Privacy Policy for Your Journal

Last updated: 12 September 2026

Your Journal is a diary app that runs entirely on your device. It has no servers, no user accounts, and no analytics. This policy explains what that means in practice.

Information we collect

None. The developer of Your Journal does not collect, receive, store, or have access to any information about you or anything you write. There is no account to create, no sign-in, and no way for your entries to reach the developer.

Information the app stores on your device

The app saves the following in its private storage area on your phone:

• Your journal entries and their dates.
• Your settings, such as your daily reminder time, theme, and font choice.
• If you set an app lock, a cryptographic hash (SHA-256) of your PIN — never the PIN itself.

This data lives in the app's private storage, which other apps cannot read. It is removed when you uninstall the app.

When data leaves your device

There are only two ways, and you control both:

• Export. If you tap Export, the app writes your entries to a JSON file and opens your phone's share sheet so you can save or send it wherever you choose. Where that file goes is entirely your decision, and once it leaves the app it is governed by the privacy policy of whichever service or app you send it to. The app itself sends it nowhere.
• Android automatic backup. Android may include this app's data in the device backups it makes to your own Google Drive account. This is a feature of the Android operating system, not of Your Journal — the backup goes to your own Google account, and the developer has no access to it. You can turn it off in your device settings under Google › Backup.

Sharing and selling

We do not share, sell, rent, or transfer your information to anyone, because we never receive it in the first place. There are no advertisements, no third-party analytics, no tracking technologies, and no in-app purchases.

Permissions the app requests

• Notifications — only to show your optional daily reminder, on the device.
• Alarms and reminders — so the reminder appears at the time you chose.
• Internet — required by the app framework and declared by the system, but the app makes no network requests and transmits no data.

Children's privacy

Your Journal is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.

Your rights and control over your data

Because all data stays on your device, you are in full control of it. You can edit or delete any entry in the app, export a copy at any time, or remove everything by uninstalling the app. There is no server-side copy for us to delete, and no request to make, because we hold nothing.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date. If a future version of the app ever collects data, this policy will be updated before that version is released.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the app can be sent to lde-web-dev@proton.me.