FlipX Privacy Policy
Effective November 14, 2026
FlipX is a split-flap clock for iPhone, made by Gary Montero. It has no accounts, ads, analytics or tracking, and we don’t run any servers, so none of your information ever reaches us.
To show the weather and stock prices, FlipX asks Apple and Yahoo for them directly from your iPhone. This page explains exactly what those requests contain.
What FlipX uses, and where it goes
Your location, if you allow it
WhyTo show the city you’re in, its weather, and its sunrise and sunset, which also switch the tiles between day and night.
Where it goesYour coordinates are sent to Apple to look up your city’s name and its weather. FlipX keeps the last place it found on your iPhone, so its widgets can use it too.
Your calendar, if you allow it
WhyTo show your next events under Next Up.
Where it goesNowhere. FlipX reads your events on your iPhone and never sends them anywhere.
Your cities
WhyTo show each city’s time and weather.
Where it goesEach city’s map coordinates are sent to Apple Weather. These are the city’s coordinates, not yours.
Your stocks and stock searches
WhyTo show prices, and to find the stocks you search for.
Where it goesThe ticker symbols in your lists, and the text you type when searching for a stock, are sent to Yahoo Finance.
Like any request on the internet, these requests also show your device’s IP address to the company that answers them.
What stays on your iPhone
Your city and stock lists, the last place FlipX found you, recent prices and weather (so the board still has something to show when you’re offline), and your settings, such as the board you chose last and whether sound is on. FlipX and its widgets share this storage on your iPhone. Deleting FlipX deletes all of it.
What we collect
Nothing. No information from FlipX reaches us. We don’t sell or share data, and we don’t use it for advertising or tracking.
If you’ve chosen to share analytics with app developers in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, Apple may send us crash reports and usage statistics that don’t identify you.
Apple and Yahoo
Apple and Yahoo handle the requests described above under their own privacy policies:
- Apple Privacy Policy, for location lookups and Apple Weather
- Yahoo Privacy Policy, for stock prices and search
Your choices
- You can turn off location or calendar access at any time in Settings → Apps → FlipX. Without location, the board shows LOCATION OFF where your city would be, and everything else keeps working. Without calendar access, Next Up shows NO CALENDAR.
- Removing every stock from your lists stops all requests to Yahoo.
- Deleting FlipX removes everything it stored on your iPhone.
Children
FlipX doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If FlipX ever starts handling information differently, we’ll update this page and its date before that version of the app is released.
Contact
Questions about privacy: [email protected]