1. What this page covers
This note explains how Asel Kuatkyzy handles information in the Fairlead app: hours, fuel, service, papers, a locker, a trailer, rigs, knots, checklists, and workshop math. There is no account and no sign-in. Using the app means you accept this note. If you do not, delete the app.
Fairlead keeps your boat log on the phone. Two outside services are also part of the build: one measures where an install came from, the other delivers notifications. Both are named in section 6. Sections 2 to 5 describe what never leaves the device.
The hull drawings and sample photos ship inside the app. They are not a picture of your boat unless you replace them.
2. What is stored on the device
The log lives in a local database on the phone. It is not copied to a Fairlead server, because there is no Fairlead server for your boats.
- Boat passport: name, hull type, length, beam, draft, motor, propeller, tank, battery, and hour meter.
- Outings: start and end, hours, fuel added, fuel used, and notes.
- Service jobs, the date and hours of each “done” mark, and an optional receipt photo.
- Calendar papers such as flares, registration, a fishing license, an extinguisher, or a first-aid kit.
- Locker quantities, trailer checks, saved rigs, knot practice, checklist runs, and saved calculator results.
- Which boat is selected, whether units are imperial, whether reminders are on, and whether the first-launch introduction has been dismissed.
Sample boats named Creek and Bay can be installed on first launch. They are ordinary local records. Delete Sample or Delete All Data removes them from the phone.
3. Camera and photo library
The camera and photo library are used only when you choose a picture for a boat, a part, a receipt, a paper, a rig, or a trailer. Fairlead does not scan your library in the background. A picture you attach is stored with that record on the device. The sample pictures that ship with the app stay in the app bundle; deleting sample boats removes the copies in the database, not the pictures inside the app itself.
4. Reminders and notifications
At first launch Fairlead asks for notification permission. That permission is what OneSignal uses to deliver notifications, and it is described in section 6. Refusing it does not affect the log.
Reminders are a separate switch in Settings, and they are off until you turn them on. When they are on, Fairlead schedules local alerts for papers and for service dates it can estimate from your own log. Those alerts are built on the phone from your own records. Turning Reminders off clears the pending alerts; it does not change the notification permission.
5. Features that stay on the phone
- Spotlight indexes boat names, jobs, locker items, and rigs so you can find them from search. The index is on the device. Delete All Data clears it.
- A lock-screen timer can run while an outing is open. It shows the boat name, elapsed time, and the fuel reading from the start. It does not use push updates.
- Home-screen shortcuts and Shortcuts phrases start an outing, open fuel, open service, or open the rode calculator. They read and write the same local log.
- A PDF of one boat is drawn on the phone. It leaves the device only if you send it yourself through the system share sheet.
Fairlead does not ask for location, microphone, contacts, or background refresh. It does ask for tracking permission, and section 7 explains why. Boat names, hours, fuel, photos, and notes stay out of every request described in this note.
6. Install measurement and notifications
Two services are built into the app. They receive technical data about the install, not your log.
AppsFlyer — install measurement
AppsFlyer tells the app which campaign or link an install came from. On first launch, and on later launches, the AppsFlyer software development kit sends its own install identifier, the app identifier, the device model, the iOS version, the language and time zone, your IP address, and — only if you allowed tracking — the advertising identifier. AppsFlyer keeps that data under its own privacy policy at appsflyer.com/legal/privacy-policy.
OneSignal — notifications
OneSignal delivers the notifications you allow. On first launch the app registers with OneSignal, which receives a push token from Apple, the app identifier, the device model and iOS version, and the AppsFlyer identifier described above so the two services can be matched. You can refuse notifications and the log still works. OneSignal keeps that data under its own privacy policy at onesignal.com/privacy_policy.
Both services are switched on by the app itself and are not tied to a Fairlead account, because there is no account. Neither one receives your boats, hours, fuel, photos, papers, or notes.
7. Tracking permission
On first launch Fairlead asks whether it may track you across other apps and websites. The system prompt is the one Apple requires for the advertising identifier. If you allow it, the identifier is sent to AppsFlyer with the install data in section 6 and is used to measure which campaign produced the install.
If you refuse, the app sends an all-zero identifier instead and the log works exactly the same. You can change the answer at any time in iOS Settings, under Privacy & Security, then Tracking. The app contains no advertising network and shows no ads, so the identifier is not used to target ads inside Fairlead.
8. What can leave the phone
The app makes three kinds of request. None of them carries your log.
- A start-up check sends the app identifier and the AppsFlyer identifier described in section 6, together with technical details about the device: model, iOS build, language, time zone, and the advertising identifier or the all-zero value.
- AppsFlyer and OneSignal send the install and notification data covered in section 6.
- This privacy page is loaded from the web so it can be updated. Opening it does not upload your log.
If you export a PDF or share a picture, the destination is the one you pick in the share sheet. Apple may process downloads and updates under Apple’s own privacy policy when you get the app from the App Store.
There is no account system, no crash reporter, and no advertising network in the app. The log itself is not sent anywhere and is not sold.
9. What you can do
- Leave Reminders off, or turn them off later.
- Refuse notifications. The log still works.
- Refuse tracking in the system prompt, or change it later in iOS Settings. The app then sends an all-zero identifier instead of the advertising identifier.
- Refuse the camera or photo library. The log still works without pictures.
- Delete Sample to drop the practice boats and keep anything you added.
- Delete All Data to remove boats, knot progress, checklist runs, and the Spotlight index.
- Delete the app to remove the local database from that phone.
Questions about this note, or a request about the install data described in section 6, can also be sent to the address below.
10. Children
Fairlead is a utility for keeping a boat. It is not directed at children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
11. Changes to this note
If the app’s handling of information changes, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change. The copy you open from Settings is loaded fresh, without using an old cached page.