Clear, unhurried transparency regarding how Dayaside stays entirely inside your personal sanctuary.
Dayaside operates like a physical Moleskine sketchbook with a quiet, local listener. Your whispers, reflections, and routine entries never cross our central servers because we deliberately chose not to build one.
Raw audio stems, acoustic diarization logs, and semantic threads reside securely within your mobile operating system sandbox.
The microphone wakes solely upon physical manual trigger or explicit opt-in session timers. No covert acoustic surveillance ever runs in the shadows.
Dayaside answers personal questions using localized vector indexes. We never harvest your inner dialogues to train commercial large language models.
Dayaside (app.dayaside.android) is engineered as an intimate personal recorder. We believe the words you utter when wandering alone, your journal murmurs before sleep, and your ambient day summaries belong entirely to you.
This document contains no confusing corporate legalese. If you ever have a question about how your hardware interacts with Dayaside, this policy acts as our direct, binding pledge.
When you capture recordings, journal entries, or voice notes, the following elements are created and preserved exclusively within your phone’s sandboxed private app storage:
Raw acoustic files encoded in lightweight formats, held inside isolated directory partitions inaccessible to other third-party apps.
Text versions generated from your sessions, alongside structured day summaries and reflective thematic labels.
Interface preferences, custom tags (e.g., "Deep Thought", "Gratitude"), session timers, and theme adjustments.
Mathematical indexing tables stored on your device that allow you to query "What was I reading on Tuesday?" without network transit.
Android requests explicit consent before apps can touch system hardware. We do not ask for all permissions at installation. Instead, we request them contextually when you choose to use a feature:
Why: Captures your voice notes and spoken diary entries.
Calm Assurance: The microphone indicator icon on your Android status bar lights up whenever the mic is active. Recording ceases immediately when you pause or terminate the session. Dayaside possesses no background background-listening service.
Why: Optionally appends general neighborhood or town metadata to an entry (e.g., "Recorded in Kyoto").
Calm Assurance: We never track fine GPS movements or route tracks. You can completely decline location permission and write notes with zero functionality impairment.
Why: Delivers daily unhurried reminders to reflect at your preferred evening time, or displays an ongoing playback/recording controller in your notification tray.
Calm Assurance: No marketing alerts, no spam push notifications, no gamification badges.
We define our integrity as much by what we build as by what we refuse to build. The following practices are strictly prohibited within the architecture of Dayaside:
Because data is kept locally on your phone, we have no practical means or interest in transmitting your entries. Sharing occurs solely under two explicit scenarios:
You maintain total sovereign command over the lifecycle of your journals:
Swiping an entry or navigating to Settings > Manage Storage allows single-tap erasure. When deleted in-app, the physical file is unlinked immediately from your device's filesystem.
Uninstalling Dayaside from your Android device clears the complete sandbox directory, wiping all local recordings, notes, vectors, and preferences without leaving lingering fragments.
For structured instructions or requesting verification, visit our dedicated Data Deletion Guide.
Dayaside does not deliberately target or solicit information from children under the age of 13 (or under the applicable age of digital consent in your jurisdiction). Because we operate without account creation requirements, profile registries, or cloud collection, we do not intentionally process or retain records regarding children.
At any point during your ownership of Dayaside, you retain absolute authority:
If you have any questions, wish to inspect our security architecture, or want reassurance concerning your personal sanctuary on Dayaside, please contact the maintainer directly:
As Dayaside adds new local features or adapts to future Android framework releases, we may adjust this document. Any revisions will maintain our foundational sanctuary principle: your words stay on your phone.
Dayaside continues to protect and honor human introspection without remote interception.
