Privacy Policy

Issues has no server, no accounts of its own, no analytics and no advertising. The app collects nothing about you, and neither does this website.

Last updated 15 October 2026

Who is responsible

He develops the app and runs this website, and is the controller under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The app

What it stores, and where

• Your GitHub login (an access token) is kept in the keychain of your device. When you use the app on more than one of your devices, it is stored in iCloud Keychain so they all stay signed in; Apple encrypts it end to end.
• A copy of your projects and issues, and of your GitHub notifications about issues and pull requests (the Inbox), is kept in a database on your device, so the app opens instantly and works offline.
• Inbox entries you snoozed or marked unread, whether you read or archived an entry the app makes itself (an issue that was due, or one your own account assigned you to outside the app), and when you assigned yourself to an issue in the app, are kept in iCloud's key-value storage of your Apple account, so your devices agree; GitHub has no place for them. They hold the notification's number on GitHub (or the issue's id, the day it was due or the assignment's id on GitHub) and dates, nothing else, and are removed after 30 days, the assignments made in the app after a week. Only you and your devices can read them.
• The icons you pick for projects, a glyph and a colour, are kept in the same iCloud storage, so your devices show the same ones; GitHub has no icons for projects. They hold the project's id on GitHub and the names of the glyph and the colour, nothing else. Only you and your devices can read them.
• Preferences such as the appearance, the app icon, the order of list sections and the time of reminders stay on your device.
• Reminders of issues that are due are notifications your device schedules itself from the due dates it has synced. They are not sent anywhere, and turning them off in Settings removes them.

What it sends, and to whom

• The app talks to GitHub only: api.github.com to read and change your projects, issues and notifications, github.com while you sign in, and GitHub's image servers for avatars and pictures in issue descriptions. GitHub is the service you sign in to; what it does with your data is described in GitHub's privacy statement.
• Snoozed and unread Inbox entries, and the icons you pick for projects, go to your iCloud account, through Apple, as described above.
• Your login is sent to nobody but GitHub.
• Nothing is sent to the developer or to any other party. The app contains no analytics, advertising or crash-reporting code.
• If you turned on Share with App Developers in your device's settings, Apple passes on anonymous crash reports. That is Apple's feature and in your hands, under Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

Sample data

“Explore with Sample Data” shows made-up projects stored on your device only. Nothing you do there is sent anywhere.

Deleting your data

Sign Out removes the copy of your projects, issues and notifications from the device. Sign Out Everywhere also removes your login from iCloud Keychain, which signs out all your devices. Deleting the app removes everything it stored. Your projects and issues themselves live on GitHub and stay there.

This website

This website is hosted by GitHub Pages, a service of GitHub, Inc., 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. To deliver a page, GitHub receives your IP address and the usual details of the request (which page, when, which browser). GitHub logs visitors' IP addresses for security purposes. This is based on the legitimate interest in providing the website reliably and securely (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). GitHub has certified that it adheres to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework; see GitHub's privacy statement.

The website sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking. Its fonts, pictures and styles come with the page; nothing is loaded from other servers. Links to GitHub and the App Store lead to those services, where their own privacy policies apply.

When you write

If you send an email, your address and message are used only to answer you (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR) and are deleted when the conversation is over, unless the law requires keeping them longer.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what data about you is processed, have it corrected or deleted, restrict its processing, receive it in a portable format, and object to processing based on legitimate interest. Write to the address above. You can also complain to a data protection authority, for example the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

Changes

When the app or this website changes how it handles data, this page changes with it. The date at the top says when it last did.