Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2026-06-04
Dear Future Me (the 'Service') treats your journal as the most sensitive data and processes it as described below.
1. Information We Collect
- Account: your email address when signing in with email/password (Firebase Authentication).
- Journal data: voice recordings, transcribed text, the question answered, and timestamps.
- Device/notifications: local notification settings for daily nudges and letter arrivals.
- Usage analytics: non-identifying usage events and crash diagnostics to improve the service (Firebase Analytics & Crashlytics). Journal content is never included.
2. How Voice Data Is Handled
- By default, voice recordings are never sent to our servers; they are stored encrypted on your device.
- If you enable backup, voice recordings back up only to your own iCloud (Apple CloudKit private storage), never passing through our servers. They are used to restore your data on the same Apple ID when you switch devices.
- Speech-to-text is processed on-device by default.
- When LLM processing is needed for transcript tidy-up or weekly essays, only the transcribed text — never the audio — is processed via a server function.
3. How We Use Information
- Providing the service: storing entries, delivering letters (past audio playback), and generating weekly essays.
- Notifications: daily writing nudges and letter-arrival reminders.
- Account identification, cross-device sync of text/metadata, and backup restore.
- Improving service quality and diagnosing errors (non-identifying analytics).
4. Third Parties and Processors
- Google Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Analytics, Crashlytics) for authentication, text sync, and non-identifying analytics.
- Apple iCloud (CloudKit): if backup is enabled, your voice recordings are stored in your own iCloud, subject to Apple's privacy policy.
- When tidy-up/essay features are used, transcribed text may be sent to an LLM API provider for processing (never the audio).
- We do not share data with third parties for any other purpose.
5. Retention and Deletion
- You can delete all entries and your account in the app under 'Settings > Data'.
- Deletion also removes the voice files and metadata stored on your device.
- You may also request account/server-data deletion via the email on the Support page.
6. Contact
- For privacy questions, contact us at the address below.
Operated by: JungleZip
Contact: support@dearfutureme.net