Paranoia — Privacy Policy

Paranoia (“the app”) is built by Diego Fill / DeegThinks. This policy explains what the app does and does not do with your data. It uses the same plain, sourced, no-marketing-voice register the app itself uses.

What Paranoia collects: your subscription status, and nothing else

Paranoia has no account system. There is no sign-up, no login, and nothing to register. The app has no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, and no tracking SDK of any kind — none is included in the app’s dependencies, and none is invoked anywhere in the app’s code. There is no App Tracking Transparency prompt because there is nothing to track. Paranoia does not build a profile of you, does not monetize your data in any way, and does not share your data with advertisers.

There is exactly one exception, and it exists only to make the optional subscription work: if you subscribe to Paranoia Plus, a record of that purchase leaves your device. Purchase history is the single data type Paranoia declares as collected in its App Store privacy label, and the “Subscriptions and purchases” section below explains it in full. If you never subscribe, Paranoia collects nothing about you at all.

What stays on your device

• Your watchlist. If you save a company or app to your watchlist, that list is stored only in this device’s local storage. It is never transmitted anywhere, never synced to a server, and is gone permanently if you delete the app.
• Search and filter state. Searching or filtering the list of companies happens entirely on your device, over data already stored on it. Nothing you type into search is sent anywhere.
• Your preferences and privacy lens. Any settings you choose — including the privacy lens that personalises how companies are ranked for you, and the city you pick for City Watch — are stored in this device’s local storage only. The ranking is computed on your device, not on a server, so your choices are never transmitted to make it work.
• Share cards. When you generate a shareable score card for a company, that image is rendered entirely on your device from already-public dossier data. What happens to the resulting image after that — whether you post it, save it, or send it — is handled by iOS’s own share sheet, not by Paranoia.

What leaves your device, and why

The app reads published company and app dossier data from Paranoia’s database (hosted on Supabase) over an encrypted HTTPS connection. These are read-only requests for public content: no account is attached, no personal identifier is attached, and nothing you do inside the app influences what gets requested beyond which public dossier records are fetched. On launch, the app checks whether newer dossier data is available and quietly fetches it in the background; if that check fails, is offline, or is misconfigured, the app simply keeps showing you the data it already has — you will never see an error message about it.

Subscriptions and purchases

Paranoia Plus is an optional annual auto-renewable subscription. Buying it is the only action in the app that sends anything about you off your device.

• What is collected: purchase history. Whether you have an active subscription, when it started, whether you are in the free trial, and whether it renewed or lapsed. This is handled on Paranoia’s behalf by RevenueCat, a subscription-management provider.
• It is not linked to your identity. RevenueCat identifies your subscription with a random, device-generated ID. It is not your name, your email, your Apple ID, or any account handle — there is no account to attach it to, because Paranoia has none.
• It is not used for tracking. Purchase history is used to unlock the features you paid for and for nothing else. It is never used for advertising, never combined with data about you from other apps or websites, and never sold or shared for marketing.
• No payment details ever reach Paranoia. The transaction itself is processed entirely by Apple through StoreKit. Neither Paranoia nor RevenueCat ever sees your card number, bank details, or billing address.
• If you never subscribe, none of this happens. Every company file, Paranoia Score, letter grade, pillar subscore, written rationale, sourced claim and ownership chain — plus search and the city map — is free and requires no purchase.

Subscription price, term, free-trial length and cancellation are covered in the Terms of Use: https://diegofill.com/paranoia/terms

Infrastructure logs

Paranoia’s hosting provider, Supabase, briefly retains standard server request logs — the kind every website and API on the internet keeps for a short time for operations and security purposes. These logs include technical details such as IP addresses. Paranoia does not access these logs to build a profile of any individual user, does not use them for advertising, and does not combine them with anything else about you. We are disclosing this plainly here even though it goes beyond what is strictly required: this policy is intentionally broader and more conservative than the minimum privacy label Paranoia displays in the App Store.

Links out

Source links (the “receipt” attached to every claim in the app) and recommended-alternative links open in an in-app Safari view. Once you leave to visit one of those destinations, that destination’s own privacy policy applies — Paranoia has no control over what happens on someone else’s website.

Links under “Tools We Recommend” are diegofill.com/go/ redirects. DeegThinks may earn a commission if you subscribe to a recommended tool through one of these links, at no additional cost to you. This is the same affiliate disclosure shown in-app on the About screen.

About the ratings

Every score shown in Paranoia is our editorial opinion, derived from public sources and applied consistently through a published, weighted rubric — it is not a legal or regulatory finding. Scores and the claims behind them are built from licensed sources: ToS;DR (CC BY-SA), PrivacySpy (CC BY), Wikidata (CC0), and self-run Blacklight privacy scans. Every individual claim links to its primary source so you can verify it yourself.

Corrections and contact

If you believe any claim, score, or piece of information in Paranoia is inaccurate, email partnerships@diegofill.com. This is the same corrections channel shown inside the app on both the About and Methodology screens.

Children

Paranoia is not directed at children and is not designed to appeal to children. The only data the app collects from anyone is subscription purchase history, and only from someone who chooses to subscribe. Paranoia does not knowingly collect anything from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date at the top of this page will change to reflect it. We will not make changes that expand what Paranoia collects without updating both this policy and the in-app App Privacy disclosure to match.

Questions about this policy: partnerships@diegofill.com