Shekelica

Privacy Policy

Shekelica (the “App”) helps you review payment screenshots and receipts, record transactions, and manage budgets on your iPhone or iPad. This policy describes the information the current App handles and the choices available to you.

Your ledger stays under your control. Shekelica processes receipt text on your device. We do not operate a service that receives your receipts, ledger, or local experience records. An account is not required.

1. Information used by the App

Receipts and transaction records: Images you select or photograph, recognized text, amount candidates, amounts, merchants, transaction dates and types, categories, payment methods, notes, tags, and editing history. These support receipt review, bookkeeping, search, statistics, and exports.
Budgets and preferences: Budget amounts, periods and categories, display currency, scan preferences, and reminder settings.
Import and review progress: Pending, failed, ignored, and completed imports; your corrections and review state; photo-library asset identifiers and image fingerprints used to prevent repeated imports. These identifiers and fingerprints stay in the App’s local storage.
Optional local experience records: If you enable this setting, the App records activity types and times, review durations, whether key fields were changed, and duplicate-import prevention events. This feature is off by default. It does not record amounts, merchant names, images, or recognized text, and the records are not sent to us.

2. On-device processing and storage

Receipt text recognition uses Apple’s Vision framework on your device. The App stores your ledger, budgets, receipt attachments, and review progress in its local app storage. We do not receive this information through an app-operated backend.

The current App does not provide an app-managed cloud ledger synchronization service. Apple’s device backups, iCloud Photos, and the file providers you choose may handle copies under your own system settings. For example, selecting a photo stored in iCloud may cause Apple’s photo services to download it. This is separate from sending receipt data to the developer.

Local storage is subject to your device’s operating-system protections. Shekelica does not add password-based encryption to exported CSV or JSON files. Protect your device and any copies you create.

3. Permissions

Photos: The system photo picker lets you choose images without granting access to your entire photo library. Finding candidate receipts in your library requires photo permission; limited access restricts the App to the photos you authorize.
Camera: Camera permission is requested when you choose to photograph a receipt.
Notifications: Permission is requested when you enable reminders. Receipt-candidate and budget reminders are local notifications. Information displayed in notifications may be visible to others according to your lock-screen settings.

You can change these permissions in iOS or iPadOS Settings. Manual bookkeeping does not require access to your camera or photo library.

4. Sharing, exports, and backups

We do not sell your information, use advertising or cross-app tracking SDKs, or send your ledger to third-party analytics services.

Sharing occurs when you choose to export or send a file. CSV exports contain confirmed transaction details, including notes where present. Complete JSON backups contain ledger records, budgets, tags, editing history, receipt images, recognized text, and pending review progress. These files may contain sensitive financial or personal information.

You choose where to save or share exports, including local storage, iCloud Drive, or another provider. The selected provider handles the file under its own policies. Deleting data in Shekelica does not delete exported files, recipient copies, system backups, or originals in your photo library. Manage those copies separately.

5. Retention and your controls

Local records remain until you delete or clear them, or remove the App. You can edit and delete transactions, clear the saved ledger, budgets, and import records in the App’s data-management settings, and turn off or clear optional local experience records in their settings. Turning experience recording off stops new records; use its clear action to remove earlier records.

Completed or ignored imports may retain receipts and import history to support review and prevent repeated imports, even after an individual transaction is deleted. Legacy image files and caches may also remain in app storage after individual records are deleted. Removing the App using the system’s Delete App action removes its local app storage; Offload App retains documents and data.

We cannot remotely read, retrieve, or delete your local ledger because we do not hold a server copy. You can export your records before removing the App. Manage or delete system backup copies through the relevant Apple or file-provider settings.

6. Contacting us

If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you choose to include, and use it to respond to your request. Please avoid sending full receipts, account details, payment credentials, or complete backups unless they are necessary for the support request. Support correspondence is separate from the App’s local ledger.

For questions about Shekelica’s privacy practices, contact soprano.true_13@icloud.com.

7. This privacy website

This page is hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub logs visitors’ IP addresses for security purposes, as described in its Pages documentation and Privacy Statement. Website access logs are separate from your ledger. This page contains no advertising, analytics scripts, third-party fonts, or data-entry forms.

8. Changes to this policy

We will update this page and its last-updated date if the App’s data practices change. A future feature that introduces additional data processing will be described before or when it becomes available.