Win-Win Technologies LLC
Recursivity Privacy Policy
Effective 4 October 2026. Last updated 14 October 2026.
The short version. Recursivity has no accounts and no sign in. We do not run analytics, crash reporting or any tracking of our own, and we never receive your journal entries.
The free version shows ads, and Google's ad service collects data to do that. Buying the one time Pro upgrade removes the ads and the ad service with them.
Everything you write stays in the app's own storage on your phone. If your phone's backup is switched on, your phone's operating system includes that storage in your backup, which is explained below.
Who we are
Recursivity is made by Win-Win Technologies LLC. If you have a question about this policy or about your data, write to hello@winwin-technologies.com and a person will answer.
What we collect ourselves
Nothing. Recursivity has no account system, no login, no newsletter and no server of ours for your data to be sent to. We do not know who you are, we do not have a list of users, and we cannot identify your device. We do not use analytics software, crash reporting services, advertising identifiers of our own, or any other tracking.
What follows describes the three ways data nonetheless moves, and who handles it.
1. Your journal, your settings, and your phone's backup
Journal entries, your channel choices, the subjects you have asked not to see, and the list of what you have recently been shown are all written to a database inside the app's private storage on your phone. None of it is transmitted to us, and we have no way to read it.
Your phone's own backup
This is the part worth reading carefully, because it is the one case where your writing leaves the handset.
If backup is switched on for your phone, your operating system copies the app's storage, which includes your journal, into your own cloud backup: Google Drive on Android, iCloud on iOS. We deliberately exclude the app's large library of quotations from that backup, because it ships inside the app and would otherwise waste your backup allowance, but the journal is included so a new phone can restore it.
That copy belongs to your own Google or Apple account. It is not sent to us, we cannot read it, and on Android it does not count against your Drive storage. It is governed by Google's privacy policy or Apple's rather than by this one. If you would rather it did not happen, turn off backup for Recursivity in your phone's backup settings.
Exporting
The app can export your journal as a plain text or JSON file and hand it to your phone's share sheet. Where that file then goes is your choice, and whatever you send it to is covered by that service's own policy, not ours. Nothing is exported unless you ask for it.
2. Advertising
The free version of Recursivity shows a single banner supplied by Google AdMob. To select and measure ads, Google may collect your device's advertising identifier, its IP address and the rough location it implies, general information about the device, how you interact with the ad, and diagnostic information about how the ad performed. Google uses these to choose and measure ads and to detect fraud. We never see this data in a form that identifies you; we see only aggregate earnings.
How Google uses it is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
- Where the law requires it, the app shows Google's consent form before any ad loads, and your answer decides whether ads are personalised.
- You can reset or delete your advertising identifier at any time in your phone's settings, under Privacy or Ads.
- Buying Pro removes advertising entirely. It is a one time purchase, and with it the ad service is not initialised at all.
3. Purchases
If you buy the Pro upgrade, the transaction is handled by Google Play or the Apple App Store. We never see your card details, name or address. We use RevenueCat to check whether a purchase is valid, which involves an anonymous identifier generated for your installation and the receipt issued by the store. See RevenueCat's privacy policy, Google's, and Apple's.
4. Links to other websites
Many entries credit a source, and tapping that credit opens the source in your browser: Project Gutenberg, Bible Gateway, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Wikipedia and similar. Those sites are not ours and their own privacy policies apply once you arrive.
In summary
| Data | Who handles it | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Journal entries, settings, display history | Your phone only, plus your own cloud backup if enabled | To run the app and to give your writing back to you a year later |
| Advertising ID, IP (used to estimate your general location), device info, in-app interactions, diagnostics | Google AdMob | To show and measure ads in the free version, and to detect fraud. Removed by buying Pro |
| Anonymous install ID, store receipt | RevenueCat, Google Play, Apple | To confirm a Pro purchase and restore it on a new device |
Children
Recursivity is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. Some entries draw on history and literature and may describe events that are not suitable for younger readers; the app's settings let anyone switch off subjects such as death, war or violence.
Keeping and deleting data
Because we hold nothing, there is nothing on our side to delete. To remove everything the app has stored:
- Clear a single journal entry by deleting its text, which removes that day entirely.
- Use your phone's Settings, Apps, Recursivity, Storage, Clear data to wipe all app data at once.
- Uninstall the app, which removes its storage from the device.
- If you want the backup copy gone too, remove Recursivity's data from your Google or Apple account backup in your phone's backup settings.
Export your journal first if you want to keep it. An uninstall does not ask twice.
Your rights
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or a US state with a privacy statute such as California, you have rights to access, correct, delete and port your personal data, and to object to its processing. In our case the practical answer is unusual: we hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to produce or erase. For the data held by Google or RevenueCat, their policies above describe how to exercise those rights with them directly. You can withdraw advertising consent at any time by resetting your advertising identifier, or remove advertising altogether by buying Pro.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross context behavioural advertising beyond the advertising described above.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update the date at the top and, where the change is significant, say so in the app. The current version always lives at this address.