Privacy Policy
Who we are
Homeck publishes the Homeck app for iPhone. If you have a question about this policy, write to support@homeck.app.
Your home data
With your permission, Homeck uses Apple's HomeKit to read and change your homes, rooms, accessories, their values, scenes and automations. This happens on your iPhone. Apple stores and syncs your Home under Apple's own privacy policy. We never receive it.
What stays on your iPhone
- Setup codes you save are kept in the iOS Keychain. They can be read only while your iPhone is unlocked, and they never move to another device.
- Tags you add to automations, and your appearance setting, are kept in the app's settings.
- Alert history and the address your phone receives alerts at are kept in storage shared with the Homeck widget and notification extension.
Deleting the app removes all of this.
Camera
The camera is used only to read the setup code printed on an accessory's label. No picture is saved or sent anywhere.
Backups
When you export a backup, Homeck writes a file to the place you choose, such as Files, iCloud Drive or AirDrop. It holds your home's name, the names of rooms, accessories and services, your scenes, automations and tags. It never holds setup codes. Once saved, the file is yours, and so is where it goes.
Alerts
An alert sends you a banner when a value crosses a line you set. To make that work:
- Homeck builds a web link holding your iPhone's push token, the alert's words and internal IDs.
- You attach that link to a Shortcut in Apple Home, where it is saved with your other Home data.
- When the alert fires, your home hub opens the link on our relay at
relay.homeck.app. - The relay passes the alert to Apple's push service, which shows the banner.
The relay runs on Google Cloud Run in the asia-east1 region. It stores nothing, and request logging for it is turned off. Google and Apple handle each request only to deliver it. Homeck also opens the link once when you send a test alert.
What we never do
- We have no accounts and no servers that hold your data.
- We use no analytics, advertising or tracking tools.
- We never sell or share personal data.
Children
Homeck is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect anyone's personal data.
Your rights
We hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete. To stop alerts, remove them in the app or delete the Shortcut in Apple Home. You can contact us about your rights under Hong Kong's Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance at the address above.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will post the new version here and update the date at the top.