Read-only
Yield asks Google only for read-only access to your AdMob and AdSense reports, and your name, email and picture.
Your earnings stay between you and Google.
Yield has no servers, no accounts of its own, no ads and no tracking. This page lists exactly what the app reads, where it keeps it, and the few requests it makes to anyone other than Google.
On your device
Reports go straight from Google to your device and are cached there. We never receive them.
Nothing shared
Your Google data is not sold, not used for advertising and not shared with anyone.
You decide
Remove an account in the app, or revoke access in your Google Account, at any time.
Who we are
Yield is made by Calogero Cascio, an independent developer in Milan, Italy, who is responsible for the data described here. Write to privacy@linelark.com with any question.
What Yield reads from Google
When you connect a Google account, Google asks you to allow these permissions, and Yield uses them only to show you your own earnings:
- AdMob, read-only (admob.readonly): your publisher account, its apps and ad units, network and mediation reports (earnings, impressions, requests, clicks, match rate and similar figures by day, app, ad unit, country, format, platform, ad source and app version) and payment estimates.
- AdSense, read-only (adsense.readonly): your AdSense account, its sites, reports with the same kind of figures, payments, and account alerts.
- Your basic profile (openid, email, profile): your name, email address and picture, used to label the account in the app and to tell several accounts apart.
Yield cannot change ads, settings, payment details or anything else in your accounts, and it does not ask for access to any other Google service.
Where your data is kept
Yield talks to Google directly from your iPhone, iPad or Mac. There is no Yield server: we never receive your reports, your earnings or your Google sign-in.
The tokens that keep you signed in are stored in your device’s Keychain. The reports Yield has downloaded, up to about two years of daily figures, are cached in the app’s own storage on the device so it opens instantly and works offline; Yield’s widgets read the same cache. Nothing is uploaded to iCloud or anywhere else by Yield.
Google API Services User Data Policy
Yield’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. In particular, data from your Google account is used only to show you your own earnings in the app; it is not sold, not used for advertising, not used to train AI models, not transferred to anyone, and not read by people.
App and site icons
To show the icons of your apps and websites, Yield asks Apple’s public App Store lookup service for the artwork of each iOS app (sending its App Store id) and Google’s public favicon service for each website (sending its domain). These requests carry no account information. Android apps show a generic icon.
Notifications, widgets and exports
Alerts are worked out on your device after a background refresh and delivered as local notifications; no push service is involved. Widgets read the cache described above. When you export a report, the PDF, Excel or CSV file is created on your device and goes only where you choose to save or send it.
Purchases
Yield Pro is sold and managed by Apple. We never see your payment details or your Apple Account; the app only checks with Apple whether your subscription is active. Apple’s privacy policy applies to the purchase.
No tracking
Yield contains no advertising, analytics or crash-reporting tools, does not use the advertising identifier and does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites.
Keeping and deleting your data
Your data stays on your device until you remove it. Removing an account in Yield’s Settings deletes its cached reports and tokens and revokes Yield’s access with Google. Deleting the app removes everything it stored. You can also revoke Yield’s access at any time from your Google Account’s third-party access page.
Children
Yield is a tool for app and website publishers and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your rights
Because we hold nothing about you on any server, there is usually nothing for us to look up or delete. If you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom you have the right to ask what we hold, to have it corrected or erased, and to complain to your data protection authority (in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali). Write to privacy@linelark.com.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is published here with a new date. Changes to what leaves your device will also be described in the app’s release notes.