Peal doesn't collect, sell, or share your data. We never will.
Peal has no account and no server of ours behind it. Your alarms and settings are stored on your iPhone. Some things are also kept in your own private Apple iCloud, and a few requests go to Apple. Both are listed below. None of it comes to us.
Location alarms. If you're signed in to iCloud, your location alarms are saved in your private iCloud key-value storage: the alarm's title, the place name, its coordinates and the size of the area. This is how they survive a reinstall and reach your other devices. It doesn't depend on the sync setting.
Alarms and settings. If you turn on "iCloud sync & backup" in Settings, your alarms, Peal's suggestions and your settings sync through your own private iCloud database. An alarm made from a calendar event carries that event's title, time and calendar name. Sync is off until you turn it on.
Device list. If you turn on "Choose which devices ring", each device saves a small entry in your private iCloud key-value storage: the device type and model, a name if you give it one, the app version, when it last checked in, whether sync and permissions are working there, and the names of the calendar accounts it can see. Turn the feature off and the device removes its entry.
This is your iCloud account, run by Apple. We have no access to it.
Travel time and addresses. To time a leave-by alarm, Peal asks Apple Maps for the travel time between two points: where you're leaving from and where the event is. The starting point is a place you saved, the event before, or your current location if you've allowed it. When you search for a place, type an address, or say one in a voice alarm, Apple Maps looks it up.
Voice. When you dictate an alarm, the speech is turned into text on your iPhone if your iPhone and language support it. If they don't, Apple's speech recognition does it and the audio goes to Apple. Working out the time and the repeat from that text happens on your iPhone, with the on-device Apple Intelligence model where it's available.
Crash reports. If you've turned on "Share with App Developers" in iOS Settings, Apple collects crash logs and shares them with us without your name or Apple Account. You can turn it off any time.
Feedback. The feedback button opens an email to us with the app version filled in. Nothing is sent unless you send it. If you use a TestFlight beta and send feedback there, Apple passes along what you write, any screenshot you attach, and basic device details.
Alarms. Lets Peal ring, including when your iPhone is on Silent, Do Not Disturb or a Focus.
Calendar. Peal reads your events to time alarms around them. It writes to your calendar only in four cases you set up yourself: Clone & manage copies, follow-up events from an automation, prep and debrief time you add before or after an event (placed in your free time, moved with the event and removed with it), and, when you turn on "Also change my calendar" in Event sequence planning, shortening or moving one occurrence of an event you organize, after you confirm each change, with Undo. Otherwise it only changes or removes events it made itself.
Location. Used for location alarms, so Peal knows when you arrive at or leave a place you chose; as the starting point for travel time; to tell when you've been out, for a task you set to ring only if you haven't been; and for the forecast where you are, in What to wear. Location alarms ask for "Always" so they can ring when Peal isn't open. The places are watched by iOS on your iPhone. Travel times go to Apple Maps and the forecast to Apple Weather; nothing else leaves your phone.
Health. Optional and read-only. Peal reads your sleep data to suggest your usual wake time, and your step count and walking workouts if you set a task to wait for steps or to ring only if it isn't done. Peal never writes to Health.
Weather. For What to wear, Peal asks Apple Weather for the forecast at your phone's location or where you're based, rounded to about a kilometer. It goes to Apple only. The people you add stay on your device.
Microphone and speech recognition. Used only when you tap the microphone to dictate an alarm.
Notifications. Used for location alarms, for the "time to leave" reminder that opens directions, and to remind you if Peal hasn't been able to run for two days.
Contacts. Peal doesn't ask for this. If you pick an address from Contacts, iOS shows its own picker and gives Peal only the address you choose.
Each is used only for the feature that needs it. You can turn any of them off in iOS Settings.