Privacy

Last updated: 16 July 2026

Gratitude is a place to write down what you’re grateful for and share it with a few people you choose — or with nobody. This page explains what it stores, who can see it, and where it lives. It describes what the software actually does, not what would be convenient to claim.

What’s stored

• Your account — an email address, a username and a display name. Your password is never stored; only a hash of it, which cannot be turned back into the password.
• What you write — the text of each gratitude, when you wrote it, and who you chose to share it with.
• Photos you attach, if you attach any.
• Locations you attach, if you attach any. Never automatically — only when you ask for it, every time.
• Who your friends are, and the label you give each one (close or general). That label is yours: the other person is never told which one you picked.

There is no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, and no third-party scripts of any kind. Nothing about how you use the app is measured or sent anywhere.

Locations are yours alone

A location attached to a gratitude is never shown to anyone but you — including on posts you share with friends. Sharing a gratitude does not share where you were. The map is yours and only yours.

Coordinates are deliberately rounded to about 110 metres before they’re stored, so the pin lands on the right street but the database never holds your doorstep. Photos are re-encoded when you upload them, which strips the GPS tags cameras write into image files — so a photo you share cannot give away where it was taken, even though the file came from your phone.

Who can see what you write

Only the people you choose, each time you post: close friends, all friends, or only me. This is enforced by the database itself rather than by the app remembering to check, and photos are served through the same rule as the gratitude they belong to — a photo is exactly as visible as its post.

We do not read your gratitudes, and they are not used to train anything. Nobody at Brainless Brilliance can see a private post through the app. Be aware that someone with direct administrative access to the database could technically read stored data — that is true of essentially every service, and it is stated here rather than glossed over.

Where it lives

The app runs on our own server. Your account, your gratitudes, your photos and your coordinates are stored using Supabase, which provides the database, sign-in and file storage. That means your data sits on Supabase’s infrastructure, not on hardware we own. They are a processor acting on our instructions; they do not use your data for their own purposes.

That infrastructure is hosted in the European Union. Your account, your gratitudes, your photos and your coordinates are stored on servers in the EU. We do not move your data outside it; Supabase’s own handling of it is governed by their privacy policy.

The map is the exception, and deliberately so. Map tiles are served from our own server rather than a map provider, because every tile request would otherwise tell that provider your IP address and exactly which part of the world you were looking at — and a private map opens on your own pins. No third party learns where you look.

Who’s responsible

Gratitude is run by Brainless Brilliance, which decides what data is collected and why — the data controller, in the language of the law. There’s no contact form and no support desk; you reach a real person directly at [email protected].

Cookies

Gratitude uses two cookies, both only once you sign in. They keep you signed in and nothing else. If you never sign in, no cookies are set at all.

There are no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, so there is no consent banner — cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service you asked for don’t require one, and we don’t set any others. Signing out removes them; so does clearing your browser’s cookies, which will simply sign you out.

Your data is yours

You can ask for a copy of everything stored about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for your account and everything in it to be deleted. Deleting your account removes your gratitudes, your photos, your locations and your friendships. They disappear from the app immediately, and are erased from backups within 30 days. Email [email protected] and a real person will do it.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that affects what happens to your data, you’ll be told rather than left to notice. The date at the top always reflects the current version.

Asking

Any question about any of this goes to [email protected].