Privacy Policy

01Who we are

Ataraxia is made by Ronin Studio, based in Victoria, Australia ("we", "us"). This policy explains how we handle personal information in the Ataraxia iOS app (the "App") and on this website. We handle personal information in line with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

Questions or requests can be sent to hello@roninstudio.com.au.

02Information you create in the App

Depending on the features you use, the App stores:

• Journal: morning and evening entries, free-form writing, Exegesis reflections, mood ratings, and text recognised from handwritten pages you scan.
• Workout: workouts, exercises, sets, weights, reps, effort ratings, notes and templates.
• Nutrition: foods, meals, calorie and macro goals, and water intake.
• Physique: body weight, check-in notes and progress photos, plus body details used to estimate goals (height, birth year, sex, activity level and goal weight).
• Profile and settings: an optional display name, theme, daily schedule and reminder times.

Some of this, such as mood, body weight and fitness information, may be health information. We use it only to provide the App's features to you.

03Your account and sync

Automatic account

You don't need to sign up to use Ataraxia. When your iPhone is online, the App creates an anonymous account for your install in the background. This account is identified only by a random ID and is not linked to your name or email.

Signing in (optional)

You can link your data to a permanent account with Sign in with Apple or an email address. With Sign in with Apple we receive only your email address, which may be a private relay address if you choose "Hide My Email". We don't ask for your name.

What syncs

When sync is available on your account, your journal, workout, nutrition and physique entries, profile and settings are copied to our servers so they are backed up and available on your other devices. Sync may require an Ataraxia Pro subscription.

Progress photos are uploaded only if you turn on Back up photos, which is off by default and requires a signed-in account. Turning it off deletes the cloud copies.

What never leaves your iPhone

• AI reflections and summaries
• Images of handwritten pages you scan (only the recognised text is kept)
• Height, birth year, sex, activity level and goal weight
• Reminder settings
• Face ID data, which is handled entirely by iOS. We never receive it.

04AI reflections

Weekly and monthly reflections are generated on your iPhone by Apple's on-device language model (Apple Intelligence). Your journal text is not sent to us or to any third-party AI service to create them, and the reflections are stored only on your device.

05Camera and photos

The App asks for camera access so you can scan handwritten journal pages and take progress photos. Text recognition happens on your iPhone using Apple's Vision framework, and the scanned image is discarded afterwards.

Progress photos are stored inside the App, not in your photo library. Location and other metadata are removed when a photo is saved. Progress photos are excluded from iCloud and device backups.

06Subscriptions and purchases

Purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details. To unlock Ataraxia Pro on your account, we receive and store transaction information from Apple, such as the product purchased, transaction identifiers, purchase and expiry dates, and trial, renewal or refund status.

07Notifications

Reminders are scheduled locally on your iPhone and only if you turn them on. They contain short prompts such as "Close your day with your evening journal" and never include your entries. We don't send push notifications from our servers.

08What we don't do

• We don't include analytics, advertising, crash-reporting or tracking tools in the App.
• We don't track you across other apps or websites.
• We don't sell, rent or share your personal information for marketing.
• We don't use your content to train AI models.

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone settings, Apple may give us aggregated usage statistics and crash reports. These don't identify you.

09Service providers and where your data is stored

We use a small number of providers to run the App:

• Supabase hosts our database, accounts and photo storage. Data is stored on Amazon Web Services infrastructure in Sydney, Australia.
• Apple provides Sign in with Apple, App Store purchases, and the on-device frameworks described above.

These providers process data on our behalf. Their staff or systems may be located outside Australia, including in the United States.

10Device backups

Data stored on your iPhone may be included in your iCloud or computer backups, depending on your device settings. Those backups are controlled by you and Apple. Progress photos are excluded.

11Security

Data is sent between the App and our servers over HTTPS. Access to synced data is restricted so each account can only reach its own records, and photo storage is private. No system is perfectly secure, and we can't guarantee the security of information sent over the internet.

12Keeping and deleting your data

We keep synced data for as long as your account exists. To delete your account and all synced data, including backed-up photos, email hello@roninstudio.com.au from the address linked to your account, or tell us how you signed in. We will confirm when it's done. An in-app deletion option is coming.

Signing out removes your synced data from that iPhone but does not delete it from our servers. Deleting the App removes the data stored on your iPhone, but not data already synced to an anonymous account. Deleted data may remain in our providers' routine backups for a limited time before it is overwritten.

13Children

Ataraxia is intended for people aged 16 and over. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has used the App, contact us and we will delete their data.

14Your rights

You can ask to access, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you. If you are in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another region with similar laws, you may also have rights to data portability, to restrict or object to processing, and to withdraw consent. We process your data to provide the App you asked for, and with your consent where required.

To make a request, email hello@roninstudio.com.au. If you're not satisfied with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au) or your local data protection authority.

15This website

This website doesn't use cookies, analytics or advertising. Your light or dark theme choice is saved in your browser's local storage and never sent to us. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs, such as IP address and browser type, for security and reliability.

16Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the App changes. We will update the effective date above, and tell you in the App about significant changes.

17Contact

Ronin Studio, Victoria, Australia
hello@roninstudio.com.au