Privacy Policy

Your inventory lives on your iPhone

WhereNest has no account and no WhereNest server. Items, rooms and places, photos, loans, warranty dates, AI drafts, results and moving plans are saved in the app's own storage on your device. We never receive a copy.

To clear everything, open Settings and tap Delete all local data. That removes your inventory, rooms, photos, drafts, results, checklists and moving plans from the device and turns AI sharing off. Deleting the app removes the same data.

What you can add

• Photos of items, taken with the camera or chosen from your library.
• Item details such as name, brand, category, quantity and location.
• Loans: the borrower name you type and an optional due date. Borrower names stay on the device.
• Warranty details you enter, used for on-screen expiry reminders inside the app.

Photo library access

Choosing a photo with Add item photo uses the iOS photo picker and gives WhereNest only the picture you pick. Two optional buttons go further, and iOS asks for your permission the first time you use each:

• Use the date the photo was taken asks for photo library access so WhereNest can look up the capture date of the photo you chose and fill in the purchase date. It reads only that date for that one photo; it does not browse, copy or upload the rest of your library. If you decline, set the date by hand.
• Save to Photos asks for permission to add photos, then saves the item's photo into your library. It does not read or change anything else there.

The capture date becomes the item's purchase date and is stored on the device like any other warranty field. You can change or revoke either permission at any time in iOS Settings › WhereNest › Photos.

Optional AI help from DeepSeek

Four features can ask DeepSeek (Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., api.deepseek.com) for help: identifying items in a photo, finding an item from a question, preparing a warranty checklist and planning moving boxes. Nothing is sent until you tap Allow AI sharing, and before each request the app shows which fields will go. Only what that request needs is sent:

• Identify items: the photo you selected, the room and place you chose, existing item names, brands, categories and quantities at that place, and your relevant earlier confirmations or corrections.
• Find an item: your question and the names, brands, categories, quantities and locations of items that may match.
• Warranty checklist: the warranty fields you entered for the selected item.
• Moving plan: the selected items with their locations, your destination rooms and any constraints you typed.

Requests go directly from your iPhone to DeepSeek and are processed under DeepSeek's own privacy policy, which you can open from the app. Results come back as drafts; nothing changes in your inventory until you review and save it. You can turn AI sharing off in Settings at any time. That stops future and pending requests but cannot recall what was already sent. Photos are sent as they are, so avoid capturing people or private documents in item photos.

Voice questions

On the Find screen you can speak a question. WhereNest asks iOS to recognise speech on the device only. If on-device recognition is unavailable, the microphone does not start and you type instead. Audio is never sent to DeepSeek or anyone else; only the text you then submit is used.

Sharing you start yourself

You can export your inventory as a CSV file or export diagnostic feedback (counts, request identifiers and hashes, with no photos, inventory text or credentials). Both are handed to the iOS share sheet, and you decide where they go.

No tracking, ads or analytics

WhereNest does not track you across apps or websites, does not request App Tracking Transparency permission, shows no ads and contains no analytics or advertising SDKs. There are no in-app purchases.

Children

WhereNest is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their information.

Changes and contact

If the app's data practices change, we will update this page and its effective date. Questions: shelfkeeper@wherenest.app.