Global Policy Tracker privacy policy

Effective date: October 31, 2026

The short version

Global Policy Tracker saves your working data on your device. It retrieves public information directly from government sources and publisher feeds you connect. Apple Intelligence on device is the default Ask provider. If you choose a cloud provider and send a message or run a policy tool, the selected conversation context leaves the device for that service. We do not operate an app account service, advertising service, analytics SDK, or a server that receives your working data.

Who we are

Global Policy Tracker is published by Maxima Astra. The publisher is Mileta Avramović. Contact: maximaastra@gmail.com.

What the app saves on your device

The app saves your selected countries and topics; active and archived publisher feed URLs; followed and dismissed records; keyword watches; client workspaces and their positions and priorities; private notes; personal and client-assigned actions and dates; user-entered stakeholder names, contact details and notes; meeting records, outcomes and linked follow-ups; saved brief drafts, selections and commentary; consultation response drafts, progress, receipts and submitted-text snapshots; saved citations; a personal decision log; notification preferences and deduplication history; and downloaded public source records. Ask separately saves chat titles, messages, answers, source excerpts and URLs, selected context, attached PDF-page text, unsent messages and writing drafts in protected local storage. Conflicting restored workspace records and submission snapshots may also be retained for review. Opened public PDFs are stored in a protected, purgeable cache with their source URL and save date. The iOS app uses a shared App Group for its deadline widget.

What we collect

The publisher does not receive your working data through an app server. There is no publisher sign-in, advertising identifier, tracking SDK, usage analytics, purchase flow, or automatic upload of your working data. Optional AI provider connections and requests are described below; providers receive information you choose to send. You can also explicitly export or share a brief, citation, calendar file, chat transcript, or workspace backup. The destination’s privacy practices then apply. Chat text exports can include the chat's unsent message, writing draft and saved source excerpts. Brief exports include the commentary you write in that brief. Private act notes, client assessments and open actions require separate inclusion choices; action notes and stakeholder/meeting records are not automatically added to a brief.

Third parties and official sources

Refresh, consultation lookup and PDF downloads send normal HTTPS requests directly to the built-in portals and user-added feed hosts named in the source directory or document link. This includes Serbia’s public eKonsultacije portal. Previewing a feed sends a request before it is saved. Connected feeds are checked when their country is in your monitoring scope. Restoring a backup can restore these connections; the restore preview lists the feed URLs. Their servers receive the requested document or search reference and ordinary network information, including your IP address. Those operators may keep access logs under their own policies. Private client work, contacts, meeting records, brief drafts and consultation responses are not included in source requests or submitted automatically. Public comments shown in the app were published by the source portal. Opening a source link or submitting a consultation response on the official website is governed by that website’s privacy and cookie policy. A locally recorded submission status or receipt records what you entered and is not verification by the portal.

On-device Apple Intelligence

Ask uses on-device Apple Intelligence by default. On-device summary and translation features, where available, use Apple’s Foundation Models and Translation frameworks. This path does not use Private Cloud Compute or send questions and source text to a cloud model. Ask uses the current message, recent conversation and relevant saved public records. You can explicitly attach exact text from a PDF page; simply opening a document does not attach it. Private client work, contacts, meeting records, brief drafts and consultation responses are not attached automatically. Translation may first download a language from Apple through the system; no text is sent for translation. On-device AI features can be turned off in the app’s Settings.

Optional ChatGPT in Ask

Choose ChatGPT in Ask → AI providers and connect an eligible account through OpenAI’s sign-in interface. The app receives the account identity and authorization credentials needed to use the plan you authorize; it never receives your password. Account records and credentials are stored in device-bound Keychain storage, do not sync through the app and are excluded from workspace backups. Connection and model-list requests contact OpenAI without uploading a chat.

When you send a message or run a policy tool with ChatGPT selected, the app sends a bounded version of the current message, recent conversation and selected source excerpts, URLs and attached PDF-page text directly to OpenAI. Private workspace notes, tasks, contacts and assessments are not added automatically, but material you wrote or pasted into the conversation can be included in later requests. Existing ChatGPT conversations and other account context are not read. Requests use your eligible ChatGPT plan allowance; there is no automatic switch to separate API billing. Manage usage, switch accounts or disconnect in AI providers. Disconnect clears local access credentials and attempts remote revocation; the app reports if remote sign-out cannot be confirmed. You can also manage the connection in ChatGPT.

Requests ask OpenAI not to store a Responses conversation, but this is not a promise of zero retention by the provider. OpenAI’s service and account privacy controls govern information sent to it. See OpenAI’s plan-usage overview and OpenAI’s privacy policy.

Optional Claude via Shortcuts

You can create and test a Shortcut that passes its input to the Claude app’s Ask Claude action and returns plain text. After explicitly confirming setup, select Claude via Shortcuts and send a message or run a policy tool. The app hands a bounded prompt containing the current message, recent conversation and selected source/PDF-page context to Shortcuts. The returned text is saved in the local chat. The intended Claude action uses your Claude account and its usage limits; no Anthropic API key or developer billing account is used by this app.

