Last updated: 2026-06-07
Processing.ie is operated by Katsunori Ogane, a UK sole trader, at:
267A Brighton RoadFor any privacy-related question or to exercise your data-protection rights, contact katsunori@ogane.net.
The app does not collect personal data on its own — your form selections (chosen source, category, type, application date) are stored locally on your device and never leave it.
When the app launches it downloads the recent processing-date statistics used to compute estimates. The download carries no identifier about you — only the standard HTTP metadata (your IP address and User-Agent) that the hosting content-delivery network sees in transit.
The app shows advertising via the Google Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob). When you consent to personalised ads via the consent dialog (see below), AdMob may read your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) and use device / IP information to deliver and measure ads. When you decline tracking through the iOS App Tracking Transparency prompt or the consent dialog, AdMob still serves ads but in non-personalised mode without the IDFA.
Consent for advertising is collected and recorded via the Google User Messaging Platform (UMP), a Google-certified consent management platform that implements the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework v2.2. Your choice is stored in standard IABTCF entries in the app's local preferences.
To make the processing-date estimator work for your inputs, the app needs to remember your selections on the device and download the underlying dataset over the network. Advertising offsets the cost of distribution and keeps the app free to use; I do not sell or share data outside the recipients listed below.
The app does not send any of your form input to any third party. The only outbound network activity beyond the public dataset fetch is:
Google ad-serving data is transferred to the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. AWS hosting is primarily in Ireland, with a content-delivery network serving the dataset from global edge locations.
Cloud backup (iCloud Backup) and device-to-device transfer (Quick Start) of your form selections are both disabled by the app, so uninstalling or factory-resetting removes the locally-stored data outright. Advertising and consent state are managed by Google and persist according to Google's own retention.
Under the GDPR you have the standard data-subject rights (access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability). Form-selection data lives only on the device, so deleting the app removes all of that.
For ads and consent, you can withdraw or change your consent at any time using the "Manage consent" button in the app footer — the consent dialog will reappear and you can choose differently. You can also reset your device's advertising identifier from Settings → Privacy & Security → Apple Advertising, or revoke the app's tracking permission from Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking → Processing.ie.
If you believe your rights have been infringed, you can lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission or your local supervisory authority in the EU.
The processing-date estimate is a linear regression on publicly published government data. It is not a decision about you in the legal sense — the same input always produces the same result, regardless of who asks. The advertising shown to you is selected by Google's ad-serving systems based on the categories you accepted in the consent dialog (or, if you declined personalisation, on non-personal context only); that selection is not used by this app to make any decision about you.
If something material changes (new data recipient, new processing purpose, new categories of data) this policy will be updated and the "Last updated" date above will be revised.