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Aethyr ADHD

iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

• Your information is kept on your device. You can keep a sealed backup in your own private iCloud (chapter 4).
• Some requests to the on-device assistant may use Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (chapter 6).
• With your permission it reads and writes Apple Health data (chapter 7) and uses location (chapter 8).
• Weather goes to Apple WeatherKit. Looking something up sends your typed words to Wikipedia, only after asking.
• Deleting: chapter 13.

Android and Wear OS

• Your information is kept on your device. Android’s own Google backup keeps a copy in your Google account if you have it on; chats and private writing are left out (chapter 4).
• The assistant runs on the phone (Gemini Nano). Reads Health Connect with your permission (chapter 7).
• Weather goes to Google’s Weather API with your location rounded to about a kilometre. Maps are Google Maps.
• Music loads a web player from aethyradhd.com. Wear OS talks to your phone directly.
• Deleting and Recently deleted: chapter 13.

Aethyr Family

iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

• Your family’s data is kept on your device. A sealed backup goes to your own private iCloud.
• A household with only iPhones is shared through your family’s own iCloud (CloudKit), which Aethyr does not seal (chapter 10). A household with an Android phone uses Google Firebase, sealed.
• Location is shared only when you press I need you or On my way (chapter 8). Children: chapter 11.
• Weather goes to Apple WeatherKit; the assistant uses Apple’s models, and Private Cloud Compute when needed.

Android and Wear OS

• Your family’s data is kept on your device. Android’s Google backup keeps a copy in your Google account if you have it on.
• Households are held in Google Firestore (London) under our account. Content is sealed on the phone; Google can see the kind of record and when it changed (chapter 10).
• Weather and places go to Google; the assistant runs on the phone (Gemini Nano).
• Recently deleted keeps what you delete, and the app never empties it (chapter 13).

Aethyr Habits

iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

• Your habits are kept on your device and, if you leave “Sync with iCloud” on, in your own private iCloud.
• A place you choose for a reminder is saved with the habit (chapter 8). Apple Health is read only.
• Longer coach answers may use Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (chapter 6).
• Friends circles use iCloud sharing today and Google Firestore from the next release (chapter 10).
• Deleting: chapter 13.

Android and Wear OS

• Your habits are kept on your device. Android’s Google backup keeps a copy in your Google account if you have it on. No sync between devices, no location, no Health Connect.
• Smart help runs on the phone (Gemini Nano). Purchases go through Google Play.
• Deleting and Recently deleted: chapter 13.

Who we are

Applies to: All six apps

The controller of your information is Aethyr ADHD Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17469084, registered office 52 Downsview, Sandown, PO36 9NY. We publish all six apps.

“iPhone” on this page includes iPad and Apple Watch where the app has them. “Android” includes Wear OS where the app has it.

This page follows UK GDPR. If you think we have handled your information badly, tell us first. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk, whether or not you tell us.

The short version

Applies to: All six apps

None of the six apps has a sign-up, a password or an Aethyr account. None has advertising, analytics or tracking. We do not sell, rent or share your information.

We run no servers for the apps. Where an app shares information between people (Aethyr Family households, and Friends circles in Aethyr Habits from its next release), it uses Google’s Firebase under our account. Names, messages and the like are sealed on the phone before they are sent, so we cannot read them, and we do not read the rest. Chapter 10 says exactly what is sealed and what is not.

The apps differ in what leaves the phone, and to whom. Chapter 4 lists every service, app by app. Where a fact is true only from a particular version, the sentence says so.

What is stored on your device

Applies to: All six apps

Everything you put into an app is kept on your device. Nothing is sent to us.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr ADHD for Android

Your thoughts, feelings, ideas, reminders, tasks, diary, medication records and dose logs, saved items, places and journeys, and settings. The private vault and your chats with the on-device assistant are kept sealed on the phone.

On Android they are in a local database and app settings. Chats and private writing are encrypted with a key held in the Android Keystore. Items you photograph are kept only if you save them. Monthly diary exports are saved as files in the app’s own folder. Numbers you type into a vitals card (pulse, blood pressure, weight) are saved on the phone.

