The Mood Buddy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

Your Mood Buddy profile and reflections stay on your device. Google Play handles Android purchases. Visiting the website or emailing support involves separate information handling, explained below.

1. Contact Mood Buddy

For Mood Buddy privacy questions or requests, contact [email protected].

2. Android app: information on your device

This section describes the Android release with package name com.gayatrivaidya.moodbuddy. The app loads its core guidance from files included with the app. This policy covers the current Android Plus testing release, version 1.1.4 (8), as well as the earlier Basic-only release. Availability through testing does not mean the app has launched publicly.

Profile information you choose to save, such as your name or nickname, age, purposes, purpose reviews and progress reflections, is stored in the app’s local storage. Preferences, including sound, animation and information acknowledgements, are also saved locally. We use these records to display your profile and remember your choices.

Emotion selections and after-activity responses are used to show guidance during your session. Free and Basic check-ins are not retained as mood-history records. In the current Plus Android release, My Notes and optional Gratitude entries are stored locally. Completed Plus check-ins include the date and time, selected emotion, selected guidance and your after-activity response. These records support History, Mood Tracker and daily, weekly and monthly summaries and reports. Earlier Basic-only Android releases do not include these saved Plus features. Mood Buddy has no account registration, cloud backup or automatic cross-device synchronization.

The app does not automatically upload your profile, purposes or emotional reflections to a Mood Buddy server and does not send them as part of its Google Play Billing requests.

3. Google Play purchases and purchase records

The Android release uses Google Play Billing for optional one-time Basic and Plus purchases and a Basic-to-Plus upgrade. Google Play handles checkout and payment processing under its own terms. Mood Buddy does not receive your payment-card or bank-account details from Google Play.

The app requests product information and the status of purchases for the Google Play account on your device. The purchase record supplied to the app can include a product identifier, order identifier, purchase token, purchase time, purchase state, acknowledgement status and digital signature. The app uses this information to verify purchased access, acknowledge completed purchases and restore access.

A signed purchase record and its signature are cached in the app’s private local preferences so that previously verified paid access can remain available offline. Purchase verification is performed on your device; this release does not send receipts to a Mood Buddy verification server. Buying or restoring a purchase requires a connection to Google Play. We do not receive your Google password.

Google Play and its Billing Library process purchase and account information and technical information relating to your app, device and billing operations, to deliver and secure the service and diagnose problems. The library sends Google billing API-usage events, success and failure results, service-connection diagnostics and technical app, device and network information. Technical logging also includes randomly generated Billing client and transaction identifiers used to relate billing events. These logs support analysis and improvement of Billing performance and error troubleshooting. This logging starts with the Billing connection; Mood Buddy does not provide an in-app switch to disable it. Purchase information is used to verify, acknowledge and restore paid access. Google controls the retention and deletion of information processed by its services; clearing Mood Buddy storage does not erase those records. Mood Buddy does not send your notes, profile or emotional reflections in its billing requests. Local storage of those entries does not mean Google Play processes no data. Google’s processing is governed by the Google Privacy Policy and applicable Google Play Terms. Those services may process information in countries other than your own.

4. Browser preview and earlier test versions

The Mood Buddy browser preview at gayatrivaidya.com/mood-buddy/ is separate from the Android release. Its available preview features can save profile and purpose information, notes, gratitude entries and completed Plus-preview check-ins locally in your browser. Check-in records can contain the date and time, selected emotion, guidance selections and your after-activity response. These records support the preview’s notes, history, mood tracking and reports. Basic-preview check-ins are not retained as mood-history records.

These browser records are not automatically uploaded to a Mood Buddy server. Preview controls do not establish a paid Android entitlement. Earlier Android test versions that provide these preview features store their records locally in their own app storage; they do not use the Google Play purchase integration described for the new release.

Browser storage and each Android app’s storage are separate. Switching browsers, devices or app versions does not transfer your saved information automatically.

5. Website connection information

When you visit the website or open an external website link from the Android app, the website server processes connection requests to deliver pages and files. Routine server logs can contain an IP address, request date and time, requested page or file, response status and size, referring page where supplied and browser/device user-agent information. Error logs can contain technical details of failed requests.

These records are used for website delivery, security and troubleshooting and are handled by the hosting infrastructure. Locally saved notes, profiles and check-in content are not included in normal page requests by the current Mood Buddy code. The bundled Android core experience does not fetch these website pages automatically.

