I am Kind

Privacy Policy

Effective April 27, 2026

Summary

Everything you log in this app, your mood entries, journal notes, and breathing sessions, stays on your device. this app has no servers of its own, no accounts, and no tracking SDKs. Nothing you type into this app is sent anywhere unless you explicitly enable Apple Health sharing or export a file.

Definitions used in this policy

What this app stores on your device

All of the above is stored in I am Kind's app container with file protection set to "complete protection until first user authentication," which means the data is encrypted at rest and is only readable after the device has been unlocked at least once since boot.

What this app does NOT collect

No accounts. No marketing. No tracking.

We mention this not as an opt-out, there is nothing to opt out of:

Sensitive personal information

Mood entries, journal text, breath rate, and menstrual-cycle data are sensitive personal information under California law (CPRA) and special category data under the EU/UK GDPR (Art 9). I am Kind processes this category of data only on your device, never transmits it, and never uses it for any purpose other than the feature you enabled it for. You retain the right under both regimes to limit processing, in practice, by disabling the relevant feature in Settings or deleting the app.

Security

I am Kind's data sits in the app's container on your iPhone, protected by:

The strongest security property is structural, not policy-based: I am Kind cannot read your data because there is no server for it to read from. If a vulnerability is found in the iOS app that could expose on-device data, I am Kind will patch it through an App Store update and post a notice in this document and in the in-app About screen.

Automated decision-making

This app does not make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you (GDPR Art 22). The on-device Apple Foundation Models generate reflective content, affirmations and weekly summaries, based on your data, but those outputs are not decisions about you (eligibility, credit, employment, access). Theme inference identifies a broad label (e.g. "exhaustion") that informs the affirmation phrasing; it is not a diagnosis or assessment.

For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, I am Kind relies on the following legal bases under GDPR Art 6 (and Art 9 for sensitive data):

Apple Health (optional)

I am Kind can write your sessions to Apple Health, but only if you turn it on in Settings → Apple Health. When enabled:

Data written to Apple Health lives in Apple Health, not in I am Kind. You can turn sharing off at any time in Settings → Apple Health, or in the iOS Settings app under Health → Data Access & Devices.

Apple Intelligence and on-device AI (iOS 26+)

I am Kind uses the on-device Apple Foundation Models built into iOS 26 to generate the personalized parts of your sessions. These models run entirely on your iPhone. This app makes no network call to any AI service when generating these features. There is no server in this loop for I am Kind to send anything to. This app does not train, fine-tune, or share any model with your data, and This app does not use any third-party AI provider, not OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or any other.

The model itself is updated only through iOS updates from Apple. This app does not download or modify the model.

Personalized Affirmations (opt-in)

When you turn on Personalized Affirmations in Settings, I am Kind asks the on-device model to generate up to two of the five affirmations shown in a session. The remaining three come from I am Kind's handwritten library of 1,320 lines. The toggle is off by default; turn it off and I am Kind shows handwritten affirmations only.

When personalized generation runs, the model is conditioned on signals already stored locally on your device: the mood you selected and how many times you've named it before, your first name (if you entered one), the time of day, your current streak, the breadth of mood vocabulary you've used historically, a seven-day mood-trend value, and an indicator for whether breathing sessions have correlated with calmer moods in your own data. If you've turned on Include Recent Note, the last line you wrote in a reflection is also used. None of these signals leave your device.

The output (the affirmation text) is shown to you in your session and is not retained by the model. This app does not log the prompt or the output anywhere off-device.

Reflective Affirmations (opt-in)

When Reflective Affirmations is on, I am Kind passes your most recent journal note to the same on-device model to identify which broad theme the note touches on, one of about seventeen short labels (for example, perfectionism, exhaustion, grief). The classification result is the label, never the note text, and the result is used to shape one affirmation in your session toward an appropriate reframe. The labels accumulate into a rolling, time-decayed theme map that powers the in-app "Noticed themes" surface. This map lives only in this app's local container, fades on its own as you stop writing about a theme, and you can mute any individual theme or wipe the whole map at any time in Settings. The model never quotes your words back, affirmations are written in I am Kind's own voice using the inferred theme as a constraint, not as input.

