Privacy Policy

MoodaNote prioritizes user privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines what personal information we collect, use, store, and protect, complying with the South Korean Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), the GDPR, and other relevant laws.

1. Information We Collect

1) Required Information

We use Firebase Anonymous Authentication as default. You don't need to provide personal info to sign up. The following are automatically generated:

• Anonymous UID: A random identifier to manage your data
• Journal data (Mood labels, activities, notes)
• AI-generated analysis results
• Nickname and profile information

2) Optional Information (SNS Login)

• SNS Account Identifiers (Google, Apple)
• Email address: For authentication and recovery
• Profile name/info provided by platforms

3) Automatically Collected Data

• Usage logs and crash reports (Firebase Analytics & Crashlytics)
• Device info (Model, OS version)
• Advertising identifiers (ADID / IDFA) for ad delivery (excluding ad-removal purchasers and existing premium purchasers)

4) Feature-specific Data

• Photos: Stored with your entries (only you can see them; never sent for AI analysis)
• Weather: Weather context is shown on entries based on location coordinates saved in previous versions. No new location is collected for weather.
• Place (optional): When you attach a place to an entry, we store its name. If you pick a place from map search or the iOS “Today” suggestions, we also store its coordinates (latitude and longitude) to show it on the map of your own entries. Place search and maps are provided by Apple Maps, so your search text and the map location are sent to Apple. Only you can see it. The place name may be sent to Google Gemini when writing Muda's reply; coordinates are never sent. It is deleted when you remove it from the entry or delete your account.
• State of Mind in Apple Health (optional, iOS): Only if you turn it on in Settings, each face you leave today is saved to the Apple Health app as an approximate pleasantness value with a matching emotion name, plus related tags such as work, family or exercise. Your writing, photos and Muda’s replies are never sent, and MoodaNote does not read any Health data. These entries are stored in Apple Health, never sent to MoodaNote’s servers, and never used for advertising or marketing. Entries in Health are outside MoodaNote’s App Lock and can be deleted in the Health app at any time. When you edit or delete an entry, the Health entry is updated or deleted too.
• Reminders (optional, iOS): Used only if you choose to add to-dos from an entry to Apple Reminders. iOS has no add-only permission, so MoodaNote asks for full access to Reminders. It adds only the to-dos you select, and reads only whether the items it added are completed and the names and colors of the lists it can add to. It does not read your other reminders. A finished item may be marked in the entry with one line, saved with the entry like any other. Reminders content is never used for advertising or marketing.
• Journaling Suggestions “Today” (optional, iOS): MoodaNote receives only the suggestions you pick yourself in Apple’s picker: photos, a reflection prompt, whether you worked out or walked (no figures or step counts) and a place (name and coordinates). Titles, contacts, music and State of Mind are not received. Nothing is taken before you choose.
• On-device AI (Apple Intelligence devices): Pre-selecting tags from your writing runs on Apple’s on-device language model, only on this device. Your text does not leave the device for this, and nothing is saved until you tap. It is on by default and can be turned off in the Me tab › Settings. It is separate from the Google Gemini processing used for Muda’s replies (Section 2).
• Siri and Shortcuts (optional): When you leave a face or a note with Siri or Shortcuts, the entry waits in a queue on your device and is saved to your account when the app opens. Answers about your recent faces or tag counts are computed from a summary kept on this device (about the last 35 days of daily faces and tag names) and call no server or AI. This summary is erased when you log out or delete your account. Siri’s speech recognition is handled by Apple. With a Focus filter, faces are hidden on widgets during the Focus you choose; that setting stays on the device.
• iPhone Search (Spotlight, optional): When on (the default), the date, face name, the day’s highlight (or first line) and tags are added to this device’s search index so you can open a day from search. Muda’s replies are not added, and this index is not sent to MoodaNote’s servers. It is removed when you turn it off, while App Lock is on, and when you log out or delete your account.
• Dictation (optional): The microphone is used only while you dictate; your voice is not saved, only the text. Speech is converted on this device when possible. On iOS 18–25, if the device cannot process a language itself, audio may be sent to Apple’s speech recognition servers, under Apple’s privacy policy. iOS asks for microphone permission (and, on some devices, speech recognition permission) the first time you use it.

2. AI Analysis and Personalization

MoodaNote uses Google's Gemini AI as a third-party AI service to provide emotional analysis and personalized insights. The following data may be sent to Google Gemini AI for processing:

• Diary text and the face (mood), tags and place name you choose — including entries saved with a face only
• Parts of your recent entries used when writing Muda's reply — earlier entries from the same day, and short excerpts from entries in the last two weeks that continue the same topic

Important: Your data is processed by Google Gemini AI solely for generating responses within the App. Your data is not used to train or improve Google's AI models. Diary entries are sent to the Google Gemini API at the time of saving to generate the AI response. Entries are not used to train AI models, and no separate model training (fine-tuning) is performed. Photos are not sent to Google Gemini AI.

3. Data Retention and Deletion

Data is deleted immediately upon account withdrawal or app deletion. AI profiles are permanently purged upon deletion.

4. Third-Party Services

To operate the service, the App uses the following third-party services provided by Google LLC:

• Google Firebase (Firestore, Auth, Storage): UID, diary data, images, usage logs — for data storage and authentication
• Google Gemini AI: Diary text, chosen moods, tags and place names, parts of recent entries — for Muda's replies and mood analysis. Data is not used to train AI models.
• Google AdMob: Advertising identifiers — for ad delivery (users who have not purchased the ad-removal product)
• Google Analytics / Crashlytics: Usage logs, error data — for service improvement and stability

Personal information may be transferred overseas (primarily to the United States) solely for service operation. Google maintains SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications.

5. Contact Us

📧 moodanote@moodalab.com