This policy covers SideSpace: Multiple Accounts for iOS, published by Sang Cao.
The short version
SideSpace collects nothing. There is no account to create, no server we run, and no analytics. Everything the app holds stays on your iPhone.
What stays on your device
- Web sessions. Each Space keeps its own cookies and sign-ins in an isolated store provided by iOS. They stay on the device and are never transmitted to us.
- Notes, photos and videos. Stored inside the app’s own storage. Photos and video taken with the in-app camera are saved into the Space you were in, not into your Photos library.
- Your Spaces — their names, icons and settings.
- Your Space passcode, if you set one, stored as a salted hash in the iOS Keychain. It is never stored in a form that can be read back, and it never leaves the device.
What leaves your device
Three things, and none of them involves us.
The websites you visit inside a Space. Traffic goes straight from your iPhone to those sites. They see what they would see if you used Safari, and their own privacy policies apply. We are not a party to it.
App icons. When you add a web app, your device fetches that service’s icon from that service’s own website, the way Safari fetches a favicon. It is then cached on your device and not fetched again.
The Test Proxy button, only when you tap it. If you have set up a proxy for a Space, that
button asks api.ipify.org what IP address it sees, so you can confirm the proxy is working.
It runs on that tap and nowhere else, and never at all if you have not configured a proxy.
Proxies
A Space can be given a proxy so its web traffic leaves your phone by a different route. You supply it. We run no proxy servers, sell no bandwidth, and route none of your traffic through anything of ours.
The address and any username and password you enter are stored in your device’s Keychain, are never sent to us, and are deleted with the Space. They are deliberately not included in an exported backup, so restoring onto a new device means entering them again.
Permissions, and when they are asked for
- Camera and microphone — only when you use the in-app camera. What you capture goes into the Space you were in, never into your Photos library.
- Photo library — only when you tap Add Recent Photos. If you never use that feature you are never asked. It is used to list recent photos so you can import one, and to delete an imported photo from the library if you choose that; iOS asks you to confirm any deletion itself.
- Face ID — only to unlock private Spaces. Face ID data never leaves Apple’s Secure Enclave and is not available to the app.
Declining any of these leaves the rest of the app working.
Private Spaces
A Space marked Private is not listed in the switcher until you unlock it, so its name is hidden and not only its contents. Unlock it with Face ID, or with a passcode separate from your iPhone’s own.
There is no recovery for a forgotten Space passcode, and that is deliberate — a reset that could be done quietly would defeat the lock. See Support for what a reset does.
Backups
Exporting a backup writes a file to wherever you send it. That file is not encrypted, so treat it like any other file holding your notes and photos.
It does not contain your web sign-ins: iOS gives an app no way to read those out. A restored Space arrives signed out of everything, with its notes, photos, web apps and settings intact.
What this app is not
SideSpace runs services in isolated web sessions. It does not clone or modify any app, and it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any service you add to a Space.
Children
SideSpace is not directed at children, and collects nothing from anyone.
Changes
If the app’s behaviour changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves.
Contact
Questions about this policy: sangcnt@gmail.com. We usually reply within one to two business days.