Applies to: Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android

Family members (name, optional birthday, school details, whether someone is a child), calendar entries the app keeps, lists, meals, routines, bills, budgets, income, pocket money and jobs, papers and house records, contacts you type in, notes, pets, belongings, saved places, journeys, receipts, albums, chat, and settings. Photos are only those you pick or take.

On Android they are in a local database; the household key is wrapped by the Android Keystore. On iPhone they are in the app’s database, with keys in the Keychain. Your Calendar, Reminders and Home devices are read in place and are not copied out.

Applies to: Aethyr Habits for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for Android

Your habits (name, emoji, colour, schedule, goal, units, reminders, notes and your “why it matters” note), daily records (ticks, counts, skips, notes), mood entries, vacation dates, and settings. If you choose a place for a habit reminder on iPhone, the place name and coordinates are stored inside that habit (chapter 8). The app also keeps a daily backup file and a Kept folder on the phone (chapter 13).

On iPhone the data sits in a shared app container so the widgets and the Watch can read it. On Android it is in the app’s own files; the widgets and the Wear OS watch app read the same data.

What leaves your device, and to whom

Applies to: All six apps

This is the complete list of outside services. Anything not named here stays on your phone or in your own iCloud or Google account. Each service is used only when you press something or switch it on, unless it says otherwise.

Your own iCloud (backup, sync and sharing)

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for iPhone

Aethyr ADHD for iPhone. You can keep a sealed backup in your own private iCloud database. The backup is sealed on the phone with a key held in your iCloud Keychain, so only you can read it. Aethyr has no copy and no way to read it. In version 2.0.5 and earlier it is off until you say yes when asked. From version 2.0.6 it is on unless you say no. You can change it in Settings.

Aethyr Family for iPhone. A sealed backup goes to your own private iCloud database, with a key held in your iCloud Keychain. If iCloud Keychain is off, the key does not travel and the app says so. A household with only iPhones is shared through Apple’s CloudKit (chapter 10); that is not sealed by Aethyr.

Aethyr Habits for iPhone. “Sync with iCloud” keeps your habits, records, moods and settings in step across your devices, in your own private iCloud database. It is on by default and you can switch it off. A place you chose for a habit is part of the habit, so it goes too. Apple Health totals go only if you switch on “Include my Apple Health numbers” (off by default). From version 1.0.2 the record content is also encrypted in a CloudKit field.

Google Auto Backup (your own Google account)

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for Android, Aethyr Family for Android, Aethyr Habits for Android

Android’s own backup, run by Google, goes to your own Google account if you have backup switched on in Android. You can turn it off, and delete a backup, in your Google account. Aethyr never receives it.

Aethyr ADHD for Android. Backs up tasks, reminders, diary, thoughts, medication records, places, items, settings and the numbers you typed in, plus diary exports. It leaves out chats and private writing, and Health Connect data. The limit is 25 MB.

Aethyr Family for Android. Backs up the database, settings, receipts and albums. It is not sealed by the app (Google’s standard backup encryption applies). The household key is left out, so a restored phone has to be given the invite again.

Aethyr Habits for Android. Backs up the habits folder (habits, daily backups and the Kept folder) and settings. There is no sync between devices in the first release and no encryption of ours.

Aethyr ADHD for Android, from version 10.4.0. Chats and private writing are sealed on the phone, with a key held in Google Block Store, and the sealed file goes through the same Android backup. Google then holds only sealed bytes.

Google Firebase (shared households and circles)

Applies to: Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android, Aethyr Habits for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for Android

Used only if you start or join a Family household that includes an Android phone, or, from Aethyr Habits’ next release, a Friends circle. Nothing is contacted before that. It signs in anonymously (a random id, no email, no password, no name). Chapter 10 says what is stored.

