Privacy Policy

Effective: from the first public release of BIOSPHERE on the App Store.

The short version

BIOSPHERE collects nothing. It has no accounts, no analytics, and no servers. Everything you write stays on your device, and the app never sends it anywhere — because there is nowhere for it to send it.

What the app stores

Two things, both kept only on your device:

Your setup — the biospheres you've named and timed, your habits, your sound preferences.
Your journal — for each night you seal, whether each habit was fulfilled and any words you chose to write.

These live in the app's private storage on your device, the same place any app keeps its own files. They are included in your device backups if you have those switched on, which is between you, your device, and your backup provider. Deleting BIOSPHERE deletes them.

What the app does not do

No account. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.
No analytics. We do not measure how you use the app, how often you open it, or whether you finish anything. Not through a third-party service, and not through our own.
No advertising, no advertising identifiers, no tracking, and nothing shared with data brokers.
No network requests. The app does not contact any server. It works entirely offline, permanently. Typefaces and music are inside the app itself rather than fetched from anywhere.
No location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos, or health data. The app never asks for any of them, because it never needs them.

Notifications

If you start a focus timer, the app asks once for permission to send you a notification when that timer ends. It is the only notification BIOSPHERE sends. It is scheduled and delivered entirely on your device — nothing about it leaves the phone, and no server is involved. Declining costs you nothing but that notification; the app is otherwise unchanged.

Children

BIOSPHERE is suitable for all ages and collects no data from anyone, including children.

Apple

BIOSPHERE is distributed through the App Store. Apple collects its own information about downloads and, if you have chosen to share it with developers, aggregate crash and usage statistics. That happens between you and Apple under Apple's policies and outside this app; we receive no personal information from it and cannot identify you from it.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever changes in a way that affects this policy, the policy will change with it, and the date of that change will be recorded here. Given the design of the app, we do not expect this.

Contact

Questions about privacy in BIOSPHERE can go to biospheresupport@gmail.com.