Privacy policy
Effective September 29, 2026Your private journal
Cute Note is operated by ColorfulMoon. This policy takes effect on September 29, 2026. The app works without an account. Your diary text, moods, notebooks, decorations, and selected photos are stored on your device. We do not operate a diary-upload service, advertising SDK, or third-party analytics SDK in this version.
Photos and local storage
If you choose to add a photo, the system photo picker gives the app access to the item you select. A copy is kept with your journal. The app does not need access to your entire photo library. Journal data and automatic local backups are marked as excluded from system backup. There is no account, cloud sync, or automatic journal upload. If you choose Camera, the app requests camera permission and saves your accepted photo locally, without writing it to the photo library.
Notifications and privacy lock
Daily reminders are optional and are scheduled locally only after you grant notification permission. Reminders never contain journal text. If you enable the journal lock, Apple’s LocalAuthentication service checks Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. The app receives the authentication result, never your biometric templates or passcode. The lock is an access control feature and does not add separate encryption to exported files.
Private PIN and photo editing
You may set a separate six-digit journal PIN. Its salted password-derived verifier and failed-attempt counter are kept in this device’s Keychain, not in exported backups or our servers. The device owner can use system authentication to recover access. Photo cropping, manual erasing, and supported automatic background removal run locally; no photo is sent to a processing server.
Backups and sharing
You can export a backup using the system share sheet and restore one you choose. Backup files contain your entries, photos, and deleted entries and are not encrypted. Protect them and only share with destinations you trust. We do not receive these files unless you deliberately send them to us. Third-party storage and sharing services have their own privacy policies. Image and PDF exports are created locally and are sent only to destinations you choose. Home-screen widgets show a date, artwork, and writing shortcuts, never your journal content. Ambient sounds are bundled in the app and play locally.
Optional local backups
If you enable automatic local backups, the app saves copies after changes while it is running. The seven most recent copies remain inside the app on this device, with system file protection and excluded from system backup. They include diary content, attachments, drafts, and recently deleted entries. No folder-access bookmark, cloud provider, account, or network connection is used. You can restore or delete these copies in Settings. Turning the feature off keeps existing copies; erasing all journal data or removing the app deletes them. Losing this device also loses these copies. Exported files have no additional application encryption and leave the device only through destinations you deliberately choose.
Your choices and deletion
You can change language, reminders, sound, and lock settings at any time. Deleted journal entries remain in Recently Deleted until you restore or permanently delete them. You can erase all journal data in Settings, or remove the app. Erasing all journal data also removes automatic local backup copies. Files you previously exported must be deleted separately. Because we do not hold your journal, we cannot recover it or delete copies held elsewhere.
Website and support
Opening this policy, the terms, or help pages connects to our hosting service and its delivery provider, which may process your IP address, request time, and browser information to deliver and protect the website. These pages use no advertising trackers or analytics cookies. If you contact support, we use the information you provide to answer your request and keep it only as needed to resolve the matter and meet applicable obligations. Do not send private diary content unless necessary.
Children, changes, and contact
The app is a general-purpose journal. We do not knowingly collect children’s personal information through an account or tracking system. A parent or guardian may contact us about information sent to support. We may update this policy when features or practices change, with the effective date shown here. Contact ColorfulMoon through the support page to ask about access, correction, deletion, or this policy.