It’s true. Unfortunately, it’s also used to leverage the collection of a lot of user identity linked data. At least it really is the best, so you won’t be selling your soul to the devil for nothing. I’ve been using it for years and I can corroborate that it gets a lot of attention from the developer, in updates, in responsiveness to customers, and most importantly, in next to no missing shipping services, for the double edged sword it is to never have to use any other app to track even one of your shipments, not even the first package you get a tracking number for on your brand new Apple Vision Pro, but the UI is so smooth your privacy woes should slide right off.
Thanks for your feedback!Parcel collects absolutely minimal user data. The absolute minimum that is needed to run the app. I understand that you were confused by the app privacy page in the App Store. This is a declaration by me, developer. And like with any declaration you want to tick all boxes that even remotely relevant.For instance, in the app privacy page you see the following items:Contact Info - that's your email address that you provide when you register in the app. You can register with "Sign in with Apple" and your email won't be provided. But I had to tick that box in the declaration.Purchases - when you enable Amazon integration, the app downloads your orders. So technically it accesses your purchases so I had to tick that box as well.User Content - when you add a new delivery in Parcel, you are asked to provide a description. Again, that is saved with your delivery for your Parcel account, so I had to tick that box.Hope that makes sense. There are other apps out there, that are working on based getting full access to your email inbox for the sake of convenience. That is a privacy nightmare. Parcel, on the other hand, is doing the absolute minimum in terms of data collection.