Privacy policy

Last updated 13 November 2026

Flossva keeps your place in cross-stitch, knit and crochet patterns. It is built so that we, the people who make it, never receive your patterns, your progress or anything about you. On the App Store its privacy label is Data Not Collected.

What Flossva stores, and where

• On your device. The pattern PDFs you import, the chart Flossva rebuilds from them, your marked stitches, counters, highlighter line, notes and settings are saved in the app’s own storage on your iPad or iPhone.
• In your own private iCloud, if sync is on. To carry a project between your devices, Flossva saves it in your private iCloud database through Apple’s CloudKit, under your Apple Account. Everything you type yourself (project titles, notes, fabric and gauge notes, thread names and codes, counter names) goes in CloudKit’s encrypted fields, which only your devices can read. The PDF and the chart are stored as files in that same private database. Apple encrypts it all in transit and on its servers, and end to end if you turn on Advanced Data Protection. We cannot see any of it.
• Device only, if you prefer. In Settings you can turn on Keep everything on this device only. Then nothing is sent to iCloud and nothing is fetched from it.
• Backups you export. A backup is a file you save where you choose, such as Files or iCloud Drive. It stays wherever you put it.

What Flossva never does

• No servers. Flossva has none, so there is nowhere for your data to go except your devices and your iCloud.
• No accounts, no sign-up, no email address.
• No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party code.
• No selling or sharing of data. We never have it.
• The app opens no network connection of its own. The only traffic is iCloud sync and App Store purchases, both handled by Apple’s own system services.

The camera

Flossva asks for the camera only when you choose to scan a paper pattern. The scan is made by Apple’s document scanner on your device, turned into a PDF on your device, and stored like any other pattern. Nothing is uploaded. You can turn camera access off at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Camera.

Purchases

The trial and the one-time unlock are handled by Apple through the App Store. Apple processes the payment; we receive no card details, name or email address, only the anonymous sales reports Apple gives every developer.

This website

flossva.com sets no cookies and runs no analytics or scripts. It loads nothing from other companies: the fonts and images are served from this site. Like any web host, Cloudflare, which serves the site, handles your IP address to deliver the pages.

Erasing everything

• To remove one project, delete it in the app (press and hold its card, then Delete). With sync on, it is removed from your iCloud as well.
• To remove everything on a device, delete the app.
• To remove Flossva’s data from iCloud, open Settings › your name (Apple Account) › iCloud › Manage Account Storage (or Manage Storage) › Flossva, and delete the data there.
• Delete any backup files you exported, wherever you saved them.

Children

Flossva collects nothing from anyone, children included.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Flossva will never start collecting data without saying so first, in the app and on this page.

Contact

Flossva is made by ACMINC.ca. Questions about privacy: support@flossva.com.