Privacy Policy
Effective 3 Oct 2026
The short version: there is no account, and nothing you search is tied to you.
What stays on your phone. Your searches, saved cities, trips and settings live on your device. Deleting the app deletes them.
What the server receives. When you ask for a reading, your phone sends the city, your dates and a random identifier your phone generated the first time you opened Scarab. The server answers and keeps no record of which city you asked about. If you hold a pass or plan, your phone also sends Apple’s signed purchase record so the server can verify your access. It is checked and not stored.
What we keep. Against that identifier, the server keeps the number of free reads you have used. The identifier is not your name, Apple Account, phone number or location. Apple’s DeviceCheck also records that the free tier has been used on your device. We keep no copy. Separately, the server keeps a monthly count of searches for each city, with no identifier or device information.
Purchases. Payments are handled by Apple. We never see your name, your payment details or your Apple Account.
Location. Scarab does not ask for your location.
No tracking. No advertising, no analytics companies, nothing sold or shared. The ordinary server logs needed to run the service are kept only briefly by our hosting provider and are never used to identify anyone.
Children. Scarab is for people aged 16 and over and collects nothing from anyone.
Contact and changes. You can reach us through the support page at scarab.city/support.html. If this policy changes, the current version lives at this address with a new date.
This website
The site is static pages. No analytics scripts, no advertising pixels, no cookies. One preference, your theme choice, is stored on your device only, in your browser's local storage, and never sent anywhere. Fonts are served by Google Fonts, which receives the standard technical request any font download involves.