The website’s existing Apache log rotation setting rotates logs daily and retains 14 rotated log files. This describes a rotation setting; it is not a guarantee that every record is deleted exactly 14 days after a visit. Records needed to investigate a security issue or meet a legal obligation may need to be retained separately.

6. Support, exports and other services

If you email support, we receive your email address and the information you include, including any attachments you choose to send. We use it to answer your request and handle related follow-up. Correspondence is retained as needed for that purpose, resolving disputes or meeting applicable obligations. You can request its deletion using the contact above; information still needed for those reasons may be retained.

Please avoid sending sensitive personal reflections or health information unless necessary for your request. Your email provider and our email service process messages under their own terms and privacy policies.

The current Plus Android app and browser preview offer PDF/PNG report export. Files are created on your device and you choose where to save them. Reports may contain sensitive emotional information. Exported files are separate from app storage and are not protected by the app’s screen-capture restrictions. A cloud drive or recipient you choose to share with handles the file under its own practices.

Opening an external website, email or telephone link uses the relevant external app or service. Its privacy practices apply. The main counselling website and any services you separately request are outside Mood Buddy’s local self-reflection features.

7. Advertising, sharing and permissions

Mood Buddy does not sell your personal reflections or use them for advertising. The current app contains no advertising SDK, Advertising ID integration, separate third-party analytics SDK or automatic reflection-upload service. Billing Library technical logging is described in section 3. This does not mean that Google Play billing operations, website connection logs or support emails involve no data processing.

Information involved in those services is handled by Google, the website hosting infrastructure or email providers as described above. Information may also be disclosed where required by applicable law.

The Android release declares Internet access for connected services including Google Play Billing. It does not request camera, microphone, location, contacts or broad storage permissions and does not integrate Health Connect. Android backup and automatic device transfer are disabled for its local app data. Android report exports use the system document picker when you choose a destination.

8. Retention, deletion and your choices

Local profile information, reflections and preferences remain on your device until you remove them or the browser, app or operating system removes them. Where editing or deletion is available, you can use it within the relevant feature. In the Plus Android app and browser preview, My Notes lets you edit or delete individual entries.

• Browser: clear this website’s stored data in your browser settings to remove its local Mood Buddy records and preferences. This may also remove other data stored for gayatrivaidya.com.
• Android: clear Mood Buddy’s app storage in Android settings or uninstall the app to remove its local records, preferences and cached purchase receipt.
• Exported files: delete them separately from the folders, cloud drives or services where you saved or shared them.

The cached Android purchase record is used while verifying your entitlement. A successful Google Play query refreshes paid ownership from the returned purchases; a failed connection can leave previously verified offline access available. A Plus upgrade requires a valid Basic purchase. Refunded or revoked purchases can lose their associated access when ownership is refreshed. Clearing local app storage does not delete Google’s purchase records or cancel/refund a purchase. Restoration depends on Google Play confirming the purchase for the relevant account.

There is no Mood Buddy account database in this release. We cannot remotely recover or erase information held only in your browser or Android app. There is no cloud recovery, so preserve anything you need before clearing storage. Restoring a purchase restores eligible paid access, not your personal notes, gratitude, purposes or check-in history.

For information we hold, such as support emails or website connection records, contact [email protected] to request access, correction or deletion or to raise a privacy concern. We will assess the request under applicable law and explain any information that must be retained. Google manages requests concerning its own account and purchase records through its privacy controls.

9. Security

The website uses HTTPS. The Android release disallows cleartext network traffic, keeps its local purchase cache in private app preferences and restricts the bundled app pages from loading remote subresources. Local reflections and profile records do not have a separate Mood Buddy encryption layer. Google Play secures its own payment service. The Android app uses capture protection to reduce ordinary screenshots and screen recording and to hide its content in the recent-apps preview. This cannot prevent external cameras or every modified device from capturing content and it does not protect exported files.

Protect your device, use a screen lock, take care on shared devices and consider the sensitivity of any information you export or email. No system can guarantee absolute security.

10. Adults and product scope

Mood Buddy is intended for adults aged 18 and over and is not directed at children. It supports emotional awareness and self-reflection. It does not diagnose or treat a medical condition and does not replace professional care or emergency assistance.

11. Changes to this policy

We will update this policy and relevant app notices when our data handling changes. The date above identifies the policy version. Features differ between Free, Basic, Plus and browser previews. A preview or private review grant is separate from purchased access. Changes to features or data handling will be reflected in this policy and relevant app notices.