Effective 5 November 2026. This policy covers Cigarette Book on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, made by Wasiq Apps (OPC) Pvt Ltd, India.
In short: we don't collect your data. Cigarette Book has no accounts to sign up for, no analytics, no ads and no tracking, and we run no servers that receive your information. Your log lives on your devices and in your own iCloud. People in your circles see your name, your smoke-free time and your record, and nothing else. The only time we hear from you is when you contact us.
Your log
Each cigarette you log is stored as the minute you smoked it and the day it counts on. It's kept on your device and synced through your own iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit. The Apple Watch app syncs with iCloud directly. Widgets and the Control Center button read and add to the same data on your device and send it nowhere else. We can't see this data. Apple stores it under the Apple Privacy Policy and your iCloud terms.
Circles
A circle is shared through iCloud with the people its owner approves. In each circle you're in, the others see one card for you: your iCloud name, when you last logged a cigarette (shown as how long you've been smoke-free), and your record, the longest time you've gone between two cigarettes. They never see your log: not how many you smoke, not when, and not your calendar or chart.
A circle and everyone's cards in it are kept in its owner's iCloud. When you ask to join a circle, its owner sees your iCloud name with your request. As with any iCloud sharing, Apple shows people in a circle each other's iCloud name, and where available the email address or phone number used with iCloud. Cigarette Book keeps these on your devices only, to show people by the names in your Contacts if you allow it.
An invite link carries the circle's name, its owner's iCloud name and what iCloud needs to find the circle. Anyone with the link can ask to join; nobody gets in until the owner approves them.
Permissions
Contacts (optional): Cigarette Book matches the people in your circles to your contacts by email address or phone number, to show the names and photos you saved for them. This happens on your device, and nothing from Contacts is uploaded.
Notifications (optional): used to tell you when you beat your record, when someone asks to join your circle, and when you're let into one. They're made on your device.
Siri and Shortcuts
Shortcuts run on your device and read or change your log there. Siri itself is provided by Apple and covered by Apple's privacy policy.
The old Cigarette Book
If you used the earlier Cigarette Book app, the new app reads the cigarettes it kept on your device and in your iCloud and copies them into your Cigarette Book log, once. The old data is only read, never changed or sent anywhere else.
Purchases
Cigarette Plus is handled by Apple through the App Store. We never receive your payment details. Cigarette Book only asks the App Store whether you have Cigarette Plus, and when your free week ends.
Contacting us
Email Support in Cigarette Book's Settings opens a mail to us with technical details attached, so we can see what went wrong: the app and system version, device model, language, region and time zone, how many records are stored and waiting to sync, how sync is doing, and crash and hang reports that Apple's system gives the app. They never include when you smoked or anyone's names. You can see the attachments, and remove them, before you send the mail. If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write. We use it only to reply and to fix problems, and delete it when it's no longer needed.
Deleting your data
You can delete any cigarette you've logged in the app. Leaving a circle removes your card from it; deleting a circle you own removes it, and everyone's cards in it, for everyone. To remove all of Cigarette Book's data from iCloud, open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, then iCloud and Manage Account Storage, choose Cigarette Book if it's listed, and delete its data. Deleting the app removes the data stored on that device.
Health information
Cigarette Book keeps a record for you. It doesn't give medical advice, and doesn't share your log with anyone, including us, advertisers or data brokers.
Children
Cigarette Book doesn't knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy: [email protected]