Privacy Policy
The short version: Rainbow’s End Provisioning sends nothing to us — ever. Your voyages, your meal plans, and your grocery lists stay on your device, and leave it only when you print or export them yourself — or when you switch on iCloud sync, in which case they travel only through your own iCloud, which we cannot read.
What the app stores, and where
Everything you put into Rainbow’s End Provisioning — your voyages (their dates, crew count, provisioning pattern, tank capacity, notes, who drinks what, and the names of the crew you divide the shopping among), the meals you plan on each day and any note about where a meal is eaten ashore, the meals you add to the library, what you record as already aboard, your beverage rates, your adjustments to a grocery list and the items you’ve checked into the cart — is stored in the app’s local storage on your own device. The app has no server of ours and no account system, and with iCloud sync switched off (its factory setting) it makes no network requests at all.
The food allergies deserve a plain word of their own. If you record that an allergy is aboard and, optionally, whose it is, that entry exists so the app can flag the meals that person can’t eat. It is health-related information about a real person, and it lives in the same local storage as everything else, on the device it was entered on. We never see it. Nobody sees it but you, and anyone you hand a printed calendar to — the calendar prints the allergy warnings, names included, because that is what they are for.
Deleting the app deletes this data from the device. If iCloud sync was on, the copy in your own iCloud remains until you remove it (Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage) — which also means reinstalling with sync on brings your voyages back. If you back up your device, your backup may include the app’s data like any other app’s; backups and iCloud alike are managed by Apple under Apple’s terms, and we never see either.
Printing and exporting
The List tab can print the meal calendar and the grocery list as PDF files, or export them as spreadsheet files. Each is made on your device and handed to the system’s share sheet only when you tap the button — where it goes from there (AirDrop, Files, Mail, a printer) is your choice, made each time. The app keeps no copy beyond the file it just made for you, and we never see it. When the shopping is divided among the crew, Send hands one shopper’s share to the share sheet as text in the same way: only when you tap it, only where you choose to send it.
iCloud sync — your own cloud, not ours
The Voyage tab offers one switch: Sync your voyages across your devices. It is off until you turn it on, on each device. Switched on, the app keeps a copy of your galley — your voyages and every meal planned on them, the cart and your adjustments to each list, what you’ve recorded as already aboard, your beverage rates, your own meals, and the food allergies you’ve entered, names included — in the private database of your own iCloud account, so an iPhone and an iPad signed into the same Apple ID show the same plan. That record is Apple’s infrastructure under Apple’s terms, readable only by your Apple ID: we have no access to it, no copy of it, and no way to know it exists. Nothing about this creates an account with us — there is still no us to have an account with. Switch sync off and the app goes back to making no network requests at all; delete the app’s data from iCloud at any time in Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage.
What the app does not do
Rainbow’s End Provisioning contains no analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind, and no third-party data-collection software. It does not use your location, your camera, or your photo library. It does not read your contacts or anything else on your device. It works offline — by design, because it is meant to be used aboard and in the aisles of a store where there is often no signal; iCloud sync, if you turn it on, simply catches up the next time the device finds a connection.
Purchases
Buying the app is handled entirely by the App Store. We receive no payment details, no card numbers, and no personal information from your purchase.
Children
The app collects no data from anyone, children included.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of the app ever changes any of the above — for example, by adding an online feature — this policy will be updated first, with the effective date above revised, and the change described plainly rather than buried.
September 12, 2026: version 1.0.6 can divide the grocery list among the crew, so the list of what the app stores now names the shoppers’ names, and sending a shopper their share joins printing and exporting; nothing leaves the device any other way. September 10, 2026: the app’s name changed from Rainbow’s End Galley to Rainbow’s End Provisioning; nothing about what it stores, or where, changed. September 7, 2026: the optional iCloud sync shipped, and this policy gained the section describing it — the promise above, kept. September 6, 2026: first version.
Contact
Questions about this policy: support@RainbowsEndMarine.com.
Rainbow’s End Provisioning is an aid to the galley, not a substitute for the skipper’s judgment.