Privacy Policy

What stays on your phone

All of it, unless you use the designer. Specifically: your saved mixes and night scenes, your alarms, your settings, and the night journal — which records what played, for how long, when the app went to the background, whether it came back to the foreground, and how the alarm was answered.

The journal is written to this app's own private storage on the device. It is not uploaded, not backed up to any server of ours, and not readable by us. You can export it to a file or delete every entry at any time from the Nights screen.

QuietNight does not measure sleep and produces no sleep score. It records what the app itself did, and nothing about your body.

The one feature that sends anything: the designer

"Describe tonight" and the optional night review are off until you turn them on, behind a screen that states this in the app. Until you accept it, no request can be made.

What is sent when you ask for a scene: the sentence you type, the wake time if you set one, the list of sound names this app has, and your device's locale (for example en_GB). Nothing else.

What is sent when you ask for a night review: a summary of recent nights as counts — which sound names played, how many minutes the session ran, how many minutes passed before the phone was put down, how many times it was picked up, the hour the session started, and whether the alarm was stopped, snoozed or unanswered. No dates, no minute-level times, and nothing you have typed.

Where it goes: to our own server, operated for us by Hostinger, which forwards the text to Alibaba Cloud's Qwen language model service. That model endpoint is located in mainland China. Both receive only the text described above.

What comes back: a scene, which the app checks against its own list of sounds before it is allowed to play.

What the server keeps

Not your request and not the answer. Request bodies are held in memory for the life of the request and are never written to disk, cached or logged. Error logs record only the route, the HTTP status and a short machine code — never the content.

Two things are stored, and neither identifies you:

• A short-lived anonymous session token. There is no account behind it.
• A counter, so one installation cannot run up an unlimited bill. It is keyed to a random number your copy of the app invented for itself — not to your Apple Account, your device identifier, your phone number or your IP address as a stored value — and it is hashed before being written. The count expires after 24 hours.

Turning the designer off in Settings discards that random number and the session token, so nothing connects a later use to an earlier one.

Purchases

QuietNight Plus is sold through Apple's In-App Purchase. Apple handles the payment and tells the app only whether an entitlement is active. We never see your payment details, your Apple Account or your name, and no purchase information is sent to our server.

Notifications

Permission is requested the first time you save an alarm, and is used only to deliver that alarm. Declining leaves every other feature working. No notification is ever sent from a server — they are scheduled by iOS on the device.

Children

QuietNight is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone, so it holds no children's data. The heartbeat and rain sounds are commonly used in a nursery; using them involves no data of any kind.

Your choices, and how to exercise them

• Export or erase the journal: Nights screen, the ⋯ menu. Erasing is immediate and complete.
• Stop all sending: Settings, "Turn the designer off". This also discards the anonymous session and the random counter key.
• Remove everything: deleting the app removes all QuietNight data from the device. Nothing of yours remains on our server to delete, because nothing of yours was stored there.

Because we hold no personal data and no account, there is no record of you for us to look up, correct or delete on request. If you would like this explained for a specific situation, write to us and we will answer.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes in a way that affects what leaves your phone, the app's consent screen changes with it and asks again. This page carries the date it was last changed.

Questions, or anything here that does not match what you observe: support@riceroodcatsproduct.com.