Your numbers are yours.
Goat PPC is an app for Mac and iPad that keeps everything you enter on your device and, if you are signed in to iCloud, in your own private iCloud database. There are no accounts, no analytics and no tracking of any kind.
Effective 13 November 2026.
The app
What is stored, and where
Materials, products, cost sheets, pricing records, sales, customers, suppliers, photos, files, settings and the stock ledger are stored in a database on your Mac or iPad. When iCloud is available, the same data syncs through Apple's CloudKit to the private database of your own iCloud account, which only your devices can read. The developer has no access to it and runs no server of their own.
What leaves your device
- iCloud sync — your data, to your private iCloud database, under Apple's iCloud terms and privacy policy. Your settings (currency, default markup, shop name, goals and the like, and whether setup has been completed) travel the same way through iCloud's key-value store, so a second device starts with them. You can turn syncing off for Goat PPC in your device's iCloud settings (System Settings › Apple Account › iCloud on a Mac, Settings › Apple Account › iCloud on an iPad); the app keeps working locally.
- Nothing else. The app makes no other network connections: no analytics, no crash reporting of its own, no update checks (updates come through the App Store), no advertising identifiers.
System permissions the app may ask for
- Notifications, only if you turn on low-stock, delivery or repricing notices in Settings › Notifications. They are local notifications; nothing is sent to a server.
- Reminders, only when you choose Add to Reminders on a delivery or a task. The app writes that one reminder and reads nothing else.
- Camera, only when you choose Take Photo for a product or material picture. The picture is stored with your own data like any other photo; the camera is never used otherwise. On a Mac the picture can also come from your iPhone through Apple's Continuity Camera, which runs between your own devices.
- Photos are added through the system photo picker, which hands the app only the pictures you choose; the app never browses your library.
- Files you import, export or attach are read and written only where you point the file dialog or drop them. The app is sandboxed.
Spotlight and Siri
The names of your products, materials, suppliers, customers and pricing records are indexed in Spotlight on your Mac or iPad so you can search for them; the index lives on the device and is rebuilt from your own data. Shortcuts actions run on the device too.
Backups and exports
Backup files, CSV exports, PDFs, catalogs and labels contain your data in plain form. Exports are created only when you ask for them and are saved where you choose. The app also writes one automatic backup a day while it runs, inside its own storage on the device, and keeps the newest thirty; Settings › Data turns this off and deletes them. Keep all of these files as carefully as you would keep the spreadsheet they replace.
Deleting your data
Settings › Data › Erase All Data removes everything from the app and, when iCloud sync is on, from your private iCloud database. Deleting the app removes its local database and its automatic backups; iCloud data can also be removed in System Settings › iCloud › Manage Storage.
This website
- The site is static and sets no cookies; it loads no third-party scripts, fonts or analytics. It is served by Cloudflare Pages, whose edge network sees requests the way any web host does.
- There is no contact form. When you write to [email protected], your message and address are handled by our email provider and kept only as long as needed to answer you. They are never shared or sold.
- Your browser may remember your choice of the site's light or dark "lights" setting; that is stored on your device only.
Children
Goat PPC is a business tool and is not directed at children under 13; it collects no personal information from anyone.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new effective date. Questions go to [email protected].