Gave

Privacy policy

Last updated 7 Nov 2026

Gave is a wish list app. This policy says what Gave stores about you, who sees it, and what you can do about it.

Gave doesn't sell your data, show ads, or track you. The app has no analytics tools.

Who is responsible

Gave is made and run by Erik Mjaaland Skår, a private individual in Norway. Erik Mjaaland Skår is the controller of the data in Gave. You can reach Gave at the email address on the support page.

Gave is part of skar.cloud. The account you create in Gave is a skar.cloud account. The same account works in other skar.cloud apps.

What Gave stores

Your account

  • Your first name, last name, and date of birth.
  • The email address Apple gives Gave when you sign in. If you choose "Hide My Email", Gave gets an address from Apple that forwards email to you.
  • An ID from Apple that links the account to your Apple Account, and a key from Apple that Gave uses to revoke Sign in with Apple when you delete your account.
  • Your profile picture, if you add one.
  • Your passkeys. Gave stores only the public part. The private part never leaves your devices.

Gave has no passwords.

Language and region

  • The app's language and your device's time zone. The app sends them when you create your account, and when they change.
  • The currency you've chosen for new prices.
  • When you celebrate Christmas: 24 December, 25 December, or not at all.

What you do in Gave

  • Your wishes: title, description, price, link, image, and quantity.
  • Your private notes: title, description, price, link, and image, and whether the note is for yourself or for someone else.
  • Who you follow, who follows you, who you've blocked, and follow requests.
  • Whether your profile is private.
  • Your reservations: which wishes you've reserved, for which occasion, whether you've bought the gift, and who you're chipping in with.
  • Reports you send, with the reason and any comment.
  • Your notification settings.

Your devices

  • A sign-in key for each device where you're signed in, with the device's name.
  • If you turn on notifications: a notification key from Apple, the device's name, and the app's version.

Operations and security

  • The server logs requests with their IP address and time, and any errors. The logs are used only to keep Gave running and to stop abuse.
  • The server keeps statistics on traffic and errors, without IP addresses and without your content.

The app makes images smaller before uploading them, and removes location data. The server removes the rest of the metadata.

Who sees what

  • Anyone who uses Gave can search for you by name. They see your name and your profile picture. If your profile is public, they also see your birthday (day and month) and your wishes.
  • You can make your profile private in Settings > Privacy. Then only followers you've accepted see your birthday and your wishes. Others have to ask to follow you, and you choose whether to accept.
  • Anyone with a link to your profile or to one of your wishes can see them in a browser without signing in. The web pages show your name, your birthday (day and month), and your wishes. If your profile is private, the web pages show only your name. Search engines aren't allowed to show the pages.
  • Your followers also see how old you're turning.
  • Your followers see whether your wishes are reserved or bought, and who reserved them. You never see this for your own wishes.
  • When you reserve a wish, the owner's other followers see that you did. The owner doesn't.
  • Wishes you've marked as received are seen only by you and the people who reserved them.
  • Only you see your private notes. Their images have no public address, and notes never appear on your profile, in notifications, or in widgets.
  • No other user sees your email address, language, time zone, currency, or Christmas setting.
  • When you block someone, you don't see each other in Gave.

The person who runs Gave has access to the database, but looks at content only when it's needed to handle a report, help you, or fix a bug.

Why Gave uses your data

  • To provide the service. Gave needs your account, wishes, follows, and reservations to work. Your date of birth shows your birthday to your followers, and lets Gave remind them of it. The legal basis is the contract with you (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).
  • To fit Gave to you. Your language sets the language of the notifications you get. Your time zone sets when your day starts, so birthdays, countdowns, and reminders arrive on the right day where you are. Your currency is the default when you enter a price. Your Christmas setting sets which day Gave counts down to, and whether you get a reminder before Christmas. The legal basis is the contract with you (Article 6(1)(b)).
  • To send notifications. Gave sends notifications only when you've allowed them on your device. You turn off each kind of notification in the app's Settings.
  • To keep Gave safe. Gave checks text against a filter before saving it, takes reports, can hide content and close accounts, and keeps logs. The legal basis is Gave's legitimate interest in a safe service (Article 6(1)(f)).

Gave doesn't use your data for advertising, profiling, or anything other than what's described here.

Who else gets your data

  • Apple runs Sign in with Apple. Notifications go through Apple's notification service, so Apple sees their text, such as a name and the title of a wish.
  • Online shops: When you paste a link, the Gave server fetches the page from the shop to find the title, image, and price. The shop sees the server's address, not yours.
  • AI assistants you connect: If you connect an AI assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, to Gave, it gets the data it fetches on your behalf. That can include your wish lists, reservations, private notes, and secret gift ideas. The assistant's provider handles that data under its own terms. Gave stores when you connected and when the connection was last used. You disconnect under "Tilkoblinger" (Connections) on skar.cloud.
  • Resend sends email to the person who runs Gave when someone reports content. The email has the reason and the comment, but no names. Resend is a US company, and the data may be processed in the United States. The transfer relies on the EU's standard contractual clauses.

The Gave server is in Norway. Backups are encrypted and stored somewhere other than the server.

On your device

The app keeps a copy of your data on the device, so it starts quickly and works offline. Spotlight finds people you follow and your own wishes. The widget shows the next birthdays. None of them show reservations. When you sign out, the app deletes the data from the device.

If you share analytics with app developers in your device's Settings, Apple sends crash reports and performance data without names.

How long Gave keeps your data

  • Your account and content are kept until you delete your account.
  • Wishes you mark as received stay in your archive. If you want a wish deleted for good, write to support.
  • Images that don't belong to a wish are deleted after a day.
  • Logs of requests and errors are deleted after 14 days. Statistics on traffic and errors are deleted after 30 days.
  • Backups are deleted after 30 days.

Deleting your account

You delete your account in the app under Settings > Delete account. This happens straight away:

  • Your account, profile, wishes, private notes, images, reservations, follows, follow requests, blocks, devices, passkeys, and connections to AI assistants are deleted.
  • Gave asks Apple to revoke Sign in with Apple.
  • Reports about you and your wishes are deleted. Reports you've sent stay, without your name.
  • The account is also deleted in other skar.cloud apps.

Your data can remain in backups for up to 30 days afterwards.

Your rights

You have the right to

  • know what data Gave has about you, and get a copy of it
  • have mistakes corrected. You change your name, date of birth, and profile picture yourself in the app.
  • have your data deleted
  • get your data in a machine-readable format
  • object to processing based on legitimate interest, and ask for processing to be restricted

Write to the email address on the support page. You'll get an answer within 30 days.

If you think Gave handles your data in breach of the law, you can complain to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet, or to the data protection authority where you live.

Changes

When this policy changes, the new date is at the top of the page.