Mindful Moods
Privacy Policy Version 3.0
1. Our Privacy Promise
Your information belongs to you. Mindful Moods is a device-first wellness app. Personal tracking information is stored on your device, and Mindful Moods does not operate a cloud service that stores your personal tracking history. We do not use external behavioral analytics, advertising SDKs, marketing tracking, external crash-reporting services, or external AI providers to process your personal tracking information.
2. Information Stored on Your Device
Information you choose to record is stored locally. This may include moods, journals, sleep, symptoms, medications, goals, progress, Journey moments, Insights, Pattern Watch information, trusted and professional contacts, support preferences, and personalization settings.
3. Information Mindful Moods Does Not Receive or Store
Mindful Moods does not collect your personal tracking history on developer servers. We do not collect precise location, advertising identifiers, browsing history, payment-card information, raw fingerprint or face data, or personal records for sale to advertisers or data brokers.
4. Insights and Pattern Watch
Insights and Pattern Watch operate locally on your device. They make personal, observational comparisons using supported structured information you record, such as mood ratings, sleep records, symptom records, and factual medication check-in information. These observations may be incomplete and do not establish causation. They are not external AI services, medical diagnoses, predictions, or treatment advice.
Insights and Pattern Watch do not analyze journal text, mood free-text notes, or journal frequency as a discovery trigger. Journal entries may remain visible in History or Supporting History so that you can reflect on what happened around relevant dates, but Mindful Moods does not interpret the journal entry. See the Medical Disclaimer for medical limitations.
5. Optional Voice Input
Voice input is optional and starts only when you choose it. It uses the speech-recognition service configured on your device. Depending on your device and provider, speech processing may occur outside Mindful Moods or use a network service. Mindful Moods does not operate that service. You can type instead.
6. Export
Export is optional and user initiated. Mindful Moods creates an export only when you request it and does not silently upload exports. You choose where to save or share the file. After an export leaves the app, the destination or provider's privacy and security practices apply. Exports are personal wellness records, not medical diagnoses or medical reports.
7. Encrypted Backup and Restore
Backup remains optional and available in the Free experience. New portable .mmbackup files use AES-256-GCM encryption and authentication with Argon2id key derivation before they are saved. You create a dedicated Backup Password; it is separate from your app PIN, is not sent to Mindful Moods, and is not stored in plaintext. Mindful Moods and Gilman Creations cannot display or recover that password or provide a developer recovery key.
You choose the backup location. Mindful Moods does not provide cloud backup or receive your backup file, although a location you choose may itself be cloud-backed by its provider. Automatic backup becomes due after 30 days, but exact background execution time is not guaranteed. Where the selected provider allows it, the latest three successful automatic backups are retained. Manual backups are not automatically deleted. A failed backup does not replace or delete a prior successful backup.
Portable backups exclude the app PIN, recovery phrase, biometric and other security secrets, the Safe Place photo and its local file path, commercial Premium entitlement state, purchase tokens, Google account identity, and commercial trial eligibility. Restore replaces existing app information rather than merging it. Authentication occurs before replacement; a wrong password or corrupt backup causes no intentional data mutation. Supported legacy unencrypted backups may remain restoreable. Android OS-managed internal app-data backup and transfer are disabled.
Restoring a portable backup restores supported personal Mindful Moods information but does not itself restore a Google Play subscription. On a new or restored device, subscription access is reconciled separately through Google Play.
If you forget your Backup Password but still have access to your Mindful Moods information on a configured device, you can create a new backup setup and protect future backups with a new Backup Password. Existing backups protected by the previous password will still require that previous password to restore.
Creating a new backup setup does not delete your current Mindful Moods information or change existing backup files.
If you lose the Backup Password required for a backup and no longer have access to a configured device containing that information, the encrypted backup may be permanently unrecoverable. Mindful Moods and Gilman Creations cannot recover the password or decrypt the backup for you. There is no Mindful Moods cloud copy or developer-held recovery key.
8. Feedback & Support
Feedback and support communication is optional. Mindful Moods prepares the message locally and opens your selected email application. You review the complete message and choose whether to send it. Your email provider processes transmission under its own terms and privacy practices.
If you send the email, Gilman Creations receives the sender address, subject, message, app version and build number, and any optional technical details or other information you choose to include. App version and build number are visible before handoff. Android version and device model are optional, off by default, and visible before handoff. You may independently add an attachment from your email application.
Mindful Moods does not automatically attach screenshots, recordings, logs, moods, journals, sleep, symptoms, medications, goals, Insights, Pattern Watch, support contacts, backups, credentials, or other personal tracking information. Information you voluntarily type or attach is received as part of the email. Review attachments carefully because screenshots may contain personal information.
Feedback and support emails are retained only as long as reasonably needed for support, product improvement, security, recordkeeping, or legal obligations. You may request deletion of a feedback or support email by contacting gilman.creations1@gmail.com. A deletion request may be subject to legitimate legal, security, or recordkeeping retention requirements, and every copy may not be removable immediately.
9. Google Play Purchases and Premium
If Premium subscriptions or promotional trial offers are made available, Google Play handles purchases, commercial eligibility, localized checkout pricing, payment processing, renewals, subscription management, and cancellations under its own terms and privacy practices. Mindful Moods does not receive or store payment-card information. A live subscription or trial offer is not guaranteed, and not every user is guaranteed eligibility. The app may use Google Play entitlement status to determine feature access. Cancelling Premium does not delete personal tracking records.
10. Your Control and Data Ownership
You choose what to record, edit, delete, export, back up, restore, or share. Deleting the app or clearing app data may permanently remove local information unless you retain a usable backup.
11. Security
An app PIN is available. The Backup Password is separate from that PIN. Optional biometrics are handled by the device; Mindful Moods does not receive or store raw fingerprint or face biometric data. Recovery and security credentials are excluded from portable backup. No storage method is absolutely secure, so protect your device and files stored outside the app.
12. External Apps and Services You Choose to Open
At your direction, Mindful Moods may hand an action to Google Play or Google Play Billing, your selected email application or email provider, a device-configured speech-recognition service, the Phone app, an SMS or messaging app, a browser or external-resource provider, Android sharing mechanisms, or Android file and storage providers used for export, backup, or restore. Those external apps and providers have their own terms and privacy practices, which Mindful Moods does not control. They receive only information involved in the action you select or required to provide that external service; they do not receive all Mindful Moods information merely because the service is available.
13. Age Requirement
Mindful Moods V1 is intended only for users age 18 and older. Mindful Moods does not collect a date of birth solely to enforce this age positioning and does not provide a parental-consent system or direct under-18 product support.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This policy may be updated to reflect product, legal, or clarity changes. The Effective Date will be updated before an approved version is placed in the app.
15. Contact
Mindful Moods
Gilman Creations
gilman.creations1@gmail.com
16. Privacy at a Glance
Mindful Moods is for adults 18 and older. It is device-first, with no developer cloud storing tracking history, no ads or marketing tracking, and no external AI processing of personal tracking information. Insights and Pattern Watch operate locally. Exports are user controlled. Portable backups are encrypted, saved where you choose, and protected by a Backup Password Mindful Moods does not hold. Some optional actions open external services you select. Cancelling Premium does not delete personal tracking records. Your information belongs to you.