The short version
Everything you do in Nerea stays on your device. Your journal entries, your reflections, your session history, your settings. All of it is stored locally on your iPhone and nowhere else. Vastocielo LLC cannot see any of it, because none of it is ever sent anywhere.
What Nerea stores
Nerea saves the following on your device so the app can work:
- The name you enter during setup
- Journal entries and guided reflections you write
- A record of technique sessions, including duration and how you said you felt afterward
- Symptom and episode logs, if you choose to record them
- Your preferences, such as your chosen anchor technique and whether haptics are on
This information lives in your device's local storage. It is not backed up to any service operated by Vastocielo LLC.
Apple Health
If you choose to connect Apple Health, Nerea may read heart rate, sleep, and exercise data to show alongside your sessions. This is entirely optional, you are asked before it happens, and you can turn it off at any time in the Health app or in iOS Settings.
Health data is read on your device and used only on your device. It is never transmitted, never stored on a server, and never shared with anyone.
What Nerea does not do
- No accounts, sign-ins, or user profiles
- No analytics, telemetry, or usage tracking
- No advertising and no advertising identifiers
- No third-party trackers or marketing tools
- No selling or sharing of data, because there is no data to sell or share
One network request
In order to add new resources immediately without an app update, the Resources screen loads its list of articles and helplines from Nerea's content file. That request sends nothing about you, though like any web request the server can see your device's IP address. Everything else in Nerea works entirely offline.
When you export
Nerea lets you export your journal as text, as a PDF, or to Apple's Journal app. Exporting is always something you start, and it hands your entries to whichever app or destination you pick using the standard iOS share sheet. Once your entries reach another app, that app's own privacy policy applies to them.
Deleting your information
You can delete individual journal entries inside the app, and Settings includes an option to erase all of your Nerea data. Deleting the app from your iPhone removes everything Nerea has stored.
Because nothing is kept on a server, there is no separate deletion request to make and no copy left behind.
Children
Nerea is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from anyone. Since the app collects no information at all, none is gathered from children either.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top. Meaningful changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about privacy in Nerea come straight to me at michael@vastocielo.com.
One more thing
Nerea is a self-help tool. It is not therapy, not medical treatment, and not a substitute for professional care. If you are struggling, please reach out to a clinician or someone you trust. In the United States, you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at any hour.