Privacy Policy — VaultDream

1. Who this policy covers

This policy explains how the VaultDream mobile app (“VaultDream,” “the app,” “we,” “us”) handles your information. It applies to the app on Android and iOS. It does not cover any third-party app or service you might choose to send an exported file to (see Section 7).

2. Our privacy-first approach

No account, no tracking — the app keeps every dream on this device and sends none of them to us. The one exception is voice dictation, off by default, which you can turn on in Settings.

• No account. You don’t register, provide an email, or log in.
• No tracking. We do not use analytics, advertising, crash reporting, cookies, tracking pixels, or any third-party SDKs that collect data about you.
• Your journal stays on your device. Your dream entries, titles, tags, characters, dates, ratings and everything else you write are never uploaded or sent anywhere by the app. Your phone’s own backup can include them; Section 4 explains.
• One optional exception. If you turn on Cloud dictation in Settings, an audio recording you make in the dream editor is sent to be converted to text and then discarded. Nothing else is sent, and the setting is off unless you turn it on. Section 5 describes exactly what happens.

3. Information we do not collect

We do not collect, receive, or store: your name, email, phone number, location, contacts, device identifiers, usage/analytics data, or the contents of your journal. There is no account and no profile, so nothing you write is associated with you, and we have no ability to see, access, or recover it.

The only thing that can leave your device is an audio recording you make with Cloud dictation switched on, described in Section 5. No name, account, user ID or device identifier is attached to it, we do not store it, and nothing else from your journal is sent with it. Like any internet request, it arrives from your IP address; Section 5 explains what happens to that.

If your phone is set to share crash reports with Google Play or Apple, they may pass reports about VaultDream crashes on to us. These describe the crash and your device model and system version. They contain nothing from your journal.

4. Information you create, and where it lives

When you use VaultDream you may create journal data such as: dream titles and descriptions, dates, emotions, “lucid” and “nightmare” markers, quality/clarity ratings, and any tags, characters, locations, and categories you add. The app also remembers your last six searches. You may also set preferences such as theme, language, and privacy options.

All of this is stored locally on your device, in the app’s private storage (a local database plus on-device app settings). The app never backs it up to us or to any cloud service.

Your phone’s own backup can include it:

• Android: if backup is on for your phone, Android includes the journal, your settings and your recent searches in its backup to your Google account, and restores them if you reinstall the app.
• iPhone: iCloud Backup and backups to a computer include the journal and your settings.

Those backups belong to your Google or Apple account, and we have no access to them. If you uninstall the app or clear its data, and you have neither your own export nor a phone backup, that information is permanently gone — we cannot restore it for you.

5. Voice dictation (optional, off by default)

VaultDream can turn speech into text in the dream editor. There are two ways it does this, and they are very different.

On-device dictation (the default). Your phone’s own speech recogniser transcribes what you say. The audio never leaves your device, and VaultDream requests on-device recognition specifically — if your device cannot transcribe offline, dictation is refused rather than quietly sent elsewhere.

Cloud dictation (only if you turn it on). If you enable Cloud dictation in Settings, a recording made in the dream editor is sent to VaultDream’s transcription service, which uses Google Cloud Speech-to-Text to convert it to text. The text is returned to your device and the recording is deleted.

When cloud dictation is on:

• What is sent: the audio recording only, plus the language the app is set to and the recording’s approximate length. Your dream text, title, tags, characters, dates, ratings and everything else in your journal are never sent. There is no account, user ID or device identifier attached to the recording.
• How long we keep it: we do not store it. The recording is held in memory for the length of one request and discarded. We do not log audio or transcripts.
• Your IP address: our service sees the IP address the request comes from, as any website does. It holds it in memory only to limit how often one address can use the service. Google Cloud’s request logs record the IP address and time of each request, and are deleted after 30 days.
• How long Google keeps it: it does not. Google Cloud Speech-to-Text does not log audio or transcripts unless a customer opts in to its data-logging programme, which we have not and will not. Data from customers who have not opted in is not stored or used for anything other than serving the request.
• Length limit: each recording is capped at one minute. You can record again to add more.
• Turning it off: switch Cloud dictation off in Settings. Nothing is sent from then on. It is off unless you turn it on.

Your keyboard’s own microphone is separate from both of these. If you dictate using the keyboard’s mic, that is handled by your keyboard app under its own privacy policy, and VaultDream has no part in it.

