# Privacy Policy

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Last updated: October 2026

**Ascelerate doesn't collect your personal data. Your API keys stay in your keychain, and the app talks to Apple's App Store Connect directly: nothing you see or change in it passes through us.**

## Your API keys and App Store Connect data

Ascelerate works with the App Store Connect API keys you add. Each key is stored in the keychain of the Mac, iPhone or iPad you add it on; if you choose to sync it, it's kept in iCloud Keychain, which Apple encrypts end to end, and reaches your other devices that way, with the name you give it. The app uses a key only to sign its requests to Apple's APIs and sends them straight to Apple.

What the app reads and changes there (your apps, builds, prices, testers, reports and the rest) stays between your device and Apple. To open faster, the app keeps a copy of what it has read in its own cache folder on your device. Apple's handling of this data is described in [Apple's privacy policy](https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/).

## Purchases

Ascelerate Pro is sold through the App Store, and Apple handles the payment; we never see your payment details. To know whether you have Pro, the app uses RevenueCat, which receives an anonymous identifier created for the app, your purchase history from the App Store, and technical details such as the app and system version and, like any web request, your IP address. If you came to Ascelerate through an Apple Ads ad, it also receives Apple's attribution token, which tells which campaign it was, not who you are. RevenueCat processes this for us under [its privacy policy](https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy/). No name, email address or App Store Connect data is sent to RevenueCat.

## Between your Mac and your iPhone or iPad

When you turn on Accept requests from my iPhone and iPad or Also notify my iPhone and iPad in the Mac app's settings, your devices pass a few things to each other through your own iCloud account: the Mac's name and model and which apps it can build, the builds and workflows you ask it for and how far they've got, and how a build upload, update or screenshot capture ended. These records are kept in the app's part of your private iCloud database, which only Ascelerate on your own devices can read; we can't see them. The workflows you write in the Mac app are kept in your iCloud account, in storage only Ascelerate can use, so your other Macs, iPhone and iPad show them; we can't see those either. Apple stores and delivers them as described in [Apple's privacy policy](https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/).

## The Ascelerate Helper

The optional helper runs the open-source ascelerate command-line tool on your Mac, only when you archive, upload a build or capture screenshots, with the key you choose. Its requests go to Apple, as the app's do.

To tell you when a newer helper is available, the app reads its latest version from ascelerate.app. Like any web request, this reveals your IP address to the server, which keeps standard access logs for a few days to run and protect the site. The check sends nothing about you or your account.

## Exchange rates

To show sales and proceeds in one currency, the app reads the day's exchange rates from a free public source, served through jsDelivr or Cloudflare. The request names only the currency; like any web request, it reveals your IP address to those servers.

## On your devices

Your settings, the project folders you choose on the Mac, and your notification and app lock preferences stay on each device. The app creates its notifications on the device itself; on iPhone and iPad, also from what your Mac passed on through iCloud. The app lock uses the system's Face ID, Touch ID, password or passcode check; the app never sees your face, fingerprint, password or passcode.

## This website

ascelerate.app uses no cookies, analytics or tracking. It's served through Cloudflare, which processes requests to deliver and protect the site.

## Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it. Ascelerate is made by AKE Software GmbH. Questions about this policy: [apps@ake.dev](mailto:apps@ake.dev)