Mac app data stored on your Mac
Harbour may store journal entries, titles, tags, photos, profile details, imported content, exported file references, private AI packages, voice-related artifacts, settings, caches, and location metadata associated with entries or photos on your device.
Private AI and journal content
Private AI features such as chat, reflection, memory, dictation, and voice mode are intended to run on your Mac when the required local components are installed. Foss Creative does not collect raw journal entries, raw chat history, saved locations, background facts, or detailed memory artifacts during ordinary app use.
App network requests
The app may contact external services for license activation, update checks, app downloads, optional model downloads, optional Apple MapKit requests, and voluntary support or diagnostic reports. These requests can involve ordinary request metadata such as IP address, timestamp, user agent or request headers, app version, build number, macOS version, and a random device identifier for license activation.
Mac app optional permissions
Harbour may request microphone access for dictation or voice mode, file or photo access when you import, export, or attach files, and access to photo metadata when you choose photos that contain embedded location information. If you do not use an optional feature, the related permission or network request may not be needed.
iOS app data stored on your device
Harbour Journal for iOS may store journal entries, titles, body text, tags, dates, favorites, photos, thumbnails, audio recordings, transcripts, drafts, settings, diagnostics summaries, saved location metadata, and paired-device sync metadata on your device. Harbour does not provide its own cloud account backup for iOS journal content, but iCloud Backup or computer backups may include Harbour data depending on your device backup settings.
iOS app permissions
The iOS app may request camera access when you take a journal photo or scan a QR code to pair with your Mac; microphone access when you record an audio note; selected photo access when you choose photos to attach; location access to save current location to an entry, center the map when needed, or support sunrise/sunset theme changes; and local network access to sync directly with your linked Mac.
iOS local sync
Harbour's iOS sync is local-network sync with devices you choose to pair. Sync may transfer journal entries, media, transcripts, metadata, tombstones, conflict records, device names, app version and build information, random device identifiers, public keys, and pairing or session metadata between paired devices.
iOS beta analytics and TestFlight
During iOS beta testing, Harbour may offer optional first-party analytics that send anonymous, aggregate usage and diagnostic counts to Foss Creative, such as launch, navigation, feature-use, settings, consent, failure, retry, duration, upload-health, app version, build, beta distribution, iOS version, device class, coarse locale language, and an app-generated resettable install or report identifier. These analytics are used to improve the beta, are not used for tracking, and are not linked to you. They do not include journal text, titles, transcripts, search or map queries, filenames, file paths, exact locations, entry or media IDs, peer names, public keys, QR payloads, app-lock material, raw logs, raw errors, Apple ID, email, support identity, or purchase identity. If you use TestFlight, Apple may separately provide Foss Creative with TestFlight tester feedback, screenshots, crash logs, device details, and usage information you submit or that TestFlight collects for beta testing.
iOS transcription, photos, and location
Audio transcription is intended to run on-device. Photo location metadata may be extracted from images you choose to add. Current location may be used to save a location to an entry, center the map, or support sunrise/sunset theme changes, but journal content and precise saved locations are not sent to advertising platforms.
Exports, backups, and deletion
Data stored locally remains on your device until you delete it, remove related files, or remove app data. Deleting the app may not automatically delete exports, backups, caches, downloaded AI assets, logs, synced copies on paired devices, or copied files stored elsewhere. Time Machine, iCloud, or other backups may retain copies according to your backup settings.
Accounts
Harbour Journal for iOS does not currently create a Foss Creative account. If account creation is added later, the app will provide account deletion as required by platform rules and applicable law.
