Privacy Policy

Effective date: 16 August 2026

In short: Medicine Cabinet collects no data from you. Your medicines, photos and reminders are stored only on your own device, and in your own iCloud account if you have iCloud turned on. The developer has no access to this data.

1. Who processes data?

The Medicine Cabinet app is developed by Yüksel Şişe. Contact: eczadolabi@yukselsise.com

The app connects to no server operated by the developer. The developer has no database, no analytics infrastructure and no account system.

2. What data is stored, and where?

Medicine records (name, quantity, expiry date, batch number, category, location, uses, notes), box photos, dose reminders and intake records: in your device's own database.
App settings, items you add to the pharmacy list by hand and "taken" marks: on your device, in the area shared by the app and the home screen widget. The widget only reads this data.
Automatic local backups: in your device's own storage, the last seven. Photos are not included in backups.
Device identifier: a random number stored on your device. Its only purpose is to prevent your own device from showing you a duplicate notification for a dose you missed. It has nothing to do with your identity, advertising or measurement, and it never leaves the device.

None of this data is sent to the developer or to any third party.

3. iCloud sync

If iCloud is on, the app syncs your data through Apple's CloudKit service in the private area of your own iCloud account. That data sits on Apple's infrastructure under Apple's privacy terms; the developer has no access to it.

If you turn iCloud off, the app keeps working fully offline.

Family sharing

If you share a cabinet with a family member, its contents become available to the people you invite through Apple's CloudKit sharing mechanism. The shared data sits in the iCloud account of the person who started the sharing; it does not use the invitees' iCloud storage quota, and participants access the owner's records. Only you decide whom to invite, and you can end the sharing at any moment. The data never passes through the developer's systems during this process either.

In the background the app only receives Apple's silent sync notifications; these keep the shared cabinet current and turn a missed dose into a notification on the other device. No marketing notifications are sent.

4. Permissions

Camera: used only to read the barcode and Data Matrix code on a medicine box, and only when you open the scan screen. The image is neither saved nor transmitted anywhere; the code is converted to text on the spot and the camera closes.
Photos: requested only when you want to attach a photo to a medicine, and only for the single photo you pick. The app does not scan your photo library.
Notifications: requested for dose and expiry reminders. If you decline, the rest of the app keeps working.

Location, microphone, contacts, calendar and health data (including Apple Health) are never requested. No advertising identifier is used.

5. Notifications

Expiry and dose reminders are scheduled locally on your device. Notification content does not come from a server.

6. Data that is not collected

No analytics, usage statistics or crash reports are collected.
No ad network, tracking technology or third-party software library is used. Every component the app uses is one of Apple's own frameworks.
You are never asked to create an account; no name, email address or phone number is collected.
This is why the App Store privacy card says "Data Not Collected".

7. The medicine barcode table

To find a medicine's name from its barcode, the app carries a fully offline lookup table. The table is built from the public Licensed Medicinal Products for Human Use list published by Türkiye's medicines authority, TİTCK (Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency), is included in the app and is refreshed with app updates. Barcode lookups never go online. Medicine Cabinet is not an official TİTCK product and has no ties to TİTCK.

8. Your rights over your data

Deletion: You can delete a single record from its row, or the whole cabinet via Settings › Reset the cabinet (an automatic backup is taken before deleting). Removing the app deletes the data on the device and the local backups. For the iCloud copy, use iPhone Settings › [your name] › iCloud › Manage Account Storage.
Access and portability: All your records are visible and editable inside the app. You can export or share your pharmacy list as text.
Stopping the sharing: You can turn family sharing off at any moment from Settings › Family; participants lose access and the data stays with you.

Requests under Türkiye's Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK, Law no. 6698) can be sent to eczadolabi@yukselsise.com. Since the developer holds no data about you, the answer will usually be "there is no data about you in the records".

9. Children

Medicine Cabinet is not aimed at children and does not knowingly collect data from them. The app does not collect personal data from any user. You can write a person's name on a reminder; that name never leaves your device and your own iCloud account.

10. Changes

If this policy changes, the current version is published on this page and the effective date is updated. If a substantial change happens, such as starting to collect data, you will be informed inside the app.

11. Contact

eczadolabi@yukselsise.com