Tick has no server.

01What Tick stores on your device

• Profile details you choose to provide, including your goals and long-term vision
• Journal entries and their titles
• Daily habits, completions, and challenge progress
• Journal analysis results and mood trend data
• The name of a place, when you choose to add one to an entry
• Reminder preferences and language settings
• Your Sign in with Apple identifier, used to restore your session

None of this is transmitted to us. We have no way to read it, retrieve it, or restore it. It is included in your device backups, because it lives in the app's local storage — those are handled by Apple under Apple's terms, and we have no access to them either.

02Journal analysis

Tick can analyse your journal entries to produce a mood score, a short reflection, and a summary of the last 30 days when you ask for one. This runs on your device. We never see your entries, or the analysis produced from them.

03Location

Location is off until you ask for it. If you tap "Add location" while writing an entry, Tick asks iOS for your location once and turns it into the name of the town or city you are in. That name is stored with the entry on your device, alongside a coordinate rounded to roughly 100 metres — the app only ever displays the name.

Turning a coordinate into a place name is done by Apple's Maps service, so that coordinate is sent to Apple for the lookup, under Apple's privacy policy. It is not sent to us, and no location leaves your device for any other purpose.

Removing the location from an entry also stops Tick adding one to new entries, and you can switch location off entirely in iOS Settings. Entries written before you turn it on never gain a location.

04Sign in with Apple, and guest mode

Continue as guest and no identity of any kind is involved. Everything stays on the device.

Sign in with Apple and Apple confirms your identity to the app and provides an identifier. Tick stores it locally so it can restore your session on that device. It is not sent to us, because there is no server to send it to. If you use Hide My Email, we never see a real address. Signing in does not create a Dualshade account — there is no such thing.

05Notifications

If you enable reminders, Tick schedules local notifications on your device. These are generated by your iPhone, not sent by us, and no data leaves your device to produce them. You can turn reminders off in the app or revoke the permission in iOS Settings.

06Widget and Shortcuts

Tick can show summary progress in a home screen widget and respond to system shortcuts. These read the same on-device data described above and send nothing anywhere.

07When you email us

Tick includes a feedback link that opens your own mail app with a message addressed to us. This is one of the two places where we do receive personal information. If you write to us, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to put in the message, and it stays in our mailbox until we delete it. We use it only to read and answer you. Nothing is sent unless you write and send the message yourself.

08The mailing list

The other place. If you enter your address on dualshade.xyz, it is stored on this website's own hosting — not with a mailing provider, and it is never passed to anyone else. There is no tracking pixel in the mail, so we do not know whether you opened it or clicked anything.

You get a confirmation link first, and nothing counts as a subscription until you open it. Until then the address sits as an unconfirmed request and is discarded if you never confirm. We store the address, whether it is confirmed, and the times of both steps — nothing else.

Every mail carries a one-click unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing deletes the row rather than flagging it, so there is nothing left behind to suppress or re-market to. You can also write to support@dualshade.xyz and it will be removed by hand.

09What Tick never does

• No analytics. We do not measure how you use the app.
• No advertising. No ad networks and no advertising identifiers.
• No tracking. Not across other apps, not across websites. There are no third-party SDKs in the app.
• No data brokers. We sell nothing, because we collect nothing.
• No profiling and no automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

This website sets no cookies and counts nothing. The only fonts it loads come from Google Fonts, which sees the request your browser makes for them.

10Keeping and deleting

Your app data stays on your device until you remove it. Profile → Account → Delete account wipes everything Tick has stored, and deleting the app removes it too. There is nothing for us to delete on our side, because there is nothing on our side — apart from the mailing list, which you can remove yourself with one click.

11Children

Tick is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children — or from anyone — beyond the two cases named above.

12Your rights

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have the right to access, correct, delete and port your personal data, and to complain to a supervisory authority. For app data this is unusual in one respect: we cannot exercise those rights for you, because we do not hold the data — it is on your device and under your control. For the mailing list, write to us and we will answer.