Crisis safety

If you write a journal note or custom affirmation that mentions self-harm or suicidal ideation, This app does not pass that text to any AI model. Instead, it shows you a region-aware crisis support resource (such as the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US, or findahelpline.com globally) and saves your text untouched. This app is not a crisis service. See the Terms of Use for the full list of resources.

Weekly & Monthly Reflections, Year in You, Snapshot PDF, Image Playground

When Weekly & Monthly Reflections is enabled, I am Kind passes your journal entries from the past week or month to the same on-device model to generate a short observational summary. The summary is shown to you on screen; your journal text never leaves this device. To give consecutive weeks' reflections a continuous voice, I am Kind caches the first ~120 characters of the generated summary on this device, that snippet is stored in I am Kind's local container and is never transmitted. Turn the feature off in Settings and the cache is left unused.

The Year in You recap uses the same on-device model to write a six-chapter look back over your past year. Each chapter is generated when you open the sheet and discarded the moment you close it. Nothing is saved, synced, or sent off-device. The same Weekly & Monthly Reflections toggle controls it.

The Snapshot PDF export, when generated on a device that supports Apple Intelligence, includes a short summary paragraph generated on this device, included once in the PDF you choose to share, and otherwise discarded. On older devices, the same paragraph is composed from a deterministic template instead. Daily reminder copy may also be personalized by the on-device model on supported devices, drawing only on what you've already chosen to track in I am Kind. Image Playground integration (iOS 18.2+) generates an optional image companion for a custom affirmation; the image is generated on your device and is preview-only.

You can disable Apple Intelligence anywhere it appears by turning off Personalized Affirmations in Settings.

Voice dictation (optional)

If you tap the microphone button in a note field, I am Kind uses your iPhone's on-device Speech framework to transcribe your words into text. I am Kind never records, saves, or transmits audio. Only the final text is stored, and only if you keep it in the note.

Microphone access is requested the first time you use dictation, and only then. You can revoke it at any time in the iOS Settings app under Privacy & Security.

Cycle insights (optional)

I am Kind can show how your mood moves across your menstrual cycle. This is off by default. If you enable it in Settings → Apple Health, I am Kind reads your menstrual flow log from Apple Health to bucket your mood entries into cycle phases.

The insight is computed entirely on your device, appears only inside the Insights sheet, and is never surfaced in widgets, notifications, or on Apple Watch. Your cycle data never leaves this iPhone. Turn the toggle off at any time.

Widgets, Live Activities, and App Group

I am Kind's home-screen and Lock Screen widgets read your current mood and streak from a shared App Group container on the same device. The widget extension has no network access and cannot read anything outside that shared container.

Live Activities for breathing sessions display locally-computed progress on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island and are torn down when the session ends.

Siri, Spotlight, and the Action Button

If you use App Shortcuts to start a session from Siri, Spotlight, or the Action Button, the shortcut payload is processed by iOS on your device. The request Siri understands ("log my mood," "start breathing") is converted into an in-app flag the app reads on its next foreground. This app does not upload voice input or intent data.

Subscriptions

I am Kind Premium is sold through the App Store using Apple StoreKit. Apple receives the subscription transaction; I am Kind receives only the signed receipt needed to unlock Premium features on your device. I am Kind never sees your Apple ID, credit card, or billing address. Sessions themselves are unlimited and free for everyone, Premium unlocks the deeper insights, pattern detection, and Snapshot PDF export, not the act of having a session.

To cancel or change your subscription, open Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on this device.

Export and deletion

You can export your I am Kind history to a file at any time from Settings → Export Data. You can also delete your data by deleting the I am Kind app from your device, which removes I am Kind's container and all local entries. If you had enabled Apple Health sharing, any entries already written to Apple Health remain in Apple Health and are managed by you inside the Health app.

Data retention

Your data lives in this app's container until you delete it. This app retains nothing on its own servers because this app has no servers. There is no remote backup. There is no cross-device sync. If you replace your iPhone without restoring from an iCloud backup, your history starts fresh on the new device.

