Pakeup Legal

Legal document

Privacy Policy

Pakeup is designed around on-device processing. Alarm settings, mission photos, and pet stickers stay on your device, and no developer-controlled backend or account is used.

Effective: 2026-08-30 Last updated: 2026-08-30 Version: 1.0

1. Scope and controller

This Privacy Policy applies to the Pakeup iOS application and this legal website. It does not cover Apple services governed by Apple's own notices.

The operator and controller is Hengtong Li (李恒通). Privacy questions may be sent to hengtong.li@foxmail.com.

2. Information used by the app

Depending on the features you choose, Pakeup processes the following information:

  • Alarm settings, including scheduled time, label, mission type, repeat schedule, ringtone selection, and on and off state.
  • Mission records, including the date and time an alarm mission was completed, mission outcome, and the resulting pet sticker image.
  • Alarm and mission log shown in the in-app calendar view.
  • Camera captures used to take a pet photo during an alarm mission. Photos are processed on device by Apple Vision framework to recognize cats and dogs. Temporary image files used during processing are deleted after a sticker is created or the mission is dismissed.
  • App preferences, feature entitlement status, and technical diagnostics you choose to send in a support request.

3. Camera and permissions

Pakeup requests camera access to take a pet photo when an alarm mission starts. Camera use is limited to the mission flow while the alarm is active. You can deny or revoke camera permission in iOS Settings; doing so does not prevent alarm scheduling but prevents completion of the photo mission.

Pakeup uses Apple AlarmKit to schedule system alarms. AlarmKit alarm permission is requested in iOS Settings. Denying alarm permission means alarms cannot be scheduled.

Pakeup does not request photo library access and cannot read or browse your Photos app. If you choose to save an original capture to your photo library, the app will request add-only photo library permission at that point.

4. Sources, purposes, and legal bases

Information comes from you and from on-device processing. The legal basis depends on your location and the feature involved.

  • Provide alarm scheduling, mission flow, sticker creation, and calendar history you request: performance of the service or contract.
  • Access the camera during an alarm mission: your affirmative iOS permission, which you may revoke in iOS Settings.
  • Schedule system alarms through AlarmKit: your affirmative iOS permission.
  • Process a pet photo on device using Apple Vision framework: provide the requested mission feature; results are not used for decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
  • Protect, troubleshoot, and improve reliability without behavioral advertising: legitimate interests where permitted.
  • Respond to rights requests, disputes, and lawful orders: legal obligation or legitimate interests.

5. On-device storage

Pakeup does not require a Pakeup account and currently operates without a developer-controlled backend for alarm or sticker content. All alarm settings, mission records, and sticker images are stored in the app's local SwiftData database on your device.

Pakeup does not use iCloud synchronization for alarm or sticker data. If you remove the app, all locally stored data is deleted.

6. Website data and cookies

This legal website does not set advertising or analytics cookies and does not run behavioral tracking scripts. It is hosted by Vercel. When you visit, Vercel may process ordinary delivery and security data such as IP address, request time, requested page, browser or device information, approximate region derived from IP, and security logs under Vercel's terms and the operator's hosting configuration.

The legal website does not receive your Pakeup alarm, mission, or sticker data.

7. Disclosures and no sale

Pakeup does not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, use it for targeted advertising, or provide it to data brokers. Information may be processed only by:

  • Apple, when you use the App Store, StoreKit, AlarmKit, camera, or Vision framework, under Apple's applicable terms.
  • Vercel, solely to host and secure this legal website.
  • Professional advisers or service providers bound by appropriate confidentiality and data-protection duties, if introduced and disclosed before use.
  • Authorities or other parties where disclosure is legally required, necessary to protect rights or safety, or part of a properly notified corporate transaction.

8. International transfers

Apple and Vercel may process information in countries other than where you live. Where the operator is legally responsible for a transfer, it will use an approved transfer mechanism and required supplementary safeguards, and will provide local disclosures or obtain separate consent when required.

9. Retention and deletion

Pakeup keeps information only as long as needed for the feature, your choices, legal obligations, and dispute or security needs.

  • Alarm settings and mission records remain until you delete them with in-app controls or remove the app.
  • Sticker images and temporary capture files used during a mission are stored locally; temporary files are deleted after the mission ends.
  • Support correspondence and legal records are retained only for the request, security, tax, dispute, or statutory period that applies. Vercel logs follow the operator's configuration and Vercel's then-current retention terms.

10. Security

Pakeup uses platform protections such as the iOS app sandbox, Apple permission controls, and encrypted network transport provided by Apple and Vercel. Access is limited to what is needed for the service.

No storage or transmission method is completely secure. If a breach creates a legally reportable risk, the operator will investigate and notify affected people and regulators as required.

11. Children

Pakeup is a general-audience lifestyle tool and is not directed to children under 13. A person below the age at which they may consent to data processing in their country should use optional personal-data features only with valid parent or guardian authorization. Special rules apply where relevant, including age requirements in South Korea.

12. Your rights and contact

Depending on where you live, you may request access, a copy, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or withdrawal of consent, and may complain to your local privacy regulator. Mandatory exceptions may apply. Because Pakeup has no custom account and alarm data is stored locally, the in-app controls are normally the most direct way to exercise these rights.

Send a request to hengtong.li@foxmail.com and describe the right and jurisdiction involved. The operator may request proportionate verification. Operator: Hengtong Li (李恒通). Regional contacts are listed in the Regional Privacy Notice.

13. Changes to this policy

The operator may update this policy when features, providers, or laws change. Material changes will be presented in the app or by another legally appropriate notice before they take effect. The effective date and version above identify the current text.