Acatability Privacy Policy

Last updated: 15 October 2026

Acatability is a journaling app you can keep on your own or share in a pact with up to four friends. It is made and run by Qurek Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (“we”, “us”). This page explains what the app stores, where it’s kept, who can see it, and how to delete it.

If you have a question, or want to use any of the rights below, email info@qurek.biz.

The short version

• We collect only what the app needs to work. There is no advertising, no tracking, no analytics and no crash-reporting service.
• Your journal text is private. Nobody in your pact ever sees it.
• The others in your pact see only your name, your cat, which days you checked in, and whatever you choose to share on each entry.
• If you pay, we keep a record of your purchase that we get from Apple. Nobody else in your pact sees it.
• Notifications are off until you say yes. If you do, a friend’s notification only ever says that you checked in, with your name and your cat’s name, never what you wrote.
• You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app, at any time.

What we collect

Data	What it is	Why
Name	The name Apple or Google gives us when you sign in. If you sign in with Apple and don’t share it, we don’t have it.	So the others in your pact know who you are
Email address	The email Apple or Google gives us. If you sign in with Apple and choose “Hide My Email”, this is a private relay address from Apple, not your real one.	Your account login
User ID	A random ID that we create for your account, plus the ID that Sign in with Apple or Google uses	To tell your data apart from everyone else’s
Journal entries	For each day: your journal text, your intention for the day, which of the cat’s journal questions you answered, if you chose one, your gratitude items, journal and meditation minutes, and your sharing choices for that day	This is the app
Settings	Cat colour, journaling goal, sharing preference, preferred journaling time, and your device’s time zone	To set up the app for you and to know when your day starts and ends
Pact membership	Which pact you’re in, who set it up, when you joined, and any invite codes you create or use	To connect you with the others in your pact, and to know who can invite
Purchase history	If you buy a subscription or the Founding Pact: the purchase’s transaction ID, its type (monthly, yearly or Founding Pact), its status (for example active, expired or refunded), when it expires or was refunded, and whether it was a test purchase. We get this from Apple, never from your card.	To know whether your pact’s shared features are on, and how many people you can invite
Push token	If you allow notifications: a code Apple gives your device so we can send it a notification, and whether it’s a test build	To tell you when a friend in your pact checks in
Friend notification settings and record	Whether “When a friend checks in” is on, and on which days you sent or were sent a friend notification	So you can turn them off, and so nobody gets more than one a day
Friend nudges you sent	When you nudge a friend in your pact yourself: who you nudged and on which day	So you can nudge each friend at most once a day. If the friend then checks in, your cat tells you, and theirs tells them you nudged (that day only)
Paws you sent and received	When someone in your pact sends a paw: who sent it, who got it, and on which day	To show you today’s paws, and so each friend can send you at most one a day
Together days	The days your pact’s day counted while you were in it. Only yours: it doesn’t say who else checked in, or who didn’t	So your together gifts stay on your shelf, even after you or a friend leave the pact. Deleted with your account
Pact news record	When someone leaves your pact or is removed from it: who it was (their name at the time), who did it, who in the pact was told, and when	So the others hear once that someone left, and nobody is told twice
Apple sign-in token	A token from Apple, kept only on our server and never readable by the app	So we can cancel your Sign in with Apple link when you delete your account, as Apple requires

We use all of this only to run the app. None of it is used for tracking or advertising, sold, or shared with data brokers.

Your data is linked to your account, because a journal that isn’t linked to you would be of no use to you.

What stays on your phone or iPad

Drafts you haven’t saved yet are kept only on your device until they’re uploaded. Your login session is stored in the iOS Keychain. Your reminder settings (on or off, and what time) and the reminders your cat has scheduled are kept only on your device. So are whether memories are on, which recaps you’ve opened, and what your cat has already said to you, and your last check-in’s sharing choices and minutes, so the next one can start from them. The times you checked in over the last two weeks stay on your device too, so your cat can offer to move its hello closer to when you usually come. We never see them.

If you add the Acatability widget to your home screen, it shows your cat, your cat’s name and whether you’ve checked in today. The app hands it these from your phone’s own storage; nothing is sent anywhere for it. Anyone who can see your home screen can see the widget, so remove it if you’d rather keep your cat’s name to yourself.

Where it’s stored

Your account and entries are stored with Supabase, our database provider, on servers in London, United Kingdom (AWS eu-west-2). Data is encrypted when it’s sent to and from the app, and access is locked down so that each account can read only what it is allowed to read.

Sign-in is handled by Apple (Sign in with Apple) or Google (Sign in with Google), whichever you choose. Google gives us only your name, email address and Google account ID. If you buy anything, payment is handled by Apple through the App Store. We never see your card details. When you buy, the app gives Apple your random account ID so the purchase is tied to your Acatability account, and our server then asks Apple for the purchase’s details. Apple also tells our server when a subscription renews, ends or is refunded.

If you allow notifications, friend notifications are delivered by Apple (Apple Push Notification service). Apple receives your phone’s push token and the notification’s words: the name of the friend who checked in and the name of that friend’s cat. When you check in, the same goes for your name and your cat’s name. Daily reminders never leave your phone.

Supabase, Apple and (if you sign in with Google) Google process data for us. We don’t share your data with anyone else, unless the law requires us to.

