Privacy Policy

Who we are

Timeliner is a personal timeline app for keeping the facts of your life — addresses, identity documents, visas, jobs, education, travel, and related paperwork — in one private place on your own phone. It is published by Maya Technologies. This policy explains how the app handles your information. Any questions: support@mytimeliner.co.uk.

What information the app handles

You choose what to add. That can include identity and travel documents (such as passport, visa, or licence details), home and mailing addresses, employment and education history, trips, and photos or scans of documents you import. All of this is entered or captured by you, and all of it is stored only on your device.

Where your data is stored

Your timeline is saved locally on your device. The app encrypts your entries with a key kept in your phone's secure storage (the iOS Keychain or the Android Keystore). Scans and imported documents are kept in the app's private folder on the device and are protected by your phone's own storage encryption; Timeliner does not add a second layer of encryption to them. Nothing you store is uploaded to us. There is no Timeliner account and no central database of your information.

Timeliner turns off Android's automatic app backup. On iPhone, a backup you make of the whole phone (to iCloud or a computer) can include the app's data, as it does for other apps.

Optional: backup to your own Google Drive or iCloud

Backup is off until you choose a destination in Settings → Storage. If you turn it on:

• Your timeline, profile details and scanned documents are encrypted on your phone with a backup passphrase you choose, before anything leaves the device. The passphrase is kept only in your phone's secure storage; we never have it.
• The encrypted files are written directly from your phone to your own Google Drive (in a "Timeliner" folder; the app can only see files it created there) or to your own iCloud Drive. They do not pass through any Timeliner server, and we cannot read or access them.
• To use Google Drive, you sign in with Google once and allow Timeliner to create and update its own files in your Drive. The sign-in happens between you and Google: Google records that you granted this permission and, as with any Google sign-in, may log your IP address for security, under Google's Privacy Policy. We do not receive your Google account details.
• You can turn backup off at any time in Settings → Storage. To remove the backup itself, delete the "Timeliner" folder from your Google Drive or iCloud Drive.
• If you forget your backup passphrase, the backup cannot be restored — by you or by us.

Camera and photos

If you scan or import a document, the camera and photo access are used only to bring that image into the app on your device. Images are read and processed on your device to pull out details like dates and document types. The images, and the text read from them, are not sent to us or to anyone else. Timeliner asks to add to your photo library only when you choose Save Image in the share menu. The app never uses the microphone.

Reading documents

Timeliner reads your documents on your device to suggest a category and the dates they cover. Text recognition uses Google ML Kit; the document scanner uses Google Play services on Android and Apple's VisionKit on iPhone. All of them process the image on the phone. If a future version introduces an optional cloud-assisted reading feature, it will be clearly marked as opt-in and off by default, and this policy will be updated before it ships.

Diagnostics from the text-recognition component

Google ML Kit, the component that reads text on your device, sends Google technical diagnostics about how it is running, as it does in every app that uses it. According to Google, these cover: device information (manufacturer, model, operating system version and build, available machine-learning hardware), the app's package name and version, per-installation identifiers that are not intended to identify you or your device, performance metrics such as how long recognition took, settings such as image format and resolution, input and output sizes, the feature version, event types, and error codes. Where an ML Kit feature is delivered by Google Play services on Android (as Timeliner's document scanner is), Google also lists a device identifier among these diagnostics.

These diagnostics contain no document content: ML Kit processes images on the device and does not send the images, or the text it reads from them, to Google. Google uses the diagnostics to measure performance, debug, maintain and improve ML Kit and to detect misuse, as described in Google's Privacy Policy. Google states that it sends them over HTTPS and does not pass them to third parties. We do not receive them. Google's own descriptions: ML Kit Terms & Privacy, Android data disclosure, iOS data disclosure.

App updates

Timeliner can receive small fixes without a store update, through Expo's update service. When the app starts, it checks Expo's update server (u.expo.dev) over HTTPS. Each check sends a random identifier created for this installation of the app (it is not derived from your device or from any account), the app version and release channel, and the ID of the update the app is running; if an update failed to start, it also sends that update's ID and the error message. Like any internet request, the check reveals your IP address. Expo stores these records for us, as our service provider, to deliver updates and count installations; it deletes raw request logs, including error messages, after three days, and does not use the data for advertising. The app puts nothing from your timeline into these requests. Expo's description: what expo-updates sends.

Reminders

Expiry reminders are scheduled on your device. Timeliner does not register for push notifications, so no reminder data is sent to any server.

Face ID / biometrics

You can lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device biometrics. This check is performed by your operating system. Timeliner never receives or stores your biometric data.

What we do not do

• We do not collect, receive, or store the personal data you keep in Timeliner. Optional backups go only to your own Google Drive or iCloud, encrypted as described above.
• We do not use advertising or tracking SDKs, and we do not add analytics of our own. The only data that leaves your device without you asking is the text-recognition diagnostics and update checks described above.
• We do not sell or share your information with anyone.
• We do not show ads.

Sharing and export — your choice

When you copy or export a slice of your history (for example, an address history for a visa form), that content goes only where you send it — to your clipboard, or to a file or app you pick. Timeliner does not receive a copy.

Keeping or deleting your data

You are in control. You can edit or delete any entry at any time, and deleting an entry or uninstalling the app removes that data from your device. If you turned on backup, delete the "Timeliner" folder from your own Google Drive or iCloud Drive to remove the encrypted copy too. Because we hold no copy on a server, there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf. The diagnostics and update records described above are held by Google and Expo under random identifiers that are not tied to your name or any account, so we cannot look them up or delete them for you.

Children

Timeliner is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone. The app is rated suitable for ages 4 and up.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will post the updated version here with a new date above. Significant changes — such as a future optional sign-in, family sharing or AI feature that would send data to our servers — will be described here before they ship, and will be opt-in.

This website

mytimeliner.co.uk uses no cookies, analytics or trackers. Like any website, it is delivered by a hosting provider (Google Firebase Hosting), which handles standard request details such as your IP address to serve the pages.

Contact

Questions about privacy or this policy: support@mytimeliner.co.uk.