Updated November 2, 2026
In short: the app runs on your Mac and talks directly to Apple. Our server only receives the licence check, anonymous counters and ordinary statistics of visits to this site — all of it is described below.
The password and the two-factor code are typed into the app and sent straight to Apple's servers. We never see them, never pass them on and never store them. They are not kept on your Mac either — once you are signed in, the password is wiped from the app's memory.
The proof of a successful sign-in — a temporary token issued by Apple — is kept in the app’s own settings file on your Mac. The macOS Keychain is not used. The “Sign out” button deletes it.
All of it lives in your home folder and is sent nowhere. Deleting the app together with that folder wipes it without a trace.
Update check. At launch the app requests a small file describing the latest version. Our web server logs the usual line for it: IP address, time, app version. The check can be switched off in the About window. In the same way, with a single request that carries nothing about you, the app fetches a reference list of app numbers from the App Store catalogue — it needs the list to work with your apps on the computer itself.
Restore counter. The app reports, as a number, how many apps were put back on the iPhone. Along with it go anonymised fingerprints of the computer and the iPhone (one-way transforms — no device can be identified from them), the iPhone model, and the iOS, operating system (macOS or Windows) and app versions. Together with the report the server stores the IP address it came from — it shows the country and nothing more. The app also reports how far it got — for example “Apple support not installed”, “iPhone not connected”, “Apple ID sign-in”, “download error” (one word, without the error text) — and how many greyed-out apps the iPhone has. App names, your Apple ID and device names are never sent or stored. All of this exists so we know how many people use the app, whether it works, and at which step people need help. It can be switched off in the About window. At that moment the app sends one last message saying only that — the computer fingerprint and the app version — so the computer is still counted; after that no statistics are sent.
Overall app counter. When an app is put back on an iPhone, one is added to a counter shared by all users, under that app's number in the App Store catalogue. It is an “everyone together” statistic: no computer or iPhone fingerprint, no Apple ID, no IP address and no exact time is sent or stored with the number — the counter cannot tell who restored what. It shows us which apps people need most often and what iVerni has to handle first. The same checkbox in the About window switches it off.
Free restores. Until you have a licence, the app checks with our server how many free restores have already been used: it sends anonymised fingerprints of the computer and the iPhone together with that number. This way reinstalling the app does not reset the free limit. It is part of the licence check, not statistics, so the statistics checkbox does not turn it off.
Licence activation. If you bought a licence, entering the key sends us the key itself and an anonymised fingerprint of your Mac (a one-way transform of its hardware identifier — nothing can be recovered from it). We keep those so the key cannot be handed around, along with your email, the purchase date and the expiry date. iPhones are counted the same anonymised way, as a number only.
The list of your apps, the contents of your iPhone and your Apple ID never reach us.
Payments are handled by two providers, depending on the method you choose: international cards go through Stripe, while Russian cards and SBP transfers go through T-Bank (JSC TBank), where the seller of record is sole trader Anna Skublova. Card details are entered on the provider’s page and never reach us — we receive the payment confirmation, the buyer’s email and an internal payment reference. Russian law additionally requires a name, email and phone number for the fiscal receipt; those go to the bank and the fiscal data operator and are used for nothing else. See stripe.com/privacy and tbank.ru/privacy.
There are no third-party analytics, ad networks or tracking cookies on this site. We keep visit statistics ourselves, on our own server: which pages are opened and for how long, which site you came from, what was downloaded, and the browser, language and screen size. The IP address is stored along with it — it shows the country and nothing more.
To tell a first visit from a return one, the site keeps a random marker in your browser. It contains nothing about you and is sent to no one but our server. These statistics are not sold or passed to third parties.
If you write to support, your message and whatever you attach are kept in our mailbox for as long as it takes to settle the matter. We send no newsletters.
You may ask what we hold about you, and have it corrected or deleted — write to support@iverni.me. Deleting a licence record ends that licence.
If this policy changes, the new version appears on this page with a new date.
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