Privacy Policy
About this revision: Added explanations of how photos are stored, processed, and deleted.
1. What the app stores
Dimity stores only the records you enter yourself. Specifically:
- The name of each entry and its start and end date and time
- The names, colors, and on/off settings of your ratings
- The values you enter for each entry (0–10 or 0–100)
- Notes you optionally write
- Photos you optionally attach
- The time each record was created, and an internal ID used to tell records apart
Dimity has no account registration. There is no screen that asks for your name or email address, and no functionality that reads advertising identifiers or your location.
2. Photos
The app receives a photo only when you pick one in the iOS photo picker. It never reads your photo library as a whole.
A photo you pick is lightly processed when saved: it is downscaled so its longer side is at most 2048px and re-encoded as HEIC or JPEG, and a small 264px-square thumbnail is created for list views. During this re-encoding, image metadata such as EXIF and GPS is not carried over — the location where a photo was taken is not stored. The visible content of the photo itself (what people and places look like) is kept as is.
Photos are stored, like your entries, in the app's own storage area on your device. They are not shown in widgets and are not included in PDF or CSV exports.
In Settings, you can check how many photos are stored and how much space they use. You can also delete photos — one at a time or in bulk — while keeping the entries themselves.
3. Calendar import
The app reads your calendar only when you choose to import from the log screen. iOS shows its permission screen at that point, and if you allow access, the app reads — on the device — the events that start on the day you are viewing. The list shown before import contains each event's title, start and end date and time, and calendar name.
The events you select are saved as independent entries. Only three things are saved: the title, the start date and time, and the duration. The original event's ID, location, attendees, meeting URLs, notes, and calendar name are not saved.
Dimity never writes to your calendar. There is no syncing with the original events, no automatic import, and no reading in the background.
4. Widgets and in-app purchases
To show your records in Home Screen widgets, a minimal set of data is placed in a shared storage area on your device. This shared area is used only by Dimity and its widgets. It contains the entry names, start and end times, and the names, colors, and values of your ratings for the current week or the last four hours. Notes and the main database (the SwiftData store) are never placed in the shared area. The shared files use iOS data protection.
The widget feature is a non-consumable in-app purchase, bought once. Payment is processed by the App Store, so you never enter payment details into Dimity and Dimity never stores them. The only thing the app stores on your device is the verified purchase state, and that state is never sent to any developer server.
5. Where your data lives
All entries and photos are stored in the app's own storage area on your device. Dimity Support does not collect them through the app. The app uses no SDKs for advertising, tracking, or usage analytics.
6. Backups
Your records are flagged to be excluded from OS device backups. The excluded storage covers entry names, start and end times, rating values, notes, and photos. Dimity does not offer cloud sync or restoring records from a backup.
App settings such as rating names, colors, and on/off states, on the other hand, may be included in the standard OS backup.
Note that the backup-exclusion flag is a request to the OS to treat the data as excluded; it is not a guarantee that the data will be excluded in every situation.
7. Sharing PDF and CSV files
You can export your records as a PDF or CSV. When you start a share from Settings, a file for the selected week is created temporarily and handed to the standard iOS share sheet. You choose where it goes. Photos are not included in either the PDF or the CSV.
Once shared, a file is handled under the privacy policy and terms of the service or app you sent it to. Dimity Support does not record where you shared a file and has no way to manage files after they are shared.
8. Retention and deletion
Records on your device remain until you delete them. What is removed depends on how you delete:
- Deleting an entry also deletes the photo attached to it.
- Deleting only photos from Settings keeps the entry names, times, rating values, and notes.
- Deleting the app itself deletes all of the app's data on the device.
Please note: after changing devices, a device failure, or deleting the app, there is no way to restore your records through Dimity. Save the weeks you want to keep as PDF or CSV in advance. Files you have shared or saved are yours to manage and delete in the places you put them.
9. Security
Dimity uses iOS data protection, which is configured so that files it creates under protection cannot be accessed while the device is locked. This does not amount to a guarantee of complete security of the device or of any storage method.
10. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the changes and a new revision date will be posted on this page. If the way data is handled changes in a substantive way, notice will also be given in the app or on the App Store as appropriate.
11. Contact
Dimity Support
Email: support@dimity.app
The email address and message you send are used only to reply to your inquiry. There is no need to include the content of your records — entry names, notes, or photos — when contacting support.