lightbugsPrivacy policy
For Android · on iPhone? Read the iPhone policy
the short version
lightbugs is a private notebook. your notes, photos, videos and voice recordings are stored on your device — and in your phone’s own backups, if you use them. we do not run accounts, we do not have servers that receive your content, and we do not sell or share your data with anyone.
what we collect
nothing personal. the app does not ask for your name, email or location. if your phone shares usage & diagnostics with google, google play may share anonymised crash reports with us; these contain no note content.
device permissions
camera — to take a photo or a short video you keep as a note in a notebook.
microphone — to record a voice note, or the sound of a short video, for a notebook.
photo library — to add photos and videos you pick to a page, a photo to a cover, to save pages you share, and to save the photos and videos you take if you turn on save to photos.
notifications — only if you turn on the evening reminder.
each permission is requested the first time you use that feature and can be revoked any time in android settings.
sharing
when you share moments, lightbugs draws them as images on this phone and hands them to the android share sheet, or straight to instagram stories when you share one page or pick stories, or saves them to your photos. what happens after that is governed by the app you share to. “export my notes” puts every notebook, photo, video and voice note into one .zip file that is not encrypted; it goes only where you send it or save it, so keep it somewhere private.
network
lightbugs goes online for two things: asking the app store whether a newer version is out, and finding and playing songs from Apple Music when you add one to a note. Apple sees the words you search, and the covers and clips of the songs in your notes load from Apple when a page shows or plays them. like any request from a phone, these carry its usual details, such as the device type and region. nothing else about you or your notes is sent, and without a connection everything else works the same.
keeping and deleting your notes
your notes stay on this phone until you delete them: remove a moment from its notebook, or erase everything in settings → danger zone → erase all data. deleting the app deletes its data from this phone too. we hold no copy, so there is nothing to ask us to delete. if your phone backs up to your google account, that backup can hold a copy of your notes’ words — not their photos, videos or voice notes — until it is replaced or deleted, and reinstalling the app can bring the words back from it.
children
lightbugs is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
who we are
lightbugs is made and published by Jhon Kenrick Villaces.
changes & contact
if this policy changes we will note the new date at the top and in the app. questions: jhonkenrick28@gmail.com.