This policy explains what OmniDex does with your information and what it does not do. OmniDex is made by IllaoiDr Technologies LLC (“we”, “us”).

1. Overview

OmniDex is a library of field guides, called Dexes. Dexes and their entries are loaded from our server, so OmniDex needs an internet connection and an account created with Sign in with Apple. We do not run ads, sell your data, or use your information to build advertising profiles.

2. Your Account (Sign in with Apple)

OmniDex asks you to sign in with Apple before you can use it. When you sign in, Apple shares the following with us, as you choose on Apple’s sign-in screen:

• Your name, if you choose to share it
• An email address, which can be your real address or a private relay address created by Apple

Sign-in is handled through Firebase Authentication (Google), which creates a user ID for your account. Our server uses that user ID as your OmniDex account and keeps your name and email address with it so the account works. We never receive your Apple Account password.

3. Browsing & Searching

When you open a Dex or an entry, the app requests it from our server using your signed-in account. When you search, the words you type are sent to our server so it can return matching entries.

4. Stored on Your Device

Your favourites, which entries you have opened, the Dexes you opened recently, and an offline copy of your five most recent entries and up to 25 favourites are stored on your device only. They are not sent to our server.

The app also keeps a short activity log on your device (the last seven days) so a problem can be followed if you ask for help. It stays on your device unless you send it from Contact Support (section 7).

5. Purchases

WildDex and AstroDex are free. Other Dexes, and the Everything bundle, are one-time in-app purchases processed by Apple through your Apple Account. We never see your payment details.

We use RevenueCat to manage purchases. RevenueCat receives your App Store purchase records (which products you bought and when) under your OmniDex user ID, and our server asks RevenueCat what your account owns so it can unlock those Dexes. Purchases belong to the account you are signed in to.

6. App Analytics

OmniDex uses Firebase Analytics (Google) to understand how the app is used, for example which Dexes are opened, which entries are viewed or shared, how many results a search found, sign-in and sign-out, whether a purchase or restore was started and how it ended (with the product ID), and, for a scan, which Dex, whether it used the camera or a library photo, how it ended, how many matches it found and whether it was a new discovery, and, for research, which Dex and how it ended. Every event carries the app’s build environment.

• Analytics events never include the words you search for, the subjects you research, your photos, your location, your name, your email address or your OmniDex user ID.
• Firebase assigns an app-instance identifier to your installation and collects general device information, such as device model, OS version and app version, and may record in-app purchase events automatically.
• Advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalisation are turned off. OmniDex does not use the advertising identifier (IDFA) and does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites.

7. Contact Support

When you tap Contact Support in Settings, the app sends its activity log to our server, then opens an email to us that quotes the log’s reference number. The log covers the last seven days and includes the app version, build, device model and iOS version, and a record of what the app did, such as Dexes opened, what you searched for, what you asked OmniDex to research, scans (the scan’s reference, what it matched and whether location was on), purchase steps, network errors, and a shortened form of your account ID. It never contains your password, payment details, name, email address, photos or coordinates.

If you email us, we also receive your email address and the contents of your message. We use this information only to respond and investigate issues, and we do not add your address to a marketing list.

8. Scan: Camera, Photos & Location

Scan identifies an animal from a photo, in the Dexes that can be scanned (WildDex, BirdDex, SharkDex and ReptileDex). You can take the photo with the camera, or choose one from your photo library with the system photo picker, which gives OmniDex only the photo you pick. Scan needs your signed-in account, and each account has a daily number of scans.

Identification by an AI model. Our server processes a reduced, metadata-free copy with our AI model, which says what the photo shows. The original photo and its location are never sent to the model. We do not keep the reduced copy ourselves.

Your choice before the first scan. Before your first scan, OmniDex asks whether you agree to your scan photos being sent to us and identified by an AI model, as described in this section. You choose before any scan photo is sent, and you can change your choice later in the app’s Settings.

Photos of people. Scan is for animals. If a photo is mainly of a person, Scan does not identify it, but the photo is still uploaded and stored like any other scan, so please don’t scan photos of people.

Location is optional. OmniDex asks for your location only on the scan screen, and only while you are using the app. If you decline, or turn it off later in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → OmniDex, scanning works the same without a position or place. While scanning, the app shows your place or coordinates on the scan screen.

Camera. The camera is used only on the scan screen, and a photo is sent only when you press Scan. Nothing is recorded or sent before that.

9. Research

In some Dexes, when a search finds nothing, or a scan match has no entry, you can ask OmniDex to research the subject and add what it finds as a new entry. Research needs your signed-in account, and each account has a daily number of new research requests.

• What is sent. Only the subject: the words you searched for, or the name of the scan match. The app sends it to our server with your account, and our server passes the subject to an AI model provider to write the entry.
• Researched entries are shared, not private. A subject is researched once, and the entry is kept and shown to anyone who later researches or scans the same thing. The entry contains nothing about you or about who asked first. Please don’t research a private person or type personal information as a subject.
• What we keep with your account. Which researched entries you have found, by researching them or through a scan, so the app can list them in each Dex under Researched entries. The app holds this list only while you are signed in and does not save researched entries on your device.
• AI-written. Researched entries are written by an AI model and are marked as researched and unverified. They may be corrected or removed at any time. See the Terms of Use.

10. Deleting Your Account & Data

• Delete your account in the app: Settings → Account → Delete Account. This deletes your OmniDex account on our server and cannot be undone.
• Delete the app from your device to remove favourites, viewed entries, the offline cache and the on-device activity log.
• You can also stop using Sign in with Apple for OmniDex in iOS Settings → your name → Sign in with Apple.
• For any other request about your data, email us at the address below.

11. Third-Party Services

• Apple — Sign in with Apple and App Store purchases
• Firebase Authentication and Firebase Analytics (Google) — sign-in and app analytics
• RevenueCat — purchase records and access to paid Dexes
• An AI model provider — identifies what a scan photo shows, from the reduced, metadata-free copy only (section 8), and writes researched entries from the subject you research (section 9)

Each handles data under its own privacy policy. We do not include advertising SDKs and we do not sell your information.

12. Children’s Privacy

OmniDex requires an account and is not designed to collect personal information from children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has created an account or sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

13. Security

Data sent between the app and our server uses encrypted connections (HTTPS). Data on your device is protected by your device’s encryption and passcode.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as OmniDex changes, for example when new features are added. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date below.

15. Contact

Questions about this policy or about how OmniDex handles your information?

Email: [email protected]

Effective date: November 3, 2026