Privacy policy

Last updated 11 October 2026

Who is responsible

Mohammad Reza Shoja (Arta Shoja)
Kanzlerstr. 8A
40472 Düsseldorf
Germany
arta.shoja.b@gmail.com

The app

Feelbits stores what you enter on your iPhone: the feelings you check in with, their date and time, the reasons you pick, what you write in your journal, your answers in the lessons, your settings and your progress in the lessons. It also keeps an end-to-end encrypted backup of all this in your own iCloud (see Backups). The app has no server and no account, and none of this is ever sent to me or to anyone else. It contains no advertising or tracking code.

Usage stats (from version 1.1): the app sends anonymous counts of how it's used, such as a finished onboarding guide, an added check-in or a finished lesson, together with the app's version, to TelemetryDeck GmbH (Von-der-Tann-Str. 54, 86159 Augsburg, Germany), which shows them to me. They never contain your feelings, reasons, journal, lesson answers about yourself or anything you type. Nothing is stored on or read from your iPhone for this, and your IP address is only used to deliver the counts and isn't stored, so they can't be traced back to you or your iPhone. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR: a legitimate interest in seeing which parts of the app work, to improve it. You can turn this off at any time in the app under Settings → Your data.

Reminders: if you turn on the daily reminder, iOS schedules it on your iPhone.

Export: when you export your check-ins, the app creates a CSV file on your iPhone and opens the iOS share sheet. Where the file goes from there is up to you.

Deleting your data: when you delete the app, everything it stored is deleted from your iPhone. Its backup stays in your iCloud, so your garden comes back if you install Feelbits again. To delete the backup too, open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, then iCloud → Manage Storage → Feelbits, and delete its data.

Backups (from version 1.1): Feelbits keeps a backup of what you entered in your own private iCloud, so your garden comes back when you reinstall the app or move to a new iPhone. It is end-to-end encrypted: only your devices signed in to your Apple Account can read it, not Apple and not me. You can turn it off in the app under Settings → Your data. Apple stores it under its iCloud terms. Separately, if you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, iOS includes the app's data in that backup.

The App Store: you get Feelbits from Apple's App Store, and Apple handles the download under its own privacy policy. If you allowed sharing with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple may show me anonymous statistics, such as how often the app crashes. They don't tell me who you are.

Links: the help section in the app links to findahelpline.com. If you open it, that website's own privacy policy applies. "Get in touch" in the app opens the support page on this website; nothing is sent unless you write to me yourself.

This website

Hosting: this website is hosted on GitLab Pages by GitLab B.V. (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and GitLab Inc. (USA). When you open a page, your browser sends GitLab what it needs to deliver it: your IP address, the date and time, the page you asked for and details about your browser. GitLab keeps this in access logs for 7 days and then deletes it. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR: a legitimate interest in delivering this website reliably and securely. GitLab Inc. is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which covers transfers to the USA (Art. 45 GDPR). More in GitLab's privacy statement.

This website sets no cookies, measures nothing and loads no fonts, scripts or embeds from other companies.

Email and Instagram: if you email me or message @feelbitsapp on Instagram, I use your address or account name and your message only to reply, and delete them once they're no longer needed (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Instagram messages also pass through Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. under Instagram's privacy policy.

The download buttons take you to Apple's App Store, where Apple's privacy policy applies.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access the data I hold about you (Art. 15), to have it corrected (Art. 16) or deleted (Art. 17), to restrict its processing (Art. 18), to receive it in a portable format (Art. 20) and to object to its processing (Art. 21). The app's usage stats can't be traced back to you, so the only data I could hold about you is an email or message you sent me. To use these rights, write to the address above.

You can also complain to a data protection authority (Art. 77 GDPR), for example the one responsible for me: Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen (ldi.nrw.de).

Changes

If Feelbits changes in a way that affects your data, I'll update this page before the change goes out and change the date at the top.