Aubade Privacy Policy

Introduction

Aubade ("the app") is developed by Grisu Studio. This policy describes what the app stores, what it sends, and what it never touches. Aubade has no accounts, no login, no servers of ours and no cloud. The lines you save, the lines you write and the record of past days are kept in the app's private storage on your device and stay there. Beyond the ads that keep the app free, the app makes no network request of its own.

Scope

This privacy policy applies solely to the Aubade mobile application.

Data We Collect

Stored on your device only, never transmitted to us: the lines you saved; the lines you wrote yourself, and which one is pinned to the widget; the record of which line each day was given; the themes you switched on; whether the daily notification is on and at what time; your settings (language, appearance, sounds, haptics); and the answer to the one-time age question as a bracket only, either "under 13" or "13 or over". If you pick a birth year it is converted to that bracket and immediately discarded; the app never stores a date of birth. Collected by Google AdMob, not by us, in order to serve ads: your device advertising identifier (IDFA on iOS, Advertising ID on Android), IP address, coarse device information such as model and operating system version, and ad interaction data. The app never asks for your name, email address, phone number, contacts or account credentials of any kind; there is no account to attach them to and nowhere to send them.

How We Use Your Data

Your data is used only inside the app: to choose the day's line from the themes you switched on, to show your saved and your own lines, and to schedule the one notification a day you asked for. It is never uploaded, never shared and never analysed by us; the app contains no analytics and no crash reporting. The home-screen widget reads a copy of today's and the next few days' lines, and your pinned line, from storage the app and its widget share on your device; nothing about it leaves the phone. The daily notification is a local notification raised by your own device; it is off until you switch it on, the app asks for notification permission only at that moment, and declining keeps the app fully usable. Sharing a card writes an image of a line and hands it to the share sheet you chose; where it goes from there is your choice. Advertising data is used by Google to deliver and measure ads. In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom the app shows Google's consent form before any ad loads, and on iOS it shows Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt behind a short explanation of our own at the first meaningful moment, never at launch. Declining either one keeps ads non-personalised rather than removing them, and you can revisit both choices at any time from Settings, Privacy and ads. The app also caps the content rating of every ad it requests, so gambling, alcohol, dating and similar adult categories are excluded regardless of your consent choices.

Children's Privacy

Aubade is listed for ages 13 and over on Google Play and is not directed to children. The app asks one neutral, skippable age question and keeps the answer as a bracket rather than a date of birth. If you indicate you are under 13, the app switches to child-directed ad treatment on that device: ads are restricted to the "General audiences" rating, are never personalised, no advertising identifier is used, and Apple's tracking prompt is never shown. The setting can be changed at any time in Settings, Privacy and ads. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and the app has no mechanism to do so: there is no account, no messaging and no upload of any kind.

Data Security

Because we run no servers and hold no database of our own, there is no copy of your data anywhere for us to lose or be compelled to hand over. Your data lives in a database inside the app's private storage on your device, protected by the operating system's sandboxing and by whatever device encryption you have enabled. "Delete all my data" in Settings erases your saved lines, your own lines and the record of past days at once and cancels the daily notification, and uninstalling the app removes everything with it. Data handled by Google AdMob is governed by Google's own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We will update this policy whenever the app's behaviour changes in a way that affects it, and the "Last Updated" date above will change with it. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes. Continuing to use the app after an update means you accept the revised policy.

Contact Us

Questions, corrections or a request to delete data: email support@grisu.co with "Aubade privacy" in the subject. Because all of your data is held on your own device, a deletion request is fulfilled by using "Delete all my data" in Settings or uninstalling the app; we hold nothing to delete on our side, and we will say so plainly if you ask.

Account and data deletion

How to delete everything Aubade holds — and what it holds in the first place.

Company Privacy Policy

For our general company privacy policy, see Grisú Studio.