What This Privacy Policy Covers
This app, Dream Villa, stores all your home and property records locally on your device. This policy explains how your data is handled, stored, and protected. If you have questions, contact p.r.abi17061993@gmail.com.
What We Collect: Nothing Leaves Your Device
Dream Villa collects no personal data that leaves your device. Every record you create—house details, expenses, photos, documents, contacts, notes—stays in the app's secure local storage on your phone. You always have complete control over what you store and who you share it with.
What You Can Store
You choose what to store in Dream Villa, including: house addresses and location pins, tradespeople contacts, documents (deeds, plans, agreements, bills), expense records, payment schedules, progress photos, daily site diary entries, voice notes, material inventory, maintenance records, appliance details, utility bills, warranties, and optionally vehicle and insurance information. None of this leaves your device unless you choose to export or share it.
Data Storage and Encryption
All your records are stored in a local SwiftData database inside the app's private container. Photos, PDFs, and voice notes are stored as files in the app's private Application Support directory on your device. When your device is locked, iOS applies file-level encryption to protect your data.
App Permissions and Why We Need Them
Dream Villa asks for these permissions and uses them only as described below:
- Photo Library - to let you attach images of your house, progress photos, and scanned bills to your records.
- Camera - to let you capture progress photos and bill images directly in the app.
- Microphone - to let you record voice notes in your daily site diary.
- Location (when in use only) - to show your current position on the map while you select a house location. The app never tracks your location in the background or stores location history.
- Notifications - to send you local reminders for payment due dates, service schedules, and warranty expiry. These reminders are scheduled on your device, not sent through any server.
- Face ID / Touch ID (optional) - for the optional app lock feature only. iOS handles biometric data; the app never sees or stores it.
App Lock and Passcode
If you choose to set an optional numeric passcode to lock the app, the passcode is stored only as a salted SHA-256 hash. Your actual digits are never saved or transmitted. If you use Face ID or Touch ID, that data is handled entirely by iOS and never stored by this app.
Backup, Export, and Restore
You can export your entire database as a single .dreamvilla JSON file, with or without your photos, PDFs, and voice notes embedded. Where you save or send that file—Files app, iCloud Drive, email, AirDrop, or any cloud service—is entirely your choice. Once you export your data, it is outside the app's control and governed by the terms of whatever service you choose to use.
No Third-Party Services or Analytics
Dream Villa does not use any third-party analytics, crash reporting, advertising, or tracking libraries. The developer cannot see your data, your actions, or your device. There is nothing to track or report back.
Children's Privacy
Dream Villa is not intended for children under 13 years old. The app stores only what you choose to record locally on your device and does not collect personal information through any other means. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has used this app, you can delete the app or any records directly from the app.
Data Deletion
You have complete control over your data. You can delete any individual record, expense, note, or file from the app at any time. Deleting a house from the app removes all associated records and files. Uninstalling the app removes all data stored in the app's private container. There is nothing to request from the developer because the developer holds no copy of your data.
Your Rights Over Your Data
Because Dream Villa collects and transmits no personal data, there is no processing carried out by the developer, and so no data controller relationship to speak of. Nothing is held anywhere for you to request, correct or have erased.
Your rights over your own records are exercised directly in the app: you can view, edit, export and delete any record at any moment, without asking anyone. That is a stronger position than a right of access against a company holding your data, because there is no company holding it.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes to the app or to clarify how we handle your data. The most recent version is shown at the top of this policy. If we make material changes, we will inform you by updating the date and, if necessary, by showing a notice in the app.
Future Cloud Sync (Planned)
Future versions of Dream Villa may offer optional iCloud synchronisation to back up your data across your devices. If that feature is added, it will be entirely optional, you will be asked to opt in, and we will update this privacy policy before the feature is available.
Contact
If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy, contact p.r.abi17061993@gmail.com.