This policy covers the Baby Cry & Care mobile app (package name com.babycompanion.app on Google Play; bundle ID com.atillacilesiz.karulobaby on the App Store).
Developer: Atilla Cilesiz
Contact for privacy and data requests: cilesiz.atilla@gmail.com
In this version, what you enter is processed only on your phone and never reaches the developer.
Policy version: 1.4. Effective date: 16 October 2026
2. In short
There is no account. Everything you enter is stored on this phone, encrypted.
What you enter is never sent to a server.
On iPhone, Google AdMob banners appear on some screens; to show them, Google's ad software receives technical data (§8). The Android version shows no ads and has no internet permission.
Crying sounds are processed on the phone only when you start listening, and are never uploaded.
Your health-related records are never used for advertising or statistics.
The app is not a medical device and does not diagnose.
3. What we process
The app only stores what you enter or choose. It is collected from you, when you type it into the app. Information about the baby is entered by a parent or caregiver.
Information
Examples
Where
Baby profile
name, date of birth, profile colour, optional details
On this phone, encrypted
Caregivers
name and relationship to the baby
On this phone, encrypted
Journal
feeding, sleep, diapers, mood, notes
On this phone, encrypted
Health records
temperatures, medicine entries (name and dose), symptoms, health checks, safety log
On this phone, encrypted
Sound
microphone audio while listening; recordings kept only if you choose
Processed in memory; if kept, on this phone, encrypted
Settings
language, units, the country you chose, your privacy choices
On this phone
What you type to the assistant is not stored. The app only keeps the kind of topic you asked about, in memory, for the session.
On iPhone, Google's ad software also collects the data listed in §8 to show ads; the app itself does not store it.
4. Microphone and sound processing
The microphone is used only on the listening screen, when you start listening. Before asking for the microphone, the app explains on screen what it is for; if you say no, the rest of the app keeps working.
Listening stops at once if the app goes to the background or a system window comes to the front.
Sound is processed on this phone and never uploaded.
The listening feature is not a trained artificial-intelligence model. It tries to tell roughly from the sound signal whether there is crying, and does not infer the reason for a cry from the sound. The "possible needs" shown come from your own records.
By default no sound is kept. If you choose to keep recordings for "24 hours" or "7 days", they stay on this phone only, encrypted, and are deleted when the period ends. Recordings are never included in exports.
Android permissions: microphone (RECORD_AUDIO), audio settings (MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS, for a Bluetooth headset microphone) and, on Android 11 and older only, Bluetooth (BLUETOOTH).
5. Health-related information and journals
Temperature, medicine, symptom and health-check records are health-related information and are handled with particular care.
They stay on this phone. They are never used to choose or measure ads, or for statistics.
Health checks run on versioned rules; no free-text-generating artificial intelligence is used. Results are not a diagnosis. When an emergency is flagged, the app points you to your local emergency number.
You can delete a baby's health records separately and leave them out of exports.
6. Storage and security
Data is kept in the app's private folder on this phone: internal storage on Android, the app's own container on iPhone.
Records are encrypted with AES-256 and their integrity is checked with HMAC-SHA256. The encryption key is kept in the phone's secure key store (Android Keystore; Keychain on iPhone).
On Android the app is excluded from cloud backup and device-to-device transfer. On iPhone the encrypted records may be part of the phone's own backup; because the key normally stays on this device only, such a backup cannot be opened on another device.
Retention: records stay on this phone until you delete them. Optional recordings are deleted when the period you chose ends (24 hours or 7 days). Export files are temporary and deleted at the latest the next time the app starts.
Deletion: you can delete each record. "Delete all my data" removes all records, recordings and temporary copies from this phone and replaces the encryption key. Uninstalling the app also deletes its data. You manage copies in earlier iPhone backups from the phone's settings.
7. Sharing
The information in §3 is not transferred to any third party and is never sold.
Ads on iPhone: Google's ad software receives the data listed in §8 directly from the phone to show and count ads (§8).
