Privacy Policy

Your journal is personal. We treat it that way.

Effective October 30, 2026

Positivity Journal is a Canada-based, private, on-device journal. This policy applies to people who use the app in Canada, the United States, and any other country or region where the app is made available. The current version does not require an account and does not include advertising, analytics, data brokers, or cross-app tracking.

Who is responsible for privacy

Positivity Journal is responsible for personal information under its control. The person accountable for privacy compliance is the Privacy Officer, Positivity Journal, who can be reached at support.positivityjournal@gmail.com.

Positivity Journal is operated from British Columbia, Canada. Depending on where you live and how information is handled, applicable law may include British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), or privacy law in your U.S. state or other jurisdiction.

Journal information stored on your device

The app stores the information needed to provide its journal features locally on your device. This may include:

The current version does not transmit this journal information to Positivity Journal or to third-party advertising or analytics services. Because Positivity Journal does not receive it, we cannot view, retrieve, correct, or delete your on-device journal content for you.

Photos, camera, microphone, and transcription

Positivity Journal uses the photo library only when you choose photos or videos for a memory, the camera only when you tap Camera, and the microphone to record a voice note or a video with sound. The optional voice-note transcript feature also requests microphone permission when you choose it. Transcription runs through Apple’s speech recognizer on your iPhone and is configured to require on-device recognition so the recording is not sent away for processing. If on-device recognition is unavailable, the app does not fall back to remote transcription. You can manage the permissions available for the app in iPhone Settings, and the rest of the journal remains available if a permission is declined.

Information you choose to send outside the app

If you email support, Positivity Journal receives the email address, name, message, and attachments you choose to provide. This information is used to answer your request, investigate a problem, maintain the security and reliability of the app, and meet legal obligations. Support messages are kept only as long as reasonably necessary for those purposes.

Email and this public website are provided using third-party services. Those providers may process basic technical information, such as an IP address or browser information, and may process information outside Canada. Their handling of that information is governed by their own terms and privacy practices.

Apple separately processes App Store downloads, purchases, and Apple Account information under Apple's privacy practices. For the planned App Store release, Apple will handle the free-trial transaction and any lifetime-unlock payment. Positivity Journal will check signed StoreKit transactions on your iPhone to determine the trial start date and whether the lifetime unlock is active. The app does not receive your payment card or account credentials, and trial and purchase information is not sent to a Positivity Journal server. Positivity Journal does not receive your journal content through Apple. Trial and purchase options are not active in the current development preview.

Accounts, analytics, advertising, and tracking

The current version does not use an account system, third-party advertising, analytics, data brokers, or cross-app tracking. Positivity Journal does not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, or create advertising profiles about people who use the app.

Backups and sharing

The Backup & Export feature creates a readable file that may contain journal entries, affirmations, photos, videos, voice notes, voice-note transcripts, custom gradient colours, the font-colour choice, and the Recently Deleted retention choice. It does not include the journal passcode, biometric preference, automatic-lock timing, reminder settings, Gentle Feedback preference, or Reduce Movement preference. You decide whether and where to save or share the file. Exported files are not protected by the in-app passcode and are governed by the privacy and security practices of the destination you choose. Store backups only in a private, trusted location.

Passcode, Face ID, and Touch ID

If you enable the optional four-digit passcode, it is stored using secure storage on your iPhone. The passcode restricts access to the app on that device, with optional Face ID or Touch ID unlock as described below. It does not encrypt exported backup files.

If you choose biometric unlock, authentication is performed by iOS. Positivity Journal receives only whether the authentication succeeded. The app does not receive or store your face, fingerprint, or other biometric information.

Reminders

If you enable gentle reminders, Positivity Journal requests notification permission and schedules a generic reminder on your device at the time you select. Reminder text does not include journal content. You can turn reminders off in the app or withdraw notification permission in iPhone Settings.

Safeguards

Positivity Journal limits permissions and data handling to what is needed for the features you choose. Journal content is kept within the app's local iOS storage, and the optional passcode is kept in secure iPhone storage. No method of storage is guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for protecting access to your device and for storing exported backups in a secure location.

Retention and deletion

Journal content remains on your device until you edit or delete it, the selected Recently Deleted retention period removes it, or the app's local data is removed. You can restore or permanently remove items from Recently Deleted. Deleting the app removes the journal data stored by the app from that iPhone. On a fresh installation, the app clears a passcode retained by iOS Keychain only when no existing journal data or settings are present. This does not promise that reinstalling will clear protection when app data or settings have been restored. Copies stored in an iPhone device backup or in files you exported must be managed separately wherever those copies are stored.

Support communications are retained only as long as reasonably necessary to respond, maintain appropriate business records, protect the app, or comply with law.

Your privacy choices and rights

You can view, edit, export, or delete your journal content directly in the app. You can manage the photo, camera, microphone, and notification permissions available for the app in iPhone Settings, and turn biometric unlock on or off in the app. Transcription is optional and runs only when you ask for it.

Depending on where you live, you may also have rights concerning personal information under Positivity Journal's control. These may include rights to request access, correction, or deletion; to withdraw consent; to receive information about use and disclosure; or to challenge compliance. U.S. state law may also provide rights to know, correct, delete, or opt out of certain uses of personal information. Positivity Journal does not sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising.

To make a privacy request, contact the Privacy Officer at support.positivityjournal@gmail.com. We may need enough information to understand and verify the request. Because your journal content is stored only on your device, we cannot retrieve or alter that content remotely.

Children

Positivity Journal is a general-audience app and is not directed to children under 13. The current version does not transmit journal content to the developer. If you believe a child has sent personal information to support, contact the Privacy Officer so the request can be reviewed and the information deleted where appropriate.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated to reflect changes to the app, legal requirements, or data practices. If Positivity Journal begins transmitting or collecting information in a materially new way, the policy and App Store privacy disclosures will be updated before that change is released, and consent will be requested where required. The effective date at the top identifies the published version of this policy.

Questions or complaints

For privacy questions, requests, or complaints, contact the Privacy Officer at support.positivityjournal@gmail.com. We will review and respond to privacy concerns within a reasonable time.

Canadian residents may also contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the applicable provincial privacy commissioner. U.S. residents may contact their state attorney general or privacy regulator where applicable. These options do not limit any rights available under applicable law.