Privacy Policy - Ardal Shadow Work Journal (iOS) by Storeline Apps

Ardal Shadow Work Journal — built by Darko Nikolic (Storeline Apps).

This policy covers the iOS app. For the Android app, see the Android Privacy Policy.

This policy explains what happens to what you write and what the app sends off your device.

The short version: your journal stays on your phone. The optional AI features send only the text needed to answer your request, and that text is not stored or used for training. We don’t sell your data or track you across other apps and websites.

What stays on your device

Your journal entries, prompts, tags, sequence progress, saved reflections, and app settings are stored locally on your device. We don’t run a server that holds your journal, and we can’t read it.

To keep the AI follow-up questions from repeating, the app also keeps the last 12 questions it showed you and the last 8 angles they used. These are AI-generated questions, not your entries, and they stay on your device until you delete the app or turn the AI features off.

If you turn on App Lock, the app asks for your device passcode or Face ID before opening.

Your entries are included in device backups (iCloud or a computer) if you have backups turned on. Those backups are controlled by you and Apple, not by us.

AI follow-ups and reflections

These features are optional and stay off until you turn them on. When you use one, the app sends the text needed for that request to our AI provider over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection:

AI follow-up: the prompt, its hint, the sequence name and stage, the part of your entry you’re writing (up to 3,000 characters), and up to 12 recent follow-up questions so the model can avoid repeating them.
Sequence reflection: the prompt and answer pairs from that completed set, capped at about 30,000 characters in total.

No name, email address, account ID, or advertising identifier is attached. Text that looks like a crisis is detected on your device and is never sent.

Our provider is DeepInfra, Inc., based in the United States. Requests are processed in memory and deleted when the request completes. DeepInfra’s terms commit to zero data retention, no logging of request content, and no training on API data.

Limited exceptions: the provider may keep records where required by law or to investigate abuse or security issues, and may keep a specific request for up to 30 days if you ask us to troubleshoot it and authorize that retention. Like any internet service, the provider can see the IP address a request comes from.

You can turn both features off at any time in Settings. Turning them off stops new requests; it doesn’t delete entries you’ve already saved.

Does the AI learn from my writing?

No. We don’t use your entries to train or fine-tune any model, and our provider’s terms exclude API data from training. The model that writes a follow-up is the same for everyone; it doesn’t remember you between requests. The app sends your recent questions with each request so the model can avoid repeating them, but nothing is stored by the provider after the request completes.

Analytics and crash reports

We use Firebase Analytics (without the advertising ID), Firebase Crashlytics, Superwall, and RevenueCat to understand how the app is used, fix crashes, and manage purchases. These services may collect app interactions, onboarding choices, purchase and entitlement status, crash logs, device model, operating system version, language, approximate region, and IP address.

They do not receive your journal entries, prompts, or AI reflections.

We don’t track you across other apps or websites, we don’t use the IDFA, and we don’t show an App Tracking Transparency prompt because we don’t track.

Payments are handled by Apple. We never see your card details. RevenueCat validates purchases and restores entitlements.

If you redeem a license or sign in, we collect your email address and your device name (for example, “iPhone”) to send a login code and keep your license active. Sign-in tokens are stored in the iOS Keychain.

How long we keep data

Your journal stays on your device until you delete it or delete the app. We don’t keep a copy.

Analytics and crash data are retained according to each provider’s settings and policies. License and purchase records are kept while your license is active and for as long as tax and accounting rules require.

Your choices and rights

You can turn the AI features off, delete individual entries, or delete the app to remove all local data.

You can ask us for a copy of, or deletion of, the account data we hold (email and license records) by emailing [email protected]. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under the GDPR or state privacy laws.

Children

The app is not intended for anyone under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles data, we’ll update this policy and the date above. Material changes will be shown in the app before they take effect.

Contact

Questions or requests: [email protected]