Privacy Policy

This policy explains how the iOS app Budmark (“芽迹”, “the app”) handles information. The developer can be reached at the address below. By using the app, you acknowledge this policy.

Records stored on your device

You can start without creating an account. Habits, check-ins, focus sessions, media you attach, and records from scenes such as water, a money journal, mood, or meditation are written to the device first.

The app can back up, export, and import on the device. Before you delete it, keep what you still need or make your own backup. We cannot restore records that lived only on the device and were never exported or synced.

What leaves the device only when you choose it

Each of these starts from something you do or allow. If you do not use it, the app does not read that information for that purpose.

• iCloud sync: you turn this on in Settings. Habits, records, and media then sync through Apple’s private CloudKit database. What is in that sync leaves the device.
• Camera and Photos: take a photo for a check-in or receipt, pick an image with the system photo picker, or save a growth poster to your photo library when you ask. The system picker is not permission to read your whole library.
• Microphone and speech: you can record. Press-and-hold dictation tries to recognize speech on the device first. Speech is sent to Apple’s speech service only after you agree to network recognition.
• Location: you can attach one location to a single record. The app asks for location only while you are using it, and only when you choose that field. If that record is synced or exported, the location goes with it.
• Notifications and Live Activities: habit and focus reminders follow your settings. A focus session can use a Live Activity. These are not marketing messages.
• Face ID or device authentication: the private money journal can unlock with the system’s device authentication. The app does not store a face template.

What we do not do

This version does not include an advertising-tracking SDK, and we do not sell personal information. That does not mean nothing ever leaves the device. iCloud, network speech recognition you accept, an export, or an email to support can take the related information off the device, as described above.

Support email

If you write to jerry2100003@gmail.com, we use the address, the message, and the files you attach to reply and to match a later letter. We keep that mail for no more than twenty-four months, then delete it or anonymize it.

Subscriptions

Dedicated spaces for water intake, a manual money journal, mood notes, and wooden fish meditation are an optional subscription, handled by Apple In-App Purchase. The app shows the features and terms before you buy. Price and period are the ones on the purchase screen.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 9, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe we received a child’s information by mistake, contact us and we will delete it.

Your choices

You can turn off Camera, Microphone, Speech Recognition, Location, Photos, and Notifications in system Settings, and turn off iCloud sync in the app. You can delete a record, export or clear local data, or delete the app. If you decline one permission, that feature is unavailable. The rest of your records still work.

Changes

We may update this policy. The new version is published on this page, and the date on the page changes with it. If a change materially affects your rights, we will also say so in the app.

Contact

Privacy questions: jerry2100003@gmail.com.