Privacy Policy
Period helps you record menstrual periods, daily observations, and reference predictions on iPhone and Apple Watch. You do not need an account. The app does not use advertising, cross-app tracking, or third-party analytics, and does not send your period records to developer-operated servers.
1. Information stored on your devices
The app stores the period dates, flow, symptoms and severity, mood, notes, cycle preferences, questionnaire answers, and reminders you choose to enter. Predictions and statistics are calculated from information on your device. iPhone is the main source of records; the paired Apple Watch exchanges records and settings with it. After the first sync, supported Watch entries can be saved offline and sent when the connection is available.
The widget can display a reference date when you enable date display. Dates are hidden by default and when the iPhone app lock is enabled. The iPhone app lock does not lock the separate Apple Watch app; protect your Watch with its own passcode.
2. Optional Apple Health access
- Write sync: if you enable it and grant permission, Period writes actual period days and menstrual flow to Apple Health, including eligible existing history. It does not write predictions, mood, symptoms, or notes. Records imported from Apple Health are not written back as new periods.
- Import: if you choose the import feature and grant read permission, Period reads menstrual flow records from Apple Health. You review and select eligible records before saving them in the app. It does not automatically import in the background or read unrelated Health categories.
You can manage permissions in Apple Health or system settings. Turning write sync off does not remove records already written to Apple Health. Imported app records and their original Health records are separate copies.
3. Notifications and app lock
With notification permission, the device schedules local reminders for an upcoming period or a daily entry. Notification visibility depends on your system settings. You can turn reminders off in the app or revoke notification permission.
Optional app lock uses the system's Face ID, Touch ID, or device passcode authentication. Period does not receive your biometric data or passcode.
4. Purchases, exports, and backups
Apple processes purchases and payments. The app uses purchase status to enable Pro features and does not receive payment card details.
Exports, reports, and JSON backups can contain sensitive period records, daily observations, settings, and any notes you include. You choose where to save or share them. App lock does not protect copies outside the app. Device backups may include app data depending on your Apple settings. We cannot access or recover your personal device backups.
5. Editing and deleting records
You can edit or delete records, or use “Clear all data” in My to clear the local record document, including period history, daily observations, and cycle settings. Updated records reach the paired Watch when it next syncs; the new data generation prevents old pending Watch commands from restoring cleared records.
When Health write sync is enabled, permission and Pro access remain available, the app also reconciles edits and deletions for records it wrote to Apple Health. This may not finish if sync is disabled, permission is removed, or an error occurs. Check and manage Health copies in Apple Health separately; the app does not delete source records written by other apps.
Exported files, recipients' copies, system backups, purchase history, and device-local privacy preferences are managed separately. Clearing app records does not delete those copies or cancel a subscription.
6. This website and support email
These pages do not request or upload period records and do not include advertising or analytics scripts. A language choice you make is saved locally in your browser. The hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes technical request information, such as IP addresses, to deliver and secure the pages; see Cloudflare's privacy policy.
If you contact support, we use your email address and the information you send to respond to your request. Please do not send complete health backups, period history, passwords, or payment details unless specific information is necessary and you choose to provide it.
7. Scope and contact
Predictions are references only. Period is not a contraceptive method and does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment. Changes to this policy will be published here with an updated date.
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