Privacy Policy

Last updated: 22 August 2026

What the app collects

Nothing. Dawnling has no servers, sends no data anywhere, and makes no network requests of its own. We have no way to see your alarms, your routines, how often you wake up, or whether you use the app at all.

This website

dawnling.app is a set of static pages. There is no form, no cookies, and no tracking pixel. The fonts are served from this domain rather than from Google, so visiting does not tell Google that you were here.

To see roughly how many people visit, this site uses GoatCounter, a small open-source visit counter built for privacy. It sets no cookies and follows you to no other site. It records which page was viewed, the referring site, your browser and screen size, and your country; to tell visits apart within a day it uses a short-lived hash that cannot be turned back into you, and your IP address is not kept. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in knowing whether anyone reads these pages (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). Because nothing identifies you, there is no consent banner to click.

Our web host records ordinary server log data, including your IP address, in order to deliver the page and defend against abuse. That is a legitimate interest under GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) and those logs are not used to profile you.

If you email us

The only way this site ever learns anything about you is if you write to hello@dawnling.app yourself. We then have your address and whatever you wrote, we use it solely to reply, and we never sell, rent, or share it. Ask us to delete the exchange at any time and we will. Under the GDPR our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in answering the message you sent us (Art. 6(1)(f)), and you have the right to access, correct, or erase what we hold.

The feedback form

The feedback form works the same way, just without making you open a mail app. What you type, the optional email address, and the alarm log if you chose to paste it in are turned into one email to hello@dawnling.app by a small function on our hosting provider (Netlify) and delivered through our mailbox provider (Zoho, EU servers). Neither keeps a copy beyond ordinary transport; the message then lives only in our inbox, under the same rules as any other email you send us. Leaving the address blank is fine, it just means we cannot write back. The alarm log contains times and ring outcomes from your phone and nothing that identifies you.

What stays on your device

Dawnling stores the following locally, so the app works entirely offline:

• Your alarms: times, repeat days, wake mission and sound choices
• Your routines, including any custom ones you name
• Your progress: bond level, session history, dewdrops, and the furniture and colours you have unlocked or equipped
• Your settings: bedtime reminder, haptics, and audio preferences

This lives in the app's own private storage, and we never receive a copy. Deleting Dawnling deletes all of it, with one exception, which is the anonymous app ID described next.

Your anonymous app ID

Dawnling generates one random identifier (a UUID) on first launch. It is not derived from you, your device, or any account. It is a random string. It is stored in your device's Keychain and in your own iCloud key-value storage, so that a future purchase in another Mitch Creates app can unlock the matching companion inside Dawnling.

That synchronisation happens between your devices through your own iCloud account. It does not pass through us, and the identifier is not linked to your name, email, or anything else about you.

Being honest about the exception above: because this identifier lives in the Keychain and in iCloud rather than in the app's own folder, it is the one thing that can outlive deleting the app, which is exactly what lets a companion you already paid for still be yours if you reinstall. To remove it as well, delete Dawnling and then remove its Keychain entry and its iCloud data in your device settings, or write to us and we will talk you through it.

Notifications

Dawnling asks permission to send notifications because that is how the alarm rings and how the optional bedtime reminder arrives. The permission is used for nothing else. No marketing, no re-engagement nudges. On Android, Dawnling also asks to schedule exact alarms and show a full-screen alarm, for the same single reason: so the alarm actually goes off.

Links out of the app

The Credits screen links to the artists whose music Dawnling uses, and to this page. Opening one leaves the app and hands you to your browser, where that site's own privacy policy applies. Dawnling tells them nothing about you beyond the ordinary fact of a visit.

Children

Dawnling is suitable for all ages, and the app collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If Dawnling ever adds something that touches your data, for example anonymous, aggregate usage statistics to find out which screens confuse people, this page will say so plainly before it ships, and the date above will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything else: hello@dawnling.app. There is more on the support page.