Privacy policy

• The short version
• What stays on your phone
• The optional night helper
• Film and series posters
• Purchases
• Notifications, sharing, links
• This website
• Who else is involved
• Your choices and rights
• Children
• Changes and contact

The short version

What stays on your phone

Your preferences (who’s usually on the sofa, the youngest one’s age, diet, caffeine, moods), your plans and journal of nights, ratings and notes, the things you’ve saved or marked as seen, your reading progress and your Hot Chocolate Lab drinks are stored only on your device, inside Cozie Night.

If you use the three free days, the date they started is also saved in your iPhone’s keychain, on the device, so they can only be used once (it can outlast deleting the app). It never leaves your phone.

We have no account system, no server copy and no way to read any of it. If your iPhone is backed up to iCloud or a computer, this data is part of that backup, under Apple’s protection, as with any app.

To delete it: Nights › Preferences › Clear everything on this phone, or delete the app.

The optional night helper

“Describe your night” and “Ask the kitchen” are off until you turn them on, and the app explains what happens before you do. When you use them:

• What is sent: the words you type; a list of library items that already fit your settings (just their names and short descriptions); tonight’s context (who’s there, the youngest one’s age band, energy, weather, season, roughly how long you have); and, for “Ask the kitchen”, the recipe you’re looking at.
• Where it goes: over an encrypted connection to our server at cozie-night.vercel.app, which passes it to OpenAI to choose your night or answer your question, and returns the answer to your phone.
• What we keep: nothing. Our server does not store or log what you typed, and it is not linked to you or your device. To stop any one person from overloading the service, the server keeps your IP address in memory for up to ten minutes to count requests; it is never written down.
• OpenAI processes the request under its API terms. OpenAI does not use API data to train its models, and may keep it for up to 30 days to detect abuse before deleting it.

Please don’t type anything personal (names, health details, addresses) into the helper. It doesn’t need it. You can turn the helper off at any time in Nights › Preferences; everything else keeps working on your phone.

Film and series posters

Poster images are loaded from The Movie Database’s image servers (image.tmdb.org) when you view them. Like any image download, this shares your device’s IP address and basic technical details with TMDB. Nothing else is sent: no account, name or history. Book covers, game art and photographs are built into the app and load without a connection.

Purchases

Cozie Night+ is sold through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles your payment; we never see your name, email or card details.

To confirm what you’ve bought and unlock it on your devices, the app uses RevenueCat. RevenueCat receives a random, anonymous app user ID created on your device, your App Store purchase receipts and basic technical information (app version, device type, iOS version, country). This is linked to that anonymous ID, not to your identity, and is used only to provide and restore your purchase.

If you have chosen in your iPhone’s settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple gives us aggregated statistics such as installs and crash counts. We can’t identify anyone from them.

Notifications, sharing and links

• Notifications: the weekly invitation and cook-mode timers are local notifications scheduled on your phone. No push service and no server are involved.
• Sharing: if you share a plan, iOS’s share sheet sends the text you see to wherever you choose. We aren’t involved.
• Links: “Where to watch”, “Find it” and credit links open other websites in your browser. Their own privacy policies apply there.

This website

This site uses no cookies, no analytics and no third-party scripts, and serves its own fonts. Our host, Vercel, processes the technical information every web request carries (such as IP address, browser type and the page requested) to deliver and protect the site, and may keep it in short-lived server logs.

Who else is involved

We don’t sell or share personal information, and nothing is used for advertising. These services process data only as described above, mostly in the United States:

• Apple: App Store, payments, iCloud backup. Privacy policy
• RevenueCat: confirming purchases. Privacy policy
• OpenAI: the optional night helper. Privacy policy
• Vercel: hosting our server and this website. Privacy policy
• TMDB: film and series poster images. Privacy policy

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in the EU and UK, or the CCPA in California) you have rights to access, correct, delete and move your personal data, and to object to how it’s used. Because Cozie Night keeps your data on your phone, you can see, change and delete almost all of it yourself, in the app.

We don’t hold anything that identifies you. If you want the anonymous purchase record at RevenueCat deleted, or have any other request, email us and we’ll help. You can also contact Apple about your App Store data, and you have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Cozie Night is meant to be used by adults, including parents planning a family evening. It isn’t directed at children under 13 and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. If you think a child has sent us personal information by email, tell us and we’ll delete it.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the date at the top. If a change affects what leaves your phone, we’ll also say so in the app before it takes effect.

Questions or requests: highlyintellectualmind@gmail.com