The short version

Nitevia listens while you sleep and figures out what happened — snoring, coughing, restlessness. Every bit of that analysis runs on your device. We have no servers that store your recordings. We don't know who you are. We don't need to.

Two things can leave your device, and neither is about your sleep: anonymous usage data (which screens of the app are opened; you can turn it off in Settings) and, only if you turn them on, crash reports. Both are described in §9.

1. Data We Collect

Nitevia collects only what's needed to analyze your sleep:

Crash diagnostics (opt-in only, OFF by default): if — and only if — you turn on crash reporting, limited technical crash data may leave your device as described in §9. It is off unless you explicitly enable it.

Anonymous usage data (ON by default, you can turn it off): which screens are opened and which steps are completed, as described in §9. It never includes anything in the table above.

2. Data We Do NOT Collect

• Your name, email address, or any identifying information
• A user account (none required, none created)
• Location data
• Health records or medical data from other apps or services (Nitevia does not read Apple Health)
• Contacts, photos, or any other app's data
• Advertising identifiers
• Anything about your nights in usage data: no audio, no sounds, no scores, no sleep or recording times, no factors, nothing you typed
• Tracking across other apps or websites, or any advertising profile

3. How We Store Your Data

All Nitevia data lives in your device's private app sandbox (iOS) or app-private storage (Android):

• Only Nitevia can read it. Other apps cannot access it.
• Uninstalling deletes everything. No data persists after you remove the app.
• OS backups: if you have iCloud (iOS) or Google One (Android) backup enabled for apps, your device OS may include Nitevia's data in device-level backups. That backup is governed by Apple's or Google's privacy policy, not ours. You can exclude Nitevia from backups in your device settings.

4. Sleep Factors You Record

Before a night you can tag what might have affected your sleep — caffeine, exercise, stress, and so on, chosen from a fixed list in the app. Factor selections are stored in app-private storage on your device. They are never uploaded. They are used only to show you patterns across your own nights.

Deleting them. Deleting a night removes that night's factor selections.

5. The Sleep Apnea Risk Check

The app offers a short self-check: eight yes/no questions about your sleep. Your answers and the date you took it are stored in app-private storage on your device. They are never uploaded or shared, and the result is worked out on your device each time it is shown.

The check is a self-assessment, not a diagnosis. If it suggests a higher risk, talk to a doctor.

Deleting them. "Clear" in the check removes your answers, and so does Delete all data (§10). Taking it again replaces them.

6. Recording on an Apple Watch

If you record a night on the Nitevia Apple Watch app, the watch saves short clips around sounds and a battery log in the watch app's private storage.

When you stop, the watch sends that night's clips and battery log to your iPhone, directly between your own devices through Apple's watch connection. Your iPhone analyses them on the device, like a night recorded on the phone, and keeps them in its app-private storage. Once your iPhone has the whole night, the watch deletes its copies. Nothing is uploaded and nothing reaches us.

While a night is recording, the watch also tells your iPhone whether it is recording and since when, so the iPhone can show "Recording on your Apple Watch". That status carries no audio.

So you can browse your nights on the watch, your iPhone sends it a short list of your nights: their dates, lengths, scores and the sounds in them (no audio). When you tap a sound on the watch, your iPhone sends that one clip to play; the watch keeps it only while that night is still on your iPhone.

A night recorded on the watch is then deleted like any other night (§10). A night the watch has not sent yet is deleted by removing the watch app.

7. Your Choices

• Microphone. Asked by the system before any recording. Required for the app to work.
• Crash reports. Off unless you turn it on. Separate from the microphone permission and never bundled with it.
• Usage data. On unless you turn it off, in Settings → Share usage data. Independent of crash reports.

8. Data Retention

You control how many nights Nitevia keeps. Choose in Settings → Saved records:

• Just the last night — only your most recent night is kept
• 5 nights · 10 nights · 20 nights — older nights are removed to free up space; your most recent nights are kept
• Unlimited — nights stay until you delete them manually or uninstall the app

You can delete individual sessions or wipe all data at any time from Settings → Data Management.

Anonymous usage data (§9) is kept by Google Analytics for 14 months from your last activity, then deleted.

9. Third-Party Services

Crash diagnostics — opt-in, OFF by default

To help us fix bugs, Nitevia includes optional crash reporting. It is off by default and only sends anything if you turn it on. When enabled:

• What it collects: a stack trace (a technical log of what code was running at the moment of a crash), your device model, OS version, and app version.
• What it does NOT collect: audio recordings, sleep sessions, sound event data, your Night Score, or any content you have recorded.
• Who processes it: Firebase Crashlytics, operated by Google LLC.
• Purpose: diagnosing and fixing crashes. Never used for advertising, profiling, or tracking.

