dyearyPrivacy Policy
dyeary is a voice journaling app. You speak, and the app turns what you said into a written entry and a sense of how you were feeling, building a private map of your moods over time. This page explains exactly what we collect, why, who helps us process it, and how you stay in control of it.
Who we are
dyeary is operated by an independent developer (Affan Khokhar). If you have any question about this policy or your data, contact us at [email protected].
What we collect
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Account identifier: your email address, or the identifier from Sign in with Apple or Google, and the display name you give us (or that Apple or Google passes along) | To create your account, greet you by name, and let only you access your journal |
| Your voice recordings | Processed to produce your transcript and mood reading, and stored encrypted so you can play your entries back |
| Transcripts and refined entry text | The written version of your entry that you read back and keep |
| Mood and emotion data | Derived feeling scores and a daily mood label/color that power your mood map |
| Content-free usage events | Whether the app was opened on a given day, and milestone events like the first time your Reflections page fills in. These never contain any of your words. |
| Basic technical data | Standard server logs (request times, errors) needed to operate and secure the service |
How your entries are protected
Everything you write and record is encrypted on our servers, twice over. Your data is encrypted at rest by our infrastructure providers, and on top of that, your entry text and audio are encrypted again with a key that is never stored alongside your data. In practice this means there is no screen on our side that shows anyone your entries, including the person who built dyeary. Reading an entry from our systems would require a deliberate, manual act with a separately held key, and our policy is that this happens only with your explicit consent in a support case.
Your words aren't used to train AI models. When dyeary processes an entry (transcribing it, titling it, finding the feelings in it), the text passes through our AI processors only for that moment and is not stored by them or used for training.
How we use your data
- To transcribe your spoken entries and refine them into readable journal entries.
- To estimate the emotional tone of an entry and build your private mood map.
- To organize what you talk about into your private Reflections (people, places, and parts of life that recur in your entries).
- To authenticate you and keep your journal accessible only to you.
- To operate, secure, debug, and improve the app.
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use your journal content to show you advertising.
We use one product-analytics tool, PostHog, to understand whether the app's features are used. It receives content-free interaction events only — things like “app opened” or “entry saved,” with counts and durations, tied to a random account identifier. It never receives your entries, transcripts, recordings, quotes, or the moods derived from them, and session recording is switched off.
Service providers we share data with
We use a small number of providers to run dyeary. They process your data only to provide their service to us:
| Provider | What it handles |
|---|---|
| Modal | Runs our own transcription model. Receives your recording’s audio during processing to produce the transcript and word timings; processes it in memory and stores nothing. |
| Anthropic (Claude) | Receives the text of an entry during processing to generate the title, refined wording, summary, and feelings. Not used for training. |
| Supabase | Authentication, and the database and file storage where your account, entries, mood data, and recordings live (encrypted as described above). |
| Render | Hosting for the dyeary backend service, which holds the encryption key described above. |
| Apple | Sign in with Apple, and payment processing for dyeary Plus subscriptions. We never see your payment details. |
| Sign in with Google, if you choose it. | |
| PostHog | Product analytics. Receives content-free interaction events (feature usage, counts, durations) under a random identifier — never journal content, recordings, or content-derived moods. |
We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of our users and the service.
Voice data, specifically
Your audio is captured only while you are actively recording an entry. It is processed to produce your transcript and mood reading, then stored encrypted so you can play your entries back inside the app. Recordings are kept only for playback: deleting an entry deletes its recording, and deleting your account deletes them all.
Data retention and deletion
- Your entries, recordings, and mood data are kept until you delete them or delete your account.
- You can delete any individual entry in the app at any time; its recording and mood data are removed with it.
- You can delete your entire account from inside the app (Profile → Delete account). This permanently removes your entries, recordings, mood data, and your account itself, and frees your email to sign up again.
- Delete means delete: we do not keep copies of deleted journal content.
Subscriptions
dyeary Plus is an optional subscription billed through your Apple account. Apple handles all payment information; we receive only a signed confirmation that a subscription is active. Manage or cancel it any time in your device’s Settings → Subscriptions.
Children
dyeary is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we will delete it.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. Deletion is built into the app; for anything else, email [email protected].
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the app evolves. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect.
Contact
Questions, requests, or concerns: [email protected]