Applies to From the Ambo, LittleJournal, Excelon Lean Timer, and EncounterDeck.
Last updated: 21 August 2026
These apps do not collect any user-identifying personal data. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party data collection of any kind. Nothing you enter is transmitted anywhere.
What is stored, and where
Some apps save your settings and work so they are still there next time you open them. This data is written only to your own device’s app storage. It is never uploaded, never shared, and it is deleted when you delete the app.
– From the Ambo – Selected font size.
– LittleJournal – User-generated journal entries — that’s the point. Mood, tags, a word index for search.
– Excelon Lean Time — Your chosen topic and extension durations.
– Adventure 430 – Allows you to save and restore game state.
– EncounterDeck — Nothing. Generated encounters exist only while the app is open.
Network access
The first time you dictate an entry, LittleJournal asks iOS to download a speech recognition model from Apple, so that transcription can run on the phone rather than on somebody’s server. That download is between your phone and Apple; nothing about you or your journal is part of it. Otherwise these apps do not send or receive anything — no servers, no APIs, no remote configuration.
The only exception is that some screens contain links — for example to a publisher’s website or an email address. Tapping one hands the link to Safari or your mail app, which then behaves according to its own privacy policy. No information about you is attached to those links.
Tracking
No tracking occurs. The apps do not use the Advertising Identifier (IDFA), do not build profiles, do not request App Tracking Transparency permission (because there is nothing to track), and do not share data with data brokers or advertising networks.
Permissions – LittleJournal asks for two, and only if you choose to speak an entry instead of typing it: permission to use the microphone, and permission to recognize speech. Both prompts come from iOS. If you never dictate, neither is ever requested. The other apps request no system permissions at all. None of these apps access your camera, photos, contacts, calendar, location, health data, or files. Excelon Lean Timer keeps the screen awake while a timer is running, and plays a sound stored inside the app when a topic ends. Neither involves collecting information about you.
Children – None of these apps are made for children, and none are in the App Store’s Kids Category. A child can still use one, so it is worth being plain about what happens. First, nothing is ever sent anywhere — not for children, not for anyone. There is no sign-up, no profile, no advertising, and nothing for a parent to consent to on a child’s behalf. LittleJournal does keep what you write. That is what a journal is for. Those entries stay on the phone, in the app’s own storage. I never receive them, they are never uploaded, and deleting the app deletes them. COPPA, the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, governs personal information that children under 13 send to the operator of a service. Nothing about the user is sent to anyone, so there is nothing for it to govern.
Your rights – Under the GDPR and the CCPA, rights like access, correction, export and erasure apply to data an organization holds about you. Excelon and Matt Heusser, the author, hold none. What these apps store stays on your device and never reaches us, so there is nothing for us to look up, correct, export or delete. To remove everything an app has stored, delete the app.
Changes to this policy – If a future version of an app changes what it stores or accesses, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.
Contact
Questions about this policy or about any of these apps: matt@xndev.com
Matthew Heusser
Excelon Development
