Privacy Policy

Nymo is operated by Ben Lang, an individual developer based in Israel (the “data controller”). For anything related to privacy, contact jben.lang@gmail.com.

Everything except contact names. Nymo reads your contacts on your device with your permission, using Apple’s Contacts framework. Scanning for names to translate and scanning for duplicates both happen entirely on your iPhone. Phone numbers, email addresses, photos, notes, and every other contact field never leave your device.

Nymo keeps a small local cache of translated nicknames and a change journal (so you can undo its edits) in the app’s private storage. Deleting the app deletes this data. Nicknames you approve and duplicates you delete are changes to your own address book; they sync through whatever contact accounts you already use (such as iCloud, Google, or Microsoft) under those providers’ terms.

Contact display names are sent off your device in exactly two situations, both started by you:

• Translation. When you run a translation, the display names of the contacts you selected are sent to the Nymo service to generate the nicknames.
• Duplicate name opinion.When you explicitly tap “Get AI opinion” on a duplicate group, the displayed names in that group are sent to compare them.

Each request carries the names and a random, meaningless request ID — nothing that identifies you or your device. Transmission is always encrypted (HTTPS).

Nothing is kept. The Nymo service has no database and does not store names — it forwards them for translation, returns the result to your iPhone, and is done. Server error logs contain technical error codes only, never names.

Two service providers (“processors”) are involved:

• Vercel hosts the Nymo service that receives the request.
• OpenAIgenerates the translation or name comparison. Requests are sent with storage disabled; under OpenAI’s API policy the data is not used to train models and may be retained briefly by OpenAI only for abuse monitoring before deletion.

We never sell data, never share it with anyone beyond these processors, and never use it for advertising or profiling.

• You choose which names are sent — Nymo sends nothing until you start a translation or ask for an opinion, and you approve every change before it is written to a contact.
• You can revoke Contacts access at any time in iOS Settings, and undo Nymo’s nickname changes from inside the app.
• Because we store nothing about you on our servers, there is no server-side data to request or erase. Deleting the app removes all data Nymo holds on your device.
• If you are in a region with data-protection rights (such as the EU under GDPR or Israel under the Privacy Protection Law), you can exercise them — or ask anything — via the contact address above. The legal basis for the processing described here is your consent, given each time you start a translation or request an opinion.

The names in your address book belong to the people in your life. Nymo uses them for one purpose only — making your own contacts easier to search and manage on your own phone — and applies the same rules above to every name: sent only at your request, never stored, never shared beyond the processors listed, never used for anything else.

Nymo is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly process data from them.

If Nymo’s data practices ever change, this page will be updated first and the effective date above revised. Material changes will also be highlighted in the app.