The on-device data the AI model reads (your mood entries, your last note, your streak, etc.) is the same data already stored locally for the rest of the app, This app does not write new data just to generate affirmations. Cached snippets used to give consecutive weekly reflections a continuous voice are limited to roughly 120 characters and live only in your app container.

Your rights

Because all your I am Kind data lives on this device, you can access, export, or delete it at any time from within I am Kind itself, no request to us is required. The Settings → Export Data button hands you a copy of everything I am Kind has stored.

If applicable laws (such as the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation, the California Consumer Privacy Act, the Washington My Health My Data Act, or other consumer-health-data laws) grant you additional rights, including the right to access, correct, restrict, port, or delete personal information I am Kind may hold about you, those rights apply. Because this app has no servers and does not collect personal information off the device, in most cases there is nothing for I am Kind to send, correct, or delete on your behalf. For any privacy question or rights request that the in-app tools cannot satisfy, use the support contact listed on I am Kind's App Store page; we'll respond within 30 days.

Children

This app is not directed to children under 13 (or 16 in the European Economic Area). This app does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone in those age ranges. This app has no account creation or login flow, and does not request age, name, or contact information beyond an optional first name the user volunteers in onboarding. If you believe a child has used the app in a way that requires our attention, contact us at the App Store support address.

For California residents (CCPA / CPRA)

This section is provided to satisfy the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Privacy Rights Act. At or before the point of collection on your device, you should be aware that I am Kind may process the following categories of sensitive personal information on your iPhone:

This app does not sell personal information for monetary or other valuable consideration, and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under California law. We have nothing to sell or share, This app collects nothing off your device.

California residents have the right to know, delete, correct, limit use of sensitive PI, and not be retaliated against for exercising those rights. Because this app has no servers and no data about you to access, correct, or delete on your behalf, most requests resolve to "no data exists." If you have a request that the in-app Settings cannot satisfy, contact I am Kind at the App Store support address; we'll respond within 45 days as required.

For other US state residents

If you live in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, or another US state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law, you have rights similar to those described in the California section above, access, correction, deletion, opt-out of sale or targeted advertising, opt-out of profiling that produces legal effects, and an appeals path if a request is denied. The same answer applies: This app has no data about you off your device, so most requests resolve in-app, and a contact path is available at the App Store support address.

For users in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland (GDPR / UK GDPR)

For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, This app does not transfer your data internationally because it does not collect or transmit your data. There is no Standard Contractual Clauses arrangement to disclose, no Data Privacy Framework certification to assert, and no third-country recipient.

The legal bases for processing your data on your device are described in the "Legal bases for processing" section above. You retain all rights granted by Articles 13–22 of the GDPR (and the equivalent UK GDPR provisions): access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability, objection, and the right to withdraw consent at any time. In I am Kind, those rights are exercised by the in-app Export Data and Delete options, and by toggling each optional feature in Settings.

Because this app has no servers, no operations in the EEA or UK, and no establishment that processes user data centrally, we have not appointed an EU/UK Representative under Art 27. Where applicable laws require one, we will appoint one before launching in that jurisdiction. Until then, the contact path for any GDPR rights request is the App Store support address listed at the end of this policy.

Breach notification

this app has no servers and therefore no central system that could suffer a data breach in the conventional sense. The risks that remain are device-side: a vulnerability in iOS, a vulnerability in I am Kind, or physical access to an unlocked iPhone. If I am Kind identifies a vulnerability in the app that could expose on-device data, we will issue a patch through an App Store update at the earliest practicable time, post a notice in this document with the version number and the nature of the issue, and where required by law (e.g. GDPR Art 33: 72 hours), notify the relevant supervisory authorities.

Third parties

This app has no third-party SDKs. It does not share data with advertisers, data brokers, or analytics vendors. The only network calls it makes are to Apple services (StoreKit for subscriptions, and the optional Crisis Resource links you choose to open).

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially, a new version will ship with a I am Kind app update and this document will be updated here and in-app. Continued use of I am Kind after an update indicates acceptance of the revised terms.

Contact

Because this app has no servers and collects no personal data, there is usually nothing for I am Kind to send, correct, or delete. For any privacy question, use the support contact listed on the I am Kind App Store page.