Privacy Policy

Effective: 9 November 2026

Long Time No Hear (Hayırsız in Turkish) is an iPhone app that reminds you to call your family and the people you love. It is published by an individual developer as OBA Labs. For any privacy question or request: support@obalabs.app

1. What's stored on your device

What you enter in the app is stored only on your iPhone, in the app's own storage:

• The name, phone number and relationship (mum, uncle and so on) of the people you add, and how often you'd like to call them
• An optional birthday or remembrance date
• The dates you marked as talked, and how (call, WhatsApp, SMS, visit)
• Notes you add to a person and the tone you picked
• Your settings (theme, tone, whether to show religious holidays) and a cached Pro status

So the widget can show who's next, each person's name, last contact date and call frequency are written to an on-device area shared by the app and its widget (App Group). That area stays on your phone too.

None of this is sent to us or to any other server. If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, the app's data may be included in Apple's device backup; we have no access to that backup.

2. Picking a contact

People are added with iOS's own contact picker. The picker runs in a separate process and only hands the app the name and first phone number of the person you chose. The app never asks for contacts permission and cannot see the rest of your address book.

3. Notifications

Reminders are scheduled on your phone with iOS local notifications. The text is generated on the device; there is no server and no push notifications. You can turn notifications off at any time in iOS Settings.

4. Calls, SMS and WhatsApp

When you tap Call, SMS or WhatsApp, the person's phone number (and, for greetings, a prepared message) is handed to the Phone, Messages or WhatsApp app on your iPhone. Sending is up to you. Communication in those apps is covered by their own privacy terms; the app never sees what you talk about.

5. Purchases and RevenueCat

The Pro subscription is bought through Apple's App Store. Your payment details stay with Apple; we never see them. Whether Pro is unlocked is read from Apple's transaction records on the device.

To keep a record of purchases (revenue reporting and tracking refunds), the app uses the RevenueCat SDK provided by RevenueCat, Inc. (USA). RevenueCat does not take payments and does not decide whether Pro is unlocked.

• RevenueCat receives your purchase and transaction history (product, price, currency, date, App Store country), a randomly generated anonymous user ID, the app version, the iOS version and the device model. Like any server, it also sees the IP address of the connection.
• This ID is not linked to you: there is no account, and your name, email address or phone number is never asked for or sent. The advertising identifier (IDFA) is not read.
• The people you add, your notes and your contact history are never sent to RevenueCat or anywhere else.

RevenueCat explains how it handles this data in its own privacy policy.

6. What we don't collect

• No account, sign-in or email address.
• No analytics, advertising networks, crash reporters or tracking SDKs. The app does not track you across other apps or websites.
• No access to location, photos, camera, microphone or contacts. The only permission the app asks for is notifications.

7. Deleting your data

You can delete a person from the menu on their screen. Deleting the app removes all of its data from your device. We hold no personal data about you, so there is no separate account to delete. If you'd like the anonymous purchase record at RevenueCat removed, write to us.

8. Children

The app is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal data from children.

9. Changes and contact

If the app starts handling new data, this page is updated and the effective date changes. For questions and GDPR requests: support@obalabs.app