Apple Private Cloud Compute

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for iPhone

Some requests to the on-device assistant may be handled by Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, Apple’s own service on hardware Apple publishes for inspection, when your phone offers it. Apple’s terms apply. Aethyr has no copy and no access. There is no switch for it in the apps. Chapter 6 says which features use it.

On-device models on Android

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for Android, Aethyr Family for Android, Aethyr Habits for Android

The assistant runs on your phone with Google’s Gemini Nano, through ML Kit and Android’s AICore. Your words are not sent to a server for it. Google may download and update its own model on your phone. Aethyr has no cloud model in any app.

Weather

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr ADHD for Android, Aethyr Family for Android

iPhone: your approximate location goes to Apple WeatherKit. Android: your location, rounded to two decimal places (about a kilometre), and the app key go to Google’s Weather API, and Google sees your IP address as any web service does. Only if you allow location. Never your name or your content.

Maps, places and addresses

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr ADHD for Android, Aethyr Family for Android

iPhone: a place name or search term goes to Apple Maps when you ask Aethyr to find somewhere. Android: Google Maps shows maps and Journeys. Aethyr ADHD for Android turns a saved place into coordinates with Android’s address lookup, which may ask Google’s servers. Aethyr Family for Android sends your search words, and a search area centred on your last known position when there is one, to Google Places. Google’s Maps SDK collects device details, your IP address, a pseudonymous Maps identifier, crash data and map interaction events.

Looking something up

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr ADHD for Android

Aethyr asks first, names the source, and shows the answer as a card. The words you type go to Wikipedia. When you open a result from the hand-checked list (nhs.uk, nice.org.uk, adhdfoundation.org.uk, adhduk.co.uk, additudemag.com, chadd.org, understood.org, cdc.gov, medlineplus.gov), that site sees the page you open. There is no open web search.

Recipes, “what’s on” and public holidays

Applies to: Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android

The recipe word you type goes to TheMealDB and to DuckDuckGo. Recipe pages are then fetched from their own sites, the way a browser would. “What’s on” searches send the nearest town name to DuckDuckGo. Public holidays send a country code and a year to Nager.Date; the answer is kept for 90 days. Supermarket links only open in your browser when you tap them.

Music

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr ADHD for Android, Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android

iPhone: Apple’s MusicKit on the phone, only if you grant Music access; your search terms go to Apple’s catalog. Android: the Music page loads a web player from aethyradhd.com that uses Apple Music, only when you open Music. You sign in with Apple, on Apple’s page. Aethyr never sees your Apple ID or password. We and Apple receive the usual connection details, such as your IP address. No health, diary, task or family data is sent to it. You need an Apple Music subscription.

Apple Watch and Wear OS

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for iPhone, Aethyr ADHD for Android, Aethyr Family for Android, Aethyr Habits for Android

Between your phone and your own paired watch, directly, through Apple’s WatchConnectivity or Google’s Wearable Data Layer. There is no Aethyr server. On iPhone the Watch copy of Aethyr Habits includes the place coordinates of a habit, because it is a copy of the whole habit. Aethyr ADHD for Android sends the watch short text such as your next reminder, dose name and current task; no health readings, diary, vault or coordinates. Aethyr Family for Android sends the next event, today’s events, lists, the next routine step, money left and recent family chat lines, and the watch can send back a tick or “I need you”.

Speech to text

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android

Aethyr ADHD for iPhone recognises speech on the device. Aethyr Family for iPhone uses Apple’s Speech framework, which works on the device or on Apple’s servers depending on your phone’s setting. Aethyr Family for Android uses Android’s own speech screen, and the audio may go to Google under Google’s terms. In every case Aethyr receives only the text.

Purchases

Applies to: All six apps

The App Store or Google Play takes payment. We never see your card details. Chapter 12.

