Privacy Policy
Last updated: 10 October 2026
The short version: Your quiz answers and your result are computed on your iPhone and never leave it. There is no account, and your quiz data is not uploaded. The free version shows advertising from Google, which loads only after you have given your consent, and Yorick Pro removes it.
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
Your quiz answers and estimates stay on your device. There is no account or personal profile. Recommendations for our other apps use aggregate view and open counts, described below. 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 personal profiles. Recommendation counts contain no persistent user or device identifier. The app contains no third-party analytics or 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 quiz uploads. The app connects to our recommendation service, Apple's icon, App Store and StoreKit infrastructure and, in the free version, the advertising services described in section 4. It sends none of your quiz answers, estimates or dates to the recommendation service.
- 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.
| Data type | Processed by the app | Reaches a third party |
|---|---|---|
| Quiz answers, life-expectancy estimate, date, settings | Written to your device only | No. It is never passed to the advertising kit or to anyone else |
| Advertising identifier (IDFA) | Only if you allow it in the App Tracking Transparency prompt | Google, for advertising, and only with your permission |
| Technical request data for an advert | Sent by Google's kit when an advert is loaded | Google, on the basis of your consent |
| Contact details, location, purchase history | No | No |
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. We use no third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDK. The developer’s recommendation service and App Store campaign labels are described below.
Recommendations for our other apps
In Settings, the app can fetch up to three recommendations for our other apps. The choices depend on the app you are using, App Store availability and iOS compatibility, not on your personal data or activity inside the app. App icons load from Apple’s image servers. Opening a recommendation takes you to the App Store with a campaign label identifying the source app and placement, never a person.
We count qualified views and successful opens in aggregate. Our service stores daily counts with the source app, recommended app, placement, configuration revision and optional presentation variant. It does not store an account, advertising identifier, device identifier, persistent visitor identifier or personal profile, and it does not receive quiz answers, estimates or dates. These counts cannot tell us who installed an app.
The recommendation service is hosted by Supabase. Network requests necessarily expose an IP address to the hosting provider for delivery and security; our aggregate counter does not store it. See Supabase’s privacy policy. Apple processes icon requests and App Store visits under Apple’s privacy policy.
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. Our recommendation counters contain no persistent user identifier and cannot be linked back to your installation. Contact us about any privacy request; the hosting and advertising providers handle connection data as described above. 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.