Behavioral Activation App Privacy Policy
This policy covers the Behavioral Activation app for iPhone, iPad, and Android, made by Everyday Insight LLC. Here, “we” means Everyday Insight LLC. The mybehavioralactivation.com website has its own privacy policy at mybehavioralactivation.com/privacy.
The short version
Behavioral Activation has no accounts, no ads, and no analytics. What you write stays on your device, or in your own iCloud or Google Drive if you turn on sync. We never receive it, and we can’t read it.
What you write
Everything you create in Behavioral Activation, including your plans, logged activities, activity list, enjoyment and accomplishment ratings, notes, what got in the way, what matters to you in each area of life, avoidance notes, Keeping it going plan, end-of-day mood ratings, and questions for your therapist, is stored on your device. It’s protected by your device’s own security, like its passcode and built-in encryption. The app doesn’t add encryption of its own.
About Behavioral Activation
Add to Calendar. When you tap Add to Calendar on a plan, the app opens a new event in your device’s calendar, filled in with the activity’s name and time. The app never asks for access to your calendar and can’t read it. Nothing is added unless you save the event there. Once you do, the event belongs to your calendar app and the account it uses, under their own terms and privacy policies, and changing or deleting the plan in Behavioral Activation doesn’t change it.
End-of-day mood. The end-of-day mood rating is off until you turn it on in Settings. Each rating is stored and synced with the rest of your entries, and it appears in the report for the days the report covers.
Removing an activity from your list. When you remove an activity from My activities, it no longer shows in the list, and the plans you already made with it stay in your history. It stays stored, and synced if sync is on, until you use Delete everything.
App settings. Your settings, like your reminder choices and times, Show activity names, the rating scale, whether end-of-day mood is on, the app’s language and appearance, and the app lock, are kept on your device as app settings. They aren’t synced or exported. The app also keeps on your device which first-week steps you’ve finished and whether you closed the note Home shows after a break.
Deleted entries on Android. When you delete something on Android, the app keeps a random code for it, never what it said, so a device you sync with deletes it too.
What the app works out. Anything the app works out from your entries is done on your device. That includes Looking back at the week, Patterns, the counts and averages in the report, what the widget shows, and the activities Home suggests when you’re short on energy. The app also checks what you type, like activity names, smaller versions, notes, what matters to you, your avoidance notes, your Keeping it going plan, your line about each week, and your questions for your therapist, for words about suicide, self-harm, or harming someone else, so it can show crisis lines. Nothing from these checks is stored separately or sent anywhere.
Sync, if you turn it on
Sync is off unless you turn it on in Settings.
iCloud on iPhone and iPad. Your plans, logged activities, activity list, enjoyment and accomplishment ratings, notes, what got in the way, what matters to you in each area of life, avoidance notes, Keeping it going plan, end-of-day mood ratings, and questions for your therapist are stored in your own iCloud account so they appear on your other Apple devices. They move between your devices and Apple under your Apple Account, and Apple’s terms and privacy policy apply to that storage. We can’t see it.
Google Drive on Android. The app asks Google for permission to use one hidden folder in your Drive, called the app data folder. It can’t see your other files, and it doesn’t receive your contacts or other account details. Your data is stored in that folder under your Google Account, and Google’s terms and privacy policy apply to it. We can’t see it.
Behavioral Activation’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Device backups
If you back up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud or to a computer, that backup can include the app’s data, the same as for other apps. On Android, the app’s data is left out of your device backups.
What you choose to share
Apart from sync, your data leaves the app only when you export, share, or copy it. In Settings, you can make a report for a therapist, a PDF of the last 7 or 14 days. It shows your plans and logged activities, how they went, your ratings, what got in the way, plans moved more than once, and any end-of-day mood ratings. Your notes about activities and the week, what matters to you, your avoidance notes, and your Keeping it going plan are included unless you turn them off, and your questions for your therapist print at the end if you write any. You can also share a spreadsheet file in CSV format with every plan and logged activity, one row each, including its smaller version, when it was planned, its ratings, what it was for, what got in the way, how many times it moved, and its note. Copy as text copies the last two weeks of plans and logged activities, with how they went, ratings, what got in the way, and notes. On Android 13 and later, the copied text is marked as sensitive, so the clipboard preview doesn’t show it. The app makes each file on your device, and a file goes only where you send it from the share sheet. Neither file is encrypted, so keep them somewhere private. Where a file or copied text goes after that is up to you and the app you send or paste it into.
Reminders
Reminders are scheduled on your device, so no message comes from anywhere else. Each plan can come with a reminder when it’s time and a question later about how it went. Both are on for a new plan, and you can turn either one off for any plan. By default, the questions about how your plans went come together in one evening check-in at 8:30 PM, and you can change its time or switch to a separate check-in after each plan. A weekly reminder to look back at the week comes at 7:00 PM on the day you choose. You can turn off each kind of reminder in Settings.
Reminders don’t show the names of your activities unless you turn on Show activity names in Settings. Without it, a reminder says only that you have something planned and when, or asks how your plans went, and nothing you wrote shows on your Lock Screen. With Show activity names on, reminders show the activity’s name, or its smaller version if you chose that, and for a plan set for after something you already do, the words you wrote for it. Anyone who can see your Lock Screen can read them.
Delete everything removes every reminder the app has scheduled, along with any already delivered. The weekly reminder is a setting, so if it’s on, it’s set again.
