Privacy Policy
Last updated 18 October 2026
The short version. DAWN has no accounts and no user profiles. Your sessions, photos, streaks and settings are stored on your own device and are never uploaded. There are no advertising or analytics trackers in the app.
Who we are
DAWN is published by Tordoga, MB (company code 304975853), Arnavos g. 3A-2, LT-06283 Vilnius, Lithuania, which is responsible for the processing described here. Contact: hello@tordoga.com.
What stays on your device
All of your history lives in local storage on your phone and is never sent anywhere:
- Logged sessions: the date, the number of minutes, and the sky condition recorded with them
- Photos you take or add for a morning, and the day they belong to
- Your personal target, streaks, reminder preference and haptics preference
Deleting the app deletes this data. Because there is no account, we cannot see it, restore it or transfer it for you.
Location
If you grant location permission, your coordinates are used on the device to calculate local sunrise and sunset, the position of the sun, and the live night sky. Your exact coordinates are stored on the device only and never leave it. Two features send a location rounded to about one kilometre: the weather forecast and share cards, both described below.
If you decline the permission, DAWN uses an approximate city location instead and says so in the interface. The app remains fully usable.
Weather
To fill in today's sky condition, the app requests a forecast from Open-Meteo, sending your location rounded to about one kilometre with the request. No identifier accompanies the request, and Open-Meteo states that it does not require an account or API key for this use. See their terms and privacy information.
The daily counter
The line reading "N more people met the sun today" is produced by incrementing a single number on our server for the current date. The request contains no identifier, no location and no device information. The server stores a count per day, not a list of people.
Today's skies — the shared wall
Paused in the current version. The app does not show the wall or offer to share to it, and no photo leaves your phone. The terms below apply when it returns.
If, and only if, you explicitly tap to share after a session, DAWN uploads:
- a reduced copy of the photo you took
- the number of minutes of that session
- the sky condition (clear, partly cloudy or overcast)
No name, no account, no location and no device identifier is attached. Shared photos are visible to other people using the app on that day and are automatically deleted once the day has passed. Any photo can be reported from inside the app; a reported photo is hidden for the reporter immediately, and removed for everyone after two reports.
Do not photograph anything you would not want other people to see. Once shared, a photo cannot be recalled by you before its automatic deletion; write to us and we will remove it.
Share cards
When you make a share card for a morning, the card is drawn on your device. To put a small map and your town's name on it, the app asks our server for map images and a place name for your location rounded to about one kilometre. Our server fetches them from OpenStreetMap and keeps a copy by place for up to 30 days, so the same area is not fetched twice. That copy records the rounded place and the map, never who asked. You can hide the map before sharing. The finished card goes only where you send it.
Apple Health
If you allow it, DAWN reads your sleep analysis from Apple Health to compare your mornings outside with the nights after them, a DAWN Plus feature. This happens entirely on your device. Health data is never transmitted, never stored on any server, and never used for advertising or marketing. You can withdraw access at any time in the Health app.
Purchases
DAWN Plus is bought through Apple; we never see your payment details. To confirm what you bought, the app uses RevenueCat, which receives the App Store receipt and an anonymous app user ID created on your device. No name, email or contact detail is involved.
Notifications
If you turn on the morning reminder, notifications are scheduled locally on your device for upcoming sunrises. When you start a session, a notification is scheduled for the moment it ends. No push server is involved and no token is transmitted.
Software updates
The app checks our update service for a newer version of its interface bundle. That request contains the version the app is currently running and standard network information such as your IP address, which our infrastructure provider (Cloudflare) processes to serve the response. It is not used to build a profile.
What DAWN never does
- No advertising, no ad identifiers, no ad networks
- No analytics or attribution SDKs, no behavioural tracking
- No selling or sharing of personal information with third parties
- No accounts, no email collection inside the app
Children
DAWN is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them. Since no personal information is collected from anyone, this is straightforward in practice.
Your rights
Because your data is stored on your device, you exercise access and deletion directly: view it in the app, or delete the app to erase it. For anything shared to the public wall, contact us and it will be removed ahead of its automatic expiry.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change with it, and material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions, removal requests or anything else: Tordoga, MB at hello@tordoga.com.