01Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how the Warbi app for iPhone (the "App") and this website handle information. Warbi is developed by Serpinty ("we", "us").
In short: the chats you add to Warbi stay on your iPhone. We don't receive them, we don't have user accounts, and the App contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code.
Please read this policy together with our Terms of Use.
02Who we are
Serpinty, based in Türkiye, is the developer of Warbi and the data controller for the limited information described in this policy.
Contact: support@serpinty.com
03How Warbi works
Warbi opens chats that you export yourself from your messaging app (Export Chat, as a .zip or .txt file) and then share to Warbi or pick with "Choose file". It can also read chat screenshots that you pick. Warbi keeps these chats as archives on your iPhone so you can read and search them, view their photos, videos, voice notes, files and links, see recaps and stats, and export them as PDF.
Warbi does not:
- look through your device or read anything you didn't pick;
- access your messaging app, its account, its servers or its backups;
- upload your chats, media or settings to us.
Everything Warbi creates from your chats, including recaps, stats, PDFs and the links, numbers, addresses and dates found in a chat, is made on your iPhone.
04Data we handle
| Data | Where it is | Collected by us? |
|---|---|---|
| Chat content (messages, photos, videos, voice notes, files) | Stays on your iPhone, never received by us | No |
| Recaps, stats, transcripts, PDFs, settings | Stays on your iPhone, never received by us | No |
| Payment details | Handled by Apple | No |
| Support emails | Our email inbox, when you write to us | Yes |
| Website server logs | Our web server, when you visit this website | Yes |
Support emails
If you email us, we receive your email address, your message and anything you attach. We use it only to answer you. Please don't send us your chats unless it's needed to solve your problem.
Website server logs
Like most websites, our web server keeps standard access logs (IP address, date and time, page requested, browser type). We use them to run and protect the website. The website uses no tracking cookies.
Crash reports
We only receive crash reports through Apple, and only if you turned on sharing with app developers in iOS (Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements). Apple provides these reports without identifying you.
05Permissions
Warbi asks for a permission only when you use a feature that needs it. You can change permissions any time in the iOS Settings app.
| Permission | Used for |
|---|---|
| Photos (add only) | Saving images and videos that Warbi's tools make. Warbi can't read your photo library with this permission. |
| Speech Recognition | Voice note transcripts. |
| Notifications | Reminders you set. These are local notifications created on your iPhone. |
Files and photos are chosen with the system pickers, so Warbi only sees the items you pick. Warbi does not access your contacts, location, camera or microphone.
06Transcripts & text recognition
Voice note transcripts use Apple's speech recognition. When your language supports it, transcription runs on your iPhone. If it doesn't, the audio is sent to Apple's speech service only after you agree in the App. Apple's Privacy Policy applies to that processing. We never receive the audio or the transcript.
From screenshots reads the chat screenshots you pick with Apple's on-device text recognition (Vision). The screenshots are not sent anywhere.
07Purchases
Warbi Premium is purchased through Apple (StoreKit). Serpinty never receives your payment details. Your subscription status is checked on your iPhone with StoreKit. Apple's terms and privacy policy apply to payments.
08Sharing & chat links
We don't sell, rent or share your information.
- Share sheet. When you share something from Warbi (a PDF, an image, an audio file), it goes to the destination you choose in the iOS share sheet. That destination's own privacy policy applies.
- Quick Send and chat links. These open a public chat link in your messaging app. The phone number is part of that link and is then handled by that service. Quick Send doesn't save the number as a contact.
- Legal requests. We may disclose the limited information we hold (support emails, server logs) if required by law.
09No tracking or ads
The App contains no analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs. It does not use the advertising identifier (IDFA) and does not show an App Tracking Transparency prompt, because it doesn't track you. No data is sold or shared for advertising.
10Retention & deletion
- In the App: your archives, media and settings stay on your iPhone until you remove them. Use Settings › "Delete all data", or delete the App.
- Recently Deleted: Recovery Mode (Premium) is a recycle bin for Warbi's own archives. An archive deleted inside Warbi waits 7 days in Recently Deleted and can be put back; after that it is removed. It does not and cannot bring back messages deleted in any other app.
- Support emails: kept up to 2 years after your last message, then deleted. You can ask us to delete them sooner.
- Server logs: kept for a limited period for security and then deleted.
Warbi is not a backup service. If you delete the App or lose your iPhone, the archives in Warbi are gone unless you still have your own export files.
11Security
Your archives are kept in Warbi's private storage on your iPhone, protected by iOS. This website is served over HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, but keeping your content on your device means we hold almost nothing about you.
12Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your personal data, to object to or restrict its use, and to complain to a data protection authority.
Since your chats never reach us, the only personal data we may hold is your support emails and website log entries. To make a request, email support@serpinty.com. We reply within 30 days, free of charge.
13Türkiye (KVKK)
This section is our information notice under Article 10 of Turkish Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK). Serpinty is the data controller.
- Data: support emails (email address and message content) and website server logs.
- Purposes: answering support requests and running and securing the website.
- Legal bases: KVKK Article 5(2)(c) (establishing or performing a contract) and 5(2)(f) (legitimate interests).
- Collection method: electronically, by email and by the web server.
- Transfers: to our email and hosting providers, which may be located outside Türkiye, under the safeguards required by KVKK Article 9.
Under Article 11 of the KVKK you may ask whether your data is processed, request information, learn the purpose and recipients, request correction or deletion, object to results from automated analysis, and claim damages for unlawful processing. Send requests to support@serpinty.com. We reply within 30 days, free of charge. You may also apply to the Personal Data Protection Authority (Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu).
14EEA & UK (GDPR)
If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we process support emails on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering you, and to take steps you request (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b) and (f)), and server logs on the basis of our legitimate interest in running a secure website (Art. 6(1)(f)).
Our email and hosting providers may process data outside your country. Where required, transfers are covered by appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. You have the rights listed in section 12 and may complain to your local supervisory authority.
15California & US states
If you live in California or another US state with a privacy law, you have the right to know, delete and correct personal information, and not to be discriminated against for using these rights.
In the past 12 months we have collected only identifiers and internet activity information (support email addresses and website server logs), for the purposes in section 4. We do not sell or share personal information and do not use it for targeted advertising.
16Children
Warbi is not directed to children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has emailed us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
17Changes
We may update this policy. We will change the "Last updated" date above, and for important changes we will give notice in the App.
18Contact
Questions about privacy: support@serpinty.com. We reply within 1–2 business days.