Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2, 2026

1. Who we are

Yorick: Death Clock & Lifespan ("Yorick", "the app") is an iOS application published by Levin Schwab. This policy describes how the app handles information, what stays on your device, and what leaves it.

2. Data we collect

We collect no data about you ourselves. There is no account and no server of ours behind the app. The advertising in the free version is a separate matter and is described in section 4. Specifically:

• No personal information. The app has no sign-up, no account, and never asks for your name, email address, or any identifier.
• No quiz data leaves your device. Your answers to the lifestyle questions, your life-expectancy estimate, and your death date are computed and stored entirely on your iPhone. They are never transmitted anywhere.
• No analytics of our own. The app contains no analytics service of ours, no attribution component, and no crash-reporting SDK. The third-party components in the app are Google's Mobile Ads SDK and Google's User Messaging Platform consent kit, both described in section 4.
• No servers. We operate no backend for the app, and the app sends nothing to us. Its only network traffic is Apple's App Store and StoreKit infrastructure and, in the free version, the advertising requests described in section 4.
• App Tracking Transparency. Because the free version shows advertising, the app does show the iOS App Tracking Transparency prompt and asks for permission to use the advertising identifier. If you decline, advertising still loads, it is simply not personalised. The app itself sets no cookie and builds no profile of you.

3. On-device processing

All calculations, from baseline mortality out of the SSA life tables through country adjustments from UN data to lifestyle effect sizes from the cited studies, are performed locally on your device using data bundled inside the app. Deleting the app deletes everything.

4. Advertising in the free version

The free version of Yorick shows advertising. It appears as a banner pinned below the content of the main result screen, and as one full screen advert after you close the sources and methodology sheet on that screen. The full screen advert is held back until your second session with the app and appears at most once every three minutes. Yorick Pro removes the advertising entirely.

The adverts are delivered by the Google Mobile Ads SDK. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, for users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and Google LLC elsewhere. To fill an advert slot, Google receives technical data from the device such as an IP address, device and operating system characteristics and, if you allow it, an advertising identifier.

Your consent comes first. Before the advertising kit is started at all, the app shows Google's User Messaging Platform consent form, and iOS then asks its own App Tracking Transparency question. Only after that does any advert load. The legal basis is your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, and you may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future: open Settings inside the app and choose Ad privacy options. That entry appears whenever Google's consent form provides privacy options for your region. Buying Yorick Pro removes the advertising altogether.

Google's own processing is described at policies.google.com/privacy and, for advertising specifically, at business.safety.google/privacy. Beyond Google's advertising kit and its consent form we use no analytics service, no attribution SDK, and no crash reporting service of our own.

5. Purchases

The optional one-time purchase "Yorick Pro", product identifier com.lawoflarge.yorick.pro, is processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. We do not receive your name, payment details, or any personal information from a purchase. Purchase records and restoration are handled by Apple under the Apple Privacy Policy.

6. Children

Yorick is not directed at children. It has no sign-up and no account, and the answers anyone enters stay on that person's own device. Where the free version shows advertising, it does so only after the consent step described in section 4, and buying Yorick Pro removes it.

7. Your rights

Privacy laws such as the GDPR and CCPA grant rights over personal data that has been collected about you. Since we hold no personal data of yours on any server of ours, there is nothing for us to access, correct, export, or delete on your behalf. All of your quiz data lives on your device, under your control, and deleting the app deletes it.

For the data that Google's advertising kit processes with your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time by the route described in section 4, which stops personalised advertising for the future. Rights against Google as the recipient are exercised through Google, whose privacy policy explains how.

8. Measurement on this website

This website uses Vercel Web Analytics. It is cookieless: it sets no identifier, it stores nothing on your device, and it builds no profile. What is counted is a page view and a click on an App Store button, together with the position of that button on the page and the path of the page you were on.

The provider is Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Avenue #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA, whose privacy policy is at vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy. Nothing is evaluated per person and nothing is passed on to third parties. This measurement concerns the website only and is not part of the app.

9. Changes to this policy

If we ever change how the app handles data, we will update this policy and the "Last updated" date above before any change takes effect.

10. Contact

Questions about this policy? Email levin.schwab@gmx.de.