Backups and sync: your switches

Applies to: All six apps

Backups are yours. They sit in your Apple or Google account, and you decide whether they exist.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for iPhone

Each app has its own iCloud switch in its Settings ("Sync with iCloud" in Aethyr Habits). Aethyr ADHD for iPhone also has “Restore from iCloud”, which replaces what is on the phone with your latest iCloud backup, and keeps recent earlier copies. You can also manage app data in your phone’s iCloud settings. If iCloud Keychain is off, the key for a sealed backup does not travel to your other devices.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for Android, Aethyr Family for Android, Aethyr Habits for Android

Switch Android backup on or off in Android Settings, Google, Backup, and delete a backup in your Google account. What is left out of the backup does not come back on a new phone: chats and private writing in Aethyr ADHD for Android, the household key in Aethyr Family for Android (the invite is needed again), and the Keystore key. Backups can include things you deleted from view, such as the Kept folder and Recently deleted.

The on-device assistant

Applies to: All six apps

The assistant is built from the phone’s own models. Aethyr uses no cloud model, never uses your content to train anything, and cannot.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for iPhone

Apple’s Foundation Models run on the device. Where a request needs more, Apple may use Private Cloud Compute (chapter 4).

Aethyr Habits for iPhone: “Say it”, goal breakdown and the weekly reflection use only the on-device model. Longer coach answers, insight card wording, “Why it’s good” notes and challenge wording may use Private Cloud Compute, only when your device offers it. To answer, the coach can read a habit’s name and numbers, its “why it matters” note, the last five notes written on its days, and patterns such as weekdays, trends and mood links. Private habits are not hidden from the coach. If your device cannot do this, those extras are not shown and the rest works as normal.

Aethyr Family for iPhone: Apple’s Foundation Models, and Private Cloud Compute when needed. The assistant is closed on a child’s phone and on a phone answered as used by someone under 16.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for Android, Aethyr Family for Android, Aethyr Habits for Android

Gemini Nano runs on the phone through ML Kit and AICore. Aethyr Habits for Android: Smart help can use a habit’s name, numbers, “why it matters” note and the last five notes; private habits are not excluded. Aethyr Family for Android: closed on a child’s phone and on a phone answered as used by someone under 16. Aethyr ADHD for Android: reading a medication label with the camera uses Google’s on-device text recognition, and describing a picture uses Google’s on-device image models.

Health data

Applies to: All six apps

Health data is optional, read only after you allow each type, and never sent to us. Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android and Aethyr Habits for Android read none.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone

With your permission, Aethyr ADHD for iPhone can read from Apple Health: step count, active energy, sleep, workouts, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, exercise time, VO2 max, water, caffeine, environmental audio exposure, blood pressure, body mass, BMI, body fat, lean mass, height, waist, distance for walking, running, cycling, swimming, rowing, paddling, skiing and wheelchair, swim strokes, mindful sessions, State of Mind, stand hours, time in daylight, sleeping wrist temperature, and menstrual flow. It can write workouts, State of Mind, mindful sessions, distance and active energy. It reads your medication from nowhere: every dose record is what you typed.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for Android

With your permission, one type at a time, the Android app reads from Health Connect: sleep, steps, exercise sessions, heart rate, blood pressure, weight and height. It writes one thing: a Brain Fuel movement session you finished, marked as a manual entry and titled so you can tell which app saved it. It never writes anything else and never changes or deletes. Health Connect values are read to draw a screen and are not saved by Aethyr. Weight divided by height squared is shown as BMI; nothing comments on it. It never reads nutrition, hydration, menstrual data or body sensors. Fitbit and Samsung Health data reaches Aethyr only through Health Connect like any other; the app has no Fitbit or Samsung code. You can withdraw any permission in Health Connect.

Applies to: Aethyr Habits for iPhone

Aethyr Habits for iPhone reads, read only, steps, water, exercise minutes, mindful minutes and walking and running distance to fill in habits you link. It never writes to Apple Health. The totals stay on your device unless you switch on “Include my Apple Health numbers” for iCloud sync. Aethyr Habits for Android does not use Health Connect.

