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Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 7, 2026

Therapy Log is a personal journaling app for your therapy work. We've built it to be private by default. This page explains exactly what data the app touches, where it's stored, and what we do (and don't do) with it.

The short version: Therapy Log stores everything on your device. Nothing you enter, photograph, or import leaves your iPhone unless you explicitly export or share it yourself.

Who we are

Therapy Log is published by Obscura Creative Inc., a Canadian corporation. If you have any privacy questions, you can reach us at max@obscura.life.

What information Therapy Log handles

• Journal entries (your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and any text you type)
• Photos you choose to attach to journal entries via the iOS photo picker
• Health data you authorize us to read from Apple Health, including heart rate, active energy, sleep stages, steps, and Apple Stand Hours
• Activity logs for things like cannabis use, breathing exercises, completed homework, and questions you'd like to bring to your therapist
• App preferences, such as your therapist's name and your default Trends time window

Where this information lives

All of it lives on your iPhone, in Therapy Log's private app sandbox. None of it is transmitted to us or to any third party. We do not operate any servers that receive your data, because we don't operate any servers at all.

• Journal text and metadata are stored in a SwiftData database on your device.
• Photos are copied into Therapy Log's app sandbox so the app can display thumbnails. Originals stay where they are in your photo library.
• Health data is read from Apple Health on demand. We never write health data, never store it long-term, and never copy it off your device. Each read happens at the moment the app needs to display a value (for example, when you generate a PDF).

You can additionally turn on App Lock in Settings, which requires Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode to open the app. Authentication is handled entirely by iOS — Therapy Log never sees your biometric data.

What we do not do

• We do not collect analytics. There are no analytics SDKs, no telemetry, no crash reporters that phone home.
• We do not track you across apps or websites.
• We do not sell, rent, or share any information you put into Therapy Log.
• We do not show ads.
• We do not require an account, an email address, or a sign-in.

Things you can do that move data off your device

There are three places where Therapy Log hands your data to iOS, and at that point it's under your control, not ours:

1. PDF export. When you generate a PDF report, iOS opens the system share sheet so you can decide where it goes — print it, AirDrop it, attach it to an email, save it to Files. Therapy Log hands the PDF to the share sheet and then forgets about it.
2. JSON backup. The Backup & Restore screen lets you export your full journal as a JSON file. Same flow: Therapy Log produces the file, the share sheet decides where it goes.
3. Restore from backup. When you import a JSON backup, Therapy Log reads the file you select and merges or replaces the journal data on the device.

If you choose to email a PDF to your therapist, share a backup with another device, or store a file in iCloud Drive, that data is then governed by whatever app or service you handed it to — not by Therapy Log.

HealthKit data, specifically

Apple has strict rules about HealthKit data, and we follow them:

• We read only the categories you've granted permission for in iOS Settings → Health → Therapy Log.
• We never transmit HealthKit data off your device.
• We never use HealthKit data for advertising or marketing.
• We never sell or share HealthKit data with anyone.
• HealthKit data appears only in the day banner on your PDF reports and in the heart rate badge on individual journal entries.

If you revoke HealthKit permissions in iOS Settings, Therapy Log will simply stop displaying the affected metrics. Your journal entries are untouched.

Children

Therapy Log is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from anyone, regardless of age (because, again, we don't collect data).

Changes to this policy

If we ever change this policy, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top and post the new version at the same URL. If a future version of Therapy Log ever begins collecting data — for example, if we add an opt-in cloud sync feature — we'll describe that clearly here, and the relevant feature will be opt-in only.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, email max@obscura.life.