Privacy Policy

BoatWorks Pro has no accounts and no server. Your maintenance records, trips, photos and inventory live on your device and sync through your own iCloud account — we never receive them, and we have no way to read them.

Who we are

BoatWorks Pro is an iPhone and iPad app for boat owners, covering maintenance, machinery, fuel, inventory and provisions, tides, weather, and trip logging. In this policy, "we" and "us" mean the developer of BoatWorks Pro. You can reach us any time at support@boatworks-pro.com.

Where your data lives

Everything you enter — vessels, service records, parts, photos, fuel entries, provisions, trips and logged positions — is stored locally on your device.

If you have iCloud enabled, that data also syncs to your own iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit private database. This is the same mechanism Apple's own apps use. The data is held under your Apple Account, governed by Apple's privacy policy, and is not accessible to us. We do not operate a server, a database, or a backup service, and there is no copy of your boat records anywhere we can reach.

Sharing with your crew

You can invite specific people — crew, a partner, a yard manager — to share a vessel's records. This uses CloudKit's shared database, and sharing happens only when you explicitly send an invitation. The people you invite can see what you shared with them; nobody else can, including us. You can revoke access at any time from within the app.

BoatWorks Pro can also sync directly between nearby devices over your local network or Bluetooth, so a crew can stay in step while offshore and out of cell range. That exchange happens device-to-device and does not travel over the internet or through any server of ours.

Device permissions, and why the app asks

• Location. Used to log your track while trip logging is running, to show your position on the chart, and to find the tide stations and weather nearest you. Your position history is stored with your trips, in your own iCloud. Background location is used only while you have a trip actively logging, so a trip survives your phone locking or the app being backgrounded.
• Camera. Used to attach photos to maintenance records, parts and provisions, and to scan barcodes when adding inventory. Photos stay with your records.
• Bluetooth and Local Network. Used to connect to onboard instruments (NMEA data such as depth, speed and engine information) and to sync with nearby crew devices. Both are local to your boat.

Every one of these is optional. Declining a permission disables the feature that needs it; the rest of the app continues to work.

Outside services the app contacts

Some features need current information from the outside world. When you use those features, the app makes a request to the relevant provider. As with any internet request, the provider necessarily sees your IP address and whatever the request contains — but these requests carry no account, no name, and no identifier for you.

• Apple WeatherKit — forecasts and conditions for the area you are looking at. Handled by Apple under their privacy policy.
• NOAA Tides & Currents — tide predictions for U.S. stations, requested by station.
• OpenFreeMap and OpenSeaMap — chart and map tiles for the area you are viewing.
• UPCitemdb and Open Food Facts — barcode lookups. When you scan an item, the app sends the barcode number to identify the product. A UPC is not personal information and is not linked to you.

Weather, tide and map requests include coordinates for the area being displayed, since that is the question being asked. We receive none of this — the request goes from your device to the provider.

Analytics, advertising and tracking

There are none. BoatWorks Pro contains no analytics SDK, no advertising network, and no third-party tracking code. We do not build a profile of you, we do not track you across apps or websites, and we have nothing to sell to a data broker. The app's privacy manifest declares no collected data types and no tracking, and that is a description of how it is actually built.

Support requests

If you contact support, the app can attach a diagnostic report describing recent sync activity and app state, to help identify a problem. This is never sent automatically — it is placed into an email that you review and send yourself, and you can remove it before sending. We use what you send solely to answer your support request.

Subscriptions

Purchases and subscriptions are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details, card number, or billing address. Apple tells the app only whether a subscription is active.

Children

BoatWorks Pro is a tool for boat owners and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone — which, given the design above, includes children.

Deleting your data

Because your records are yours, you remove them the same way you remove any of your own files:

• Delete individual records inside the app.
• Delete the app to remove its local data from that device.
• Remove the app's iCloud data from Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage.
• Stop sharing with a crew member at any time from the sharing screen.

There is no deletion request to send us, because there is nothing on our side to delete.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If a change ever meant the app started collecting something — which would be a real departure from how it is built today — we would say so plainly rather than quietly amending this page.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or about anything else in the app: support@boatworks-pro.com.