Your diary is none of our business.

Effective 18 July 2026

A diary only works if it is truly private. That is the promise BUDDY is built on, and this page spells it out in plain language — the same language the app speaks.

What we will never do

These are commitments, not settings you have to find:

• We never sell your data. Not your entries, not your check-ins, not your email address. To anyone, for any reason.
• We never use your data for advertising. There are no ad networks, no advertising trackers, and no advertising profiles in BUDDY — and there never will be.
• We never share what you write with third parties for their own purposes.
• We never keep your voice. Voice notes are transcribed to text and the raw audio is discarded. The sound of your voice is not stored anywhere.

We can’t read your diary

Your entries are encrypted before they are stored and remain encrypted on our servers. They are only readable in your app, on your devices, behind your passcode. We do not have access to what you write, and we have designed the system so that we cannot browse it.

Where your data lives

Your diary is stored in encrypted form on secured servers and synced — still encrypted — across your devices, so it is wherever you are. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

What we do collect

The short list of what BUDDY needs to work:

• Your account: the email address from your Apple or Google sign-in, used only to identify your account.
• Your content: entries, check-in numbers, and Buddy’s memory of you — encrypted, as described above, and used only to run the app for you.
• Basic technical information — device type and app version — so the app works reliably. No behavioural tracking.

Buddy’s memory is yours to edit

What Buddy remembers about you is written in plain language inside the app. You can read it, change it, or delete any part of it at any time — and deleted means deleted.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account whenever you like, from inside the app. When you do, your entries, check-ins, and Buddy’s memory are permanently removed from our servers.

Security

BUDDY requires a passcode plus two-step verification — there is no way to skip the lock. Sign-in is handled by Apple or Google, so we never see or store a password.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, write to us at hello@buddy.app and a person will answer. If we ever change this policy, we will say so plainly in the app before the change takes effect — never quietly.

The short version: your diary is encrypted, we can’t read it, we don’t sell it, and no advertiser will ever touch it. You don’t have to worry about your data here — that is the whole point of BUDDY.