6. Device permissions the app uses

VaultDream keeps permissions minimal:

• Microphone (optional) — requested only when you start dictation in the dream editor, and used only while you are dictating. The app does not record in the background. What happens to the recording depends on which dictation mode is in use — see Section 5.
• Files / sharing — used only when you export, back up, or restore a journal file, so the app can save or open a file you select.
• App lock (optional) — you may set a PIN to unlock the app, and use your fingerprint or face instead where your device supports it. The PIN is not stored. Only a salted hash of it is kept, in your device’s secure storage: on Android, encrypted with a key held in the Android Keystore; on iOS, in the Keychain. It is never transmitted. If you forget your PIN, we cannot recover or reset it for you. iOS keeps Keychain entries after an app is deleted, so on iPhone, turn the app lock off before deleting the app if you want the hash removed too.
• Screen privacy — an optional setting hides the app’s contents in the recent-apps switcher. On Android it also blocks screenshots and screen recording. This is a local, on-device protection.

VaultDream does not need a network connection to store or view your dreams. The only feature that uses one is cloud dictation, and only if you turn it on.

7. Exporting and backing up your dreams — your responsibility

VaultDream lets you export or back up your entire journal to a file (in a standard, human-readable JSON format) and later restore it. This is provided so you stay in full control of your own data.

Please read this carefully:

• Exported files are NOT encrypted. They contain your dream entries in plain, readable text.
• Once you export, back up, or share such a file, it leaves the app’s protected on-device storage, and you are solely responsible for it — including where you save it, who you share it with, and keeping it secure.
• If you send an exported file to cloud storage, email, a messaging app, or any other service, that data becomes subject to that service’s privacy and security practices, which are outside our control.
• We recommend only saving exports to locations you trust, not sharing them over insecure channels, and deleting copies you no longer need.

You choose whether to export and where the file goes; the app never does this automatically or in the background. Each export also leaves a copy of the file in the app’s own temporary storage, which is removed when you clear the app’s storage or uninstall it.

8. Data security

Your journal is stored in the app’s private, sandboxed storage on your device, and the app never transmits it. The overall security of that data also depends on your device — for example, your device’s screen lock and encryption. Because exported files are unencrypted (Section 7), the security of any export you create is up to you.

If you turn cloud dictation on, the recording sent for transcription is held in memory for the length of one request and is not written to disk on our side; we keep no audio and no transcripts (Section 5).

No method of electronic storage or transmission is ever 100% secure, but by keeping your journal local and offline, VaultDream minimizes exposure.

9. Third-party services

VaultDream contains no third-party analytics, advertising, or data-collection services. Third parties become involved only at your initiative, in two cases:

• Google Cloud Speech-to-Text — if you turn on Cloud dictation, our transcription service uses Google Cloud Speech-to-Text to convert your recording to text, as described in Section 5. Google acts as our processor for that request and does not log the audio or the transcript, because we have not opted in to its data-logging programme.
• Any app or service you send an export to — for example when you use your device’s share sheet. Data handled that way is governed by that third party’s own privacy policy, not this one.

10. Children’s privacy

VaultDream has no account system and collects no personal information from anyone, including children. Nothing is transmitted to us unless cloud dictation is switched on, and what is sent then is an audio recording with no name, account or device identifier attached to it, which we do not keep (Section 5).

11. Your control over your data

You are always in control:

• View and edit any entry at any time within the app.
• Delete individual dreams, or all of them, from within the app. Deleting all dreams leaves the tags, people, places and categories you have used, your recent searches, and your settings; clearing the app’s storage or uninstalling the app removes those too.
• Export a full copy of your data whenever you like.
• Turn Cloud dictation on or off at any time in Settings. With it off, no recording leaves your device.

The steps are set out in full at https://zerojumpapps.com/legal/vaultdream/deletion/.

Since we hold nothing — your journal never reaches us, a dictation recording is discarded as soon as it has been transcribed, and request logs are deleted automatically — there is nothing for you to request from us and nothing for us to delete on our end.

12. Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, we’ll revise the “Last updated” date above and post the new version at https://zerojumpapps.com/legal/vaultdream/privacy/. Material changes will be reflected in the app or on our website.

13. Contact

Questions about this policy or about privacy in VaultDream? Contact Zero Jump Apps, LLC at support@zerojumpapps.com.

14. Governing law

Zero Jump Apps, LLC is established in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, United States. This policy is governed by the law of Puerto Rico and applicable United States federal law. If you are a resident of Puerto Rico, you may raise a consumer complaint with the Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs (Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor, DACO). Because we retain nothing from the app — your journal never reaches us, dictation recordings are discarded once transcribed, and request logs are deleted automatically — there is no personal information on our side that such a complaint could concern.