You can turn crash reporting on or off at any time in Settings. When it is off, no data is sent.

Usage analytics — ON by default, you can turn it off

To understand which parts of the app are used and where people get stuck, Nitevia sends anonymous usage data:

• What it collects: which screens are opened; which pages of the first-run setup you move through, forward or back (never your answers on them); whether the microphone question and the reminder offer were answered yes or no (never the reminder's time); whether the plans page was shown or closed, which kind of plan (monthly, annual or lifetime) a purchase was started or completed for, and that a restore succeeded (no price and no payment details); that a recording was started, and that it ended and whether you ended it or something else did (not its length, and nothing it contains).
• What the tool adds by itself: the app's version, your device model, OS version, language and approximate location (the country and city, worked out from your IP address, which is not stored; the app never asks for or uses your device's location), when the app was first opened, session counts and how long the app was open, that the app or the OS was updated, that the app was removed, and a random app-instance identifier that is created at install and ends when you delete the app.
• What it does NOT collect: audio recordings, sounds, your Night Score, sleep or recording times and lengths, the factors you tag, your Sleep apnea risk check answers, or anything you type. No advertising identifier, and no tracking across other apps or websites.
• Who processes it: Google Analytics for Firebase, operated by Google LLC.
• Purpose: improving the app. Never used for advertising or profiling.

You can turn it off at any time in Settings → Share usage data. Turning it off also deletes anything collected that had not been sent yet, and no usage data is sent after that.

Update check

When the app starts, it asks our server (nitevia.iocar.app) whether a newer version of Nitevia is required. The request contains nothing about you or your sleep: no account, no identifier, no recordings. Like any web request, the server sees your IP address and the app's standard user agent (the app's name and build number, and your iOS version). These appear in the server's request logs, which are kept for up to 30 days and used only to answer the check and keep the server running. They are not used for tracking or advertising.

Subscriptions

Purchases and subscriptions are handled by Apple under your Apple ID. We do not receive your payment details.

This policy

When you open this policy in the app, it is loaded from our website (iocar.app), like any web page. The pages are delivered by Cloudflare, our hosting provider. To send you a page, Cloudflare handles technical data that every website request carries, such as your IP address, your browser type and the time of the request. Older versions of the app load this policy from GitHub Pages instead, where GitHub sees the request.

No other third-party services are in use.

10. Your Rights

Delete all data removes your recordings, clips, reports and each night's factor selections. If a recording is in progress it will refuse rather than delete, and tell you so. If any file cannot be removed, it says so plainly rather than reporting success.

Sharing a clip is the only way audio leaves your device, and only when you choose to share it. The shared copy is stripped of recording metadata first.

Everyone:

You can delete all your data at any time from within the app (Settings → Data Management). Delete all data removes your nights, clips, reports, factor selections, the custom tags you typed, starred sounds, your Sleep apnea risk check answers and your answers from the first-run questions. Your settings (such as language and reminder time) are kept. Nights recorded on an Apple Watch are deleted with it once they are on your iPhone; a night the watch has not sent yet is deleted by removing the watch app (§6). Because your data lives only on your devices, deleting it there is complete deletion — nothing else to request.

European Economic Area and United Kingdom (GDPR / UK GDPR):

The app-instance identifier in usage data and, if crash diagnostics are enabled, device identifiers in crash reports may qualify as personal data under the GDPR. For that data you have rights to:

• Access the data held about you
• Request correction or deletion
• Object to processing
• Lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority

Contact us (§13) to exercise these rights. You can object to usage data at any time by turning it off in Settings. Our legal basis for usage data and crash data is legitimate interest in improving the app and keeping it stable, balanced against your privacy rights given the minimal, non-content data involved.

California (CCPA):

We do not sell your personal information. Anonymous usage data and, if crash diagnostics are enabled, limited device diagnostic data are shared with a service provider solely for app analytics and crash analysis — this qualifies as a "service provider" relationship, not a sale.

11. Children

Nitevia is not directed at children under 13 (United States) or under 16 (European Union). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The app requires no account and collects no identifying information on-device. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has used this app, contact us to request any associated data deletion.

12. Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above. For significant changes — particularly if we add services that send data off-device — we will notify you within the app before the change takes effect.

13. Contact

Questions about this policy or your data:

Email: support@iocar.app

App: Nitevia

We aim to respond within 30 days.