Privacy

In short

• You don’t need an account, and we never ask for your name, email or phone number.
• What the egg timer remembers, such as your adjustment from “How did your egg turn out?”, is stored only on your phone.
• We have no counter, no analytics tools, no cookies and no ads.
• Vercel delivers the pages and gets your IP address when your phone loads them, as with any website. We have turned off the display of IP addresses at Vercel, so we don’t see them.

What’s stored on your phone

The egg timer stores a few things in the browser on your phone, so it works the way you expect. They stay there and aren’t sent to us. We only use them to make the egg timer work the way you ask, and that’s why we don’t ask for consent (Norwegian Electronic Communications Act, section 3-15, second paragraph, letter b).

The egg timer also reads the language settings in your browser. It uses them to pick the right food safety advice, and to show a note about US egg sizes if the United States is listed there. This happens only on your phone, and we don’t store it.

The egg timer also checks whether your phone is an iPhone or iPad, and whether the page is open in Facebook, Messenger or Instagram. That way it can show the right guide and the advice that fits your phone. This also happens only on your phone, and we don’t store it.

The timer

Which egg it is, including the water and altitude, the numbers the time was calculated with, when it went in, when it’s done, and when you stopped the alarm.

• Why: So the alarm rings at the right time, even if your phone pauses the page for a while, and so you can answer “How did your egg turn out?” afterwards.
• How long: Until you start your next egg, stop the timer or tap Back to the egg timer. The egg timer only uses it until 15 minutes after you stop the alarm, and never more than 6 hours after the egg was done.

Your last choice

Type of egg, size, egg temperature, water at the start and altitude.

• Why: So you don’t have to choose again next time.
• How long: Until you choose something else.

Your adjustment from “How did your egg turn out?”

Up to 45 seconds more or less for each type of egg, with one adjustment for boiling and one for cold water. It’s stored with the numbers in the calculation it applies to, such as the temperature the yolk should reach, and for cold water also how long the water takes to boil.

• Why: So your next egg turns out more the way you like it, and so the adjustment is only used for times calculated the same way.
• How long: Until you tap Reset adjustment for that type of egg and water. If we change how the times are calculated, it’s no longer used, and it’s removed the next time you answer “How did your egg turn out?” or tap Reset adjustment with the same water.

That you’ve answered “How did your egg turn out?” for your last egg

It’s stored with the time the egg went in.

• Why: So the same egg doesn’t adjust the time twice.
• How long: Until you close the tab, or the egg timer on your Home Screen.

That the egg timer has asked your browser not to delete what’s stored

It’s stored with your browser’s answer, and only when the egg timer is on your Home Screen.

• Why: So we only ask once.
• How long: Until you delete the website data.

How many times you’ve seen the card about the Home Screen

• Why: So we don’t ask more than twice.
• How long: Until you delete the website data.

How to remove it

• Reset adjustment, next to the time, removes the adjustment for that type of egg and the water you’ve chosen.
• In your browser settings, you can delete the website data for the egg timer. This removes everything the egg timer has stored.
• Your browser may also delete it by itself. Safari deletes it if you’ve used Safari for seven days without opening the egg timer, and private browsing deletes it when you close the tab.

On iPhone, the egg timer on your Home Screen has its own storage, separate from Safari. What you’ve stored in Safari doesn’t carry over when you add the egg timer to your Home Screen.

What happens when you open the egg timer

As with any website, your phone sends some information when it loads the pages: your IP address, the address of the page (which includes your egg choice and, if the link has them, cold water and altitude), and ordinary information about your browser, such as language and version. Vercel Inc. delivers the pages and processes this on our behalf, as our data processor. This is to send you the pages and to protect the egg timer against attacks and abuse.

Vercel keeps a log of the requests, which we can use to find errors. The log shows the time, the address of the page and which browser was used, and only for the last 24 hours. We have turned off the display of IP addresses, so they aren’t shown to us. We don’t use the log to count visits or to recognize anyone.

Vercel also uses some of the information, including your IP address, for its own purposes: to protect its network against attacks and abuse, and to run and improve its services. Vercel is responsible for that itself, and Vercel’s privacy policy applies. It describes how Vercel uses the information and how long Vercel keeps it.

Vercel has servers in many countries. The pages are usually sent from a data center near you, but Vercel processes information mainly in the United States. The transfer is based on the EU decision that the United States provides adequate protection for companies in the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which Vercel is part of, and on the EU standard contractual clauses in the data processing agreement with Vercel.

Why we’re allowed to do this

The legal basis for what happens when you open the egg timer is our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation): to deliver the egg timer, protect it against attacks and find errors. We believe this outweighs the drawback for you, because we don’t see your IP address, the log only covers the last 24 hours, and nothing is used to recognize you.

What we don’t do

• No tracking: we don’t recognize you from one visit to the next, and we don’t follow you to other websites.
• No cookies.
• No counter and no analytics tools, including Vercel’s own (Web Analytics and Speed Insights).
• No ads, and no buttons from other companies.
• No scripts, fonts or images from other domains. Everything the egg timer needs is on our own address.
• We don’t sell information, and we don’t share it with anyone except Vercel, which delivers the pages, and Google, which provides our email.
• We don’t use your location. The food safety advice is chosen on your phone, from your language settings and the language of the page, and we don’t store which advice you get.
• We don’t make any automated decisions about you.

When you leave the egg timer

• The links to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, the Food Standards Agency and the FDA go to their websites. Their privacy rules apply there. Your browser doesn’t tell them which page you came from.
• If you share a link to the egg timer, only the link and a short title go where you choose. The app you share in may fetch the title, a short description and an image from our pages to show the link. We don’t see who you share with.
• If you open the egg timer inside another app, such as Messenger or Instagram, you’re using that app’s browser. That app’s rules apply as well.
• If you use Siri or the Clock app to time your egg, those are Apple’s services. We don’t learn anything about it.

When you write to us

If you write to us, we use your email address and what you write only to reply to you. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering your questions. Our email is provided by Google, which processes it on our behalf and may process it in the United States. Google is part of the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, and the data processing agreement with Google includes the EU standard contractual clauses. We delete the email when we no longer need it to follow up on the matter.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure and restriction, and you can object to what we do. Because we don’t see IP addresses and don’t store anything else that can be linked to you, we usually can’t find any information about you (Article 11 of the General Data Protection Regulation). If you’ve written to us, we can find your email. What’s stored on your phone is under your control, as described above.

If you think we process information about you in breach of the rules, you can complain to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet, datatilsynet.no) or to the data protection authority where you live.

Who is responsible

App, App, APP! AS (Norwegian organization number 936 886 809) is responsible for privacy in Perfect Eggs. You can send questions to contact@app-app-app.app.

Changes

If we change anything that affects your privacy, for example if we start counting how many people open the egg timer, we update this page before the change takes effect.

Last updated: 6 October 2026