Privacy, in plain words

The short version

• The app: everything you put in Miso stays on your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking. We never receive how you feel, your tasks or what you write.
• The website: if you join the waitlist, we store your email address, where you came from, and when you signed up. That's all. We use it only to tell you when Miso is ready.

The Miso app

What stays on your phone

Your cat (name, coat, outfits, room, how grown Miso is), your check-ins, your tasks and the days you did them, the words you add when you close the day, your answers to Miso's little questions, Miso's keepsakes and treats, and your settings. All of it lives in the app's own storage on your phone. It isn't sent to us or to anyone else.

No account

You don't sign up or sign in. We don't ask for your email, phone number or location. Miso can ask what to call you; that's optional and stays on your phone.

No ads, no tracking

The app has no ads, and no analytics or tracking tools. We don't sell or share data, because we don't have any.

Works offline

Miso works without the internet. The only things that go online are links you choose to open, like a helpline's web chat.

Backups and new phones

Your phone's own backup (iCloud on iPhone, Google backup on Android) may include Miso's data. That's your phone's feature, under your phone maker's policies. If you restore a backup on a new phone, your cat may come back with it. We can't promise that on every phone.

Sharing a card

When you share a card of Miso, the picture is made on your phone and handed to your phone's share sheet. You choose where it goes. A card shows your cat's name and picture and can show a keepsake, Miso's growth stage, your show-up count, how many things you did this week and the date. It never shows how you felt, your task names or what you wrote.

If you buy Miso Plus

Miso Plus is optional. If you buy it:

• The App Store or Google Play takes the payment. We never see your card, your name or your store account's email.
• RevenueCat checks the purchase. It's a service that confirms a purchase is real and tells the app you have Plus. It gets an anonymous ID made up for your copy of the app, the purchase details from the store, and the basic technical details any app request carries (like app version, country and IP address). It doesn't get your name, email or anything you put in Miso.

Help links

"Need help now?" has call and text buttons that open your phone's own phone and messages apps, and links to helpline websites. If you open a website, it sees what any website sees, and its own privacy policy applies.

Deleting your data

Uninstalling the app deletes everything it stored on your phone. A phone backup may still hold a copy until you delete that backup.

This website and the waitlist

What we store when you join

When you join the waitlist, we store three things in a Google Sheet that only we can open:

1. your email address;
2. where you came from (for example "direct", or a short tag in the link you followed, like a social post);
3. the date and time you signed up.

Nothing else. No name, no tracking cookies, no profile.

What we use it for

Only to email you when Miso is ready to download. We won't sell it, share it or use it for ads. Every email will have a way to unsubscribe.

Who else handles it

• Google stores the Sheet and runs the small script that adds your email to it, under Google's own policies.
• Our web host sees the basic request data any website sees, like your IP address and the time, in ordinary server logs. We don't use it to identify you.
• Fonts: the pages load their fonts from Google Fonts, so Google sees a basic request from your browser.

Leaving the waitlist

Unsubscribe from any email we send, or reply and ask us to delete your address, and we will.

Not therapy

Miso is a self-care companion, not therapy or medical care. If you need help now, please contact your local emergency number or a crisis line.

Changes

If this page changes, we'll update the date at the top.

The app's full privacy policy will be published here before Miso launches. More: What is Miso · FAQ