Privacy policy

Last updated: November 9, 2026

Good2Call is made by Paul M. Hoffman. This policy explains what the app does with your information. The short version: your contacts never leave your iPhone, and we never learn your name, number or who you are.

Your contacts

With your permission, the app reads the contacts on your iPhone to find people with a phone number from another country or an area code in another time zone, and to work out their time zone. It then writes a small symbol (📅, ☀️ or 💤) in the name prefix field of those contacts, and keeps it up to date.

All of this happens on your iPhone. Names, phone numbers and other contact details are never sent to us, and never to any third party unless you send an invite or a card yourself. If your contacts sync through a service such as iCloud or Google, the symbol syncs along with the rest of the contact card through that service, the same as any change you make yourself.

When you choose to invite a contact, the app hands that contact's phone number and the invite text to Messages or WhatsApp, and you send it from there; if WhatsApp is not installed, the invite opens through Meta's wa.me website.

When you choose to send someone a card, the app makes the picture on your iPhone. It shows the name you choose and their symbol at that moment, and the app hands it, with a short text, to Messages or another app you pick. You send it from there. The card is never sent to us.

You can remove every symbol at any time in the app under Settings → Remove all symbols. Nothing else in your contacts is changed.

Keeping the symbols up to date

To change the symbols as the day goes by, our server sends your iPhone a silent wake-up message every 30 minutes through Apple's push notification service. For this, the app sends our server one thing: the push token Apple gives your iPhone for this app, a random code that does not contain your name, phone number or any contact details. The server stores the token, whether it is for a test or a regular version of the app, and when it was registered and last seen. No contact details, names or phone numbers are ever sent.

When you delete the app, Apple tells our server the token is no longer valid, and the server removes it. Our server is hosted by Fly.io in the United States. As with any internet service, the hosting provider handles your iPhone's IP address while delivering messages; we do not store it.

No tracking, no ads, no account

The app contains no advertising, no analytics and no tracking tools, and it does not ask you to create an account.

Purchases

Purchases and subscriptions are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your name, email address or payment details. Apple only tells the app what you have bought.

News by email

If you sign up on our website to hear when Good2Call is in the App Store, or for other news about it, we keep your email address for that and nothing else. You first get one email to confirm that it was really you (double opt-in). Your address is stored by our mailing service, Buttondown, in the United States. Every email has a link to unsubscribe, and your address is then removed from the list. This is separate from the app: the app never sends us your email address.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.

For users in the European Union

The controller responsible for your data is Paul M. Hoffman, hello@good2call.com. The only personal data our server stores is the push token, and only to provide the service you asked for: keeping the symbols up to date (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). It is kept until Apple reports it as invalid, for example after you delete the app. It is stored by our hosting provider Fly.io in the United States, which is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. If you sign up for news, your email address is kept by Buttondown based on your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time by unsubscribing. You have the right to access, correct and delete your data, to restrict or object to its use, and to receive it in a portable format, as well as to complain to your data protection authority. The simplest way to delete your token is to delete the app; you can also email us.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@good2call.com.