Privacy Policy

Last updated 6 October 2026.

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes the manner in which information is handled in connection with the Cause Diary software application ("App") and the website causediary.com.

In this Policy, "Publisher" means the publisher of the App, being the developer identified on the page of the App on the App Store, "Apple" means Apple Inc. and its affiliates, "Court Websites" means the publicly accessible websites of courts and tribunals from which the App retrieves information, and "Desk" means the collection of cases, notes, tasks and related material that a user maintains in the App, whether alone or shared with other users.

1. Summary

1.1The Publisher does not operate any server for the App. The Publisher does not collect, receive, store, sell or share any personal data of users through the App.

1.2The cases, notes, tasks and orders of a user remain on the device of that user and in the iCloud account of that user, or in the iCloud account of the owner of a Desk which that user has joined. The Publisher has no access to them.

1.3The App contains no advertising, no analytics and no third party tracking code.

2. Information stored by the App

2.1The App stores the following information on your device: your list of cases, hearing dates, cause list entries, orders (as PDF files and as text), summaries of orders, notes, pins, tasks, reminders and settings.

2.2Where you set up a Desk in iCloud, or join a Desk, the information referred to in clause 2.1 is also stored in iCloud (CloudKit), a service of Apple, so that it is available on your devices and to the persons invited to that Desk. A Desk is stored in the private iCloud database of the user who set it up.

2.3The storage of information in iCloud is governed by the terms and the privacy policy of Apple. The Publisher has no access to information stored in iCloud.

3. Information transmitted from your device

3.1In order to find and update your cases, the App sends requests directly from your device to Court Websites. At present these are the websites of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the National Company Law Tribunal and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal.

3.2A request to a Court Website contains only the particulars necessary to obtain a response, namely a case number, the name of a party or of an advocate, an enrolment number or a date. The court or tribunal concerned receives the request, together with your internet protocol address, in the same manner as a request made from a web browser. The Publisher does not receive any such request.

3.3Photographs and documents that you attach in the App are stored with your Desk in iCloud and are accessible to the persons invited to that Desk.

3.4Save as stated in this clause 3 and in clause 2.2, the App does not transmit any information from your device.

4. Court records

4.1The public records of courts and tribunals may contain particulars beyond those that the App requires, such as the addresses or telephone numbers of parties.

4.2The App retrieves and stores only such particulars as ordinarily appear in a cause list, namely case numbers, the names of parties and of counsel, dates and benches, together with the orders passed in the case.

5. Processing on the device

5.1Summaries of orders, and responses to questions put to the App, are generated on your device by Apple Intelligence, where your device supports it.

5.2The text of your orders is not transmitted to the Publisher or to any third party service for that purpose.

6. Device permissions

6.1The App requests the following permissions, each for the purpose stated:

1. Notifications: to notify you of new orders, listings, changed dates and your reminders. Notifications are generated on your device.
2. Calendar: only where you enable the calendar option, to maintain your hearings in a calendar named "Cause Diary hearings".
3. Camera and Photos: only where you choose to photograph or attach a document.
4. Face ID or Touch ID: only where you enable the app lock. The App does not have access to your biometric data.
5. Siri and Spotlight: to enable you to ask about, or search for, your cases. This is carried out by your device under the terms of Apple.

7. Shared Desks

7.1A person whom you invite to your Desk is able to view and to modify the whole of the contents of that Desk.

7.2Where a person is removed from a Desk, the data of that Desk is removed from the device of that person.

8. Retention and deletion

8.1Your data is retained until you delete it.

8.2The owner of a Desk may delete the Desk from iCloud through the iCloud settings of the device.

8.3The deletion of the App removes the data that the App stored on the device.

9. The Website and correspondence

9.1The Publisher does not use the website causediary.com to collect personal data. The website carries no advertising and no analytics code. The website is served through a third party hosting provider, which may process technical information, such as internet protocol addresses, in the ordinary course of delivering web pages.

9.2Where you write to the Publisher by email, the Publisher receives your email address and the contents of your message, and uses them only for the purpose of responding to you.

10. Children

10.1The App is not directed at children.

11. Amendment

11.1The Publisher may amend this Policy from time to time. The amended Policy will be published at causediary.com/privacy, together with the date of the amendment.

12. Contact and grievances

12.1Any question, request or grievance in relation to this Policy may be addressed to the Publisher at Chandigarh, India, by email at support@causediary.com.