Privacy Policy
Barley — Cat Alarm Clock
Last updated: 30 September 2026
The short version
Barley collects nothing.
There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no servers. The app never connects to the internet. Everything you create in Barley — your alarms, your settings, your cat — stays on your iPhone and is never sent anywhere.
What Barley keeps on your device
Barley saves a small number of files inside its own private container on your iPhone. The app, its Lock Screen widget and its "Feed Barley" button all read the same files.
- Your alarms. The time, the days they repeat, the name you gave each one, the sound you chose, and the days you skipped.
- Your mornings. A record of each alarm that was armed, whether it rang, and how it ended. Barley needs this to know whether you are already awake.
- Your settings. Light or dark, which coat your cat wears, which room he lives in, and whether you have seen the welcome screens.
- What you bought. The identifiers of the packs unlocked on this device — nothing about the payment itself.
- An internal event log. Plain text notes the app writes about its own alarms, so that a missed alarm can be explained. It records what the app did and when, not what you did elsewhere on your phone.
These files are readable only by Barley. No other app can open them, and neither can we.
What Barley does not do
- It has no user accounts and no sign-in. There is nothing to register and nothing to delete from a server, because there is no server.
- It makes no network connections of any kind. Not at launch, not when an alarm rings, not in the background.
- It contains no analytics, tracking, attribution or crash-reporting library, and no advertising code. It never asks for permission to track you and never reads the advertising identifier.
- It never asks for your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, calendar or health data, and contains no code that could use them.
- It shows no advertising.
- It does not sell, share, rent or disclose personal information, because it never receives any.
The two permissions Barley asks for
Alarms. Barley asks iOS for permission to set alarms. iOS shows you the request the first time you arm an alarm, and you can withdraw it at any time in Settings. Withdrawing it stops the alarms from ringing; it sends nothing anywhere.
Notifications. Barley also asks to send you notifications, and it explains why before it asks. On a sleeping iPhone, iOS sometimes drops the wake-up that every alarm depends on, and the alarm then rings minutes late. Alongside each alarm the app schedules a silent notification one second later, as insurance: waking the phone is the point, and you are not meant to see it. These notifications are made and delivered entirely on your iPhone. Nothing about them is sent anywhere, and refusing them does not stop the alarms — it only removes the insurance.
Those are the only two permissions Barley requests.
Purchases
Cosmetic packs are sold through Apple's In-App Purchase. Apple processes the payment.
We never see your card details, your billing address, your name or your Apple Account. The app only asks Apple's on-device StoreKit framework which packs this device is entitled to, and saves those identifiers locally so the packs still work offline. "Restore purchases" asks Apple the same question again.
Apple's handling of a purchase is covered by Apple's own privacy policy, not by this one.
Information Apple may give us
If you have chosen to share App Analytics or crash reports with developers — a setting that lives in iOS, under Privacy & Security, and is off unless you turn it on — Apple may give us aggregated, anonymised statistics such as how many devices installed the app or how often it crashed.
That information is collected by Apple, under Apple's privacy policy, and reaches us already grouped. It does not identify you and we cannot use it to identify you. Barley itself sends nothing to produce it.
How to delete your data
- To delete a single alarm or its history, delete it inside the app.
- To delete everything, delete the app. iOS removes Barley's container and every file described above along with it.
There is nothing to request from us and no form to fill in, because the app gives us nothing about you to hold. Your purchases remain recorded by Apple and can be restored on a new device. The one exception is email you send us yourself — see «If you write to us».
If you write to us
Everything above is about the app. This part is about the only moment we hold anything about you at all: when you send us an email.
If you write to support@barleyalarm.com, we receive whatever you put in the message — usually your name, your email address, and what you wrote. We use it for one thing only: answering you. If you report a problem, we may keep the exchange while the problem is being fixed, and delete it afterwards. We do not add you to any list, and there is no list.
That address forwards into our mailbox: Cloudflare passes the message along, and the mailbox itself is Google's. Both are companies outside the European Union, so an email you send us travels through their systems before it reaches us. A reply may arrive from a Google address rather than from the one you wrote to; it is the same person and the same mailbox.
The legal basis is that answering you is what you asked us to do, and in some cases that we have to — Article 6(1)(b) and (c) of the GDPR.
You can ask us what we hold about the exchange, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to the same address. You can also complain to a data protection authority: in Cyprus that is the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, www.dataprotection.gov.cy.
This website
The page you are reading is a plain website. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and makes no request to anyone else's server: the typeface is the one already on your device, and the pictures and sounds sit next to these pages. Because nothing is stored on your device and nothing is read from it, there is no cookie banner to click.
One thing happens anyway, and it happens on every website there is. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, records each request in its server log — your IP address, the time, the page, and the browser's user agent. We keep those logs to see that the site is up and to deal with abuse, and for nothing else. We do not read them to learn about you, we do not join them to anything, and we do not pass them on. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in keeping the site working and secure — Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR — and the logs are deleted on Cloudflare's ordinary schedule.
Cloudflare is a company in the United States, so those request logs may be handled outside the European Union. Cloudflare acts for us under a data processing agreement that carries the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, and the only thing that reaches it is the log described above — no account, no purchase, and nothing from inside the app, because the app makes no network request at all.
The rights described above apply here too, and the same address reaches us.
Children
The app collects no personal information from anyone, of any age, including children under 13 and under 16.
Your rights
Privacy laws — including the GDPR in the European Union and the United Kingdom — give you the right to see, correct, export and erase personal data that a company holds about you.
The app gives us none. The data described above never leaves your device, so there is no copy of it for us to look up, hand over, correct or erase. You already have all of it, and deleting the app deletes all of it.
Those rights do apply to any email you have sent us, and «If you write to us» above says what we do with it.
Changes to this policy
If Barley ever starts doing something this page does not describe, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will change. This page is the current version at all times.
Contact
Barley is made by Dmitrii Polezhaev, Cyprus.