Location and places

Applies to: All six apps

Every location permission is optional. Refuse it and you lose the features below and nothing else. Aethyr keeps no history of where you have been.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr ADHD for Android

Location is used on the phone for journeys, saved places, location reminders and weather, and your rounded location goes to the weather service (chapter 4). The iPhone app asks for “when in use” and “always”. The Android app also declares background location, used only for the place reminders you set (about 150 m geofences, handled by Google Play services).

Applies to: Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android

Used on the phone for journeys, saved places, reminders tied to a place, weather and nearby places. Place reminders use the phone’s own region monitoring, and the place stays on the phone. We share your position in exactly two situations, and only when you press something. I need you attaches your coordinates to an urgent message to your household. On my way: while a walk home is open, a coarse position (about 100 m) goes to your household, and it stops the moment you are home. Both people must have agreed before the walk feature appears at all. The positions go with the household’s other records (chapter 10). There is no always-on map of where your family are. A child’s phone is not a location feed.

Applies to: Aethyr Habits for iPhone

Aethyr Habits for iPhone asks for your location while you are using the app, and only when you choose a place for a habit reminder. It takes one reading. The place you choose is saved with that habit: its name and coordinates are part of the habit on your devices, in your own iCloud, on your Apple Watch and in your device backups. The phone, not Aethyr, notices that you have arrived. Aethyr never receives your location and the app keeps no location history. A place is never shown to friends. If you do not choose a place, the app never asks. Aethyr Habits for Android does not ask for location.

Permissions, and why

Applies to: All six apps

Every permission is optional and the apps carry on without it.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone

Location (when in use and always), notifications, calendar and reminders (full access, shown in place), contacts (to read addresses for Drive Now), camera, microphone and speech recognition, Face ID, Apple Music, HomeKit, motion activity, AlarmKit, and the Apple Health types in chapter 7.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for Android

Internet and network state; notifications (including promoted notifications for the focus timer); exact alarms; starting after a restart; foreground service and wake lock for reminders; fine, coarse and background location; read calendar (to show events on Day Ahead; the app never writes to your calendar); camera (to scan a medication label, on the phone); app lock (biometric); Health Connect (chapter 7). No microphone, no contacts. Crisis numbers open the dialler with the number filled in.

Applies to: Aethyr Family for iPhone

Location (when in use and always), camera, microphone and speech recognition, calendars and reminders (full access, kept on the phone), HomeKit, Apple Music, Face ID and time-sensitive notifications. No Health, no Contacts, no photo library (photos come through the system picker).

Applies to: Aethyr Family for Android

Internet; notifications; exact alarms and starting after a restart; a foreground service for the household chat; read and write calendar; coarse, fine and background location; optional app lock. No camera, microphone, contacts, photo or health permission: scanning and photos use Google’s own screens, and dictation uses Android’s speech screen.

Applies to: Aethyr Habits for iPhone

Location while in use (chapter 8), notifications, Face ID or passcode for the optional lock, Apple Health (chapter 7), and the camera, only to scan a friend’s QR code to join a circle. No microphone, speech, contacts, calendar, photos, Bluetooth or tracking.

Applies to: Aethyr Habits for Android

Notifications, restarting reminders after a restart, Google Play billing, internet and network state (added by Google’s billing library; the app itself has no server), and a Google component for the on-device assistant. No location, camera, microphone, contacts, calendar, photos, Health Connect or biometric.

Households, circles and Friends

Applies to: All six apps

Sharing is optional and off until someone starts it. Everyone in a household or circle sees what it shares. There is no per-item privacy between adults in a household.

Applies to: Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android

Household with only iPhones. Shared through your family’s own iCloud (Apple’s CloudKit), by an invitation the other adult accepts. Records include members, bills, budgets, income, house records, messages with photos, expected arrivals, jobs, allowances, meals, routines, contacts, house notes, photos, receipts, albums and reactions. Aethyr does not seal these; CloudKit encrypts them with keys Apple holds, unless you have Advanced Data Protection. Do not rely on end-to-end encryption here. Each child has a separate shared zone, and a parent can switch categories off for the child.

