Cairn is a personal awareness app for iOS and watchOS. Everything you capture in Cairn stays on your own device and in your own iCloud account. We do not run any backend of our own. We do not collect, receive, transmit, sell, share, or have access to your data.
What Cairn stores
When you use Cairn, the app stores the following on your device:
- The moments you capture — a timestamp, a category (one of Contentment, Desire, Aversion, Restlessness, Heaviness, or Doubt), and any reflection text you choose to add later.
- Your local settings and preferences within the app.
That is the entire dataset. Cairn does not access your location, microphone, camera, photos, or contacts, and collects no analytics.
Where your data goes
If you are signed in to iCloud and have iCloud Drive enabled, Cairn syncs your moments across your own Apple devices using Apple's CloudKit service. This sync is entirely between your devices and Apple's servers — no third party (including us) is involved, and we have no ability to read or modify what is synced.
If you are not signed in to iCloud, your moments live only on the device where you captured them and are not synced anywhere.
Apple's handling of the data it syncs on your behalf is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.
Analytics and tracking
Cairn contains no analytics SDKs, no crash reporting SDKs, no advertising SDKs, no tracking pixels, and no third-party services of any kind. The app does not send network requests to any servers we operate, because we do not operate any.
Apple's App Store may collect its own aggregate metrics about downloads and crashes; that data is Apple's, not ours, and is covered by Apple's policies.
Deleting your data
You can delete individual moments from within the app. You can delete all of your Cairn data at any time by deleting the app from your device and, if you use iCloud sync, by removing Cairn's data from your iCloud storage settings (the exact menu path varies by iOS version).
Because we do not receive or store any of your data on our own servers, there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page and, for material changes, note them here.
Contact
Questions about privacy? hello@noticedaily.com.