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ReplyGate: Reply or Skip · Effective date: September 22, 2026

The short version

Dudley Development, LLC operates ReplyGate, a free message-decision app supported by ads. There are no accounts or inbox connections. The source message stays on your device, is used only for the active decision, and is discarded afterward. Dudley Development does not receive the message.

What stays on your device

  • The source text while you are completing a decision.
  • The optional short label, outcome, rationale code, and dates saved to history.
  • An optional local reminder containing your short label, not the source message.
  • App settings, ad-frequency counters, and the local Remove Ads entitlement state.

Text sent through the iOS share extension is used for the active decision. The private shared app-group queue holds the resulting decision without the source text until ReplyGate imports it, then removes it from that queue. ReplyGate does not save the source message to history, logs, diagnostics, notification bodies, result cards, or ad requests. Deleting the app removes its local data.

Sharing and notifications

Sharing a result uses the standard iOS share sheet and includes only the decision card or summary you choose, without the source message. Apple hands that content to the destination you select under that destination's privacy practices; Dudley Development does not receive a copy. Optional Reply later reminders are scheduled locally by iOS.

Advertising (Google AdMob)

The free version uses Google AdMob. ReplyGate requestsnon-personalized ads, disables Google's publisher first-party identifier, and does not request Apple's tracking permission. No ad request is made in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or when the app cannot determine the device's region.

Where ads are allowed, Google's advertising software may process an IP address, device or app-scoped identifiers, coarse location inferred from the IP address, advertising data, product interactions, ad impressions and interactions, crash data, performance data, and other diagnostic information to deliver, limit, measure, and protect ads and provide app functionality. ReplyGate never includes the source message, saved label, decision, or reminder in an ad request. Dudley Development does not run a separate analytics or crash-reporting service in this app.

  • Google's practices are described in Google's advertising policy and Google's privacy policy.
  • Interstitial ads appear only after natural breaks and are limited by session, time, and daily caps.
  • A one-time Remove Ads purchase removes both banner and interstitial ads.

App Store privacy label

ReplyGate's App Store privacy answers conservatively disclose the data types and purposes declared by the bundled Google Mobile Ads and User Messaging Platform software: Device ID, Advertising Data, Coarse Location, Product Interaction, Crash Data, Performance Data, and Other Diagnostic Data. The label includes advertising, analytics, tracking, and app-functionality purposes where the bundled manifests declare them. Google Mobile Ads declares Device ID for tracking, so the label says the app may track even though ReplyGate requests only non-personalized ads and does not show Apple's tracking permission prompt.

Purchases

Apple processes the Remove Ads purchase. Dudley Development does not receive your payment-card information. The app asks StoreKit whether the purchase is active so it can remove ads and restore the entitlement on devices using the same Apple Account.

Children

ReplyGate is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. It has no accounts, profiles, chat, or user-submitted public content.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the updated policy will appear at this URL with a new effective date before the changed practice ships.

Contact

Questions or privacy requests? Email support@dudleyapps.com.