Wakewright Privacy Policy
Effective date: November 12, 2026
Wakewright is published by Turing Forge LLC ("Turing Forge," "we," "us"), 2121 1st Ave N, Ste N, Birmingham, AL 35203.
The short version: Wakewright keeps your information on your iPhone and, if you turn on sync, in your own iCloud account. We don't collect it, see it, sell it or share it. We have no Wakewright servers and no user accounts, and the app contains no advertising or tracking.
1. What stays on your device
Everything you put in Wakewright is stored on your device: boats, engines and trailers; photos; owner's manuals; the text Wakewright reads from them; maintenance plans; service logs; hour readings; and settings.
Wakewright reads text from photos (such as hull ID and engine labels) with your device's text recognition. To read maintenance schedules from manuals and turn your voice notes into log entries, Wakewright uses AI that runs on your iPhone: Apple Intelligence, or, if you choose one in Settings, a model you downloaded in Turing Forge AI Hub (see below). Your information isn't sent to us or to any cloud AI service for this. Voice recordings are transcribed on the device. The transcript is discarded once you confirm or cancel the entry.
Models from AI Hub. If you also use Turing Forge AI Hub on the same iPhone, Wakewright can use models you downloaded there. Wakewright reads them from a folder the two apps share on your device and runs them on your iPhone. A model sees only what Wakewright gives it: the pages of the manual being read, or, for a voice log, your words plus your boat's component names and task titles. Nothing is sent anywhere, and AI Hub isn't involved while Wakewright reads. Wakewright doesn't download, change or delete the models; only AI Hub does. While it's using a model, Wakewright leaves a small "in use" note in the shared folder (its name and which model) so AI Hub doesn't remove the model mid-read; the note is removed when Wakewright finishes. Your model choice stays on this iPhone and isn't synced. No account, key or license acceptance is shared between the two apps. See Settings > About > Licenses for each model's license.
2. iCloud sync (Wakewright Pro)
If you turn on iCloud sync, your Wakewright data is stored in your own private iCloud database so your devices on the same Apple Account stay in step. Apple stores and protects that data under Apple's privacy policy. We can't access your private iCloud data. Turn sync off anytime in Wakewright's Settings.
3. Permissions
Wakewright asks for permission only when you use a feature that needs it:
- Camera and Photos: to add boat photos and read labels.
- Microphone and Speech Recognition: for voice logging, processed on the device.
- Reminders and Calendar: to add maintenance items, if you choose to.
- Notifications: for maintenance and subscription reminders.
- Location: only if you tap "Use my location" when choosing your climate zone. Wakewright gets your location once and asks Apple's maps service which US state you're in, then keeps only the climate zone it suggests. Your location isn't stored or sent to us, and Wakewright never uses location in the background. Apple's privacy policy covers its maps service. You can also choose your climate zone by hand.
What these permissions give the app access to stays on your device. You can change them in your iPhone's Settings.
4. Finding manuals
When you look for a manual, Wakewright opens manufacturers' websites and their manual pages inside the app, and can search those sites for you using DuckDuckGo, limited to those sites. Other websites open in Safari. The sites you visit, and DuckDuckGo for searches, receive what any website receives from your browser, such as your IP address and your searches, and may use cookies. Their own privacy policies apply. Inside the app, Wakewright watches only for manual PDFs you choose to save, and doesn't send your browsing to us.
5. Purchases
Apple processes all purchases. We don't receive your payment details. Apple gives developers sales and transaction information so we can provide what you bought and keep our records. The app checks your purchases with Apple on your device.
6. Information Apple may share with us
If you've agreed in your device settings to share analytics or crash data with app developers, Apple may give us aggregated usage statistics and crash reports. These don't identify you to us. You can change this in Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements.
Age range. Where the law requires it (for example in Texas), the App asks Apple for your age range and, for a minor, whether a parent or guardian has approved. If you're asked to share your age range and choose not to, the App can't be used there. The App checks this on your device, uses it only to apply age rules, doesn't keep it after the check, and doesn't send it to us.
7. If you contact us
If you email us at support@turingforgeai.com or privacy@turingforgeai.com, we receive your email address and whatever you include, such as screenshots or exported files. We use it only to answer you and keep it only as long as needed for that, and for our records.
8. What we don't do
We don't sell or share personal information, show ads, track you across apps or websites, build profiles about you, or use your information to train AI models.
9. Children
Wakewright isn't directed to children under 13. The app doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we'll delete it.
10. Deleting your data
Because your data is on your devices and in your iCloud account, you control it:
- Delete a boat or entry in the app.
- Delete the app to remove its data from that device.
- To remove synced data, open Settings > [your name] > iCloud, go to your iCloud storage, choose Wakewright and delete its data.
To have us delete an email you sent us, write to privacy@turingforgeai.com.
11. Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or move your personal information, or to opt out of its sale, targeted advertising or profiling. Because we don't collect or hold your Wakewright data, most of these requests are handled directly on your device. For anything we do hold, such as support emails, write to privacy@turingforgeai.com and we'll respond within the time the law requires.
12. Changes
If we change this policy, we'll post the new version here with a new effective date. If a change is material, for example if Wakewright ever starts collecting data, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.
13. Contact
Turing Forge LLC
2121 1st Ave N, Ste N
Birmingham, AL 35203
privacy@turingforgeai.com