Wakey ("we", "us", "our") makes the Wakey Alarm mobile app ("Wakey" or "the App"). This policy explains what information the App collects, how it is used, who it is shared with, and your choices. Wakey does not have user accounts, logins, or passwords.
Wakey is designed to keep as much as possible on your device. This section lists everything the App handles.
Stored only on your device: Your first name, alarm settings (times, labels, sounds, volume, missions), streaks, your accountability buddy list (names and phone numbers), and any custom alarm sounds you import from your files. Imported sounds are copied into the App's private storage and are never uploaded. This information stays on your device except where a feature described below needs to send part of it to our servers.
Accountability Blasts: When you add an accountability buddy, the App sends our server your buddy's name and phone number, your first name, and a random identifier for your App install. Our server stores your buddy's name, your first name, that install identifier, the opt in status (pending, confirmed, or declined), a secret token that links the buddy to your install, and timestamps. We do not store your buddy's phone number in readable form. Instead, we store a one way keyed cryptographic hash (HMAC SHA256) of the number, which lets us look up the opt in status without keeping the number itself. The readable number passes through our server only at the moment a text message is sent. If you add a buddy outside daytime hours, we hold their invite until daytime and keep their number encrypted until the invite is sent, then delete it.
Pro Subscriptions: Subscription purchases are processed by Apple. RevenueCat tells the App whether you have an active subscription using a random identifier. We do not receive your name, email address, or Apple payment details.
Wake-Up Stakes: If you turn on Wake-Up Stakes, the App creates a random identifier for your App install ("installId"). Our server stores it along with your chosen charity, your weekly cap, your current week's penalty balance and any amount waiting to be charged, the time you agreed to the payment authorization (and the time you turned the feature off, if you do), the status of your payment method, and the Stripe IDs for your customer record and payment method. We do not keep a list of your individual missed alarms, only the running totals.
Payment Information: Payment details for Wake-Up Stakes are entered into Stripe's secure payment form, not ours. Depending on the payment method, Stripe collects your card details or your bank account details (which Stripe may verify through Stripe Financial Connections), and may also collect your name, email address, and billing country or ZIP code. Wakey never receives or stores your full card number or bank account number. We can see the limited details Stripe makes available to merchants, such as card brand, the last four digits, and payment history.
Age Range: When you set up Wake-Up Stakes, the App may ask Apple to share your age range (for example, 18 or older) so we can confirm you are old enough to use it. You choose whether to share it. Your age range is checked on your device for that one decision and is never stored or sent to our servers.
Camera: If you choose to scan a card while adding a payment method, Stripe's card scanner uses your camera on your device. No images are stored or sent to us.
Microphone: The App does not access your microphone. The Mic Check mission is an on screen confirmation, not a recording.
Notifications: Alarms and reminders are scheduled locally on your device. We do not collect push notification tokens.
Technical Logs: Like most online services, our hosting providers automatically log basic technical information when the App contacts our servers, such as IP address, the time of the request, and error details. We use these logs only to operate, secure, and fix the service.
Tracking: We do not use analytics, advertising, or crash reporting SDKs, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
We use the information described above only to operate the App:
When you add an accountability buddy, we send that person one text, during daytime hours, asking them to reply YES to confirm or STOP to decline. We never send reminders, so if they do not reply, they will not hear from us again. We only send Accountability Blast alerts to numbers that have replied YES, and we limit how many alerts can be sent to the same buddy each day. Alerts contain your buddy's name, your first name, and the fact that you missed your wake-up. We never send marketing messages to buddies.
A buddy can reply STOP at any time. We record the opt out and will not text that number again, even if someone tries to add it as a buddy later. The mobile carriers also block further messages from our number after a STOP reply.
You are responsible for having permission to share your buddy's name and phone number with us for this purpose.
Our text message provider, Twilio, keeps its own records of each message sent, including the phone number and message text, under Twilio's own privacy policy and retention practices.
No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. We use the following service providers only to operate the App:
We may also disclose information if required by law or legal process, to protect the rights, safety, or property of our users, others, or Wakey, or as part of a sale or transfer of the App, in which case this policy will continue to apply to your information.
On your device: Information stored only on your device is deleted when you uninstall the App.
Accountability Blasts: Buddy records are kept on our server while the buddy relationship exists. If a buddy has replied STOP, we keep the hashed record so we can make sure that number is never texted again.
Wake-Up Stakes: We keep your Wake-Up Stakes record while the feature is on, and afterward for as long as needed for payment records, disputes, and legal and tax obligations. For example, payment network rules require us to keep proof of your payment authorization for two years after it ends. Uninstalling the App does not turn off Wake-Up Stakes or delete this record, and amounts that already accrued may still be charged.
Turning off Wake-Up Stakes: The Turn Off Wake-Up Stakes option in Settings stops all future charges and removes your saved payment method from Stripe. If you have deleted the App, you can reinstall it and turn the feature off in Settings.
Deletion requests: To ask us to delete your server side information, email support@wakeyalarmapp.com. Because Wakey has no accounts, please include details that help us find your record, such as the email address you entered in Stripe's payment form, or the date and amount of a charge. We will delete everything we are not legally required to keep. Stripe keeps its own records under its own policies.
Wakey is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it. Wake-Up Stakes is only available to users 18 or older.
Depending on where you live, including California and other U.S. states, you may have the right to know what personal information we have about you, to access it, to correct it, and to delete it, and the right not to be treated differently for using these rights. Most Wakey data lives only on your device, so deleting the App removes it. For information on our servers, email us at support@wakeyalarmapp.com. We may ask for details to confirm the request is yours. Accountability buddies who received a text from Wakey can use these rights the same way.
Do Not Track: Some browsers and devices send "Do Not Track" signals. Wakey does not track you across other apps or websites, so it does not change its behavior in response to these signals.
All communication between the App and our servers is encrypted with HTTPS/TLS. App identifiers are kept in secure storage on your device (the iOS Keychain), buddy phone numbers are stored only as keyed hashes, and payment details are handled by Stripe, which is certified to PCI DSS Level 1. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.
Wakey is intended for users in the United States. Our servers and service providers process information in the United States.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will update the "Last updated" date above, and for material changes we will also give notice in the App where appropriate.
Questions about this Privacy Policy or your information? Email us at support@wakeyalarmapp.com.