Grinly privacy policy
This policy covers Grinly for iPhone, iPad and Android, published by Company31 Pty Ltd. The company31.com website is covered separately by the website privacy policy.
Version 1.1 · 20 October 2026
The short version
Grinly collects nothing. It has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no Company31 server, and it makes no network requests at all. Nothing you do in the app is sent to us or to anyone else. On the App Store its privacy label reads Data Not Collected, and on Google Play its Data safety section says it collects no data and shares no data with third parties.
Grinly never asks how you feel, and keeps no record of it. There is no mood log, no journal and nowhere to type about your day. It remembers only which smiles you kept and which activities you finished, so it can offer more of what you like.
What Grinly stores, and where
Everything below lives only on the device you use, inside Grinly’s own storage, which other apps cannot read. On iPhone and iPad, Grinly’s Home Screen widget reads the same file so it can show today’s smile. On Android, it is one file in the app’s private storage, plus a copy Grinly keeps in case a save is interrupted. Company31 receives none of it.
| What | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Your name | Optional. A first name or nickname, so Grinly can greet you and put it in a kind note. It is never shown in a notification, never put in a card you share, and is editable in Settings. |
| Your daily time | When the daily smile arrives, and whether to skip weekends. |
| Your smiles | Which card belongs to each day (so the app, the notification and, on iPhone and iPad, the widget always agree), which days you opened Grinly, the cards you kept in your jar, and the ones you marked “not for me”. |
| Activities | How many times you finished each “Right now” activity, and when, so the next one offered is one you haven’t done lately. Your answers to the little questions inside an activity are not saved. |
| Nudges | iPhone and iPad only. Reminders you set before something big: the kind of event (picked from a list, such as “a presentation”), its time, and how early to remind you. Past nudges are deleted. |
| Settings | Your choices in the app’s Settings screen. |
Notifications
Grinly’s notifications are scheduled on your device by the app itself; no server sends them. A lock screen can be seen by others, so notifications show only a card’s first line. They never show your name, a joke’s punchline, or what a nudge is for (“10 minutes to go”, not “your interview”).
On Android, the daily smile is an alarm the app sets on the phone itself. Grinly asks for two permissions there, and only these: to show notifications, and to set its alarms again after the phone restarts.
What leaves your device
Nothing, unless you share it. Grinly makes no network requests of any kind: not to Company31, not to an analytics or advertising service, and not to an AI provider. It contains no third-party code that phones home and no advertising identifier, and it does not track you across other apps or websites, as Apple and Google define tracking. It works the same in flight mode.
On Android, Grinly does not even hold the permission to use the internet, so the system would not let it connect to anything. It does not use the Android advertising ID.
When you tap Pass it on, your device opens its share menu (the share sheet on iPhone and iPad) with a picture of the card and its words, and you choose where it goes. Your name is not included.
Apple Intelligence runs on your device (iPhone and iPad)
On a device that supports it, Grinly may use Apple Intelligence, through Apple’s on-device Foundation Models framework, to reword the day’s kind note in fresh words. That model runs on your iPhone or iPad; what it is given (one line from Grinly’s own collection, and your name if you set one) and what it writes stay on the device. You can turn this off in Settings. If Apple Intelligence is off or unavailable, notes are shown as written and nothing about this policy changes. Grinly for Android does not reword notes; it always shows them as written.
Crash reports, only if you share them with developers
Grinly contains no crash-reporting service. If you have told iOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple may show us an anonymous crash report that names the part of the code that failed. That is Apple’s mechanism, under your control in iOS Settings, and it contains nothing from inside the app. On Android, if you have chosen to share usage and diagnostics with Google, Google Play may likewise show us anonymous crash and performance figures; that setting is yours too, and the report contains nothing from inside the app.
Backups
Grinly has no cloud of its own and does not sync. If you back up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud or to a computer, iOS may include the app’s data in that backup, as it does for other apps. That is between you and Apple; Company31 has no access to it.
On Android, Grinly opts out of backup: its data is left out of Google’s cloud backup and out of transfers to a new phone, so it stays on the device where you use it. A new phone starts Grinly fresh.
Grinly is not a health service
Grinly offers everyday smiles and short pauses for the pressures of a normal day. It keeps no record of how you feel, and it does not replace talking to a person. If things feel like too much, the app’s “When it’s more than a rough day” screen lists free, confidential helplines, and Find A Helpline covers more than 175 countries. In an emergency, call your local emergency number (000 in Australia).
Retention and deletion
Company31 holds no data about you from Grinly, so there is nothing for us to retain or delete. What exists, exists on your device, until you remove it:
- To start again: open Settings › Start fresh in the app. It deletes your name, jar, history, nudges and settings from the device, and cancels Grinly’s pending notifications.
- To remove everything: delete the app. iOS or Android deletes its data with it.
- To change your name or daily time: edit them in the app’s Settings.
If you email us for support, we keep that correspondence only as long as it takes to help you, and we do not add you to any list.
Your rights
Australian privacy law, the GDPR and similar laws give you rights over personal information a company holds about you: access, correction, deletion, portability and objection. Because we hold none from this app, there is nothing to exercise those rights against, but if you believe we hold something about you, write to us and we will answer. You may also complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever starts doing something this page does not describe, this page changes first, and the version and date at the top change with it. A change that means anything would leave your device will also be told to you inside the app before it happens.
Contact
- connect [at] company31.com
- Publisher
- Company31 Pty Ltd, ACN 698 697 166, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- On the App Store
- The seller is shown as Manuel Re, the Apple developer account Grinly is published under. The app is made and supported by Company31 Pty Ltd, which is responsible for this policy.
- On Google Play
- Grinly is published from Company31 Pty Ltd’s Google Play developer account.