Privacy Policy
Last updated 13 August 2026
The short version. DAWN has no accounts and no user profiles. Your sessions, photos, streaks and settings are stored on your own device and are never uploaded — except one thing you can choose to share, anonymously, which is deleted within a day. There are no advertising or analytics trackers in the app.
What stays on your device
All of your history lives in local storage on your phone and is never sent anywhere:
- Logged sessions: the date, the number of minutes, and the sky condition recorded with them
- Photos you take after a session, and the day they belong to
- Your personal target, streaks, reminder preference and haptics preference
Deleting the app deletes this data. Because there is no account, we cannot see it, restore it or transfer it for you.
Location
If you grant location permission, your coordinates are used on the device to calculate local sunrise and sunset, the position of the sun, and the live night sky. Your coordinates are stored on the device only. They are sent to one third party in a single case, described below.
If you decline the permission, DAWN uses an approximate city location instead and says so in the interface. The app remains fully usable.
Weather
To fill in today's sky condition, the app requests a forecast from Open-Meteo, sending approximate coordinates with the request. No identifier accompanies the request, and Open-Meteo states that it does not require an account or API key for this use. See their terms and privacy information.
The daily counter
The line reading "N more people met the sun today" is produced by incrementing a single number on our server for the current date. The request contains no identifier, no location and no device information. The server stores a count per day, not a list of people.
Today's skies — the shared wall
If, and only if, you explicitly tap to share after a session, DAWN uploads:
- a reduced copy of the photo you took
- the number of minutes of that session
- the sky condition (clear, partly cloudy or overcast)
No name, no account, no location and no device identifier is attached. Shared photos are visible to other people using the app on that day and are automatically deleted once the day has passed. Any photo can be reported from inside the app; a reported photo is hidden for the reporter immediately, and removed for everyone after two reports.
Do not photograph anything you would not want other people to see. Once shared, a photo cannot be recalled by you before its automatic deletion; write to us and we will remove it.
Notifications
If you turn on the morning reminder, notifications are scheduled locally on your device for upcoming sunrises. No push server is involved and no token is transmitted.
Software updates
The app checks our update service for a newer version of its interface bundle. That request contains the version the app is currently running and standard network information such as your IP address, which our infrastructure provider (Cloudflare) processes to serve the response. It is not used to build a profile.
What DAWN never does
- No advertising, no ad identifiers, no ad networks
- No analytics or attribution SDKs, no behavioural tracking
- No selling or sharing of personal information with third parties
- No accounts, no email collection inside the app
Children
DAWN is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them. Since no personal information is collected from anyone, this is straightforward in practice.
Your rights
Because your data is stored on your device, you exercise access and deletion directly: view it in the app, or delete the app to erase it. For anything shared to the public wall, contact us and it will be removed ahead of its automatic expiry.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change with it, and material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions, removal requests or anything else: support@godawn.app.