Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 16, 2026 · Applies to the Mindful Haven app for iOS and Android, and this website.

1. Who we are

Mindful Haven (“Mindful Haven”, “we”, “us”) is a sleep app that combines narrated sleep stories with ambient soundscapes. It is developed by Ant Intelligence. This policy explains what information the app uses, where it is kept and the choices you have. If you have any questions, please contact us.

2. Information stored on your device

To personalise your nights, show your listening history and remember your preferences, Mindful Haven saves the following information only in the app’s private storage on your device. It is never uploaded to us or to any third party.

Information	Why it is used
Onboarding answers: what keeps you awake (for example overthinking, scrolling, worries or noise), how long it usually takes you to fall asleep, your usual bedtime and wake-up time, how you heard about the app and the sounds you prefer	To suggest a story and soundscape for tonight, and to time your optional bedtime reminder.
Listening sessions: date, start time, minutes listened (excluding pauses), and the story and sounds played. Only sessions of one minute or longer are recorded	To show your last 7 nights of listening and your most-played stories and sounds on the Tracking tab.
Sleep journal entries you choose to write: time you went to bed, time you woke up, how well you slept and any notes	To show your average time in bed and how many nights you logged this week.
Saved mixes: the sounds and volume levels you combine (up to 12 mixes)	So you can return to your favourite mix with one tap.
Preferences: story repeats, fade-out length, voice volume, subtitles, background ducking, breath pacing and reminder settings	To keep the app set up the way you like it.

This information is protected by your device’s own security (such as your passcode and the platform’s data protection). If you use an iCloud, Google or other device backup, it may be included in that backup under your provider’s terms; we cannot access it.

3. Information we do not collect

• We do not require or offer an account, and we never ask for your name, email address, phone number or password.
• We do not collect your location, contacts, photos, calendar, health records or advertising identifiers.
• We do not record audio. The microphone is never switched on (see below).
• We do not use advertising, analytics, crash-reporting or tracking services, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
• We do not read data from Apple Health, Google Health Connect or any wearable. Your sleep journal is typed in by you and stays in the app.
• We do not sell, rent or share personal information with anyone.

4. Device permissions

Notifications (optional)

If you turn on bedtime reminders, Mindful Haven asks for permission to send notifications — and only at that moment, never before. The reminder is scheduled locally by your phone 30 minutes before the bedtime you chose; no server is involved and no information leaves your device. You can change or turn reminders off at any time in the app or in your phone’s Settings.

Microphone (never used)

The audio library Mindful Haven uses to play sound contains code that could access a microphone, so Apple requires every app built with it to include a microphone usage description. Mindful Haven never requests microphone access, never records and never listens. You will not see a microphone permission prompt from the app. If one ever appears, you can safely decline it and everything will work exactly the same.

Audio and screen

The app plays audio and keeps playing when your screen is locked. It also respects your device’s Reduce Motion setting by slowing the player’s animated background. None of these features collect information.

5. Background audio & lock screen

So you can pause or stop without unlocking your phone, Mindful Haven shows the current story or soundscape title on your lock screen and in the system media controls. This information is passed only to your phone’s operating system for display. When a phone call comes in, the operating system tells the app to pause; the app does not see who is calling. If you pause for more than 30 seconds, playback switches off completely to save battery.

6. Stories, voices & sounds

Every story, narration and sound — about 66 MB of content — is packaged inside the app when you install it. Nothing is streamed or downloaded afterwards, so playing a story does not send any request over the internet.

• Story narration was produced in advance with a text-to-speech voice (Microsoft Neural TTS). The recordings are stored in the app; your device does not contact Microsoft or any speech service.
• Ambient sounds are licensed from Pixabay under the Pixabay Content License, and each creator is credited in the app’s Settings. Pixabay does not receive any information from the app.
• The “dream pad” tones are generated live on your device.

7. In-app purchases

Mindful Haven currently has no purchases or subscriptions. If optional purchases are offered in the future, they will be processed entirely by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). We would never receive your name, Apple ID, Google account or payment details — only the store’s confirmation, on your device, that a purchase is active. We will update this policy before any such change takes effect.

8. This website

This website is a simple informational site. It does not use cookies, analytics or tracking scripts, and it has no forms that collect personal data. Text is displayed with the Inter and Fraunces typefaces loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser connects to Google’s servers to download the fonts; Google may process your IP address for this purpose as described in the Google Privacy Policy. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and pages requested) for security and reliability, for a limited period.

9. Data retention & deletion

Your data stays on your device for as long as the app is installed. Because we do not hold a copy, deleting Mindful Haven from your device permanently erases all of its data, and we cannot recover it. Data inside a device or cloud backup is removed when that backup is deleted.

10. Security

Because Mindful Haven has no accounts and does not transmit your information, there is no server-side copy of your data that could be breached. Your data relies on the security of your device, so we recommend using a passcode or biometric lock and keeping your operating system up to date.

11. Children’s privacy

Mindful Haven is designed for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country). Because all data remains on the device, no child’s information is ever sent to us. If you believe a child has contacted us by email, please let us know and we will delete that correspondence.

12. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in the EU/UK, the CCPA in California, or Vietnam’s Decree 13/2023 on personal data protection), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or port your personal data, and to object to its use. Since Mindful Haven does not collect or store your data on our systems, you can exercise these rights directly on your device: review your history and journal in the app, and delete the app to erase everything. If you email us, we will use your message only to reply, and delete it on request.

13. Health information

Mindful Haven is a relaxation and wellness tool and is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent insomnia or any other condition, and the sleep journal is a personal note rather than medical data. Do not listen to sleep stories while driving or operating machinery. If you have ongoing trouble sleeping, loud snoring, pauses in breathing during sleep or excessive daytime sleepiness, please talk to a healthcare professional.

14. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the app evolves — for example, if we add a feature that works differently from what is described here, such as optional purchases or content downloads. We will post the new version on this page with an updated effective date, and we will explain any significant changes in the app’s release notes before they take effect.

15. Contact us

Questions or requests about privacy? We are happy to help.

Ant Intelligence — Developer of Mindful Haven
Email: thanhnd@antintellect.com
Website: antintellect.com