Privacy Policy
Last updated: 12 November 2026
Draw My Life is an emotion journal. It holds deeply personal things: your photos, your face as a drawing, what you write about your days. This page explains exactly what we store, what leaves your phone, who receives it, and how to delete all of it. Plainly.
The short version: we don't sell your data, we don't run ads, we don't track you across apps or websites, and there are no public profiles and no feed. Your journal is yours: nobody else sees your notes, your photos or your films. The one exception is one you choose — circles, small invite-only groups where the people inside see your name and your character's face with the feeling of the days you decide to share.
Who is responsible
Draw My Life is built and operated independently by its author. For any privacy matter, write to derekurizar@gmail.com.
What we store
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Email address, or your Apple / Google identity | To create and secure your account. |
| Name, language, time zone | To address you, show the app in your language, and work out correctly which day "today" is for you. |
| Up to 5 reference photos, and up to 3 of your pet if you add them | To draw your character and your pet. You can delete them from Settings at any time. |
| Your drawn character, its faces and poses (including the picture it greets you with) | This is the content of the app. |
| Your days: emotion, intensity, energy, tags, the note (max 280 characters) and any photos you attach | Your journal, your patterns and your stories. |
| Your completed daily challenges | To show your weekly progress. |
| What you send us from "Tell us something": the message, the feeling, up to 2 screenshots and the app version, your system and your language | To fix bugs and improve the app. Only the team reads it; it is never sent to an AI. |
| If you use circles: the circles you create or join, the name you appear under, the days you share (feeling and, if you turn it on, the note), the stamps you send, chat messages, the people you block and the reports you file | To make circles work and keep them safe. Details under Circles. |
| Your device's notification token | To send your own daily reminder and tell you when a story is ready. |
What leaves your phone, and who receives it
Drawing requires artificial intelligence, and that AI is not ours. Before anything is sent we ask for your explicit permission inside the app, naming each service. Sending your notes is optional and you can turn it off at any time in Settings → Artificial intelligence.
| Recipient | What it receives | Optional? |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | Your reference photos — and your pet's, if you add them — to generate the drawing of your character, its faces, its poses (including the picture it greets you with when you open the app) and your pet. | No — without this there is no character. You can delete your photos afterwards, or delete your account. |
| OpenAI | The full text of the notes for the days in a story, to turn each one into a short, neutral phrase that illustrates the scene. | Yes. Turn it off and your stories are drawn from your emotions alone. |
| RevenueCat | Your account id and the state of your Premium subscription (which plan, when it renews), so the app and our server agree on what you have paid for. Never your days, notes, photos or character. | Only by not subscribing; there is no subscription without it. |
| PostHog | Your account id and which sections and features you use (for example, that you opened Patterns or saved a day), so we know what to improve. For circles, only that something happened (you created a circle, sent an invite, asked to join, a request was decided, you opened a circle, shared a day, sent a stamp or a message, left, someone was removed, you blocked, you reported, you tapped Premium). Never what you write, the text of messages, your feelings, your tags, names, your email or who is in your circles. | Yes. Turn off “Usage statistics” in Settings › Privacy and data. |
| Expo | Your device token and the notification text, so it can be delivered (and, on iPhone, Apple's push service). Circle notifications contain only the name of the member who wrote or asked to join and the circle's name — never the text of a message, a mood or a note. | Nothing is sent if you turn notifications off. Circle notifications have their own switch in Settings, and muting a circle silences its chat. |
| Supabase and Amazon Web Services | They host the database, the storage and the servers (us-east-1 region, United States). Everything in the table above lives there. | No — they are the app's infrastructure. |
| Apple | Only when you delete your account: we revoke your "Sign in with Apple" access, as Apple requires. | Only applies if you signed in with Apple. |
About retention at OpenAI: OpenAI uses what we send only to produce the result we asked for, and does not use it to train its models. It may, under its own policies, retain it for a limited period for abuse prevention. We do not have a zero-retention agreement, and we would rather tell you that than imply otherwise.
