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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 19 May 2026

Last updated: 19 May 2026

This is the privacy policy for SoberBeing, an iOS app developed by Sven Plochberger ("we", "us", "I"). Contact: psven595@gmail.com.

The short version

  • Your sobriety data never leaves your iPhone. Your streak, journal entries, "why", buddy state, and slip log are stored locally on the device and never sent to any server.
  • No account, no login. You don't sign up. We can't see you.
  • No analytics, no tracking, no ads. We do not collect usage data, crash logs, location, advertising IDs, or any identifier we could use to recognize you across apps or websites.
  • The one exception is purchases. If you start a free trial or subscribe, Apple processes the payment and a small amount of purchase-related data (a non-personal transaction token, the product ID, and an anonymous ID our SDK generates) flows through RevenueCat so the app knows you have an active subscription.
  • You can delete everything at any time. Profile → "Reset and start over" wipes every byte of your data from the device. Deleting the app removes the rest.

If you want the formal version, keep reading.

1. What data the app stores on your device

SoberBeing stores the following entirely on your iPhone, in the app's local sandbox (UserDefaults / files):

  • The date you marked the start of your sobriety
  • Your daily logs (sober days and any logged slips)
  • Your "why" — the free-text reason you wrote during onboarding
  • Your journal entries
  • Your buddy's name, color, and health state
  • Which substances you selected
  • Notification preferences
  • Whether you've completed onboarding

This data is never transmitted off the device. We cannot see it, recover it, or restore it if you delete the app.

2. What data leaves your device

Exactly one category of data leaves your device when you interact with a subscription:

Subscription / purchase data (only if you start a trial or subscribe)

When you tap Start free trial or Subscribe, the following happens:

  1. Apple's StoreKit processes the purchase. Apple sees the transaction; we don't see your name, email, or payment details.
  2. The app uses the RevenueCat SDK (RevenueCat, Inc., a US company) to validate Apple's receipt and to tell the app whether your subscription is active.
  3. RevenueCat receives:
    • A purchase token from Apple
    • The product ID (app.clearday.Clearday.premium.weekly or …premium.yearly)
    • An anonymous user ID generated locally by the SDK (a random UUID — not linked to your name, email, or device fingerprint)
    • The country of the App Store account (for tax/currency)
  4. RevenueCat returns a yes/no on whether you have an active entitlement.

We do not see, store, or have access to your Apple ID, real name, email, payment method, IP address, or any other identifier. RevenueCat acts as our sub-processor solely for subscription management.

Privacy policy of RevenueCat: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy/.

3. What data we explicitly do NOT collect

  • No analytics. There is no Firebase, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Segment, Sentry, PostHog, or equivalent in the app.
  • No advertising IDs. We do not use the IDFA or any advertising identifier.
  • No tracking across apps or websites. We have nothing to track you with even if we wanted to.
  • No location. The app never requests location permission.
  • No contacts, photos, microphone, camera, calendar, or HealthKit. Not requested, not used.
  • No crash logs sent to us. Apple may still aggregate crash data on its own (you can disable this in iPhone Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements).

4. Notifications

If you allow notifications, they are scheduled locally on your device by iOS. We do not run a push server. Nothing about your notifications ever leaves your iPhone.

5. Children

SoberBeing is rated 17+ on the App Store and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect any data from anyone, including children.

6. Your rights

Because we don't store your data on any server, most data-subject rights under GDPR / CCPA are satisfied by the device itself:

  • Access / Portability. Your data is on your phone. You can read it directly in the app.
  • Deletion. Profile → "Reset and start over" deletes everything in the app's local storage. Deleting the app removes the rest.
  • Subscription data with RevenueCat. If you want RevenueCat to delete your anonymous ID and subscription history on their side, email us at psven595@gmail.com with the anonymous ID (you can find it in Profile → Acknowledgments → debug info, once that view exists). We'll forward the request to RevenueCat.

7. International transfers

The only data transfer outside the EU is the purchase data flowing to RevenueCat in the United States. RevenueCat relies on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for this transfer.

8. Changes to this policy

If we change anything material, the "Last updated" date at the top will change and we'll add a brief summary of what changed. Substantive changes affecting subscribers will be communicated via App Store update release notes.

9. Contact

Sven Plochberger Email: psven595@gmail.com Location: Austria

This policy is written to comply with GDPR (EU), CCPA (California), and Apple's App Store privacy requirements. It reflects the actual behavior of the app — if you ever spot a discrepancy between what the app does and what this policy says, the policy loses and we fix the app.