Privacy & data

Everything you create in Better Days is stored in your own browser, on the device you used, and nowhere else:

• your companion's name and how far you have travelled
• which check-ins you logged, and on which days
• anything you wrote in a gratitude note
• anything you wrote and tucked away in a heavy shell dump
• your motion and appearance settings

None of this is transmitted to us or to anyone else. We cannot read your notes or your worries, because they never leave the browser you wrote them in.

Because this data lives only in your browser, clearing your browsing data or site storage will erase it permanently, and it does not follow you to another device. Settings has a “Copy a backup” option for exactly this reason.

The site uses Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights to count visits and measure how quickly pages load. These record things like which page was viewed, rough location at country level, and performance timings.

They are not given your notes, your worries, your companion's name, or anything else you write. We do not sell data, and there is no advertising network on this site.

The site is hosted by Vercel, which processes ordinary request information such as IP addresses in order to serve pages, as any web host does.

A gratitude note, or something you tuck away in a heavy shell dump, is yours alone.

If you keep them on this device only, they never reach us at all.

If you want them on your other devices, they are locked with your password in your browser, before they ever leave it. We only ever receive a scrambled version and we do not have the key — so we cannot read your notes, and neither can anyone who obtains our database.

This means we cannot recover them for you. If you lose your password, your recovery code and access to your devices, those notes are gone for good. Everything else — your companion, your garden, how far you have travelled — is unaffected and always recoverable.

Your notes are never sent to analytics, never written to our error reports, and never shared with anyone.

An account exists for one reason: so your companion follows you between devices instead of living in a single browser. If you never want one, nothing in Better Days is withheld from you.

When you have one, we store:

• your email address, so we can sign you in
• your progress — your companion, check-ins, postcards and settings
• a scrambled copy of anything you wrote, which we cannot read
• which devices are signed in, so you can sign out ones you no longer have

We never receive your password. Your browser turns it into two separate values: one it sends so we can recognise you, and one it keeps so your notes can be unlocked. The second never leaves your device.

We sign you in with a link sent to your email, or with a password. We deliberately do not offer signing in with Google, Apple, Facebook or any similar service, because that would tell them you use Better Days.

You can delete your account from Settings at any time, without asking anyone. It removes your account and everything attached to it — your companion, every check-in, every postcard, your scrambled notes and your sessions — immediately and permanently.

There is no grace period, because a grace period would mean we still hold it. If you want to keep a record, copy a backup from Settings first.

Better Days uses no tracking cookies and shows no cookie banner, because there is nothing to ask you about.

Our analytics does not use cookies and does not identify you. The only things stored on your device are the ones the app needs to work: your progress, and — if you sign in — a session cookie so you stay signed in. Both are essential to something you asked for.

Better Days is intended for adults. If you are under 18, please do not use it.

Better Days is a small companion app. It does not diagnose anything, it does not assess or score how you are feeling, and it does not provide medical or psychological advice. Nothing in it is monitored by a person.

If you would like to talk to someone, Settings lists free and confidential helplines. They are always there, and the app never decides when to show them to you.

If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected, the date at the top of this page will change with it.

Questions about privacy or data, including a request for a copy of what we hold, can go to support@returntrue.io.