Privacy Policy

1. Who is responsible

This policy is provided by Aloha Gems LLC ("Aloha Gems", "we", "us"), the developer of the Text2Store app (the "App") and operator of the website at text2store.com (the "Site"). For website and purchase data, Aloha Gems is the data controller. For data processed entirely on your own computer by the App, you control that data — it never reaches us.

2. The app: your data stays local

When you use Text2Store to back up an iPhone, the backup, messages, contacts, attachments, and any archives or exports you create are stored locally on your computer, in a location you choose. Specifically:

• The App has no user account and requires no login to read your data.
• The App does not transmit your messages, contacts, attachments, or backups to Aloha Gems or to any third party as part of its core backup, browsing, search, and export features.
• Exports you create (CSV, TXT, PDF, or verified .zip) are written to your computer or wherever you save them. What happens to a file after you export and share it is up to you.
• Deleting the App does not delete the archives you created; those files remain on your computer until you remove them.

Because this data never leaves your device through the App, we cannot access it, and we cannot retrieve or delete it for you.

3. Optional AI features

Text2Store may offer optional AI-assisted conversation summaries. These are off unless you use them, and you control how they run:

• On-device (default): where supported, summaries are generated by an on-device model on your own computer. Your conversation content is not sent over the internet.
• Bring your own AI (optional): you may connect your own third-party AI provider. If you do, then only after you confirm the specific action, the App sends the selected conversation's content to that provider so it can produce a summary. That provider processes the content under its own privacy policy and terms. Aloha Gems does not receive that content and is not responsible for the provider's handling of it. Any API key you enter is stored in your operating system's secure keychain, not in a settings file and not by us.

4. License activation

To unlock paid features, the App validates your license key with our licensing service. During activation and periodic re-validation, the App sends your license key and a name identifying the computer (so you can manage which machines are active). It does not send your messages or backup content. This lets us confirm the license is valid and enforce the per-tier activation limit.

5. The website

When you visit text2store.com, we collect limited, standard information to operate and improve the Site:

• Server & hosting logs. The Site is hosted on GitHub Pages; the host may process your IP address and request metadata to deliver pages and protect against abuse.
• Analytics. We use Google Analytics to understand aggregate traffic (pages viewed, approximate location, device/browser type, referring source). This uses cookies or similar technologies and involves Google as a processor. We use this only in aggregate to improve the Site, not to identify you personally.

You can block cookies in your browser or use tracking-prevention/opt-out tools; the Site remains usable without analytics.

6. Purchases & checkout

From a completed order, we receive limited details — such as your email address, the product purchased, order/receipt identifiers, and country — so that we can deliver your license key, provide support, honor refunds, and keep basic sales records (including for tax and accounting).

7. Email & support

If you email us (for example at hello@text2store.com) or ask to be notified at launch, we receive your email address and whatever you include in your message, and we use it only to respond, provide support, or send the one launch notice you requested. We don't run a newsletter and we won't add you to marketing lists you didn't ask for.

8. Why we process data

We process the limited data above to: provide and secure the Site; sell and deliver licenses and provide support; comply with legal, tax, and accounting obligations; and understand and improve our product. Where required by law, our legal bases are performance of a contract (fulfilling your order and support), legitimate interests (running and improving the Site and preventing abuse), consent (analytics cookies, where consent is required), and legal obligation (tax and record-keeping).

9. Who we share data with

We do not sell your personal data. We share limited data only with service providers who help us operate, acting as our processors or, where noted, as independent controllers:

Paddle (Paddle.com Market Limited)

Merchant of Record and payment processing for purchases.

Google (Google Analytics)

Aggregate website analytics.

GitHub (GitHub Pages)

Website hosting and delivery.

Email provider

Delivering and receiving support and notification email.

We may also disclose data if required by law or to protect our rights, and we may transfer data as part of a business sale or reorganization, subject to this policy.

10. Data retention

We keep order and support records only as long as needed for the purposes above and to meet legal, tax, and accounting requirements, after which we delete or anonymize them. Analytics data is retained per our analytics provider's settings. Data that lives only on your computer (your archives and exports) is retained by you, under your control, until you delete it.

11. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the EU/UK GDPR or the CCPA/CPRA in California), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent. To exercise these rights, email hello@text2store.com. We do not sell or "share" personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising. For payment data held by Paddle, you may also contact Paddle directly. You have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.

12. International transfers

We and our providers may process data in countries other than yours, including the United States. Where required, our providers rely on appropriate safeguards (such as Standard Contractual Clauses) for international transfers.

13. Children

Text2Store is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we will delete it.

14. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. We'll revise the "Last updated" date above and post the new version here; material changes take effect when posted.

15. Contact

Questions or requests about your privacy? Contact us:

Aloha Gems LLC
Email: hello@text2store.com