Privacy policy

Last updated 1st November 2026

This page covers the Yantyan app for Android and this website. It says what Yantyan keeps, where it is kept, and what leaves your phone.

The short version

There is no Yantyan account and no Yantyan server. Your projects, counts, notes and patterns stay on your phone.

Three things can leave it: what you choose to send to Ravelry, Android's own backup, and any email you send to Yantyan. Each is explained below.

What stays on your phone

Yantyan keeps these on your phone and nowhere else:

• Your projects, row counts, repeats, reminders and notes.
• Your settings, including how dates and times look.
• Your patterns. Yantyan keeps its own copy of each one, so moving or tidying the original cannot take it away.

The app has no ads, no analytics and no third-party code. It asks for one permission, which is internet access. Yantyan uses it to work with Ravelry and to capture web pages.

Ravelry

Using Ravelry is optional. Everything in Yantyan works without it.

Signing in

You sign in on Ravelry's own page, in your phone's browser. Yantyan never sees your Ravelry password.

Ravelry then lets the app act on your account. That permission is kept on your phone only, and it is left out of Android's backup.

What Yantyan keeps from Ravelry

• A copy of your Ravelry project list and the designers' names, kept on your phone so the list works without signal. Signing out of Ravelry deletes it.
• Patterns you open from your Ravelry library. They are copied onto your phone like any other pattern, and stay until you take them out.

Yantyan does not sell this information or pass it to anyone. It has nowhere to send it, because there is no Yantyan server.

What goes to Ravelry

Nothing goes to Ravelry on its own. Yantyan sends something only when you press a button to send it:

• Your progress. Yantyan writes your counts into that project's notes on Ravelry. It edits only its own lines, which end with the word "Yantyan", and leaves the rest of what you wrote alone.
• Notes you tick. None are ticked to start.
• A new project, when you cast on to Ravelry too.
• A finished date, when you cast off and agree to tell Ravelry.
• A deletion, when you choose to remove a project from Ravelry as well.

Project notes on Ravelry are public. Anyone looking at your project can read them. That was true before Yantyan and is still true now.

Ravelry's own privacy policy covers everything held on Ravelry.

Android's backup

If backup is switched on for your phone, your row counts, projects, notes and settings are included in Android's own backup. It copies them to your personal Google Drive, so they are there when you change phone.

This is Android's backup, not Yantyan's. Yantyan cannot see it. On Android 9 and later it is encrypted with your phone's own lock code.

Your pattern files are left out on purpose, so nothing you have attached to a project is copied anywhere. Your Ravelry sign-in is left out too, so you sign in to Ravelry again on a new phone.

A direct phone-to-phone transfer carries everything, patterns included. It does not go near Google Drive.

See and take your data

In the app, Settings has a row called "Check your data". It gives a plain account of what goes to Ravelry, what goes to Yantyan (nothing), and what the app holds.

There you can see which pattern copies take up the most room, and take them out. You can also save every project, count and repeat to a file. The file is yours, and it needs no app to read it.

If you write to Yantyan

You can write to contact@yantyan.com. One person reads it. Your message and email address are used to reply to you and to fix what you report, and for nothing else.

Emails are deleted 12 months after the problem is fixed or the conversation ends. Nobody else can see them.

You can ask to see or delete what you have sent. Write to the same address.

This website

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Who makes Yantyan

Yantyan is made by Beth Parker, in Cumbria, England.

Changes

This page describes Yantyan as it is today. When that changes, this page changes too, and the date at the top moves.