Last update 13 October 2026

Privacy Policy — Kontis

Kontis is an administration and accounting app for Italian micro businesses, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It requires no account, and Aumatex srls runs no server that receives your companies’ data: it stays on your devices and, if sync is on, in your private iCloud. This policy describes which data the app handles, where it is stored and which network connections it actually opens.

Kontis

1. Data Controller

  • Aumatex srls — Via Umberto Biancamano 25, 00185 Rome (RM), Italy. VAT IT15617831001.
  • Requests about personal data: privacy@aumatex.it.

2. Data collected by Aumatex

  • Kontis collects no personal data: there is no sign-up or login, no Aumatex account and no Aumatex server the data could be sent to.
  • Aumatex does not receive the company data, documents, contacts, attachments or preferences you enter in the app, nor any usage or diagnostic data.

3. Data handled on the device

  • In the app you record the data of your company and its business: company details, accounts, commercial documents and invoices (FatturaPA files included), payments in and out, tax data, partners, payroll, items and stock, plus attachments (scans, images and files) and your logo.
  • This data may include personal data of third parties, such as customers, suppliers, partners, employees and contact people (names, tax codes, VAT numbers, addresses, contact details, bank details). It is stored in the app’s database on the device; on iPhone and iPad the files are protected by the operating system’s encryption.
  • For the widgets, the app writes a summary of the deadlines into the container it shares with its own extension (App Group); the widget reads only that summary, on the device.
  • Local preferences, including the app lock and the language, also stay on the device.

4. iCloud sync and backups

  • Sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac uses the private database of your iCloud account (CloudKit), with one zone per company, attachments included. It is turned on and off in Settings › iCloud.
  • To tell your other devices about a change, iCloud sends silent push notifications through Apple’s notification service: they show no content and do not pass through Aumatex.
  • Once a day the app saves a backup of every company you changed, as a Kontis export, in the Kontis folder of iCloud Drive (or on the device, if iCloud Drive is off). Backups are turned off in Settings › Data & Backups and remain in iCloud Drive until you delete them, even after the app is uninstalled.
  • Theme, deadline reminder and backup settings are copied to iCloud’s key-value store, so they follow you to all your devices.
  • Data in iCloud is handled by Apple under its own terms and privacy policy. Aumatex has no access to your iCloud account.

5. The European Commission’s VIES registry

  • When you enter a valid VAT number while creating your company, or the VAT number of a business among your contacts, the app queries the European Commission’s VIES service (ec.europa.eu) to suggest the registered name and office.
  • The request carries only the country code and the VAT number. The European Commission also receives the IP address and the usual technical data of the request, handled under its own policy. The answer is shown as a suggestion and is not sent anywhere else.

6. Other network connections

  • The app makes no requests to Aumatex srls servers.
  • When you open Settings › About, the app asks Apple’s App Store (itunes.apple.com, its public app lookup) whether the Aumatex apps not yet out are on sale, to show them in “More from Aumatex”. The request carries only their App Store identifiers and the store’s country, taken from the device’s region; it is sent at most twice a day, without caching, and no longer at all once every app is out. Apple receives the IP address and the usual technical data of the request.
  • Only when you act, the app opens external services: Apple Maps or Google Maps with the address of a contact you chose, a contact’s website, a phone call, the Mail app, App Store pages and Apple’s terms of use. These services handle the data they receive under their own policies.

7. Device permissions

  • Face ID / Touch ID: only for the optional app lock (Settings › Lock). Recognition happens in the operating system; biometric data is not accessible to the app.
  • Camera: only to scan invoices and receipts with the system’s document camera (iPhone and iPad). The pages become a PDF attached to the document you record; the images are not sent to Aumatex nor analysed to extract their text.
  • Calendars: the app creates a calendar for each company in the device’s default calendar account and keeps its deadlines up to date there. It reads and changes only the events of its own calendars. If that account syncs (iCloud, for example), the events follow the calendar’s sync.
  • Contacts and Photos: the app uses the system pickers, which need no permission; it receives only the card or the images you choose.
  • Every permission can be revoked at any time in the system settings.

8. Notifications

  • Deadline reminders and the reminders about the end of the free month are local notifications, scheduled on the device: they pass through no server.
  • They are turned on at your request and adjusted in Settings › Deadline reminders or in the system settings.

9. Email, exports and files

  • Documents are sent by email through your Mail app, from your own account: Aumatex receives neither the messages nor the recipients.
  • Exports (.kontis files, PDFs, FatturaPA XML and spreadsheets) and imports happen only when you ask, and you choose where files are saved or opened from.
  • Kontis does not send invoices to the Italian exchange system (SDI): it writes the XML file, which you hand to your own provider.

10. Subscriptions and payments

  • Subscriptions are handled by Apple through StoreKit: payment data never reaches Aumatex.
  • The free month is worked out on the device from the creation date of your first company; the subscription status is checked through StoreKit.

11. No tracking, analytics or advertising

  • No telemetry, no analytics tools, no third-party crash reporting.
  • No advertising SDKs, no profiling, no advertising identifier (IDFA). The app does not track you.
  • The app includes no third-party dependencies: only Aumatex code and Apple frameworks.

12. Third-party data you enter

  • The personal data of customers, suppliers, partners, employees and other people is entered and managed by you for your business: for that data you, or the company you work for, act as data controller.
  • Aumatex does not process that data on your behalf, because it never receives it: it stays on your devices and in your iCloud account.

13. Legal basis and retention

  • Aumatex srls processes no personal data of users through Kontis: it does not receive, store or have access to it.
  • Data stays on the device and, if sync is on, in your iCloud account, for as long as you decide. A company is deleted from Settings › Companies › Remove…; data in iCloud can also be deleted from the iCloud settings; backups in iCloud Drive are deleted from the app or from Files.
  • Requests to the VIES service and to the App Store go straight from the device to those services, which handle them as independent controllers.

14. Recipients and transfers outside the EU

  • We do not share personal data with third parties, because we receive none.
  • Apple handles the data of iCloud, push notifications, App Store lookups and purchases on its own infrastructure, which may be located outside the European Union.
  • The European Commission handles requests to the VIES service. Google handles data only if you open an address in Google Maps.

15. Your rights

  • You can exercise the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability by writing to privacy@aumatex.it.
  • For the data kept on your own devices and in your own iCloud, you exercise these rights directly: you can view, change, export and delete it from the app.
  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali).

16. Children

  • Kontis is meant for businesses and professionals and is not directed to children under 13; it does not knowingly collect data about them.

17. Changes to this Privacy Policy

  • Aumatex srls may update this policy: the date at the top of the page shows the latest revision.

18. Contacts

  • Privacy: privacy@aumatex.it.
  • Support: supporto@aumatex.it.
  • Aumatex srls — Via Umberto Biancamano 25, 00185 Rome (RM), Italy. VAT IT15617831001.