Sharing you start: you can export your data as a JSON file and hand it to an app you choose through the phone's share sheet. A shared file leaves the phone; deleting data in the app does not recall shared copies.
Clipboard: the "Copy" button puts the handover note or the baby memory text on the phone's clipboard. That text can include the baby's name and medicine and temperature details; the clipboard is system-wide.
App stores: when you download the app from Google Play or the App Store, the store processes information under its own privacy terms.
8. Advertising (iPhone)
The iPhone version shows ads from Google AdMob. The Android version shows no ads: no ad software runs there and the app has no internet permission. The store's "Contains ads" and data declarations follow each version.
Ad partner and Google's role
The ad partner is Google AdMob (Google). Google processes the information its ad software collects under its own privacy policy.
What the ad software collects on iPhone (according to Google's own disclosure)
IP address (may be used to estimate approximate location).
Ad and in-app interactions: app launches, ad views and taps.
Diagnostics: crash and performance data. The app asks the ad software to turn off its own crash reporting.
Device identifiers: an identifier limited to apps on this phone. The app never asks for tracking permission, so the advertising identifier (IDFA) is not available to it.
Purposes stated by Google: showing and measuring ads, analytics, fraud prevention, security and compliance. Data is encrypted in transit.
Google may process this information on servers outside your country.
What is never given to the ad partner
Your baby's profile and name, journal entries, health records, temperatures, medicines and symptoms, health checks and alerts, cry sounds and listening results, notes and what you read.
The app's ad component technically cannot see this data. An ad request only carries on/off flags such as "may an ad be shown on this screen".
Where ads appear
One banner, labelled "Advertisement", at the top of the Journal, Insights, Guide and Profile screens and above general (non-health) guide articles. Not on Journal while its Health filter is on.
Never on Home or on the listening, health, symptom-check, emergency, assistant, privacy, onboarding or parent-support screens. On no screen at all while an emergency (RED) alert is active for any of your babies, or while that status is unknown.
Consent choices and non-personalised ads
Ads are not personalised, and the app has no personalised-ads choice. Health information is never used to choose ads.
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google's consent message asks for your choice before any ad is requested. Consent is needed there even for non-personalised ads, because they can store and read information on the device.
Ads are requested only after Google's consent check says they may be. If your choice is not known, the app requests no ads at all.
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time from the "Ad privacy choices" row on the Privacy screen.
In certain US states, the same row lets you use "Do not sell or share my personal information".
On iPhone the app does not ask for tracking permission and does not read the advertising identifier (IDFA).
9. Statistics and crash reports
The Privacy screen has choices for anonymous usage statistics and crash reports. Both are off by default. There is no personalised-ads choice: ads are never personalised (§8).
In this version no software is behind these choices; they cause no data to be sent.
10. Purposes
Purpose
Information
Where
Keeping the baby journal and health records for you
the information in §3
On this phone only
Listening for crying
microphone sound
In memory, on this phone only
Keeping sound if you choose to
recordings
On this phone only, for the period you choose
Advertising (iPhone, §8)
the information in §8
Google; in the EEA, UK and Switzerland only with your consent
11. Your rights
Because your data is on this phone, you can view, correct, export and delete it inside the app.
Under Article 11 of KVKK and, where it applies, the GDPR, you have the rights to information, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability and to withdraw consent you gave.
Write to the contact address in §1 for any request.
You have the right to complain to the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority or the data protection authority in your country.
The app makes no automated decision with legal or similarly significant effects about you. Health checks only inform.
12. Children
The app is for parents and caregivers aged 18 and over; it is not directed to children.
Information about the baby is entered by a parent or caregiver.
13. Medical disclaimer
Baby Cry & Care is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease or condition, and it does not replace your doctor.
If you are worried about your baby, contact a health professional. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.
14. Changes
When this policy changes, its version number goes up and the app shows you the new text again.