Minne — Privacy Policy

Minne is developed and operated by Clara Swaboda, based in Berlin, Germany.

For questions about privacy or your personal data, you can contact me at hello@moog.you.

Minne works without an account. We don’t ask for your name, email address or phone number, and the app doesn’t create a user ID for you on our side.

Everything you create in Minne is saved in the app’s private storage on your device:

• your entries — the text, the date you file them under, highlights and stickers;
• copies of the photos you add to entries;
• a few app settings: your chosen wallpaper, when you first opened Minne, and whether you’ve written your first entry.

This information is not uploaded to us. Minne doesn’t connect to the internet to work, and it doesn’t sync your journal between devices or to a Minne server.

When you add a photo for the first time, Minne asks for access to your photo library, and iOS lets you choose full access, access to selected photos only, or no access. You then choose photos in the standard iOS picker. Whichever access you choose, Minne only reads and copies the photos you pick there. Without photo access, you can’t add photos to entries.

Minne saves its own copy of each photo inside the app, so it stays in your entry even if the original changes. That copy can include details stored in the original file, such as when or where it was taken; it stays on your device too. Removing a photo or deleting an entry deletes Minne’s copy. Your original stays in the Photos app.

You can change photo access at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos › Minne.

The current version of Minne contains:

• no advertising and no advertising identifiers;
• no analytics or usage tracking;
• no tracking across other apps or websites;
• no crash-reporting service that sends data to us or to others.

Separately, if you’ve chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone’s settings, Apple may share crash reports and app usage statistics with us. Apple collects and controls that data; Minne doesn’t add anything to it.

Because your journal never reaches us, we cannot read it, sell it, share it or use it to train anything.

If you back up your iPhone with iCloud Backup or to a computer, Minne’s data — your entries and Minne’s copies of your photos — is set up to be included in that backup, so restoring it is intended to bring your journal back. Minne can’t control how or when iOS creates and restores backups. Those backups are created and stored by Apple or on your computer, under your settings. We have no access to them.

Minne doesn’t add its own layer of encryption. Your journal is protected by iOS: each app’s data is kept separate from other apps, and your device passcode protects what’s stored on your iPhone. Setting a passcode, Face ID or Touch ID is the best way to keep your journal private.

• Deleting an entry in Minne removes it, along with Minne’s copies of its photos.
• Deleting the Minne app removes all of its data from your iPhone. Copies inside earlier device backups stay there until those backups are deleted or replaced.

We can’t restore a deleted journal for you, because we never have a copy.

Minne is free and has no in-app purchases or subscriptions. You download it through Apple’s App Store, and Apple handles that download under its own privacy policy. We don’t receive your name or Apple ID.

If you email hello@moog.you, I use your email address and message to respond to your inquiry. I generally delete correspondence within 12 months after our last exchange, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

Minne’s Privacy Policy and support pages are hosted on moog.you by Vercel Inc., a hosting provider based in the United States. When you visit them, technical information such as your IP address may be processed to deliver the website and maintain its security.

Your journal entries and photos stay on your device. Minne does not receive or access their contents.

We process limited personal data for the following purposes:

• Email inquiries: To respond to your messages, based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or to take steps at your request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
• Website operation: To deliver these web pages securely, based on our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Under the GDPR, you have the right, where applicable, to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal data, and to restrict or object to certain processing. You may also have the right to data portability and to withdraw consent where processing relies on it.

To exercise these rights, contact hello@moog.you.

Because your journal is stored locally, you can manage its contents directly in Minne. We cannot access or delete your journal entries on your behalf.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. Our competent authority is the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit.

https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de/

If how Minne handles your data changes — for example, if paid features are added later — we’ll update this page and the “Last updated” date at the top before the change reaches the app.