App lock
If you turn on the app lock, the app asks your device to confirm it’s you. On iPhone and iPad that’s Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode, and on Android it’s your fingerprint, face, or screen lock. Your device does the check, and the app never receives your biometric data. On iPhone and iPad, the app lock works only if your device has a passcode set, and while it’s on, the app’s contents are hidden in the app switcher. On Android, while the app lock is on, its screens are hidden from the recent apps view and can’t be captured in screenshots.
Widget, controls, and shortcuts
Behavioral Activation has a Today widget for your home screen, and on iPhone and iPad also for the Lock Screen. Unless you turn on Show activity names in Settings, it shows only how many plans you have today and how many you’ve answered, and nothing you wrote. With the setting on, it also shows the names of today’s plans and when each one is planned, including the words you wrote for a plan set for after something you already do. Anything on your Lock Screen can be seen without unlocking your device.
The widget draws from a small summary of today that the app keeps on your device. On iPhone and iPad, it’s in storage that only the app and its widget can use, and on Android, it’s in the app’s own storage. It holds the app’s language, today’s date, and for each of today’s plans, when it’s planned and whether you’ve answered it. Activity names, and the words you wrote for a plan set for after something you already do, go in only while Show activity names is on. Nothing leaves your device.
On iPhone and iPad, the Something I did control for Control Center, the Lock Screen, and the Action button, the quick actions on the app icon, and Log something I did and Plan an activity in Siri and the Shortcuts app only open the app to the right screen. On Android, so do the Something I did tile you can add to Quick Settings and the shortcuts that appear when you touch and hold the app’s icon. None of them read or send what you wrote.
Permissions
The app asks for permission to send notifications the first time you save a plan with a reminder, or when you turn on a reminder in Settings. On iPhone and iPad, it asks to use Face ID only after you turn on the app lock, the first time the app locks. On Android, it asks to use your Google Account only when you turn on sync. It never asks for access to your calendar. You can change these at any time in your device’s settings.
What the app never does
The app has no ads, analytics, crash reporting, or tracking of any kind. It doesn’t use your location, contacts, camera, photos, or microphone, it can’t read your calendar, and it doesn’t connect to Apple Health or Health Connect. The app connects to the internet only if you’ve turned on sync, and then only to Apple’s iCloud on iPhone and iPad or to Google’s sign-in and Drive services on Android.
Links to other websites
Links in the app, like the ones to our website, open in your browser, where that website’s own privacy policy applies. The app doesn’t keep track of which links you open.
Email you send us
If you write to hello@mybehavioralactivation.com, we receive your email address, your name if your email includes it, your message, and any attachments. We use them to reply and to help with what you asked. Please don’t send us details about your health or a crisis. We can’t provide care, and we don’t monitor email for emergencies.
Selling and sharing
We don’t sell personal information or share it for advertising. The app doesn’t send us anything, so there is nothing from the app for us to sell or share.
Children
Behavioral Activation isn’t meant for children under 13. If you’re under 18, use it with the involvement and permission of a parent or guardian. The app sends us nothing, so we don’t collect information from children through it. If a child under 13 emails us, we’ll delete the message once we learn of it.
Your choices
- Delete any plan or avoidance entry in the app. An activity you logged without a plan can be deleted from Logged activities in Settings, or from Looking back at the week. You can also remove an activity from your list.
- Delete everything from Settings. It removes your plans, logged activities, activity list, including activities you removed from it, ratings, notes, what got in the way, what matters to you, avoidance notes, Keeping it going plan, lines about each week, end-of-day mood ratings, and questions for your therapist. It also removes every reminder the app has scheduled or delivered, clears what the widget shows and the first-week checkmarks on Home, and deletes any report or spreadsheet files the app made that are still in its temporary storage. Your app settings stay as they are. On iPhone and iPad, it also removes the copy in iCloud if sync has ever been on, even if you’ve turned it off since. On Android, if sync is on, it also empties the copy in Google Drive down to the codes for what was deleted, then removes the app’s access to your Drive and turns sync off. If iCloud or Google Drive can’t be reached, the app tells you so you can try again.
- Turn sync off in Settings. What’s on your device stays there. On iPhone and iPad, the copy already in iCloud stays until you remove it.
- To remove the iCloud copy, use Delete everything, or open your device’s Settings, tap your name, then iCloud, and manage the storage for the app.
- On Android, turning sync off asks whether to remove the copy in Google Drive, and removes the app’s access to your Drive either way. You can also remove the copy from Google Drive on the web. Go to Settings. In Manage apps, find the app, open Options, and choose Delete hidden app data.
- Deleting the app removes its data from your device.
We don’t hold any of your app data, so there’s none for us to send you, correct, or delete. We keep email only as long as we need it to help you or to meet a legal obligation, and our email provider processes it for us. You can ask us to delete your messages, or ask anything else about your privacy, at hello@mybehavioralactivation.com.
Not health care
Everyday Insight’s tools are for education and personal reflection. They are not therapy or medical care, and they are not for emergencies.
Security
We build the app so your data stays on your device and in accounts you control. When sync is on, your data moves between your device and iCloud or Google Drive over encrypted connections. No method of storage is completely secure, so keep your device protected with a passcode and keep it up to date.
People outside the United States
Everyday Insight LLC is based in the United States. If you use the app or email us from another country, any information we receive, like an email, may be processed in the United States or wherever our service providers operate.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we’ll post the new version at mybehavioralactivation.com/app/privacy with a new effective date. If the change is important, we’ll also let you know in the app. This policy is also available in Spanish. If the two versions differ, the English version controls.
Contact
Everyday Insight LLC
hello@mybehavioralactivation.com
California, United States