Last updated: 20 September 2026 · applies to version 1.0 of the app and later
Your data never leaves your device. Barka is a private dossier of your vessel that lives entirely on your iPhone — we run no servers, we have no access to your data, and we cannot see, sell or share it even if we wanted to. The only thing that ever leaves the device is what you share yourself.
Reading text from receipt photos and PDFs (OCR) happens entirely on the device, using Apple's and built-in tools. No image, document or text is ever sent to any server — the app works in airplane mode too.
A receipt or work order carries the details of a mechanic, a marina or a seller. You are responsible for that data, as the person who keeps and shares it; Barka does not process it, because it never sees it. Do not add documents you have no right to keep or share, and do not pass them on to people who do not need them.
The only sharing is the kind you start yourself, and each of them takes a tap from you:
What you share is outside the app and outside our control: the recipient has a copy.
Delete a vessel in the app and all of its records and documents are removed from the device. Delete the app and everything on the device goes with it. The copy in your iCloud backup remains until you overwrite or delete the backup, and the copies you shared remain with their recipients.
barka.club has no cookies, no analytics and no forms. The hosting provider sees the standard technical data of a request (IP address, time, browser) for the operation and security of its servers, under its own terms; we do not collect or look at it. The dossier page opened from a QR code does not send the data in the code to the server.
If you write to us (a mail from the app, "tell me when it's out" from the website, a question or a misuse report), we process your email address and the content of your message, including any documents you attach yourself. The controller is Josip Ćotić, Zagreb, Croatia, the provider of the app (section 2 of the Terms of Use). The purpose is to answer your message, or to send the one launch notice you asked for; the legal basis is the performance of your request and our legitimate interest in keeping the correspondence. The only recipient is our email service provider. We keep messages while the correspondence lasts and for at most twelve months after the last message; addresses for the launch notice are deleted no later than thirty days after the notice is sent. We send no newsletters or other notices without your explicit consent; a reply to the message is enough to opt out.
The app store processes data when you download and update the app, under Apple's terms; from it we receive only aggregate figures with no identities. The Pro subscription is bought through Apple; on the device the app checks with Apple whether the subscription is active and remembers the answer. We do not see who bought.
The app is not directed at children and collects data from no one.
Since the data exists only with you, access, correction, deletion and portability are literally in your hands, inside the app. Feel free to reach out with any question.
For the emails you sent us (address, message, attachments), request access, correction or deletion, or object to the processing, at [email protected]; we reply within 30 days.
Changes to this statement are published here, with the date at the top.
Privacy questions: [email protected]