Priv8Scout — Privacy Policy

Priv8Scout for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Effective 22 August 2026.

Priv8Scout gathers a lot of detail about your network — that is the whole point of the app. The promise is not that it collects little; it is that everything it collects is for you and stays with you: on your device, and by default in your own private iCloud, which you can switch off.

We don't track you. No analytics, no telemetry, no "anonymous usage data". None.

We don't see your data. We operate no servers that handle it.

We don't sell anything about you. There is nothing to sell.

No ads. Not now, not ever.

No account. There is nothing to sign up for.

What the app handles, and where it lives

Data Where it lives Why

Scan results — devices found, ports, services, history On your device. With iCloud Sync on (the default), also in your own private iCloud database. So you can review past scans, compare them and export reports.

Network details — IP addresses, Wi-Fi names, BSSIDs, the MAC addresses of devices on your own network Same as above. Shown in the app, and saved with your scan history if you choose to save it.

Floor plans and room scans you capture On your device, and your own private iCloud if sync is on. They are the canvas your survey results are drawn on.

Trial start date Your own iCloud key-value store. So the free trial cannot be reset by reinstalling. It never leaves your iCloud.

Purchase record Apple, via StoreKit. Required to confirm your purchase. We see whether a purchase exists, never who you are.

Crash and diagnostic logs On your device only. Nothing is uploaded automatically. You can export them yourself if you want to send them with a problem report.

What we receive

The default answer is: nothing. We run no servers that receive your data, and the app does not phone home. The only outbound traffic it makes is:

The scans you start. These go directly to the devices you point them at, on your own network. We never see them.

Speed tests. When you run one, the app transfers data to and from Cloudflare's public speed-test endpoint to measure throughput and latency. Cloudflare sees ordinary web-request information; we receive none of it. This runs only when you start a test.

Your public IP details. When you open the Connection screen the app makes one request to ipinfo.io to show your public IP, your internet provider, an approximate city-level location and your timezone. It sends nothing but the request, and stores nothing.

Hop locations during a traceroute or route monitor. Only while a trace you started is running, so the route can be drawn on a map. The addresses looked up are public internet routers, not your data. Private addresses are never looked up.

Naming addresses in Open Connections (Mac). The app asks your own DNS resolver — the one your Mac already uses — for the name behind an address you are already connected to. No third party is involved, and addresses on your own network are never looked up.

Looking up who owns an address (Mac, only when you press it). This one does reach a third party — the regional address registries — so it never happens on its own. It runs only when you press the button.

Apple, for the purchase. Standard StoreKit only.

Every one of these except the public-IP lookup and reverse-DNS naming happens only when you start the feature. Those two are automatic because they are the two that tell nobody anything new — the first fetches only your own network's details, and the second asks your own resolver about a connection your device already made.

The usage summary is not analytics

The app keeps a small file of counts on your device — how many times it has launched, which screens have been opened, how many scans have run. It exists so that if you report a problem you can choose to send us the shape of your session instead of answering twenty questions. It is not telemetry:

Nothing is ever transmitted. No upload, no server, no timer. The file moves only if you attach it to a problem report yourself.

It cannot contain your content. It records counts against a fixed list of names built into the app. A network name, hostname or note cannot become an entry — that is a structural property, not a promise to be careful.

It is not a timeline. Totals only. No event is timestamped.

You can read it and delete it in Settings → Help → Usage summary.

Feedback is the one thing you can send us

Settings → About → Send feedback opens a form in your browser. The app attaches nothing — no logs, no scan results, no device identifiers. We see only what you choose to type, so please don't paste anything sensitive into it. It is entirely optional.

Permissions

Permission Why If you decline

Local Network Required to find devices on your network — discovery, port scans, ping. Scanning is unavailable; the rest of the app works.

Location Apple requires Location permission before any app can read the name of the Wi-Fi network you are on. It is used for nothing else. Your location is never stored, logged or sent anywhere. Connection info still shows your IP, gateway and DNS; the Wi-Fi name stays hidden.

Camera Used only while you scan a room to build a floor plan, on devices with LiDAR. No imagery is stored or transmitted — the app keeps the resulting floor plan, not the video. You can import a photo or PDF of a floor plan, or sketch one, instead.

Priv8Scout does not request Contacts, Microphone, Health, Calendar, Reminders, Motion or Photo Library access. A network tool has no business with any of them.

iCloud sync

iCloud Sync is on by default and can be switched off at any time in Settings. When it is on, your work is stored in your private CloudKit database: only your Apple ID can read it. We cannot. Apple encrypts it in transit and at rest. There is no shared or public database in this app, so there is no path for your data to reach anyone else through it. Turn sync off and everything already on your device stays there.

Cloud drive sync

Off unless you set it up. It exists for one situation: your devices aren't on the same Apple ID — a personal iPhone and a company Mac, say — so iCloud cannot carry work between them.

You sign in on the provider's own page. Priv8Scout never sees your password; there is no field in the app that takes one.

We ask only for our own folder. The permission requested gives the app a private folder it creates. It cannot see, list or touch the rest of your files.

Only the clients you assign are synced, and only the work filed under them. Assigning one is a deliberate act.

We still receive nothing. The data goes between your device and your drive account.

Sync happens when you open the app or press Sync now — never on a hidden schedule.

Before you use a work account: data in a company drive belongs to that company. Their IT can read it, their retention rules apply, and it disappears if your account does. The app says so at the moment you assign a client. For personal work, use a personal account.

Your data is yours, paid or not

Priv8Scout has a 14-day trial and a one-time purchase. If the trial ends and you decide not to buy, nothing you already created becomes locked, hidden or unreadable. Every scan, survey, note and project stays open, readable and exportable for as long as you keep the app. Cloud-drive sync is never restricted either — including syncing your data down to a replacement device if you lose or break the one you had. It is your data, in your account.

Changing your mind

Switch off iCloud Sync in Settings — what is already on your device stays there.

Sign out of a cloud drive in Settings — nothing on your device is deleted, and the app simply stops syncing.

Delete the app's folder from your drive through that provider's own settings.

Delete your iCloud data in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage → Priv8Scout.

Delete everything by deleting the app.

Children

Priv8Scout is not directed at children under 13. We collect no data at all, so this is largely academic, but for completeness: please do not use the app on behalf of a child under 13.

Third-party code

Priv8Scout uses Apple's own frameworks. It contains no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no attribution SDK, and no third-party code that performs network communication of its own.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change a meaningful privacy practice, we will say so in the app as well as here, and update the date at the top.

Contact

Privacy questions: support@partnerai.biz

Priv8Scout is made by Raymond Perkins (PartnerAi.biz), an independent developer in the United States.