Terms

Last updated: 16 July 2026

Gratitude is a small app for writing down what you’re grateful for and sharing it with people you choose. These terms are the arrangement between you and Brainless Brilliance for using it. They’re written to be read, not to be impressive.

Your account

You need an account, and you must be at least 13 years old— older where your country sets a higher age for agreeing to something like this yourself. Use a real email address you can actually receive mail at: it’s the only way to get back in if you forget your password. Keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think someone else has it.

What you write stays yours

Everything you write, photograph and pin belongs to you. Not to us. We claim no ownership of it and no licence to do anything with it beyond storing it and showing it to the people you chose — which is the entire job of the app.

We won’t sell it, publish it, mine it, or use it to train anything. If that ever changes, it will be a different app and you’ll be asked first, not informed afterwards.

Being decent

Don’t use Gratitude to harass anyone, to post things that aren’t yours to post, or to break the law. Don’t attack the service or try to reach other people’s posts. This is a place for gratitude; it’s a short list because it doesn’t need to be a long one.

Accounts that are used to hurt people can be removed. That’s a judgement call made by a person, and you can ask about it.

Leaving

You can stop whenever you like, and ask for your account and everything in it to be deleted — see the privacy page. No exit interview, no retention offers.

What we can and can’t promise

Honestly: Gratitude is a small, personally-run app, not an enterprise service with an operations team. It’s built carefully — the privacy rules are enforced by the database and covered by tests — but it comes with no warranty, no uptime guarantee, and no promise that it will exist forever.

Keep your own copy of anything you would be upset to lose.Backups exist and mistakes also exist. To the extent the law allows, we’re not liable for lost data or for what happens if the service is unavailable — and where the law doesn’t allow that, it doesn’t.

If the app is ever shut down, you’ll be given notice and a way to take your gratitudes with you. That’s a promise worth more than an uptime figure.

Changes

These terms may change as the app does. Material changes will be told to you rather than quietly published; the date at the top always reflects the current version.

Needs completing before launch:which country’s law governs these terms and where any dispute would be handled.

Asking

Anything unclear, or anything that seems unfair, goes to [email protected]. A person reads it.