Kind to MePrivacy
Privacy policy
How Kind to Me handles your data.
Updated October 29, 2026 · Covers app version 1.0.0
The short version
Your words and your voice stay on your device. Kind to Me works local-first. There are no advertising SDKs and no cross-app or advertising tracking. Signing in uses a free account, and your affirmations and recordings are not sent to JPott Studios. When the app's optional server configuration is present, Kind to Me can send anonymous usage counts how often a feature is used, plus app version and platform, tied to a random per-install tag that is not linked to any account or person. These counts never include your affirmations, recordings, favourites, name, or location. This is on by default, can be turned off any time in Settings, and happens at most once per day. On iPhone and Android, the app also sends anonymous app use and crash reports to our analytics service, PostHog, in the United States: which screens are opened, steps such as viewing or buying Premium, how long the app is open, and errors that make the app crash. These never include names, emails, or anything you write. IP addresses are not stored. The same “Share anonymous usage” switch in Settings turns this off too.
Network processing happens only when a feature that needs it is used, verifying a purchase with the app store, or optional encrypted sync if you turn it on, plus the anonymous usage described above while that switch is on.
What Kind to Me stores on your device
The app keeps the following in private app storage on your phone:
- Favourites and the categories you choose
- Personal affirmations you write
- Voice recordings you make
- Reminder choices and your tone setting
- Practice history and speech preferences
- A profile photo, if you add one
- Theme, onboarding state, and widget data
- Local activity counters used to power your own progress display
These counters power your own progress display. When the app's optional server configuration is present, only anonymous totals of them may be shared, as described above, never your affirmations, recordings, or profile.
Voice recordings
Kind to Me can record an affirmation in your own voice. A recording is created only after you grant microphone permission and then deliberately start recording. Background recording is not enabled.
Recordings are saved as audio files in the app's private storage on your device. Optional sync does not upload those audio files, see below. The one way a recording leaves your device is if you export a backup yourself.
Optional encrypted sync
Sync is optional and off unless you turn it on. The core app never requires it.
If you enable sync, an account email address and authentication records are processed by the sync provider so the service knows the records are yours. Your favourites, your personal affirmation text, and recording details, the line, its length, and when you made it, are encrypted on your device before they are uploaded. The recording audio files themselves stay on your device and are not uploaded by sync. You can delete the service copy from the app's sync settings. See the data deletion guide.
Purchases
Kind to Me Premium is available as a monthly plan or a yearly plan. Apple or Google processes the payment and provides purchase information. The app uses RevenueCat to fetch available products, validate receipts, restore access, and check whether Premium is active.
JPott Studios does not receive your payment-card details. RevenueCat and the app store may process a store receipt, product identifier, purchase status, subscription renewal status, country or storefront information, and an app-user identifier. See RevenueCat's privacy policy, Apple's privacy policy, and Google's privacy policy.
Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Notifications | Optional daily reminders that you schedule, up to three. You can decline this, or turn it off later in device settings, and the app still works. |
| Microphone | Record a personal affirmation in your own voice, or dictate one by speaking, after you deliberately start. Background recording is not enabled. Decline it and the rest of the app still works. |
| Photo library or camera | Only if you choose a profile photo for yourself. The app asks when you start that, copies the picture you pick into app storage, and keeps it on your device. You can skip it and use one of the app's own avatars instead. |
Kind to Me does not request your contacts, location, or calendar.
Exports and backups
You can export a backup at any time. Your device then offers destinations such as Files, email, messaging, or cloud storage. JPott Studios does not receive that file.
Kind to Me backup files are ordinary JSON and are not encrypted by the app, and they contain your voice recordings inside them. The audio is embedded in the file itself, alongside readable personal content such as the affirmations you wrote. That means a backup is the one file that carries your voice off your device. Store and send it carefully. Once you save it somewhere, that destination's own terms and privacy practices apply.
When you restore a backup, the app checks each included voice file against a checksum recorded at export, so a damaged file is reported rather than silently restored.
Keeping and deleting data
Local data stays until you delete items, use an in-app clear-data control, replace data during a restore, or remove the app's data from your device. Operating-system backups and any copies you export are controlled by you and the platform you chose.
If you enabled sync, the app provides a control to delete the service copy. See the data and account deletion guide.
Children
Kind to Me is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. JPott Studios does not knowingly use the app to solicit personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided account information through sync, contact us so we can investigate.
This website and the desktop version
This website and the desktop (browser) version of Kind to Me count visits anonymously so we can see what helps people. Each page view, or tap on a store button, sends a small note: which page, whether the device is a phone, tablet or computer, and on the first page of a visit, the name of the site that sent you here (for example Google or Instagram). It uses no cookies and stores nothing in your browser, and we do not keep your IP address or anything that identifies you. The notes are kept in our own database, hosted by Supabase.
Our web host, Vercel, also counts visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and does not follow you to other sites. Like any web host, Vercel handles standard request details such as IP address, the page asked for, browser type and time, for security and delivery.
Google Analytics helps us see which articles and pages are read and which app links are used. Its advertising features are turned off and it does not follow you to other sites. If you are in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, it stays off until you choose Allow on the small cookie notice; choosing No thanks keeps it off. Everywhere else it is on when the page loads, and it sets Google Analytics cookies to tell a new visit from a returning one. It sends Google the page you viewed, the page that sent you here, taps on app store buttons, and your device type. We never send the full web address with its extra details. You can change your choice at any time with the Cookie choices link at the bottom of every page. Google says GA4 uses IP addresses only to work out a rough location and discards them before the data is stored. Google handles this data under its own Privacy Policy. The desktop (browser) version of the app does not use Google Analytics. The anonymous first-party counter and Vercel Web Analytics described above use no cookies.
Changes and contact
This policy may be updated as features, service providers, or legal requirements change. The published date above changes whenever it is revised.
Privacy questions: jpottstudios@gmail.com. General help is on the support page. This policy covers Kind to Me; the other JPott Studios apps have their own at apps.jpottstudios.com/privacy.