Ritual
Privacy
Ritual collects nothing about you. There is no account, and nothing on our side holds anything you record.
This page describes Ritual, the medication log for iPhone and Android. It is the whole policy — there is no second document, and nothing below narrows the sentence above.
What Ritual stores, and where it puts it
The medications you add, the doses you record and the times you recorded them, any reason you chose to write down, and your settings. That is all of it, and you typed every word of it.
It is written to a database file inside Ritual’s own storage on your phone, which no other app can read. Uninstalling Ritual deletes it.
What we collect
Nothing. Apple’s own definition is the useful one: to collect is to transmit data off the device in a way that lets someone reach it afterwards. Nothing you record is ever transmitted, to us or to anyone else, so there is nothing to collect and no purpose to describe. Ritual makes one network request, about its own code rather than about you, and it is described below.
It holds no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting and no third-party software development kit. That is a deliberate choice rather than an omission we have not got round to: a crash reporter would send us your app’s state on its worst day, and a stack trace can carry what was on the screen. Ritual does make one network request, described below, and it carries nothing you have recorded.
Who else sees it
Nobody. We share your information with no one, because we do not have it. There is no third party to hold to the same standard we hold ourselves to, no processor, and no parent, subsidiary or partner with access to anything.
What leaves your phone, and only when you ask
Two things, and you start both of them:
- An export. Ritual writes your log to a file and hands it to whatever you choose — mail, a cloud drive, a text editor. Where it goes after that is governed by whoever runs that place, not by us.
- A summary sheet. A page for a period you pick, to print or to give to someone.
Neither happens on its own, and neither passes through us on the way.
Your phone’s own backup
Your phone backs itself up, and an app has to say whether it is part of that. Ritual asks not to be.
On Android, Ritual tells the system not to include its data in Google Drive backup.
On iPhone, Ritual’s data currently sits in storage that iOS includes in an iCloud device backup, if you have iCloud Backup switched on. That backup is yours rather than ours: it is held in your own Apple account, encrypted, and we have neither access to it nor any way to ask for it. Excluding Ritual from it needs a change we have not shipped yet. When we have, this paragraph will say so instead.
The one thing Ritual asks a server
When it starts, Ritual asks whether a newer version of its own code has been published, and downloads it if so. That is the whole of its network activity, and it is about the app rather than about you: the question it asks is which version it is running, on which kind of phone. It sends nothing you have recorded, and there is nothing in the answer that identifies you.
It exists so that a wrong word can be corrected in a day instead of waiting on a store review. The check happens in the background and never delays the app starting, so a bad connection costs you nothing.
Reminders
Reminders are off until you turn them on. When you do, your phone schedules them and your phone shows them. Ritual has no push server and never sends you anything; what a reminder says is composed on your device from your own log.
Children
Ritual is not directed at children, and it collects nothing from anyone, at any age.
How long it is kept, and how it is deleted
We keep nothing, for no length of time, because nothing reaches us. Your own copy stays on your phone for as long as you keep the app, and goes when the app goes.
Your rights
Laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give you the right to ask a company what it holds about you, to correct it, to be sent a copy, and to have it erased. We hold nothing about you, so there is no request to make and nothing we could return.
What those rights amount to in practice is in the app rather than in a letter to us:
- To read it, it is on the screen.
- To correct it, change or remove the entry.
- To take it with you, export the file.
- To erase all of it, delete the app.
If this page changes
The date at the bottom changes with it. If a future version of Ritual ever sends anything about you anywhere, this page will describe what and why before that version is released, and the app will say so on the screen as well.
Who publishes Ritual
Ritual is published by Foreverworks. If anything here is unclear, or turns out not to match what the app does, write to support@ritual.day and say so.