DCAvg Privacy Policy
In short: DCAvg has no account and no ads, and it does not track you. Your trades and notes stay on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. To show market data and AI reports, the app sends stock symbols and market numbers to the services below — never your name, holdings or contact details.
Information that stays on your device
- Your trades, watchlist, notes and note images, settings and alerts are stored on your iPhone.
- If you use iCloud Backup/Restore, copies are saved in your own iCloud account. The developer cannot see them.
- Adding a trade by voice uses Apple's on-device speech recognition; the recording does not leave your iPhone.
- Widgets read the same data from your iPhone.
- Pocket Guide finds answers on your iPhone. Questions it couldn't answer are kept on your iPhone; if you send feedback by email from the side menu, they are added to the email, where you can see and edit them before sending.
Information sent to other services
| What | Sent to | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Stock symbols on your list | Financial Modeling Prep, Yahoo Finance | Prices, company profiles, earnings dates, news |
| A stock's market data (price, indicators, volume, dates) | Google Gemini, through Google Firebase | The AI Insight report you ask for |
| The text of an AI report you choose to hear | Google Cloud text-to-speech, through Firebase | Reading the report out loud |
| Your approximate location, only if you allow it | A weather service | Local weather on the calendar screen |
| A notification token (no personal details) | Google Firebase Cloud Messaging | Push notifications such as market alerts, if you allow notifications |
| App Check token (proves the request comes from the real app) | Google Firebase | Protection against abuse |
DCAvg also reads app settings and messages from the developer's Firebase database (for example, the stock limit). It does not upload your data there.
What DCAvg does not do
- No account or sign-in.
- No advertising and no ad tracking.
- No selling or sharing of personal information.
- No access to your brokerage accounts; DCAvg cannot trade or move money.
Your choices
- Location, microphone, speech recognition, photos and notifications are each optional and can be turned off in iOS Settings.
- Background refresh of the Watchlist widget can be turned off in Settings › DCAvg.
- Deleting the app deletes its data on your iPhone; iCloud backups can be deleted in iOS Settings › your name › iCloud.
Children
DCAvg is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: DCAvgApp@gmail.com