Privacy Policy — 1History

22 August 2026

1History collects no personal data. None.

The app has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no server of ours. Everything you do in it — reading, settings, personal markers — stays on your device.

The app never contacts a network on its own. There are exactly two ways anything leaves your device, and you start both of them:

  1. Apple. When you choose to download the full collection, Apple's App Store system delivers the content package. Purchases are handled by Apple too; we never see your payment details. Apple's own privacy terms cover both.

  2. A link you tap. Cards can open their Wikipedia article, and pictures can open their Wikimedia Commons credit page. Tapping one opens Wikipedia in your browser, the ordinary way — so Wikipedia sees that request, as it would for any link. Nothing is opened for you, nothing is fetched in the background, and the link is never routed through anything of ours or through a translation proxy: that would tell a third party which card you were reading, which is the whole thing this app is built not to do.

In particular, the pictures are not fetched while you read. They are downloaded once, inside the content package, and shown from your device. An app that loaded each picture when you opened its card would be announcing every card you looked at, one request at a time. This one cannot: the code that would reach for a picture on the network is switched off in the shipped build, and a check in our release process refuses any build that grows a new network call of any kind.

Because we collect nothing, there is nothing for us to share, sell, or delete.

The app's bundle carries a privacy manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy) declaring exactly this: no tracking, no tracking domains, no collected data.

Questions: 1history.app@gmail.com