Your data stays yours

Privacy Policy

Promise was built around a simple principle: the words you record for yourself should remain private.

Effective July 31, 2026

1. Overview

This Privacy Policy explains how Promise (“Promise,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) handles information when you use the Promise mobile application and this website.

The short version: Promise does not require an account. Your voice recordings, wake promises, alarm schedules, and preferences are stored locally on your device. We do not receive them, sell them, or use them for advertising.

2. Data we handle

Information stored on your device

To provide the app’s features, Promise stores the following locally on your device:

  • Voice recordings you create, including the names you give those recordings.
  • Wake promises, including their titles, times, repeat days, snooze settings, selected recordings, and enabled status.
  • App preferences such as language, appearance, onboarding completion, and whether wake-up check is enabled.
  • Technical identifiers needed to schedule, update, and cancel alarms on your device.

This information is used only to operate Promise on your device. It is not transmitted to our servers because Promise does not operate an account system or cloud backend.

Information we do not collect

Promise does not collect analytics, advertising identifiers, location, contacts, health data, payment information, or user profiles. We do not use third-party advertising or tracking SDKs.

Website information

This website does not use analytics cookies, advertising cookies, account forms, or tracking pixels. If your hosting provider automatically processes basic request information such as IP address, browser type, or server logs for security and delivery, that processing is controlled by the hosting provider and retained according to its policies.

3. Device permissions

Promise requests only the permissions needed for features you choose to use:

  • Microphone: requested when you choose to record a voice message. Audio is recorded and stored locally on your device.
  • Alarm access: used to schedule reliable alarms at the times you select, including alarms that may appear or sound when the app is not open.
  • Notifications: may be used where required by your platform to deliver wake-up alerts and snooze reminders.

You can change these permissions in your device’s Settings. Disabling a permission may prevent the related feature from working.

4. Sharing and sale of data

We do not sell, rent, trade, or share personal data with advertisers or data brokers. Because the app’s content remains on your device, we do not have access to your recordings or promise details to disclose them.

We may disclose information only if we are legally required to do so and only to the extent that we actually possess such information. At present, the app does not transmit your app content to us.

5. Retention and deletion

Your recordings, promises, and preferences remain on your device until you delete them in the app, clear the app’s data, or uninstall the app. Deleting a recording in Promise removes that local recording, subject to normal device storage behavior and backups controlled by your operating system.

Because we do not maintain user accounts or receive this app content, you do not need to contact us to delete it from our systems.

6. Security

Promise reduces privacy risk by keeping your personal app content on your device. Access to that information is also subject to the security of your device and operating system. No method of storage is completely secure, so we recommend using your device passcode and keeping your operating system current.

7. Children’s privacy

Promise is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Since the app does not require an account or transmit app content to us, we do not maintain profiles of child users. If you believe a child has sent information to us directly, please contact us so we can address it.

8. International users

Promise processes core app content locally on the device. If you contact us by email, your email provider and ours may process your message in the countries where they operate.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when Promise’s features or legal obligations change. We will post the revised policy here and change the effective date above. If a change materially affects how the app handles your information, we will provide an appropriate notice.