1. Who We Are

Omnibus is made by Jamie Newman, an independent developer in the United Kingdom. You can reach me at contact@jamie-newman.com.

2. Data We Collect

Omnibus has no account, no sign-in and no server of its own. It contains no analytics and no crash reporting. I cannot see what you read, how much, or when.

Advertising (free version, from 1.1.0)

From version 1.1.0, the free version of Omnibus shows one banner ad at the foot of the Library, Highlights and Stats tabs, served by Google AdMob. There are no ads on Now, the session timer, a book's page, Goals, Settings or the Apple Watch. There are no ads, and the ad software never starts, for:

• Omnibus Pro owners
• Any install first downloaded from the App Store before version 1.1.0

On those devices no consent form or tracking prompt appears. Where ads are shown, Google's Mobile Ads SDK collects data from your device to serve and measure them: a device identifier (including Apple's advertising identifier, if you allow tracking), approximate location derived from your IP address, the ads you have seen and your interactions with them, and app performance and crash information. Your books, sessions, highlights, notes and goals are never shared with Google or used for advertising.

• Consent. In the EEA, the UK, and other regions where the law requires it, Google's User Messaging Platform asks for your consent to how Google uses data for ads, the first time you open the app. You can change your choice at any time in Omnibus's Settings → Privacy choices, which appears where this applies.
• Tracking. Omnibus asks through Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt before the advertising identifier can be used, and where the consent form applies, only if you consented to storing information on your device. If you decline, ads are still shown, without the advertising identifier. You can change this at any time in iPhone Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

3. What Omnibus Stores on Your Device

Your books, readings, sessions, highlights, notes, tags and goals, along with the settings you choose, are stored in the app's own container on your iPhone or iPad. Cover images fetched from Open Library are stored there too. Deleting the app deletes all of it.

4. iCloud Sync (Omnibus Pro)

With Omnibus Pro and the iCloud toggle on, your library is mirrored to the private database of your own iCloud account so it appears on your other devices. That data is stored by Apple under your Apple Account, is not visible to me, and is covered by Apple's iCloud terms. Turning the toggle off stops the mirroring; the data already on each device stays there.

5. Apple Watch

The books on the go are sent to your Apple Watch over the direct link between the two devices, and sessions timed on the watch come back the same way. Nothing passes through any server of mine.

6. Open Library

When you search for a book, scan a barcode, or a cover is missing, Omnibus sends the search text, the ISBN or the cover identifier to openlibrary.org, a service of the Internet Archive, and receives book details and cover images back. Open Library receives your device's IP address as part of that request, as any web request does. Nothing else about you is sent. Open Library's own privacy policy applies to its side of that request. If you add books by hand and never search, Omnibus makes no network requests of its own; in the free version from 1.1.0, the ad banners make requests to Google as section 2 describes.

7. Purchases

Omnibus Pro is a one-off purchase handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Omnibus checks with Apple whether the purchase exists on your Apple Account; it never sees your payment details.

8. Camera

The camera is used only for the barcode scanner on the Add screen, to read the EAN-13 on the back of a book. No image is stored or sent anywhere. If you decline camera access, search and manual entry work as before.

9. Import and Export

Files you export, the backup and the CSVs, are written where you choose through the system file picker. Files you import are read once and not kept.

10. Data Sharing

I do not sell, share or transfer any personal data, because I do not have any. In the free version, from 1.1.0, the Google Mobile Ads SDK sends Google the advertising data described in section 2, and Google may use it to serve and measure ads, as its own policies describe: Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from apps that use its services. Google's User Messaging Platform shows the consent form and keeps your consent choices, under the same policy. That data never includes your books, sessions, highlights, notes or goals.

11. Your Rights & Data Deletion

Your data is yours and on your devices. Delete a book, a session or a highlight in the app; delete everything by deleting the app; remove the iCloud copy from Settings on your device under iCloud, Manage Storage, Omnibus. Change your ad-consent choice in Omnibus's Settings → Privacy choices (where it applies), and tracking in iPhone Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Omnibus Pro removes ads entirely.

12. Children's Privacy

Omnibus is not directed at children under 13. Omnibus itself collects no personal information from anyone; the ads in the free version are requested as general-audience ads.

13. Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the new version will appear at this address with a new date at the top.

14. Contact

Questions about privacy: contact@jamie-newman.com.