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.
You can speak instead of typing in two places: during setup, to list the meals your family already eats, and in the brain dump. Your speech is turned into text by Apple's speech recognition. That text is then treated like anything else you type, which includes being sent to our AI provider as described below. The audio itself is never stored by us.
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.
The app asks for your permission before it uses AI, and you can change your answer in Settings at any time. If you say no, the app still works, just without the AI features.
When you use one of these features, the app sends what you type or say to our own server function, and from there to Anthropic's API. So that the answer fits your family, the app also sends your first name, your baby's name and age or due date, how your baby is fed, any allergens you have flagged, your partner's name, and your current to-do list and plans. 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. Your email address and account identifier are not sent 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 in the app, under Settings > Account > Delete account. This permanently removes your meal plans, shopping lists, to-dos, notes, ideas, 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 parents and carers. You must be 16 or over to use it. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16. If you believe someone under 16 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.