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Privacy Policy

This page explains what stays on your iPhone, what minimal diagnostics may be collected, what is sent when you use Chat, and what happens when you add photos or videos.

Last updated: 2026-05-26

What stays on your iPhone

Bear Days keeps care records, notes, photos, videos, Live Photos, and Chat history on your iPhone. They are protected by Apple device data protection and file encryption.

This includes:

  • Child profiles you create.
  • Care records such as feedings, sleep, diapers, growth, milestones, vaccines, medicines, visits, symptoms, and moments.
  • Photos, videos, and Live Photos you attach.
  • Chat history saved locally on this iPhone.

What we do not upload

When you log care outside Chat, your records, photos, and notes are not uploaded to our servers.

You do not need an account to log records.

We do not use your care data for ads, and we do not sell your data.

Chat and dictation

When you tap Send in Chat, Bear Days sends that message through its chat service directly to a GDPR-compliant LLM service provider; depending on your region and service availability, that provider may be OpenAI or DeepSeek. Chat uses the text to answer and suggest record drafts. Suggested record cards are not saved as care records unless you explicitly save them.

When you ask Chat to read or summarize local care history, Bear Days may include a limited, redacted projection of the relevant local records in that Chat request, such as record type, time, a short app-generated summary, or aggregate counts, durations, and volumes. This redacted projection is sent directly to the GDPR-compliant LLM service provider as part of the Chat request so the model can answer from those local facts. It is trimmed down for the model, not raw record data or a full database upload. It does not include attachments, photos, videos, or Live Photos, and does not make our servers or LLM service providers the source of truth for your care records.

Bear Days does not store Chat history in cloud storage. Chat history stays on this iPhone. The Chat request is temporarily processed by our chat service and the LLM service provider so Chat can respond; our servers do not store any data from that Chat request, including messages, redacted projections, or record drafts.

When you use dictation, Apple's iOS Speech Recognition processes your voice and places the transcript in the composer; your voice does not pass through our servers. Bear Days sends that transcribed text only when you tap Send.

Retention, deletion, and withdrawal

You can choose not to use Chat. If you do not use Chat, your care records, child profile, notes, photos, videos, Live Photos, and attachments do not leave this device as part of core tracking. You can still log care manually.

You can delete records, attachments, and child profiles in the app; deletion removes the corresponding local data from this device. For privacy, diagnostics, or Chat-request access, correction, or deletion questions, contact us at the address below and we will handle the request under applicable law.

Diagnostics

If the app crashes or runs into an error, Bear Days may use a GDPR-compliant third-party performance tool (Sentry) to collect the minimum information needed to understand what happened.

Diagnostics are scrubbed and do not include your record text, photos, videos, audio, notes, Chat content, or child-identifying information you entered. We use diagnostics only to fix bugs and improve app quality.

Website analytics

This website (beardays.app) may use scrubbed website visit statistics to understand how visitors find Bear Days.

We do not send anything from inside the iPhone app into website analytics.

In the EU, EEA, UK, and Switzerland, the site asks for consent before enabling analytics. You can decline; analytics will then stay off and we will not write analytics cookies. Elsewhere, analytics is enabled by default; you can opt out at any time by clearing the beardays_analytics_consent entry in your browser storage. We do not use this data for ads, and we do not sell it.

Photos and videos you choose

When you add attachments, iOS opens the system photo picker so you can choose specific photos, videos, or Live Photos.

Bear Days only receives the items you choose. The current app does not request camera or notification permission. It requests microphone and Speech Recognition permission only when you use Chat dictation.

Children’s privacy

The app is designed to help caregivers track care for young children. Caregivers, not children, are the users of the app. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information directly from children.

If you create a child profile, add records, or submit child-related information in Chat, please make sure you are the child’s guardian or have the guardian’s authorization.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the product evolves. Material changes will be reflected on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. If we introduce features that change how data is collected, we will update this page before those features launch.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to [email protected].