About this policy
PawPaw operates Nearpass, an app for iPhone and Android that gathers the gift vouchers saved in your photos into a wallet and brings up the right barcode when you’re near a store that takes it. Nearpass needs no account and has no advertising or tracking tools. It doesn’t ask anyone, including children, for a name, email address, phone number, or other contact details. Your vouchers, photos, and location aren’t sent to PawPaw, and PawPaw can’t see them. Nearpass sends information off your device only as described under Apple Maps, Google services on Android, Store list, Price lookup, and Purchases.
Photos and vouchers
If you allow access to your photo library, Nearpass looks for vouchers when you open it, among the tall images and screenshots added since it last looked (the first time, your whole library). It reads barcodes and text on your device with Apple’s Vision framework and skips photos stored only in iCloud instead of downloading them. On Android, it reads them on your phone with Google’s ML Kit, whose recognition models are built into the app. Your photos aren’t sent to PawPaw or anywhere else, and Nearpass never changes or deletes them.
For each photo it reads as a voucher, Nearpass saves the brand, product name, barcode number, expiry date, amount or balance, and issuer on your device, and later when you used it and how much you spent. It also keeps a copy of the original image to show at the counter if the barcode won’t scan, and notes which photo the voucher came from so it isn’t added twice. Photos that aren’t vouchers aren’t saved. When you delete a voucher, Nearpass keeps that photo’s reference and the barcode number on your device so the voucher doesn’t come back the next time it looks. Picking the photo yourself adds it back.
Photos you pick yourself, and images you send to Nearpass from another app’s share sheet, are read the same way on your device. The share extension, notification images, and Live Activities use a space on your device that only Nearpass and its extensions share. On Android, shared images and notification images stay in Nearpass’s own storage on your phone.
Location and the radar
Nearpass uses your location to notice when you’re near a store that takes one of the vouchers on your radar. With While Using the App, it checks while Nearpass is open. With Always, it can also alert you when Nearpass is closed. To do this, it uses iOS location features such as significant location changes, visit detection, and geofences around nearby stores. On Android, the choices are Allow only while using the app and Allow all the time. Nearpass uses Google Play services’ location and geofencing where your phone has them, or Android’s own location updates and proximity alerts otherwise, and works out visits from occasional location updates. Either way, your phone decides whether you’re near a store. Your location is processed only on your device and isn’t sent to PawPaw.
Nearpass keeps a record of the stores you came near (the store, the time, and whether it alerted you) and the places where you often stay on your device. Store records appear under 최근 알림 (Recent alerts) on the Radar tab and are deleted after 30 days. For places where you often stay, Nearpass groups the visits iOS reports (on Android, the ones it works out) that last 30 minutes or more within 150 meters, and keeps each place’s center point, number of visits, time spent there (including at night and on weekday daytime), and last visit, so it doesn’t alert you every day at places like home or work. Places you haven’t visited for 60 days are forgotten, and under 기억한 장소 (Remembered places) in Settings you can forget them one at a time or all at once.
A store you mute with 이 매장 알림 끄기 (Turn off alerts for this store) on a notification stays muted until you tap 다시 켜기 (Turn back on) under 알림 끈 매장 (Muted stores) in Settings. Store locations come from a nationwide list included in the app and, on iPhone, from stores found in Apple Maps. So that it doesn’t search the same place twice, Nearpass on iPhone also notes which areas (about 1 km across) it searched for which brands, and when.
Apple Maps
On iPhone, to fill in stores missing from the list on your device, Nearpass searches Apple Maps (MapKit) for the brands on your radar. Apple receives the brand name and a search area around your current location. When you open 기억한 장소 (Remembered places) in Settings, Nearpass also gets the map around those places and their neighborhood names from Apple Maps, so Apple receives where those places are. Apple’s privacy policy applies, and your vouchers aren’t sent.
Google services on Android
On Android, Nearpass doesn’t search a map service, and 기억한 장소 (Remembered places) in Settings shows no map. When you open it, Nearpass gets each place’s neighborhood name from your phone’s geocoding service, usually Google’s, so Google receives where those places are.
Google’s ML Kit, which reads your photos on your phone, sends Google diagnostic information so it keeps working well: device model, Android and app version, performance numbers, error codes, and an identifier for this installation. Your photos and what ML Kit reads from them aren’t sent. Your vouchers aren’t sent to Google either way. See the Google privacy policy.
