Privacy Policy

The short version

Sleep Scene is designed to work locally. The app does not require an account, show ads, sell your data, or send your soundscape prompts to Sleep Scene servers. The only exception is a sound we don't have yet: if you ask for one and tap “Request it”, we receive the name of the sound you asked for, and nothing else you typed. If you use iCloud, your progress and settings are also kept in your own iCloud account so they survive a reinstall or a new iPhone. We use product analytics and crash reporting, tied to an anonymous ID, to understand how the app is used and to fix problems, and ad attribution to learn which of our own ads bring people to the app.

Information handled by the app

The app may process and store the following information on your device:

• Sleep preferences selected during onboarding, such as goals, obstacles, preferred sounds, session duration, and bedtime.
• Your sleep progress and jellyfish, such as counted nights, streaks, morning check-in ratings, pearls, items, and the name and look you choose.
• Soundscape prompts, refinement instructions, generated scene recipes, layer volumes, timers, and recent scenes.
• App settings, such as your bedtime and onboarding status.
• Subscription entitlement status returned through RevenueCat and the applicable app store.

iCloud sync

If you are signed in to iCloud, the app keeps a copy of your progress, your jellyfish (its name, look, and items), your onboarding answers, your bedtime and sound preferences, and your saved mixes (including the prompts and titles they were made from) in your own iCloud account, using Apple's iCloud key-value storage. This lets a reinstall or another iPhone signed in to the same Apple Account pick up where you left off. Recent scenes that you haven't saved stay on the device.

This copy is stored and synced by Apple under your Apple Account and is covered by Apple's privacy policy. It is not sent to Sleep Scene servers, and we cannot see or access it. Deleting the app does not delete the iCloud copy. To stop syncing, turn off iCloud for Sleep Scene in Settings → [your name] → iCloud. To delete the copy, remove Sleep Scene's data in Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage if Sleep Scene is listed there.

On-device intelligence

On supported devices, Sleep Scene may use Apple Foundation Models to interpret prompts on the device. When that service is unavailable, a deterministic planner runs locally. The current version does not send prompts to a third-party large language model provider.

Analytics and crash reports

The app uses PostHog for product analytics and Sentry for crash reporting. Both are linked to the same anonymous app user ID that RevenueCat assigns, not to your name or email. They may receive:

• Which screens and features you use, such as onboarding steps viewed, scenes created, paywall views, purchases started or completed, nights counted, and jellyfish items bought or worn.
• Onboarding answers chosen from fixed options, such as your sleep goal, main sleep obstacle, target hours, and bedtime hour, plus summary progress like your streak, pearls, and jellyfish color.
• Session replays for a sample of sessions: recordings of how you move through the app's screens, used to find confusing or broken parts of the app. Text fields, prompts, scene titles, and your jellyfish's name are masked, and nothing is recorded while the player is open.
• Device and app information, such as device model, OS version, app version, and approximate country, and crash or freeze diagnostics.
• Sound requests, only when you send one. When a prompt asks for a sound Sleep Scene doesn't have yet, the app says so and offers a “Request it” button. Only if you tap it do we receive the name of the sound you asked for (for example “spaceship”: the unmatched words, lowercased and cut to 60 characters), never the rest of your prompt. We use these requests to decide which sounds to add next.

PostHog processes this data in the European Union and Sentry in Germany. We use it only to improve Sleep Scene, never for advertising, and we do not sell it. You can read PostHog's privacy policy and Sentry's privacy policy for more information.

Ad attribution

We advertise Sleep Scene on other platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and the App Store. To learn which of those ads bring people to the app, the app uses AppsFlyer, a mobile measurement service. AppsFlyer receives the app install, a few app events (onboarding completed, paywall viewed, free trial started, subscription purchased, with plan and price), device and app information such as device model, OS version, and IP address, and the same anonymous app user ID. RevenueCat also sends AppsFlyer later subscription events, such as renewals and cancellations.

Sleep Scene asks for permission once, using Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt. Only if you allow tracking does AppsFlyer receive your device's advertising identifier and share attribution results tied to it with the ad platform that showed you our ad. You can change this at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking, and the app works exactly the same either way.

If you don't allow tracking, we don't receive or share your advertising identifier. To measure our ads in aggregate, AppsFlyer still shares the install and the app events listed above with the ad platform we advertise on, together with your IP address, an app-specific device identifier that Apple gives each app developer (the identifier for vendor), and the anonymous install identifier described below. Meta processes this with privacy-protecting measures, such as removing identifiers, adding statistical noise, and reporting results only in aggregate, under its own terms. Apple's SKAdNetwork and AdServices frameworks are also used.

For ads on Instagram and Facebook, the app also includes Meta's software development kit (SDK), configured only to create an anonymous install identifier that AppsFlyer passes to Meta for this measurement. We don't send purchases, app events, or anything you type through Meta's SDK. It downloads its settings from Meta, and Meta may receive whether you allowed tracking. You can read Meta's privacy policy for more information.

Sleep Scene never shows ads, and we never send your prompts, names, or other text you enter to AppsFlyer or Meta. You can read AppsFlyer's privacy policy for more information.

Information Sleep Scene does not collect

The app does not request your precise location, contacts, photos, microphone, or HealthKit data, and reads your advertising identifier only if you allow tracking, as described above. It does not show ads, and we never send your typed prompts, your jellyfish's name, or other text you enter to analytics or crash reporting, apart from the name of a sound you choose to request with “Request it”, as described above.

Purchases

Sleep Scene uses RevenueCat to display subscription options and manage purchase access. RevenueCat assigns an anonymous app user ID and processes device information, subscription status, and purchase transaction information to provide this service. We do not send your sleep preferences, soundscape prompts, or scenes to RevenueCat. In the released iOS app, Apple processes App Store payments; neither Sleep Scene nor RevenueCat receives your full payment card details. You can read RevenueCat's privacy policy and Apple's privacy policy for more information.

Sound downloads

From time to time the app checks this website for new sounds and downloads them in the background, so they are ready before you need them. These are ordinary requests for public files; they don't include your prompts, your anonymous app user ID, or any other personal information, and our hosting provider handles them like any other website visit, as described below.

Website data

This website does not currently use analytics, advertising cookies, account registration, or tracking pixels. Standard hosting infrastructure may temporarily process technical request information, such as IP address, browser type, and security logs, to deliver and protect the site.

Support messages

If you contact Sleep Scene, we receive the information you choose to provide, such as your email address and message. We use it to respond, troubleshoot, and maintain appropriate support records.

Retention and deletion

App preferences, progress, and scenes remain on your device until you reset personalization, remove individual data where the app provides that option or delete the app. If iCloud sync is on, the copy in your iCloud account remains until you delete it as described in the iCloud sync section, even after you delete the app. Analytics and crash data are kept only as long as they help us improve the app, and you can ask us to delete the data linked to your anonymous ID. Support correspondence is retained only as long as reasonably needed for support, safety, recordkeeping, or legal obligations.

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain processing of your personal information. You may also withdraw consent where processing relies on consent. Contact us to make a request.

Children

Sleep Scene is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes

We may update this policy when the app, website, or legal requirements change. The date at the top identifies the latest version. Material changes will be communicated where appropriate.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, email hello@sleepscene.app.