Dokus Privacy Policy

Version 0.4, effective July 9, 2026

Dokus is a personal wallet for your identity documents. This policy explains, plainly, what happens to your data. The summary fits in one sentence: your documents are yours, they stay under your control, and we have no access to them.

Who we are

Dokus is an independently developed app. For anything related to privacy, write to [email protected].

What we don't do

• We never receive, store, or process your documents, and we have no access to their contents.
• We don't sell or share your data, show you ads, or build a profile of you.
• We use no ad networks, no cross-app or cross-site tracking, and no third-party tracking SDKs.
• We don't ask for an account, login, email, or any personal information to use the app.

Where your documents live

• On your iPhone: documents are encrypted in the app's protected area (iOS data protection) and guarded by Face ID. Neither the app nor its developer can read your files.
• In your iPhone's iCloud backup: if you keep Apple's iCloud Backup on, as most iPhones do, Dokus's data is included in it, encrypted and managed by Apple in your iCloud account. That's a feature of iOS, not something Dokus does; you can exclude Dokus in Settings › [your name] › iCloud.
• With Sync (a paid feature), when you turn it on: your documents are mirrored to your private iCloud space so they're available on your other devices. That data lives in your iCloud account, encrypted by Apple; Dokus has no access to it. With Apple's Advanced Data Protection enabled, the encryption is end-to-end.

Anonymous usage statistics

To improve Dokus, we collect a small set of anonymous, aggregated usage counters, for example how often a screen or a subscription offer is shown. They carry no document content and no personal data, contain no identifier that could link them to you or your device, and your IP address is never stored. Your documents are never sent to us (see Where your documents live above).

You can turn this off at any time in Settings › Share usage data; collection stops and anything measured but not yet sent is discarded.

Crash diagnostics

If Dokus crashes, Apple's on-device diagnostics (MetricKit) may record a technical report: the type of error and the code that was running. With anonymous statistics enabled, we collect these to find and fix bugs. They carry no document content, no document names, and no personal data, contain no identifier that could link them to you or your device, and your IP address is never stored. Any field that could hold a file path or personal text is stripped on your device before anything is sent. Reports are kept for at most 90 days, and the same Settings › Share usage data switch turns them off.

How to delete your data

• On the device: delete the document in the app, or uninstall Dokus.
• In iCloud (Sync): when you turn Sync off in the app's settings, we remove your documents from iCloud; local copies remain on the device. Residual copies in backups follow Apple's retention policies.
• In the iCloud backup: this is managed by Apple; you control it in iOS Settings.

Canceling or letting your subscription expire does not delete any document, neither from your iPhone nor from your iCloud. Only you can delete them.

Your rights

Because we don't keep or process your personal data, you exercise your rights directly, in the app and on your device: access, correct, export, and delete your documents at any time, without depending on us. Wherever you live, the rights privacy laws typically grant (access, correction, deletion, portability, objection) are effectively already yours, because there's no personal data in our hands to act on. We don't sell or share personal data, so there's nothing to opt out of.

For any request or question, reach us at the address above.

Purchase data

Subscriptions are processed by Apple. We never receive your card number or payment details, only Apple's confirmation that a subscription is active. Apple's handling of that data is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy.

Children

Dokus is not intended for minors and does not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top and, when the change is significant, notify you inside the app.