You control the Shortcut and must review its actions. The app cannot verify which provider it calls or prevent other actions you put in it. Anthropic documents Ask Claude for iOS; availability on Mac must be checked on that Mac. Shortcuts may open during the handoff. Claude receives text through its action under its account settings and privacy policy, rather than through a publisher server. See Anthropic’s iOS Shortcuts guide and Anthropic’s privacy policy.

Saved Ask history

Chats and unfinished drafts remain saved locally after the app closes, regardless of provider. History lets you reopen, rename, delete or export a chat as text. The app does not save internal model reasoning. Chats do not sync between devices and are excluded from workspace JSON backups. Chats closed in earlier, memory-only versions cannot be recovered. Deleting a local chat does not delete content previously sent to an AI provider or another destination; use that service’s controls.

Optional ChatGPT composition through Apple

Apple’s Writing Tools remains separate from Ask’s provider selection, including supported free-account ChatGPT access. You review the text, choose Compose and send through Apple’s interface. Text and attachments you choose to share may be sent to ChatGPT. Apple controls this system interface and account connection; this route does not give the app your ChatGPT credentials, API key, or subscription details. Apple’s settings and OpenAI’s policies apply, including your ChatGPT account settings if you sign in. Availability depends on your device, language, region and system setup. Edited text returns to the native editor for review. Manage system Writing Tools and Siri services in device settings. See OpenAI’s Apple Intelligence setup and privacy guidance.

Apple

Your operating system manages notification permissions, device security and system services. On iPhone and iPad, iOS controls discretionary background refresh. Apple may provide the publisher with crash or usage information if you choose to share it through Apple’s settings. The app has no third-party crash-reporting service.

Backups and moving devices

App data, including saved Ask history and drafts, may be included in the device or computer backups you enable. Downloaded PDF binaries are excluded from workspace backups and marked to exclude them from system backups; they can be retrieved again from their source. The app does not provide its own iCloud sync service. You can explicitly export a workspace backup and restore it in the app on another supported device. This JSON backup includes workspace data such as contact details, meeting notes, brief commentary, consultation receipts and submitted-text snapshots, but excludes Ask history, unsent messages, writing drafts and AI account credentials. ChatGPT credentials are kept in device-bound Keychain storage; connect again on another device. Export individual chats separately as text; the app does not import chat-history exports. Workspace backups are JSON files, not app-encrypted vaults; store and share them accordingly. Restore merges workspace records, retains conflicting copies or response history, and keeps local work. If consultation response text changes during restore, its current progress returns to draft for review. Notification permission remains controlled by the operating system on each device.

Retention and deletion

Local working data remains until you remove it. Delete individual chats from Ask history, or use the app’s personal-data reset to clear saved chats and drafts along with client work, stakeholders, meeting records, brief drafts, consultation drafts/progress/history, AI connection settings and other personal settings. ChatGPT account credentials are removed as part of that reset; remote revocation is attempted and any failure is reported. Disconnect in AI providers before uninstalling if you want to remove the connection without deleting your workspace. The app offers workspace backup export before deletion; export any chats you want to keep separately as text. It also provides controls to remove downloaded PDFs and cancel its notifications. Archiving a stakeholder keeps their information and meeting history; it is not deletion. Deletion does not recall exports, remove system backups, or delete information already sent to an AI service. Cached structured public source records may remain after a personal-data reset. Public PDFs expire from the cache after 30 days and are limited to 80 MB and 100 documents; the system may purge them sooner. On iPhone and iPad, deleting the app removes its app-local files; remove its widget as well. On Mac, deleting the application alone may leave Application Support data, so use the app’s data controls before uninstalling. Data deliberately sent through ChatGPT, Claude or Apple’s Writing Tools remains governed by the respective service’s controls and retention policies.

Children’s privacy

This is a professional policy reference and workflow app. It is not directed at children and does not require a date of birth or collect children’s personal information through an app account. Public legal material may discuss adult or sensitive subjects.

If you email us

If you choose to contact support, we receive your email address and the content you send. We use it to respond to your request and retain it as needed to resolve the issue. Do not send confidential client material unless necessary. You may ask us to delete support correspondence, subject to applicable retention requirements.

Your rights

You can inspect, export and delete your working data in the app. To ask about personal information sent voluntarily to support, email maximaastra@gmail.com. The publisher cannot retrieve device-only notes or restore data that was not backed up.

Changes to this policy

We will update this policy when the app’s data practices change. The effective date identifies the version.

Contact

Email maximaastra@gmail.com for privacy or support questions.

Visits to these support pages

We do not add analytics scripts, forms, advertising or external media to these pages. Netlify hosts the pages, may add hosting controls or branding, and receives ordinary website request information, including IP addresses. Your app’s working data is not attached to website visits. The hosting provider’s own privacy practices apply; see Netlify’s privacy statement.