Household with an Android phone. Held in Cloud Firestore (Google’s London region) under our Firebase project, with an anonymous sign-in. Content is sealed on the phone with AES-256-GCM using a 256-bit key made on the phone, so Google stores ciphertext for names, messages, photos in messages and all record content. The key travels only inside the invite and is kept in the Android Keystore. Google can see that a household exists, the anonymous ids, when something changed, the kind of record (for example a list or a bill), document sizes and counts, and who has seen a message. Anyone holding the invite can join and read. The key does not change when someone leaves, so to lock someone out, delete the household and start a new one. We hold no key and do not read it. iPhones in a household that has an Android phone use the same Firestore in the same sealed form.

Shared kinds: members, bills, budgets, income, house records, pocket money, jobs, meals, routines, contacts, house notes, lists, put-by items, belongings, bins, expected arrivals, house alerts, preferences, chat and reactions. Never shared: your own notes, individual spends, and a routine’s own alert switch.

Children. A child’s phone holds only the child’s key and the family chat key, signs in anonymously, and sees only what those open. Adults see the child’s thread and the family chat.

Applies to: Aethyr Habits for iPhone

Friends circles on iPhone today use Apple’s CloudKit sharing, by invitation link or QR code. Each member’s card holds name and emoji, colour, what is done and due today, week check-ins, the longest current run of days, challenge progress, today’s due habits as “emoji name” with done or not (up to 30), nudges for 24 hours, and the circle’s name, emoji and challenge. Never notes, moods, “why” notes, history, Health data, places, private habits, or habits you switch off for that circle. Apple holds it under Apple’s terms. We have no server in the middle.

Applies to: Aethyr Habits for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for Android

From Aethyr Habits’ next release, circles move to Google Firestore (Google’s London region) under our Firebase project, shared by iPhone and Android. Sign-in is anonymous. Names, emoji, habit lines and the challenge text are sealed on the phone with a key made for the circle and carried in the invite; Google and Aethyr hold only ciphertext for them. Not sealed: the anonymous ids, times, and plain numbers for the leaderboard (done today, due today, week totals, run of days, challenge progress). Aethyr staff with Firebase console access could see those plain fields, but not the sealed text. From that release, circles are not “no server of ours”: they are held in Firebase under our account. Leaving a circle removes your card; the owner’s “Delete circle” removes everything for everyone. Your card stays until you leave or the owner ends the circle; there is no automatic expiry yet. Aethyr Habits for Android has no Friends in its first release.

Children and young people

Applies to: All six apps

No app asks anyone for an account, so no child needs one. Nothing a child writes is sent to us, sold, or used to advertise.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr ADHD for Android

Aethyr ADHD is written for people managing their own attention.

Applies to: Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android

Aethyr Family is built for households and children are expected to use it. A child joins by an adult’s child code (Android) or a share of the child’s own zone (iPhone), and the child’s phone sees only what an adult has switched on for them, typically jobs, pocket money, meals and the family chat. A child’s phone does not share its location; “I need you” and a walk home are things the person presses. The assistant is off for under-16s.

Applies to: Aethyr Habits for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for Android

Aethyr Habits has no child mode and asks for no age. If you believe a child has provided information in a way this page does not describe, contact us and we will look at it.

Payments

Applies to: All six apps

Purchases are made through the App Store or Google Play. They take the payment and we never see your card details. We see purchases and subscriber counts in the store consoles. The apps ask the store which purchases are active and keep a yes or no on the phone.

Plans are £1.99 monthly, £19.99 yearly and £39.99 lifetime; the stores show local prices. Cancel or ask for a refund with the store that took the payment.

Applies to: Aethyr Family for iPhone, Aethyr Family for Android

Nothing safety-related is ever behind a paywall: I need you, On my way, check-ins, the collision pages and the household’s messages contain no subscription check.

