Privacy Policy

Village Council is designed to be private by default. The app runs entirely on your device. There are no accounts to create, no servers we operate, and no analytics or tracking of any kind. We do not collect, transmit, sell, or share your personal information — because we never receive it in the first place.

What we collect

Nothing. Village Council does not collect any personal data. We have no backend, no user accounts, no login, and no servers that receive your information.

How your disputes are processed

When you ask the council to settle a dispute, the claims you type and the verdicts produced are processed by Apple's on-device Foundation Models (Apple Intelligence) running locally on your iPhone. Your dispute content is never sent to us or to any external server for AI processing.

What is stored, and where

• On your device only. Saved cases and their verdicts are stored locally on your iPhone using Apple's on-device database (SwiftData).
• You control it. You can delete any saved case from within the app at any time.
• Removed with the app. If you delete Village Council, its locally stored case history is removed along with it.

Sharing a dispute or result

If a future or optional feature lets you share a dispute or its result via a link, that content is encoded into a link that you choose to send through your own messaging or email app. It travels only between you and the person you send it to — it does not pass through any server operated by us, because we don't operate one.

Network use

The core experience requires no network connection. The app makes no network calls to deliver its verdicts. Your device may make standard Apple system requests (for example, to download the on-device model), which are handled by Apple under Apple's own privacy policy, not by us.

No tracking, no ads, no third parties

Village Council contains no advertising, no third-party analytics SDKs, no trackers, and no social-media integrations. We do not use cookies or device identifiers for tracking.

Children's privacy

Village Council does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children. Because the app collects no data at all, there is nothing for us to gather, store, or disclose.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email villagecouncilapp@gmail.com.