Privacy Policy

Progress saves locally. Backups are your choice.

Brashen does not require a separate Brashen account or operate an app backend that receives your practice journal. The app stores your profile, completed activities, reflections, optional ratings (including fear check ratings), custom activities, settings, and unlocked-pack information on your device.

Your practice plan and history are used on the device to choose suggestions and calculate progress. The app does not embed advertising or analytics SDKs.

Before each restore attempt, Brashen writes a local recovery copy of your current data. It is excluded from device backups and replaced by the next restore attempt. You can review or export it in Backup & restore. Deleting the app removes this local copy. Purchases, device permissions, location reminders, and Game Center settings are not imported. Restoring clears the old location reminder and Live Activities and refreshes daily reminders.

Widget extensions use a small shared snapshot of your challenge and progress. A widget is not a backup of your journal.

Optional features use Apple services.

Notifications and visible reminders

With your permission, Brashen schedules local practice notifications. Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen widgets, and Live Activities can display challenge text and progress outside the app. Choose which surfaces you want to use, particularly if others can see your screen.

Apple Watch

If you install the Apple Watch app, your iPhone sends your paired watch a small snapshot: today’s challenge title and description, its difficulty and category, and your streak, level, and practice-day count. Practices you log on the watch, including an optional yes or no answer, are sent back to your iPhone and saved there. These transfers use Apple’s WatchConnectivity, which may use Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple’s servers to reach your paired device. Brashen does not receive this data. Your journal and reflection text are not sent to the watch.

Location reminders

If you set a reminder at a place, the app stores that place’s name, coordinates, reminder radius, and challenge locally. Apple’s Core Location monitors arrival. Place search and map display use Apple’s MapKit services. Brashen does not send your location to a Brashen app backend.

Purchases

Apple handles purchases and restores through StoreKit. The app receives product and transaction information to manage access; Brashen does not receive your payment card details.

Game Center

Game Center leaderboards are off by default. If you turn them on in Brashen Settings and you’re signed in to Game Center, Brashen can submit longest-streak, total-XP, and weekly-completion scores under your Game Center identity. These are not anonymous scores. Apple manages leaderboard visibility and your Game Center identity. Journal entries and reflection text are not part of these score submissions.

See Apple’s Game Center privacy information for how Apple handles scores and profile visibility. You can turn leaderboards off again in Brashen Settings or manage your Apple Game Center settings.

Siri and Shortcuts

If you use Brashen’s App Shortcuts, Apple’s Siri and Shortcuts services process your interactions under your Apple settings. An action can retrieve a challenge or record progress in the app.

Apple’s services are governed by Apple’s privacy policy and the settings you choose.

Information you choose to share.

When you share your weekly wins, a screenshot, or a backup file, the destination you select receives that content. Review it before sending.

If you email support, we receive your email address, your message, and any attachments you include. We use that information to respond and investigate your request. Please avoid sending private journal entries, precise location details, or payment information unless they are necessary to describe the issue.

This website.

The website itself does not include advertising trackers, analytics scripts, or forms that upload your practice history. The journey preview runs in your browser without saving your selections.

Loading a website sends technical request information, such as an IP address and requested page, to its hosting provider. Hosting and email services have their own processing and retention practices. This page does not promise that those services keep no logs.

Following an external link takes you to that service, where its own privacy terms apply.

Your choices and local data.

• Change reminders, practice settings, and Game Center participation in Brashen Settings.
• Manage notification, location, and Siri permissions in your device settings. Remove the Apple Watch app from the Watch app on your iPhone.
• Stop a Live Activity from “Keep this challenge visible,” or remove a widget from your screen.
• Delete a single journal entry by swiping left on it in Journal.
• Reset completion history and progress with Settings → Reset all progress. This also discards Apple Watch logs still waiting to be saved. Purchased access, custom activities, some preferences, and the recovery copy remain. Delete custom activities separately.
• Use Settings → Backup & restore to export or restore progress. Files saved to iCloud Drive or another provider are separate from local app data. Delete unwanted copies in Files, including Recently Deleted where applicable.
• Deleting the app removes its local data, including the local recovery copy. We do not hold a server copy of your journal to restore.

Children

Brashen is designed for adults and is not directed at children. Check the App Store listing for the applicable age rating and content information.

Policy changes

We will update this page and its date when the app’s data handling changes. Automatic progress sync between iPhones or iPads is not active; any future change will be described here.

Questions about your information?

Email hello@brashen.com for privacy questions or requests about information you have sent to support. We cannot access or edit the journal stored on your device.