What stays on your phone

The short version

• Your colours, notes, feeling words and intentions are stored on your iPhone and nowhere else we can reach.
• There’s no account. We never know who you are.
• Three things are optional and off until you turn them on: iCloud sync, Apple Health, and anonymous usage.
• Anonymous usage never includes your colours, anything you write, or anything worked out from them.
• No ads, no tracking across other apps or websites, and nothing is sold.

On your phone

Everything you enter in Gloaming (your check-ins, colours, feeling words, notes and intentions) is stored on your iPhone. The widgets read the same store, on the same phone. Reminders are scheduled by your phone; nothing is sent to us to make them work.

Optional: iCloud sync

If you turn on iCloud sync, your check-ins are kept in your own private iCloud database so they follow you to a new phone. Apple holds that data under your Apple Account. We can’t see it or read it. See Apple’s privacy policy.

Optional: Apple Health

If you turn on Save to Apple Health, each colour you log is saved to the Health app as a State of Mind, with any feeling words that match Apple’s labels. Gloaming only writes to Health. It never reads anything from it. Health data stays in Health, under Apple’s protections, and never reaches us.

Optional: anonymous usage

You can choose to share anonymous usage to help improve the app. It’s off unless you switch it on, during setup or in Settings, and you can switch it off at any time.

When it’s on, the app sends:

• when the app is opened, installed or updated
• which parts of the map you use, like changing the zoom or opening the key
• that you checked in: morning or evening, whether you changed an earlier check-in, and how many days you checked in over the last week
• the device model, iOS version and app version

It never sends your colours, how you felt, averages, notes, feeling words, intentions, Health data, or anything worked out from them.

Usage goes to PostHog, in its EU cloud, under a random ID that isn’t linked to you. We never attach a name, email or account to it. IP addresses are discarded.

Short surveys

If usage sharing is on, the app may now and then ask a question or two about how it feels to use, such as whether the map is clear. Surveys are never shown on a day you’ve logged a rough or low colour. Your answers are sent the same way as usage. One question has an optional free-text box; anything you type there is sent, and the box says so.

This website

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Deleting your data

• Deleting the app deletes everything stored on your phone.
• To remove synced check-ins, go to Settings, then your name, then iCloud, then Storage (or Manage Storage), and delete Gloaming’s data.
• Entries saved to Health can be deleted in the Health app.
• Anonymous usage can’t be connected to you, so we can’t find yours to delete it. Switching it off stops anything more being sent.

Children

Gloaming isn’t meant for children under 13.

Who we are, and your rights

Gloaming is made by Callum Deas in Scotland, who is responsible for this data under UK data protection law. Anonymous usage is only collected with your consent, which you can withdraw in Settings. You can ask questions or make a request at gloaming@callumdeas.dev. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too, and anything that sends new kinds of data will ask you first in the app. See also Support.