Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 29, 2026

Betaqtak keeps Egyptian national ID cards, yours and your family’s, on your iPhone. This policy explains what the app stores, the one case where information leaves your iPhone without you sending it, and what happens when you share a copy.

What Betaqtak stores

• Photos of the front and back of each ID you scan, and the details read from them (such as name, address, national ID number, occupation and expiry date).
• The names you give the people in your vault.
• A history of the copies you’ve shared: who each was for, the purpose, the date and the app you used.
• Your settings.

All of it stays on your iPhone. Card images and details are encrypted with a key kept in your iPhone’s Keychain that never leaves the device, and Betaqtak opens only with Face ID or your passcode. Betaqtak doesn’t sync with iCloud or any other service, and because the key stays on this iPhone, your IDs can’t be opened on another device, even from a backup.

Reading your card

When you scan an ID, Betaqtak reads it with Apple’s text recognition and Apple Intelligence on your iPhone. When a card is hard to read, Betaqtak may also ask Apple’s Private Cloud Compute for help: the card image and the text read from it are sent over an encrypted connection to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute servers, which return the card’s details. Apple designed Private Cloud Compute so that this data is used only to answer the request, isn’t stored and isn’t accessible to Apple. It never reaches us. This is the only time Betaqtak sends anything off your iPhone on its own.

Only the cropped card image is kept, encrypted as above. The original photo isn’t saved.

Sharing a copy

When you share a copy, Betaqtak creates a new image or PDF on your iPhone, with the details you chose to hide covered for good and a watermark saying who it’s for and why. The file carries no location or other metadata. It goes only where you send it from the share sheet, and from then on that app’s privacy policy applies. Your original card images are never shared.

Copying

Details you copy go to the clipboard on this iPhone only (not to your other devices through Universal Clipboard), and are cleared after 1, 2 or 5 minutes, as you choose in Settings.

Reminders

Expiry reminders are notifications scheduled on your iPhone. They show the person’s name and the expiry date, which may appear on your Lock Screen.

Purchases

Betaqtak Plus is sold through the App Store. Apple handles payment, and Betaqtak checks your purchase on your iPhone. We don’t receive your payment details or any personal information.

What we don’t do

• No account or sign-up.
• No advertising, analytics, crash reporting or tracking of any kind.
• No selling or sharing of data. We don’t have any to share.

Deleting your data

Delete an ID or a person in the app at any time. Settings → Delete All Data deletes every ID, person, share history and setting, along with the encryption key. Deleting the app also removes your IDs from your iPhone.

Children

Betaqtak doesn’t collect information from anyone, including children. Parents can keep their children’s IDs in their own vault.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email betaqtak@hesh.am.