Effective August 19, 2026

Privacy Policy

Gavelogue gives you two distinct choices: local records in the iPhone app, or a signed-in desktop collection stored securely for your web account.

What the app stores

The iPhone app stores the records you create—listing text and links, object details, cost assumptions, questions, provenance, notes, and imported files—locally on your device. The iPhone launch edition does not upload those collection records to Gavelogue. It does not include advertising or behavioral analytics.

Optional desktop account

If you use the desktop companion, Sign in with ChatGPT provides a stable account identifier, email address, and available display name so Gavelogue can authenticate you and keep your web records separate from other users. Gavelogue stores the profile name you choose and the object-passport fields you save on the website, including titles, categories, status, source links, auction details, amounts, and notes.

Desktop records are stored in Gavelogue's hosted database and are available when you sign back into the same account. They do not automatically synchronize with the local iPhone collection. Do not place payment-card numbers, passwords, government identifiers, or other unnecessary sensitive information in a passport.

Auction game

The Closest to the Gavel game keeps your round, guess, clue choice, and score only in the current browser page while you play. It does not require an account and does not save or transmit those answers to a Gavelogue profile.

Photos, files, OCR, and links

When you choose a screenshot with Apple's system photo picker, Gavelogue receives only the item you select, not general access to your photo library. When you explicitly open the camera scanner, the camera is used to capture the catalog, lot sheet, invoice, receipt, or other page you place in view. Gavelogue does not record your screen or monitor for new screenshots in the background.

Apple's on-device frameworks read a selected screenshot, camera-captured page, image, PDF, or text file so the app can suggest fields for your review. The launch edition does not upload those materials or recognized text to a Gavelogue server. A scan is suggested transcription, not identification, authentication, provenance verification, title review, or appraisal. Opening an original listing link takes you to the third party named by that URL; that site's privacy practices apply there.

Gavelogue does not request or store auction-site or marketplace credentials, reuse an authenticated session, or fetch, scrape, or monitor a listing service. A source link is stored locally as a reference. The current launch edition has no inbound Share extension; Apple's share sheet is used only when you deliberately export a generated file.

Exports and sharing

When you create a PDF, CSV, or backup, it is generated on your device. Apple's system share sheet lets you choose where it goes. Gavelogue does not receive the file or learn which destination you choose.

Optional reminders

With your permission, Gavelogue asks iOS to schedule local auction-closing reminders. Depending on your notification settings, a reminder may show an object title and lot number on the lock screen. Changing the title, lot number, or closing date of an object under consideration cancels its existing reminders; set them again after saving if you still want them. You can control or disable Gavelogue notifications in iPhone Settings.

Website information

This site does not contain advertising or third-party behavioral analytics. Our hosting and authentication providers necessarily process ordinary technical information needed to deliver and secure the service, such as requests, IP address, browser information, authentication state, and diagnostic or security logs. If you contact us, we receive the address and information you choose to include so we can reply.

Deletion and retention

You can delete individual web passports from the desktop companion and local records from the iPhone app. Deleting the iPhone app removes its local container, subject to device backups and other Apple services you control. Files you previously exported remain wherever you chose to save them. To request deletion of a desktop profile or ask a privacy question, use the support page.

Children

Gavelogue is a general-audience collector recordkeeping tool and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect children's personal information.

Security and limits

No device, account, or storage system can be guaranteed absolutely secure. Use a strong protected account, current software, your iPhone passcode, and encrypted backups. Avoid placing unnecessary government identifiers, payment-card numbers, passwords, or account credentials in a collection record.

Changes

If a future version adds synchronization, paid cloud processing, third-party analytics, or materially different data handling, this policy and relevant store disclosures will be updated before that behavior ships.

Contact

Use the Gavelogue support page. A monitored public contact will be posted there before the app is submitted.