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Itero — Privacy

Everything you save
stays on your phone.

It is not a sealed box, though — a map, a forecast, and a photograph have to come from somewhere. This page names every one of them, written plainly so you can check it rather than take my word.

In detail

Fifteen points · no exceptions hidden in them
01 There is no account and no sign-in Itero never asks who you are and has no way to find out. There is no profile, no login, and no identifier for you anywhere in the app.
02 Your passes and places live on your iPhone In one file inside the app’s own storage, shared with its widgets so they can print the same day the app does. There is no copy on a server of mine, because there is no server of mine.
03 It is not a sealed box, and this page says what it talks to A map, a forecast, and a photograph have to come from somewhere. Four services, named in the next four points, plus any map link you paste yourself (point 09), and nothing else. None of them is told who you are, because the app does not know.
04 Apple does the map Searching for a place, the address it resolves to, the city label, and the street-level imagery all come from Apple Maps through the frameworks built into iOS. Those searches go to Apple under Apple’s own privacy policy, exactly as they would in the Maps app itself.
05 Location, only while you are using the app Itero asks for your location to print your city on the front screen and to bias a search toward the streets around you. It is the when-in-use permission — nothing is gathered in the background. Decline it and the app still works: you lose the city label, and search stops favoring what is near you.
06 The forecast is a coordinate and some dates Where a visit is going, and which days it covers, are sent to Open-Meteo, a free weather service that needs no key and no account. Nothing identifying travels with it. It is an ordinary web request, so Open-Meteo sees an IP address the way any site you open does.
07 Place photographs come from the venue and from Wikipedia Open a place and the app reads that venue’s own website and asks Wikipedia whether it holds a picture. Those are ordinary requests to those sites, which see them the way they would see your browser. A place’s name or its coordinate is all that is in them.
08 Nothing you have saved is sent to any of them Your visits, your dates, who you are hosting, your notes, and the rest of your library never leave the phone. What goes out is one place’s name or one coordinate at a time, for the one thing being fetched.
09 Google Maps sees only the links you use Paste a map link to add a place, and the app opens that link once, the way a browser would, to find out which place it points to. For a Google link, that one request goes to Google, which sees an IP address the way any site you open does. The other way round, a place’s map link opens Google Maps with that place in the search box. That is you following a link out of the app, the same as tapping one in a message, and from there you are on Google’s page under Google’s terms, not Itero’s.
10 Exports are added to your photos, and nothing is uploaded Itero asks only for permission to add to your photo library, never to read it — it cannot see the pictures already there. A day sheet you export is written to your camera roll and goes nowhere else.
11 Deleting the app deletes what it stored There is no copy held anywhere else, so removing Itero removes everything it kept. If you back your iPhone up, that backup includes Itero’s file the same as any other app — the backup is Apple’s and yours, and I cannot see it.
12 No tracking, no ads, no analytics No advertising, no measurement tools, no tracking across apps or websites, and no third-party code of any kind bundled into the app. Every framework in it is Apple’s.
13 The support form is the one thing you choose to send What you type on the support page reaches my inbox, with an email address only if you give one. The app fills in its version, your iOS version, and the device model — the build’s description, never your name, your city, or anything out of your library — and the page prints them above the form so you see them before you press send.
14 Children Itero collects nothing about anyone, which includes children. There is nothing for a parent to request, correct, or delete from me.
15 If this ever changes Adding anything that sends data somewhere new would be a different promise, and this page would say so before it shipped, with the date below changed.

Questions about any of this: kyle@kylecsheridan.com, or the support form.

Last updated 24 September 2026. Applies to Itero for iPhone and iPad.