Rough Day Kit Privacy Policy

Rough Day Kit is a small kit for hard days: letters you write to yourself, kind words people said, messages people sent you, small things to do, and ways to ground yourself. This policy says what happens to what you put in it. The short version: it stays on your iPhone.

What we collect

Nothing. We do not have servers for Rough Day Kit, and the app does not send anything you put in it to us or anyone else. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking of any kind. We cannot see your kit, and we could not hand it to anyone if asked.

What stays on your iPhone

Everything you add stays in the app’s own storage on your phone, protected by iOS: your letters and recordings, kind words and any pictures you chose to keep, messages from people, your small things, calm photos, your Ground me choices, and notes you left for next time. The help country you choose is kept on your phone too.

• Photos you pick are copied into the app with their location and other details removed. The app never asks for access to your photo library; the iOS picker shares only the photos you choose.
• Screenshots you add as kind words are read on your phone, using Apple’s on-device text recognition. Nothing is sent anywhere to read them. The picture is kept only if you ask.
• Recordings are made only while you are on the recording screen, and only if you allow the microphone.
• The Share button: when you share text or a picture to Rough Day Kit from another app, it is held on your phone until you next open Rough Day Kit, then moved into your kit.
• App lock uses Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode through iOS. The app never sees your face or passcode.

Backups you make

Rough Day Kit can save an encrypted backup file when you ask it to. You choose the passphrase and where the file goes, for example Files or iCloud Drive. Wherever you put it, the contents are encrypted with your passphrase; we never have it and cannot recover it.

Your iPhone’s own iCloud or computer backup may include the app’s data, as it does for most apps. You can turn that off for this app in the iPhone’s own backup settings.

Gift packs

A gift pack someone makes for you is an encrypted file protected by a passphrase they give you. Opening it happens on your phone. Nothing about the gift, the sender or you is sent to us.

Links to other websites

Need more help? and Where ideas come from contain links and phone numbers. Tapping one opens your phone app or Safari; Rough Day Kit does not send anything about you when it does.

Deleting your data

Delete anything in the app and it is removed from your phone, including any recording or picture with it. Settings › Delete everything removes all of it. Deleting the app also removes it.

Children

Rough Day Kit is not directed at children under 13, and it collects no data from anyone.

Not emergency support

Rough Day Kit does not monitor what you add and cannot contact anyone for you. If you might be in danger, call your local emergency number. Need more help? lists numbers for your country.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.