Privacy Policy

1. Our Core Principle: Your Sanctuary

Ponder is designed to be a sacred, private space for your personal reflections. Our fundamental commitment is that your gratitude journal entries are yours and yours alone. We have built our entire system around this principle.

2. Data Storage: Your Private Journal

All of the content you create within Ponder, including your journal entries, reflections, and the AI-generated visualizations, is stored securely using Apple's robust privacy technologies:

• On-Device Storage: By default, all your data lives securely on your iPhone or iPad.
• Private iCloud Sync (Optional): If you choose to enable iCloud sync, your data is transmitted and stored using end-to-end encryption in your personal iCloud account. This means only you can access it, and only on devices where you are signed in to your Apple ID.

We, the developers of Ponder, do not have the keys to decrypt or access your journal content.

3. AI-Powered Visualizations

When you choose to "Visualize" a journal entry, the text of that specific entry is sent to a secure, third-party AI model (such as OpenAI's DALL-E API) to generate an image.

• The text is processed anonymously to create the illustration.
• We have a strict policy with our AI partners that your data is not to be used for training their public models.
• The resulting image is sent back to your device and stored as part of your private journal.

4. Information We Do Not Collect

To be perfectly clear, we do not collect any personally identifiable information (PII). We do not require an account, and we do not collect or track:

• Your name, email, or other contact information.
• Your precise location.
• Any personal analytics about your usage patterns.

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