What we do NOT do
- We don't sell or rent your data to anyone.
- We don't show ads or use advertising networks.
- We don't track you across other apps or websites. The app never shows the tracking (ATT) prompt, because there is nothing to track.
- The only usage measurement is the PostHog one described above: which sections you use, never what you write, no screen recordings, and you can turn it off in Settings.
- There are no public profiles, no feed and no people search: nobody can find you. Circles exist by invitation only, and whoever created one approves every request to join.
- We never share anything from your journal with a circle unless you choose to.
Who can see your things
Your journal: only you. Files live in private folders enforced at the database level: each user can only read their own, and images are served through temporary signed links that expire. There is no public bucket. Something leaves your journal in only two ways, and you decide both: sharing it through the iOS share sheet, or sharing a day with a circle (below).
Circles
A circle is a small, private group (up to 2 people if whoever created it is on the free plan, up to 8 with Premium). You can only get in with an invite link or code that expires after 48 hours, and whoever created the circle approves every request. Before you create or join your first one, the app shows you exactly what others will see and asks you to accept the conduct rules.
| Who | What they see |
|---|---|
| The people in that circle | The name you appear under, your character's face with the feeling of the days you share, that day's note only if you turn it on for that day, and the stamps you send. A day you don't share looks exactly like a day you didn't write. |
| The Premium people in that circle | Also the chat messages. Someone who joins later does not see messages from before they arrived. The free plan can neither read nor write in the chat. |
| Anyone outside the circle | Nothing. Your reference photos, the photos on your days, the notes you don't share, your patterns, your habits and your stories are never shared with a circle. |
Other members' faces are served through signed links our server issues after checking that you are in the same circle; nobody is given access to anyone else's folder. What you share is a copy: you can stop sharing a day, and if you delete that day, it is removed from your circles too.
Blocking and reporting. You can block anyone: neither of you sees what the other shares any more, including what was already posted, in every circle you have in common. You can report a person or a message; the reported message disappears for you and we review every report within 24 hours. A report keeps the reason, anything you write and a copy of the reported content. Chat messages pass through an automatic filter for unacceptable terms on our server. No circle content is ever sent to an AI.
How long we keep it
For as long as your account exists. You can delete your reference photos separately at any time, or delete the whole account.
- Messages and shared days: for as long as the circle exists. If whoever created it leaves or deletes their account, the circle is dissolved and everything in it is deleted. If you leave, your membership, what you shared and your stamps are deleted.
- Reports: resolved reports are deleted after 90 days; reports tied to a removed or banned person are kept for 12 months. The copy of the reported content may outlive the account of whoever wrote it for that period.
How to delete everything
In the app: Settings → Account → Delete account. It is immediate and you don't need to write to us. It removes your character, your days, your notes, your photos, your stories, your challenges and your login; if you signed in with Apple, we also revoke that access. You also leave every circle: the ones you created are dissolved and deleted, and in the others your shared days, stamps and messages disappear.
The only thing that survives is an internal record of image-generation cost, with your identifier detached from it: an anonymous accounting line with no name, email, photos or notes. And, if someone reported a message of yours, the copy kept in that report, for the period stated above.
You can also export your days to a file from Settings → Export my days.
Your rights
You can access your data (export), correct it (by editing your days and profile), delete it (account deletion) and withdraw consent for the optional AI use (Settings → Artificial intelligence) — all from inside the app, without asking us. If you are in the EU or the UK, the legal basis is your consent for the AI transfers and performance of the service for everything else. For anything else, write to us.
Children
Draw My Life is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone in that age group.
Health
Draw My Life is a personal journal, not a medical or therapeutic tool. It does not diagnose, does not treat, and is not a substitute for professional help. If you are going through a hard time, the app lists support resources under Settings → Help.
Changes
If we change what data leaves the app or who receives it, we will update this page and the app will ask for your permission again before sending anything under the new terms. We don't change the rules quietly.