Privacy Policy

Squabble is designed to be private by default. The AI runs entirely on your device, and your disputes are stored only on your device. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind, and we run no server that receives or stores your disputes. The one exception is when you choose to share a dispute as a link — that link carries the dispute itself to whoever you send it to, as explained under “Sharing a dispute or result” below.

What we collect

Nothing. Squabble has no backend, no user accounts, and no login. We do not collect, transmit, sell, or share your personal information. The only time any of our infrastructure is involved is when someone opens a dispute link you chose to share — see “Sharing a dispute or result.”

How your disputes are processed

When you ask the council to settle a dispute, the claims you type and the verdicts produced are processed by Apple's on-device Foundation Models (Apple Intelligence) running locally on your iPhone. Your dispute content is never sent to us or to any external server for AI processing. Squabble's verdicts come from an AI model and can make mistakes — its rulings are for fun and shouldn't be treated as authoritative.

What is stored, and where

• On your device only. Saved cases and their verdicts are stored locally on your iPhone using Apple's on-device database (SwiftData).
• You control it. You can delete any saved case from within the app at any time.
• Removed with the app. If you delete Squabble, its locally stored case history is removed along with it.

Sharing a dispute or result

Squabble lets you settle a dispute across two phones by sharing a link. Here is exactly what that means for your privacy:

• The dispute travels inside the link. When you share a dispute or a result, the claims and verdict are encoded directly into the link. You send that link yourself, through whatever messaging or email app you choose. We never receive it and we store nothing.
• The link is not encrypted. The dispute is encoded, not protected with a password, so anyone who has the link can open it and read the whole dispute. Only share it with the person you intend to.
• Opening a link loads a small web page from us. So that someone without the app can install it, the link points to our website. When the link is opened, that page may show a preview built from a display-only sender name and topic taken from the link — and nothing more. The dispute's actual claims sit in the part of the link (after the “#”) that browsers never send to any server, so the claims never reach us. We run no server that stores disputes or performs any AI.

Network use

Settling a dispute requires no network connection — the app makes no network calls to produce its verdicts; everything is computed on your device. A connection comes into play only when you choose to share or open a dispute link (described above), or for standard Apple system requests such as downloading the on-device model, which are handled by Apple under Apple's own privacy policy, not by us.

No tracking, no analytics

Squabble contains no third-party analytics SDKs, no trackers, and no social-media integrations. We do not use cookies or device identifiers for tracking.

Advertising

Squabble shows a single banner ad on its Home screen, served by Google AdMob. These ads are non-personalized: they are not targeted using your advertising identifier (IDFA), so the app shows no App Tracking Transparency prompt and uses no consent-management flow. Google may still process limited, non-identifying information (such as a coarse, non-personalized request) to serve and measure the ad, under Google's own advertising and privacy policy, not ours. We receive no personal data from this; AI verdicts remain entirely on-device and are never used for advertising.

Children's privacy

Squabble does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children. Because the app collects no data at all, there is nothing for us to gather, store, or disclose.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email villagecouncilapp@gmail.com.