Information you choose to save
IrriMATE stores the irrigation records, farm and equipment details, water-source settings, tasks, field notes, optional photos and videos, optional farm entrance links, and irrigator profile information that you enter. Personal records are stored on your device. Optional iCloud synchronisation uses Apple’s services.
Company workspaces in HQ
When you use HQ, company workspace content is stored through Apple CloudKit and shared with authorised company participants. This can include irrigation activity and history, farms, equipment, water sources, maps, field notes and attachments, tasks and their attachments, and records of farm responsibility transfers. Your company display name and CloudKit identity support membership, assignments and the record of who performed an action. Invitations and access settings determine the company actions available to each member. Only share information you are entitled to share with those participants.
Connecting personal and company information
Company settings let you opt in separately to Personal → company and Company → personal connections. In each direction you can choose history, farms, equipment, sources, maps, field notes and tasks. Associated attachments and the source or equipment details needed to interpret a selected record may accompany that record. These choices can share earlier personal records with the company or retain permitted company content in your personal workspace, as well as connect later additions and edits.
Linking irrigations that are still running is a separate option. A linked irrigation can be accessed from both workspaces; its edits, checks and completion remain subject to company permissions and responsibility. Dashboard scratchpad notes are excluded from company sharing and workspace interconnection. Your personal profile, device settings and account credentials are not copied into the company by these settings. Your company identity and responsibilities continue to be managed through HQ.
You can separately choose whether deletions travel from personal to company and from company to personal. When enabled, deletion propagation applies to connected items in the selected direction and categories, within your company permissions. With it disabled, the other workspace keeps its copy. Turning off a connection or category stops further sharing for that choice and preserves copies already made. Existing linked running irrigations may still share their completion lifecycle. Independently changed values can require a review before either version is replaced.
Copies and access changes
Removing company access restricts further access to the shared workspace; it does not recall information that a participant has already retained in a permitted personal archive, backup or export. Disabling sharing does not automatically erase existing company or personal copies. Consider these retained copies before sharing confidential farm or staff information. Contact the relevant company administrator or recipient if a retained copy also needs to be removed.
Photos and videos
Opening and closing confirmation photos are separate from permanent field-note attachments. Confirmation photos expire after 12 hours and are removed through the app’s expiry cleanup. They are not shared through the HQ permanent attachment store. Field-note and task photos and videos are retained as saved attachments and can be shared in company workspaces or through enabled workspace connections. Copies you export are controlled by their recipients. Backups may include unexpired confirmation photos; their original expiry remains applicable when restored in the app.
Device permissions and external services
Camera permission is used when you take photos. Photo library permission allows saving exported images. Notifications, Live Activities and widgets display irrigation information when enabled. Opening an entrance link uses the mapping service you choose. Apple’s iCloud and CloudKit services process synchronised information under Apple’s applicable terms and privacy policies.
Advertising and tracking
IrriMATE does not include advertising or third-party analytics SDKs and does not use advertising identifiers or cross-app tracking. Apple may process service and diagnostic information according to your Apple settings and its policies.
Your choices and data
You can edit or delete records and attachments and choose whether to use iCloud and company workspaces. You can control app permissions in device settings. Company administrators manage participant access. Deleting an item does not automatically withdraw backups, exports or copies already received by other people. Contact support for help with data or privacy requests; do not include passwords.
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Contact and updates
Contact irrimate.support@gmail.com for support or privacy questions. This policy may be updated as the app changes. Last updated: 24 October 2026.