Deleting your data, and how long we keep it

Applies to: All six apps

Aethyr keeps no copy of your content. The only exception is sealed household and circle data held in Firebase under our account (chapter 10). What you delete, you delete on your device, in your own iCloud or Google account, and, for sharing, in the household or circle.

The app’s own deletions never run on a timer. Nothing is removed because it is old. The retention window you may set in an app decides only what lists show; it never deletes. Uninstalling removes the on-device copy; your iCloud or Google backup stays in your account until you delete it there.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for Android

Clear Everything (Settings) wipes the database, chats, private writing, settings, reminders and geofences. The Google backup copy follows Android’s own rules. From version 10.4.0, a deletion moves a copy to Recently deleted; only you empty it.

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone

Clear Everything (Settings) removes your information from the app. Before it runs, the app keeps one copy on the phone. Your iCloud backup is held in your Apple account; manage it in iCloud settings.

Applies to: Aethyr Family for Android

Deleting an item moves a copy to Recently deleted, which the app never empties. You restore or “Delete forever” one item at a time. There is no single delete-all button; clearing the app’s storage or uninstalling does it. Leave removes your member entry and clears the household from this phone; what you already wrote stays for the others. Delete for everyone removes every record, every child record and every member from Firestore. On the current scheme an empty household entry with its creation time remains. Google keeps its own backups and logs under its retention. A sender can take a message back: its text and picture are removed and the bubble says so.

Applies to: Aethyr Family for iPhone

Uninstalling removes local data. Stop sharing and delete for everyone work as in chapter 10. Your iCloud backup stays in your iCloud until you delete it there.

Applies to: Aethyr Habits for iPhone, Aethyr Habits for Android

Deleting one habit. In Aethyr Habits for iPhone 1.0.1, deleting a habit removes it and its history. From version 1.0.2, and in Aethyr Habits for Android, it moves with its history to Recently deleted, where you can restore it; nothing is purged automatically.

Delete all my data (Me, Your data) offers a backup, asks twice, and first writes one full safety copy into the app’s Kept folder on the phone. It then removes every habit, record, note, mood, reminder and setting, leaves every circle (and ends the ones you started), and on iPhone clears your iCloud copy. It does not remove the Kept folder or the daily Backups files. The app never deletes them; they stay on the device until you uninstall the app, and they are in your device or Google backup if that is on. Your card in other people’s circles is removed by leaving.

Crisis helplines

Applies to: Aethyr ADHD for iPhone, Aethyr ADHD for Android

Aethyr is not a crisis service. A Crisis resources page lists helplines by country. Numbers open your phone’s dialler with the number filled in, and you press call. Websites open in your browser. The app sends nothing, and the page opens with no network.

What we never do

Applies to: All six apps

• We never ask you to create an account.
• We never run advertising, analytics or tracking in the apps. The only crash information is Google Play’s own, from people who opted in on their own phone.
• We never sell, rent or share your information.
• We never use what you write to train anything.
• We never see your card details.
• We never read what is sealed.
• Library components from Apple and Google make their own network calls as described in chapter 4; we do not control them, and their own terms apply.

Your rights

Applies to: All six apps

You have the usual rights over personal information under UK law: to see it, correct it, delete it, object to its use and move it. They are simple here because there is no account and, for almost everything, no copy held by us. For anything held in a household or circle, use the delete and leave controls in chapter 13, or contact us.

The lawful basis is that you ask the app to do something for you (contract), and, for optional permissions, your consent, which you can withdraw in your phone’s settings at any time.

Your information is processed on your device and in the Apple, Google and Firebase services you use, which may be outside the UK. Their terms apply to that.

Changes and contact

Applies to: All six apps

This page is written from the source code of the six apps and dated accordingly. Where this page and an app disagree, tell us and we will fix it. If we change it materially, the date and version at the top change with it.

Aethyr is a tool for organising your own life. It is not a medical device and does not give medical advice. It records what you tell it about medication and never advises on a dose.

Questions: contact us or aethyr@aethyradhd.com. Terms of use: Aethyr ADHD and Aethyr Family, Aethyr Habits.