Privacy policy · Effective October 23, 2026
Your licenses and certificates stay yours.
Renewd keeps your licenses, certificates and cards on your own devices. We don't collect them, see them or sell them, and there is no account to make.
- What we collect
- Nothing. The app has no analytics, no ads, no tracking and no third-party code, and it makes no network requests of its own.
- Where your records live
- On your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and on your Apple Watch if you use it. Never on our servers; we have none.
- Who can see them
- Only you, and anyone you choose to send an audit packet or a certificate to.
- How to delete them
- Remove a license, certificate or card in the app, or delete the app.
Who we are
Renewd is made by IndieDeveloperJ LLC ("we", "us"), an independent app developer in Arizona, USA. This policy covers the Renewd apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, their widgets, Siri and Shortcuts actions, and these web pages.
What the app keeps, and where
Everything you put in the app is stored on your device, inside the app's own storage:
- Your licenses: the profession and state, the expiry date, and the license number and first-licensed date if you add them, with your answers to the board's questions about your renewal.
- Your certificates: each course's title, provider, date, hours and topics, and the photo or PDF of the certificate if you scan or import one.
- Your cards: such as BLS or ACLS, with the expiry date, and a photo of the card if you add one.
- Your audit packet details: the name you put on the packet, kept on the device for next time.
The widgets, the Siri and Shortcuts actions and the Watch read the same records through storage shared on your devices. None of it is sent to us.
Scanning and importing certificates
When you scan a certificate, or open one from Mail, Files or a drop on the Mac, Renewd reads its course, date and hours with Apple's on-device text recognition. The picture and the text stay on your device.
Topic suggestions
When the title of a certificate you scan, add by hand or add with Siri doesn't name one of your required topics, Renewd can ask Apple's on-device language model, part of Apple Intelligence, which of your topics the course covers, and marks its answer as a suggestion for you to check. It's given only the course title, your topics and your license's profession. The model runs on your device, so none of this is sent to Apple or to us. On a device, language or region without Apple Intelligence, Renewd simply doesn't suggest a topic.
Apple Watch
If you use the Watch app, your iPhone sends it your licenses, certificates and cards so it can show what's left. This goes directly between your devices through Apple's WatchConnectivity, not through us.
iCloud
When iCloud sync is available and turned on, your records are kept in your own private iCloud database so they appear on your other devices. They are stored by Apple under your Apple Account, governed by Apple's privacy policy, and we cannot read them.
Permissions the app may ask for
- Camera: to scan a certificate or a card. Only the pictures you keep are saved.
- Photos: none needed. When you pick a picture of a certificate or card, Apple's photo picker hands the app only that photo, so it never asks for your library.
- Notifications: for reminders before a license or card is due, if you allow them. Reminders are scheduled on your device.
Purchases
Renewd Pro is sold through Apple's App Store. Apple handles payment; we never see your name, card or Apple Account. The app checks your Pro status with Apple on your device. Apple gives us sales reports that don't identify you.
Audit packets and sharing
An audit packet is a PDF made on your device from your certificates. It goes only where you save or send it, such as your board, your employer or your own files.
When you contact us
If you email us, we receive what you send, including your email address, and use it only to answer you. We keep that correspondence in our email inbox and delete it on request. Please don't send us your license number or certificates; we never need them to help.
These web pages
These pages set no cookies, load no web fonts and use no analytics. They are served by Cloudflare, which processes basic request data such as IP addresses to deliver and protect the site, under Cloudflare's privacy policy.
Children
Renewd is made for licensed professionals and is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect anyone's personal information, children's included.
Your rights
Because your records stay on your devices, you already hold them: you can see, change or delete all of them in the app. For anything we hold, which is only email you've sent us, write to us and we'll answer within 30 days, whatever your country or state.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the date at the top. If a change affects what the app does with your data, we'll say so in the app's release notes first.
Contact
Questions about privacy: [email protected].