Clearday Privacy Policy
Clearday is built so that this can be a short document. There is no account, no server, and no third party involved in how the app works — so this policy is mostly a description of what stays on your phone, not a list of exceptions.
1. The short version
Clearday doesn't collect your data, because Clearday doesn't collect data. Everything you enter — the habit you're tracking, your streak history, your daily check-ins, your notes — is written into Clearday's own private storage area on your iPhone, the same sandboxed, on-device storage most apps use, protected by your device's passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID like everything else on your phone. There's no account for it to be attached to, and no server for it to travel to. If you delete Clearday, that data is deleted with it. Nobody at William Scott can see what you enter, because it never reaches us in the first place.
The one thing on your device that ever talks to a server is the App Store's own billing system, when you subscribe to Clearday+ — that's covered in "Subscriptions and payment" below.
2. Your health, and the information in this app
Clearday shows milestones tied to how long you've gone — round numbers like 30 or 90 days, alongside general information about physical changes commonly reported after stopping alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, gambling, sugar, or heavy social media use. That information is general and educational. It describes what tends to happen for people broadly, drawn from publicly available information, and it is not tailored to you.
Clearday is not a medical device. Nothing in the app is medical advice, and using Clearday is not a substitute for professional care. A doctor, a therapist, or another qualified professional who knows your situation is always the right place for guidance about your health, your body, or how to approach stepping away from something. What's true for people in general may not be true for you.
If you are in crisis, or you or someone you know may be in danger, please contact a doctor, local emergency services, or another qualified professional right away. Clearday is a counter, not an emergency resource, and it is not equipped to help in a crisis.
3. No accounts, no sign-in
Clearday doesn't ask you to sign up, sign in, or create a profile. There is no username, no password, and no email address collected by the app, and no server-side account of any kind for your information to attach to. Nothing you do in Clearday is tied to your identity anywhere but your own device.
4. What Clearday stores, and where
Everything below is stored locally, using Apple's on-device SwiftData framework, inside Clearday's own private storage area on your phone. None of it is transmitted to us, to Apple, or to anyone else — Clearday has no networking code that could send it anywhere, aside from the App Store billing system described later in this policy.
4.1 Your habits
Which habit you're tracking (a fixed category like alcohol or nicotine, or a name you type yourself if you choose "something else"), the date your current streak started, and — only if you choose to enter them — a daily cost and a typical daily amount, used to show money saved and units avoided.
4.2 Your streak history
Every time you start again, Clearday keeps a record of the streak that just ended — its start date, its end date, and an optional short note if you add one — rather than erasing it. This history is the whole point of the app, and it's stored the same way as everything else: locally, on your device, never deleted unless you delete it yourself.
4.3 Your daily check-ins
On any day you choose to check in, Clearday stores the date, a mood rating you pick from a five-point scale (Struggling, Low, Steady, Good, or Strong), and a note. That note is free text — genuinely blank until you type something into it, with no prompts, no word limit, and no content read, scanned, or analyzed by anything. It's stored exactly as you wrote it, on your device, for you.
4.4 Your app settings
A handful of small preferences — whether you've finished the initial setup, whether you've been asked about notifications, and your daily reminder time and on/off choice — are stored using iOS's standard on-device settings storage, the same mechanism nearly every app uses for simple preferences. These stay on your device as well.
5. The Home Screen and Lock Screen widget
If you add a Clearday widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen, the app writes a small summary — the habit's name, its start date, its cost per day and currency, your longest streak, and the name and date of your next milestone — into a storage area shared between the Clearday app and the widget. Both run on your own device. This exists purely so the widget, which runs as its own lightweight process and doesn't have access to the app's full database, can show your count without opening the app. That shared summary never leaves your device: it is not a sync feature, and there is no version of it that reaches a server, iCloud, or any other device you own.
6. Subscriptions and payment
Clearday+ is sold as an auto-renewing subscription through Apple's App Store, using Apple's StoreKit framework. When you subscribe, restore a purchase, or when Clearday checks whether you're currently subscribed, your device talks directly to Apple's own commerce servers — Clearday's own code is never part of that exchange, and never sees, requests, receives, or stores your card number, bank details, billing address, or any other payment information. That's handled entirely by Apple, the same as it is for every subscription sold through the App Store.
What we, the developer, receive is limited to what Apple provides every developer: standard, aggregate sales and trends reporting through App Store Connect — totals like how many subscriptions were active in a given period — never a list of who bought it, their payment details, or anything else that identifies you individually.
7. Notifications
If you turn on the daily reminder, or a milestone notification comes due, Clearday asks iOS to deliver a local notification: one scheduled entirely on your device, by your device, for your device. This is different from push notifications — nothing is sent to a server to trigger it, and Clearday has no way to know whether, or when, a notification was actually shown to you.
8. Exporting your data
Settings includes a data export that gathers your habits, streak history, and check-ins into a single, readable file. Clearday writes that file and hands it to you through iOS's own share sheet — the same system used by every app for sharing — so you choose where it goes: saved to Files, AirDropped to another device, attached to an email, or anywhere else iOS offers. Clearday does not send the export anywhere on its own, and doesn't keep a copy after handing it to you. It puts a copy of your own data in your own hands, and nowhere else.
9. Device backups
If you have iCloud Backup, or any other backup of your iPhone, turned on at the device level, that backup may include Clearday's local data the same way it includes most other apps' data. That's a feature of your device and your Apple ID, controlled by you and by Apple — Clearday has no part in it, no access to it, and no way to reach it.
10. No tracking, analytics, or advertising
Clearday contains no analytics software, no crash-reporting service, no advertising code, and no software development kit from any other company. It does not use the Advertising Identifier (IDFA) or any similar identifier, does not track you across other apps or websites, and shows no advertising. Apple's own required "privacy nutrition label" for Clearday reflects this: no data collected, no tracking. You can verify this for yourself on Clearday's App Store product page.
11. Deleting your data
Because everything Clearday stores lives only on your device, you're always in full control of it. Deleting a habit or a check-in inside the app removes it immediately. Deleting the Clearday app itself — through the standard iOS "Delete App" action — permanently removes its entire local database and its widget summary, with nothing left behind on any server, because there was never a server copy to begin with.
12. Children's privacy
Clearday is not directed at children, and is not designed to collect information from anyone — a rule that, because the app collects nothing from anyone at all, applies equally regardless of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and because the app has no accounts, no data entry that leaves the device, and no way for us to receive anything a user types, there is no mechanism by which we could. If you have a concern about a child's use of Clearday, you're welcome to contact us at williamscott701@gmail.com.
13. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time — most often to reflect a new feature or to make it clearer, not because the app has started collecting something new for its own sake. Any change will update the "Last updated" date above. If a future change ever meant Clearday would start collecting or sharing data in a way it doesn't today, we'd describe that plainly here and, where practical, tell you inside the app as well, rather than let it show up only in fine print.
14. Contact us
Questions about this policy, or about Clearday generally, can be sent to:
William Scott
williamscott701@gmail.com