Store list
About once a month, Nearpass checks a server PawPaw runs on Cloudflare for a newer nationwide store list, so closed stores drop off and new ones appear without an app update. Everyone gets the same list, and the request contains no vouchers, photos, location, or identifiers. As with any internet request, your IP address and basic details such as app and system version and language reach the server. On Android, those details are the Android version and device model. PawPaw doesn’t log these requests. Cloudflare processes connection data such as IP address and request time to deliver and protect the service. See the Cloudflare privacy policy.
Price lookup
Nearpass doesn’t supply prices. When you enter an item voucher’s price, 정가 찾아보기 (Look up price) opens a Google search for the brand and product name in Safari. Nothing is sent unless you tap it, and Google’s privacy policy applies there. On Android, it opens the same search in your default browser.
Notifications and Live Activities
When you reach a store, Nearpass shows a local notification or a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Both are created on your device, not sent from a server. They show the brand, the product or balance, and the barcode, so anyone who can see your Lock Screen can see them too. You can turn either off in iOS Settings. On Android, the alert is a notification made on your phone in the same way, with the same details and a picture of the voucher. Depending on your lock screen settings, others may see it there too. You can turn it off in Android Settings.
Purchases
On iPhone, Nearpass Pro is bought on the App Store, and Apple processes the payment. Nearpass never receives your payment details. Nearpass uses RevenueCat to confirm and restore purchases and so that PawPaw can see its sales. When Nearpass opens, it sends RevenueCat an anonymous identifier created by the app, the identifier iOS gives apps from the same developer, and technical data such as device model, system and app version, language, App Store country, and network information. When you buy or restore Nearpass Pro, it also sends Apple’s transaction record for that purchase. Even an anonymous identifier can link RevenueCat’s records to one another. Your vouchers, photos, and location are never sent to RevenueCat. Whether you have Pro is also saved on your device. See the RevenueCat and Apple privacy policies.
On Android, Nearpass Pro is bought on Google Play, and Google processes the payment. Nearpass checks your purchase with Google Play Billing through RevenueCat and never receives your payment details. When Nearpass opens on Android, it sends RevenueCat an anonymous identifier created by the app and technical data such as device brand and model, Android and app version, language, Google Play country, and network information, but not the Android ID, the advertising ID, or any other device identifier. When you buy or restore Nearpass Pro, it also sends Google Play’s record of that purchase. As on iPhone, your vouchers, photos, and location are never sent to RevenueCat. See the Google privacy policy.
Retention and deletion
Vouchers and their original images stay until you delete them. Store records are deleted after 30 days, and places where you often stay are forgotten 60 days after your last visit. Muted stores, records of deleted vouchers, and store locations with their search notes stay until you change them or delete the app. Deleting the app removes everything Nearpass saved on that device. If iCloud Backup or a computer backup is on, Nearpass’s data is included in those backups, which are kept under Apple’s terms or wherever you store them. On Android, if backup is on, your vouchers, their original images, records of deleted vouchers, and settings are included in your Google Account backup and come along when you restore it or copy your data to a new phone. Store records, places where you often stay, muted stores, and the store list stay only on your phone. Google stores the backup under its terms, and PawPaw can’t access it.
Apple or Google and RevenueCat keep purchase records under their own policies and legal obligations. Deleting the app doesn’t erase them or stop you from restoring Nearpass Pro.
Your choices and contact
You can change photo, location, and notification access at any time in iOS or Android Settings. If you limit photo access to selected photos, Nearpass reads only those. Without location access, the radar stops, and the wallet keeps working.
PawPaw never receives your vouchers, photos, or location, so it can’t view, retrieve, or delete them for you. Your rights under applicable privacy law remain available. For privacy, deletion, or support requests, contact support@pawpawdigital.com. If you ask for deletion, PawPaw deletes the customer record RevenueCat keeps for your purchases. Records kept by Apple, Google, or Cloudflare may require a request to them, and RevenueCat and Cloudflare may process data outside your country, such as in the United States, under their privacy policies. See Nearpass Support.
If you contact support, PawPaw uses the contact details and information you choose to send only to respond. Visits to this website may also generate ordinary hosting records, such as IP address, request time, and browser information, to deliver and protect the site.
Changes to this policy
If Nearpass’s data practices change, PawPaw will update this page and its date.