Memory Vault Privacy Policy
The short version
Memory Vault is a local-first app. Your photos, receipts, and warranties stay on your phone. The app does not create an account for you, does not upload your documents to a server, does not sell your information, does not show ads, and does not use analytics. The only time the app uses the internet in version 1 is a one-time download of the on-device AI model file, described below. Everything else works offline.
What Memory Vault does
Memory Vault finds photos, receipts, and warranties already on your phone, tags them, pulls dates and facts out of printed text, and shows you one item a day that you may need soon, with a plain-language reason for why it was picked. You can search and browse everything it found, star items, and correct tags with yes or no answers so future picks get better.
What the app stores on your phone
All of this is stored only on your phone, in the app's private local database. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else.
- References to your photos and documents, not copies of them. The app stores the system reference (URI) to each photo or document, plus its file name.
- Facts pulled from printed text: the kind of item (receipt, warranty, manual, photo), the merchant or store, the product name, the purchase date, the total amount, and the warranty or expiry date, where printed clearly. Low-confidence facts are marked unconfirmed.
- Tags, stars, notes you add, and your yes or no answers about tags and daily picks.
- The dates and reasons behind the daily pick, so the app can explain why it picked an item.
- Places you save yourself, with a label and a location, so the app can check them when you open it.
- Calendar matches only: if a calendar event matches an item in your vault, the app keeps the matched item, the event date, and the event title. It does not copy the event itself or its contents into the database.
- App settings: notification time, quiet hours, and scoring weights that change when you answer yes or no.
The app does not copy your photo files into its own storage. Thumbnails are made on the phone from your photos and kept only in the app's private cache. Deleting an item removes its database entries, its tags, its extracted text, and its cached thumbnail. “Delete all my data” in Settings wipes the database, the thumbnail cache, and the scoring weights, and tells you how much was removed.
What the app does not collect
- No account, no sign-in, no name, no email address, no home address, no phone number.
- No advertising ID.
- No analytics. The app contains no analytics SDK.
- No crash reports that upload your content. The app contains no crash reporter that uploads content.
- No ads and no sharing with advertisers.
- No sale of any information, to anyone, for any reason.
- No reading of your email, messages, or other apps. The app only looks at photos and documents you let it see, and at your calendar only if you grant that permission.
- No background location history and no continuous location tracking.
- No handwriting recognition is promised. Handwriting may be extracted as unconfirmed text, but the app does not claim to read handwriting reliably.
How the on-device AI works, and the one download
Tagging and reading printed text happen on your phone, using two on-device tools: ML Kit on-device text recognition and the FunctionGemma 270M model (about 253 MB), which only suggests a type, merchant, and product. A deterministic rules engine checks every date and amount against the actual text, and the rules engine is the authority. The model never decides a date or amount on its own, and model suggestions are marked unconfirmed until you confirm them or the rules engine agrees.
The model file is not bundled in the app. On first use, the app downloads it once, over Wi-Fi only, with a progress indicator, resume if the download is interrupted, and a SHA-256 check before it is used. Downloading the model file does not send your photos, documents, or extracted text anywhere. It is a download of a public model file to your phone. After the download, the model runs entirely on your phone. If the download fails, the app still works with the rules engine alone, and it will say the model is not ready.
The model never generates free-form text for you, never retrains on your data, and never sends text, images, or metadata anywhere.
Permissions, and why each one is needed
The app asks for each permission only when the feature that needs it is first used, and it explains the reason in plain language first. Saying no still leaves you with a working app; that feature is simply turned off.
- Photos and media images: to find receipt photos and memorable photos already on your phone. You can also pick individual photos with the system Photo Picker instead of a full scan.
- Files and documents: to import receipts, warranties, and manuals you choose, using the system file picker. The app does not get broad access to your storage.
- Notifications: to send at most one morning reminder a day about the daily pick. Default time is 8:00 AM local time, with quiet hours from 9:00 PM to 7:00 AM. You can turn this off in Settings, and the daily pick still appears on the Home screen.
- Calendar, read-only, optional: to match calendar events to items in your vault for today or tomorrow. The app never writes to your calendar.
- Location, approximate, optional: to check, only when you open the app, whether you are near a place you saved yourself, so matching items can be boosted for that day. The app does not track your location in the background and does not keep a location history. This permission is only asked when you add your first saved place.
Subscriptions and payments
Memory Vault costs $10 per month. Payment is handled by Google Play Billing through the Google Play Store. Beatshredder Digital does not see or store your card details. You can manage or cancel the subscription in the Google Play Store. There is no Stripe payment inside the app, and no other in-app purchase in version 1.
Data retention and deletion
Your vault data stays on your phone until you delete it. You can remove a single item from its detail screen, or delete all of your data from Settings. Uninstalling the app removes the app's local data from your phone. Memory Vault itself does not back up your vault to any cloud service. If you have your phone's own backup turned on, your phone's backup settings apply; that is controlled by your device, not by Memory Vault.
Children's privacy
Memory Vault is not directed at children under 13, and it collects no information to send anywhere in the first place. If you are a parent and you have a question about the app on a child's phone, contact us at deezhozeaintshit@gmail.com.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date, and the version number at the top will change. The app links to this policy from Settings. If a future version adds cloud sync, sharing, or any feature that sends your data somewhere, that version will say so plainly before it is released, because that would change the promise in this policy.
Contact
Beatshredder Digital, Robert James Jiron Jr., deezhozeaintshit@gmail.com. There is no in-app support inbox in version 1; email is the way to reach us about this policy or about the app. When you email us, only send what you choose to include in that email.