Lighter Days is a home management app for new mothers. It is run by Holly Allison, trading as Lighter Days, based in Scotland. This policy explains what the app collects, where it goes, and what you can do about it.
The short version: your data is used to run the app for you. It is not sold, not used for advertising, and not used to train anyone's AI models. There is no tracking and there are no analytics in the app at all.
Holly Allison, trading as Lighter Days, is the data controller. You can reach us at hello@lighterdaysapp.com.
Everything below is linked to your account and used only to make the app work.
If you allow calendar access, the app reads your events through Apple's own EventKit framework so it can show today's appointments alongside your plan. Those events are read on your device and displayed to you. They are never uploaded, stored on our servers or sent anywhere.
During setup you can speak the meals your family already eats instead of typing them. The recording is turned into text on your device using Apple's speech recognition. The text is then sent to our AI provider, as described below, so it can be turned into a meal list. The audio recording itself is never stored or uploaded.
Reminders are scheduled locally on your device. The app does not use push notifications and does not collect or store a device token.
Several features — Brain Dump, meal and to-do suggestions, setup help and turning spoken meals into a list — use Claude, an AI model provided by Anthropic.
When you use one of these features, the relevant text is sent from the app to our own server function, and from there to Anthropic's API. Only the text needed for that request is sent. For follow-up questions in a Brain Dump conversation, the app sends a short summary of the conversation rather than the full history, which is kept on your device.
Anthropic does not use data submitted through its API to train its models. We do not send your name, email address or account identifier with these requests.
That is the complete list. Your data is not shared with anyone else, and it is never sold.
Under UK GDPR, we process your data to provide the service you have asked for — that is, to perform our contract with you. For the baby meal reactions, which count as health data, we rely on your explicit consent, given when you choose to record a reaction. You can withdraw that consent at any time by deleting those entries or your account.
Your data is kept while your account exists. When you delete your account it is removed from our database immediately, and from our backups within 30 days.
You can delete your account from the Profile screen in the app. This permanently removes your meal plans, shopping lists, to-dos, notes, ideas, budget entries, baby meal logs and profile, and revokes the app's Apple sign-in token. It cannot be undone.
You have the right to ask for a copy of your data, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to restrict or object to how it is used, and to ask for it in a portable format. Email hello@lighterdaysapp.com and we will respond within one month.
If you are not happy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Lighter Days is for adults. You must be 18 or over to use it. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has used the app, email us and we will delete the account.
If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of this page, and tell you in the app if the change is significant.