Privacy policy

Effective November 2026 · Crinkle is made by We Are Recess LLC, Carlsbad, California · ryan@wearerecess.co

Crinkle is a gift planning and budgeting app for iPhone. It is built so that your plan stays with you. This page lists everything the app stores, where it lives, and the few things that leave your phone, each of them only when you choose to share.

What Crinkle stores, and where

Your plan lives on your iPhone and in your own iCloud account. People, occasions, budgets, gifts, ideas, photos you attach, receipts you scan, hiding spots: all of it is kept on your phone and synced between your own devices through Apple's iCloud (CloudKit private database), which is encrypted and tied to your Apple Account. We Are Recess has no access to it and no way to read it. Deleting the app and its iCloud data removes it completely.

Reading a receipt, an order screenshot or a handwritten list happens on your phone using Apple's Vision framework. The image is not uploaded anywhere.

Link previews (a page's title, picture and price) are fetched by your phone directly from the page you pasted, the same as a browser would. When you share a page from Safari to Crinkle, Crinkle reads that page on your phone (its name, price, picture, and for an order page the items and prices) and nothing else; the page itself is not kept or sent anywhere.

Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight work on your phone. Gifts you let Spotlight index stay in your phone's own index.

The four things that can leave your phone

1. Package tracking. If you add a tracking number to a gift, Crinkle sends that tracking number only to our tracking relay, which asks a carrier-tracking provider (17TRACK) for status updates. No gift name, recipient, price or account goes with it. The relay keeps the number and its latest status for up to 60 days.
2. Shared wishlists. If you share your own wishlist, you sign in with Apple and we store: a stable anonymous Apple identifier for your account (no name or email is requested), the list's name, the first name you choose to show, and the items on it (title, link, notes, price, illustration). People you send the link to can view it without an account; signed-in viewers can mark an item reserved or bought. You, the list owner, can never see those marks. Stop sharing at any time; the link then shows "no longer shared".
3. Shared plans (read-only links). If you share a copy of an occasion's plan, you sign in with Apple the same way and we store a copy: the occasion name and date, the first name you choose to show, the budget figures, and for each person their name, budget and gifts (title, status, amount, link, illustration name). For anyone you mark as "a surprise", your phone removes everything except their name and a count of gifts before the copy is sent. Gifts not yet assigned to a person are never sent. The copy is replaced whenever the plan changes and deleted when you stop sharing.
4. Household plans. If you plan an occasion together with someone, you sign in with Apple the same way and that occasion (its name and date, budget, people, per-person budgets and gifts, with their titles, stages, amounts, links, notes, store and tracking details and hiding spots) is kept on our service so every member's phone can show the same plan. Photos are not sent. Each member says which person on the list they are, and our service never sends a member the gifts meant for them: those reach their phone only as a count and a stage, with the amounts folded into the totals. Stop planning together (owner) or leave (member) and the plan is removed from the service for you.

That is the full list. Crinkle has no analytics, no advertising identifiers, no third-party trackers, and no account for using the planner.

Store links

When you open a store from a gift or a wishlist, the link may carry an affiliate tag (for example Amazon Associates), which means the store may pay We Are Recess a small commission on what you buy. The price you pay does not change, the store does not learn anything about your plan from the tag, and we do not learn what you bought.

Notifications

Crinkle can show a notification when a tracked package is out for delivery or has arrived. These are generated on your phone. You can turn them off in iOS Settings at any time.

Children

Crinkle is for adults planning gifts. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Your choices

• Stop sharing a wishlist or plan from inside the app and the shared copy is removed from our service.
• Delete a gift's tracking number and the relay stops checking it; the record expires within 60 days.
• Delete the app and its iCloud data (iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage → Crinkle) and your plan is gone from everywhere.
• In the app, Settings → Sharing → Delete sharing account removes your sharing account and everything it shared from our service at once: your wishlists and shared plans, any plan you started together (from every member's phone), your place in plans you joined, and your reservations.
• Email ryan@wearerecess.co to ask what, if anything, our service holds for your Apple identifier, or to have it deleted.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.