Who can see what

• You can see everything you’ve written, and your own “your days” count. Memories (“One month ago today, you wrote…”) and recaps are shown only to you.
• Everyone else in your pact (up to four people) can see:
  • your name and your cat’s colour;
  • your cat’s name, in a friend notification when you check in, nudge someone or send them a paw;
  • whether you checked in on a given day, and the pact’s “days together”;
  • the time you first checked in today, for example “Checked in 12 min ago”. It’s when your entry first reached our server; editing it later doesn’t change it. Only today’s time is shown, never earlier days;
  • your gratitude items for a day, only if you turned sharing on for that entry;
  • your intention for a day, only if you turned sharing on for that entry;
  • your journal and meditation minutes for a day, only if you turned sharing on for that entry.

  They see what you shared for a day only after they’ve checked in on that same day too.

• Before you check in, the app can tell you whether everyone else in your pact has checked in today. It never says who, or anything they wrote.
• Your journal text is never shared with anyone in your pact or with anyone else, and neither is which of the cat’s questions you answered. The database keeps them apart from the shared data, and nothing ever copies them across.
• Your recap stays on your phone unless you share it. Your cat’s recap is worked out on your phone from your own gratitude items. If you tap Share, the app makes a picture with your counts and up to three favourites (never your journal text or the “picked for you” items), and your phone’s share menu sends it wherever you choose. It doesn’t go through our servers.
• Your purchase history is never shown to anyone else in your pact. They don’t see your price, your plan or its dates. They know who invited them, and if the person who pays stops paying, everyone in the pact sees that shared features have paused. Nothing more.
• We (Qurek Limited) can technically reach the database to run and fix the service. We don’t read your entries.

Friend notifications. When you check in, others in your pact who allowed notifications may get one saying so, for example “Maya checked in” and “Meow! Mochi is purring next to Maya. Want to join?”. That’s the one way someone can learn you’ve checked in before they have themselves. It names you and your cat and nothing else: never your journal text, gratitude items, minutes or anything you shared. Nobody gets one before 8am or after 9pm in their own time zone, or more than once a day, or after they’ve checked in themselves.

If you leave a pact, or the person who pays removes you, the others who allow friend notifications get one quiet line saying so, for example “Meow! Maya left the pact.” It says nothing else about you.

If you turn sharing off for an entry, or delete it, the others stop seeing it. If you leave a pact, or the person who pays removes you, the others stop seeing everything you had shared with it.

Notifications

Acatability doesn’t send notifications until you say yes. There are five kinds:

• Daily reminders from your cat. Your phone schedules these itself, only on days you haven’t checked in, and they stop if you’re away for a while. Nothing about them is sent to us.
• Friend notifications, when someone in your pact checks in (see “Who can see what” above).
• Nudges from a friend. Someone in your pact who has checked in can nudge you, at most once a day, while you haven’t checked in yet, for example “Maya is thinking of you”. It names the friend and the friend’s cat and nothing else. It follows the same switch and the same 8am to 9pm hours as friend notifications. The person who nudged you isn’t told whether it reached you.
• Paws from a friend. Once you’ve both checked in, someone in your pact can send you a paw, at most once a day, for example “Maya sent a paw”. It names the friend and the friend’s cat and nothing else, follows the same switch and hours, and is also shown on your Pact tab that day.
• An evening note about your pact. If you haven’t checked in by the evening and your check-in is what would make today a together day for your pact, you may get one note, for example “Your pact is in”. It never names anyone or says what they wrote. It comes between 7pm and 9pm your time, at most once a day, never if you haven’t checked in at all in the past week, and it follows the “When a friend checks in” switch. A scheduled job on our server checks once an hour who it applies to. It stores nothing new, apart from a note of the day it was sent, so you never get it twice in one day.

Turn any of them off in the app under Settings → Reminders, or turn all of them off in iPhone Settings → Notifications → Acatability. None of them is used for marketing.

How long we keep it

We keep your data until you delete it or delete your account. Unused invite codes expire after 7 days. A push token is deleted when you sign out, when someone else signs in on that phone, or when Apple tells us it no longer works (for example after you delete the app). Purchase records are kept for as long as your account exists, because a subscription or Founding Pact can still count after a long gap. A pact news record is deleted 30 days after someone leaves.

Deleting your account

In the app, go to Settings → Delete account. This immediately and permanently deletes:

• your account and profile;
• every journal entry;
• everything you had shared with your pact;
• your place in your pact. The others keep their own entries. If only one person would be left, the pact ends. If you were paying, the pact pauses until someone else in it subscribes;
• your invite codes;
• your push tokens and friend notification record;
• the paws you sent and received;
• your purchase records (this doesn’t cancel an Apple subscription; cancel that in iPhone Settings);
• the Apple sign-in token, after we ask Apple to cancel the link to your Apple ID.

If you left a pact or were removed from one in the 30 days before, the record that the others were told (with your name as it was) stays until those 30 days are up.

It can’t be undone. Copies in our database provider’s backups are replaced automatically within 30 days.

You can also email info@qurek.biz and ask us to delete your account for you.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law (UK GDPR), you have the right to ask for a copy of your data, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to take it elsewhere. Email info@qurek.biz and we will answer within one month.

We rely on performing our contract with you (providing the app you signed up for) as the legal basis for using your data.

If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).

Children

Acatability is not meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect data from them. If you think a child has made an account, email us and we will delete it.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top. If the change matters, such as collecting something new, we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect.