Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 21, 2026

Chilltacular (“the app”, “we”) is built by Little Blue Bug. This page describes what data the app collects, why, and how to have it removed. Plain language — no dark patterns, no third-party advertising, no tracking.

What stays on your device and in your iCloud

Most of what the app holds — your tracked movies, shows, books, games, collections, favorites, notes, ratings, and shared-collection memberships — lives on your device and in your private iCloud account. Apple’s CloudKit syncs that data between your own devices. We don’t see it and we don’t store it on our servers.

What our server (api.chilltacular.com) sees

The app talks to our server for things iCloud can’t do on its own: searching TMDB / IGDB / Hardcover / Google Books for what you’re tracking, fetching news articles and trailers about your items, generating recommendations, and serving in-app Help & Feedback.

When your app makes one of those requests, the server receives:

  • An account identifier — your iCloud user record name (a pseudonymous string Apple gives us; not your name or email) so your data follows you between your devices.
  • A per-install device identifier — a random UUID generated on your device the first time the app launches. Used to tell your iPhone, iPad, and Mac apart when you run on multiple.
  • Diagnostics about the device — app version + build, OS version, hardware model, locale, time zone, and whether your iCloud account is available. Used to debug crashes and version-specific issues and to know what platforms our users are on.
  • The request itself — the URL and parameters of the call, the response status, and your IP address (standard web-server logging).
  • Items you ask us to look up — the titles you search for and the metadata you track, so we can return cached results faster and surface relevant news and recommendations.
  • Help & Feedback content — when you open a conversation in Help & Feedback, the message text, any screenshots or logs you attach, and the app version / device model the report was sent from.

We do not collect your name, email, phone number, contacts, photos library, calendar, location, or any data from other apps.

How it’s used

  • App functionality — making the features work (search, sync, recommendations, news, support).
  • Diagnostics — debugging crashes, regressions, and version-specific bugs across the device fleet.
  • Aggregate analytics — counts of active users by version, platform, and region. No individual profiling, no behavioral advertising.

What we do not do

  • No tracking in Apple’s sense. We do not link your activity to data from other companies’ apps or websites, and we do not share data with data brokers or ad networks. The App Tracking Transparency prompt is not shown because we have nothing to ask permission for.
  • No third-party analytics SDKs — no Google Analytics, no Firebase, no Mixpanel, no Amplitude, no Segment.
  • No advertising.
  • No selling of data. Ever.

Third-party services we query

When you search, the server forwards your query (no identifier attached) to: TMDB (movies / TV), IGDB / Twitch (games), Hardcover and Google Books (books), and Anthropic (for fallback search and recommendations). These providers have their own privacy policies governing those queries.

Sharing with other people

When you share a collection with another person, that shared content syncs through Apple’s iCloud Sharing — the recipient and the people you choose see what you share. We don’t store or see the shared content; it stays in the CloudKit Shared database between you and them.

Retention

Operational logs (request URLs, IP, diagnostics) are retained indefinitely while your account is active so we can diagnose long-running issues. Help & Feedback conversations are retained until you delete them or your account is removed.

Deleting your data

To delete server-side data (logs, device records, recommendations cache, feedback conversations) tied to your account, send a request from inside the app: Settings → Help & Feedback → New Conversation → Account Deletion, or email support@chilltacular.com from any address — include your iCloud user record name (visible in Settings → Advanced → Device Info) so we can find your rows. We will confirm deletion within 30 days.

To delete the iCloud-synced data (your tracked items and collections), delete the app from your devices and remove “Chilltacular” from Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage on iPhone/iPad, or System Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage on Mac. Apple controls this storage, not us.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If we change what we collect or how we use it, we will update this page and bump the “Last updated” date at the top. Material changes will also be surfaced in the app.

Contact

support@chilltacular.com