studio), Türkiye.