Privacy Policy
Last updated 10 October 2026
Olluva is made and operated by Ralph Lawal, an independent developer based in Ireland (“we”, “us”).
The short version
- You don’t create an account. We never ask for your email address, phone number or contacts.
- What you put into Olluva is visible to you and the one person you pair with. Nobody else can read it through the app.
- We don’t show ads, we don’t track you across apps or websites, and we don’t sell data.
- You can export what you’ve written, or delete everything, from Settings at any time.
What we store
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| An anonymous identifier for your phone’s identity | So the server knows which two phones share a space |
| The name you type, and a profile picture if you add one | Shown to your partner |
| Notes: text, drawings, photos, styling, and when they were sent and seen | To deliver them to your partner |
| Reactions, saved memories, important dates and scheduled notes | To provide those features |
| Your time zone | So date reminders arrive in your morning |
| Push notification tokens for your device and its widgets | To send notifications and refresh the widget |
| Your notification preferences | To respect them |
| Subscription status, if you buy Premium | To unlock Premium for you and your partner |
| If you choose to back up: the identifier Apple gives us for your Apple ID | So you can restore your space on another phone |
Photos are re-encoded on your phone before upload, which removes embedded details such as the location where they were taken. The system photo picker is used, so the app only ever receives the photo you choose.
What we don’t collect
Your email address, phone number, contacts, precise location, advertising identifier, browsing history, or analytics about how you use the app. There are no third-party advertising or analytics tools in Olluva.
When you back up with Sign in with Apple we ask Apple for no name and no email. If Apple nevertheless includes an email address in what it returns, it is stored only as part of that sign-in record and is not used for anything else.
Who can see your content
Only you and your partner, through the app. Every request is checked on the server against the membership of your space.
Your content is encrypted in transit and at rest. It is not end-to-end encrypted: it is stored on our servers in a form the service can process, which is what allows notes to reach your widgets and to be delivered on a schedule. People who operate the service could technically access it; we do not read your notes.
Notifications and Lock Screen widgets do not show what a note says unless you turn that on. Notifications are delivered through Apple, so when previews are on, the preview text passes through Apple’s notification service.
Companies that process data for us
| Company | What for |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Database, file storage and server functions, hosted in the European Union (Ireland) |
| Apple | Push notifications, in-app purchases, and Sign in with Apple if you back up |
How long we keep things
- A deleted note: its content is erased immediately.
- If you unlink from your partner: the shared space closes for both of you at once. Its content is kept for 30 days so each of you can still export what you wrote, then permanently erased.
- If you delete everything: your identity, any backup, and everything you created are erased. Your partner keeps what they wrote.
- An identity that was started and never used (no name, never paired) is removed after 30 days.
If you lose your phone
Because there is no account, your space is tied to your phone unless you back it up with your Apple ID in Settings. Without a backup, a lost or reset phone means that space cannot be recovered.
Your choices
- Export: Settings → Export my data gives you a file with everything you have written.
- Delete: Settings → Delete everything.
- Notifications: choose which kinds you receive, and whether they show note text.
Depending on where you live you may have further rights over your data, such as access, correction, erasure and objection. Contact us and we will help.
Children
Olluva is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update the date above and tell you in the app.
Contact
Write to hello@olluva.app, or see the support page.