Next Event — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 26 July 2026

Next Event is made by MMCX LLC. This policy explains what the app does with your information. It is short because the app does very little with it.

The summary: Next Event has no servers, no accounts, and no analytics. Your calendar data and your location stay on your device. We never receive them.

1. We do not collect your data

Next Event has no backend. There is no MMCX LLC server, database, or API that the app talks to — none exists. The app contains no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no crash reporting service, and no third-party software libraries of any kind.

Concretely, this means:

• We do not have an account system. You never create an account or give us an email address, because there is nothing to sign in to.
• We cannot see your calendar, your events, your location, or how you use the app.
• We do not build a profile of you, and we have nothing to sell, share, or lose in a breach.
• We do not track you across apps or websites, and we do not use tracking identifiers such as the Advertising Identifier (IDFA).

2. What the app reads on your device, and why

Next Event asks your permission before accessing any of the following. iOS shows you each request, and you can change your answer at any time in Settings → Next Event.

Calendar

Next Event reads your calendars in order to find your next event and count down to it. It reads an event’s title, start time, location, notes, and URL. The title and time are what you see on the countdown, the Lock Screen Live Activity, the Home Screen widget, and your Apple Watch.

The location, notes, and URL are read for one purpose: to find a meeting link (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, or FaceTime) so the app can offer a Join button, and to offer directions. If a meeting link is found, only that link is saved — the body of your event notes is never stored.

Calendar data is read on demand and stored only on your device, in a private storage area shared between the app, its widget, and the Apple Watch app. It is never transmitted anywhere.

You can limit what the app sees using the calendar filters in Settings, or by granting access to only selected calendars when iOS asks.

Location — only if you turn on Smart Travel

Location access is off by default. The app never asks for it at launch.

If you turn on Smart Travel in Settings, Next Event uses your location to estimate how long it will take you to reach your next event, so it can tell you when to leave. When you first enable it, iOS asks whether to grant “While Using the App” access.

When this feature is on:

• Your approximate location (accurate to about 100 metres — the app deliberately does not request precise location) and your event’s destination are sent to Apple’s MapKit service to calculate a travel time. This goes to Apple, not to us, and is handled under Apple’s privacy policy.
• The result saved on your device is only the number of minutes, a timestamp, and the travel mode. Your location itself is never saved, and saved estimates are discarded after 24 hours.

Turning Smart Travel off stops this entirely.

Notifications

Next Event schedules local notifications so it can alert you when an event is starting. These are created and delivered entirely on your device. The app has no push notification service and no remote server that could send you a message.

Because a notification includes your event’s title, that title may appear on your Lock Screen. This is how iOS displays notifications generally; you can control it under Settings → Notifications → Next Event → Show Previews.

3. Purchases

Next Event offers an optional paid upgrade (“Pro”). Purchases are handled entirely by Apple’s App Store using StoreKit. We never see or receive your payment details, card number, or billing address. The app only ever learns whether an active Pro entitlement exists — a yes-or-no answer verified by Apple, stored on your device.

Purchases, refunds, and subscription management are governed by Apple’s privacy policy and your App Store account settings.

4. When the app opens something else

Next Event can hand a link to another app when you tap it:

• Tapping Join opens a meeting link from your calendar event in the relevant app or your browser.
• Tapping Directions opens Apple Maps.

Once you leave Next Event, the app you land in has its own privacy policy, and this one no longer applies. Nothing is opened automatically or in the background — this only ever happens in response to a tap.

5. Data retention and deletion

Everything Next Event stores lives on your device: your settings, the current countdown state, and any travel-time estimates. Travel estimates expire on their own after 24 hours.

Because we hold nothing, there is nothing for you to request from us and nothing for us to delete. Deleting the app removes all of its stored data from your device. If you want to revoke a permission without deleting the app, use Settings → Next Event.

6. Children

Next Event is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone. As described above, the app collects no personal information from any user regardless of age.

7. Apple privacy labels

Next Event’s App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected.”

That reflects what the code does: no data is transmitted to MMCX LLC or to any third party. Where the app uses Apple’s own services — MapKit for travel time, StoreKit for purchases — those are first-party Apple services acting on your device’s behalf, and Apple’s privacy policy governs them.

8. Changes to this policy

If the app’s data practices change, we will update this policy and change the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be noted in the app’s release notes.

9. Contact

Questions about this policy or about privacy in Next Event:

[email protected]
MMCX LLC