Privacy
The short version: everything you record in TaperØff stays on your phone. This version of the app has no account and no sync, so there is nothing for us to receive, and it has no analytics, no crash reporting and no ads.
Draft, pending legal review. This text describes how we intend TaperØff to work. It is not yet a binding document.
Who we are
TaperØff is made by Corkscrew technologies ltd ("we", "us"), which also runs this website. For the purposes of UK data protection law (the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018), we are the controller of the limited personal data described below. For anything about privacy, write to quit@taperoff.io.
Company number and registered office: to be added before launch.
What stays on your phone
Everything you record in the app stays on your device: your plan (where you're starting, how long your taper runs, your waking hours, and what vaping costs you if you enter it), your puffs and windows, the Puff Bank, your cravings and how they went, and your pods or disposables. It's protected by your phone's own data protection and kept out of iCloud and Google device backups.
We never receive any of it. This version of TaperØff has no account and no sync: the app works in full on its own, offline. Sync between your devices, end-to-end encrypted, is planned for a later update. It will be off until you choose to turn it on, and we'll update this notice before it arrives.
Your watch
If you use TaperØff on an Apple Watch or a Wear OS watch, your phone and your watch swap entries directly, using Apple's or Google's connection between your own paired devices. They don't pass through any server of ours.
Apple Health and Health Connect
Only if you allow it, TaperØff reads your resting heart rate to show it next to your taper, and saves breathing exercises as mindful minutes (on iPhone you can also choose to save a craving you got through). This stays between the app and Health on your phone. It is never sent to us.
The coach
Coaching notes are chosen on your phone, from a fixed set of messages. Nothing you log is sent to an AI service or anywhere else to do it.
Data we do hold
If you buy Plus
Payments are handled by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies. Your phone checks the purchase with the store and keeps only whether you have Plus. Nothing about it reaches us, and we never see your card details.
Crash reports
The app doesn't send crash reports to us. If you've chosen to share analytics with Apple or Google in your phone's settings, they may pass us anonymous crash reports and usage statistics under their own policies; you can turn that off in those settings.
If you email us
We get your email address and what you write, and use them to reply. We keep the conversation only as long as we need it to help you. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in answering you.
This website
This site has no analytics, no advertising and no tracking cookies. The savings calculator runs entirely in your browser; what you type into it is never sent to us. Remembering your light or dark theme choice uses your browser's local storage, which stays on your device. Like any website, the host sees your IP address and the pages you ask for, which it uses to deliver them and to protect the site from attacks.
Who else processes data
- Apple and Google: the app stores and payments for Plus.
- Cloudflare: hosts this website.
- Forward Email and Google: deliver email sent to quit@taperoff.io.
Apart from Apple and Google, who run their stores under their own terms, these providers process data only on our instructions. None of them receives what you log in the app. Where a provider processes data outside the UK, we rely on the safeguards UK law requires, such as adequacy regulations or standard contractual clauses.
How long we keep it
What you log stays on your phone until you delete it or the app. Deleting your data explains how. Emails we keep only as long as we need them.
Your rights
You have the right to access, correct, delete and export your personal data, to object to or restrict how we use it, and to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. Because what you log is only on your phone, you control it directly: export it from You → Privacy → Export my data, or delete everything. For anything else, such as an email you sent us, write to quit@taperoff.io and we'll respond within one month.
Children
TaperØff is for adults aged 18 and over.
Changes
If we change this notice in a way that matters, such as when sync arrives, we'll tell you in the app before the change takes effect.