Privacy Policy
Midnight Mews is an app of narrated sleep stories about cats. It is published by Hosein Abedi, who is responsible for the information described here. You can reach him at midnightmewssupport@gmail.com.
The short version: there are no accounts, no ads, and no tracking. What you tell the app stays on your phone.
What stays on your phone
These are kept only on your device. We never receive them, and deleting the app deletes them.
- Your name, if you choose to give one, so the app can greet you.
- The date you first opened the app. It lets the app recognise early listeners if paid options are offered later.
- Stories you save for offline listening, and the list of which ones you saved.
- A copy of the story list, so the app can open without a connection.
- The last story you played, and how far into it you got, so you can pick it up again.
- Small preferences, such as whether you have already seen the player's hints.
What the app requests from the internet
To show the cats and play their stories, the app downloads the story list and the pictures and audio from our servers. We use two providers for this: Supabase, for the story list, and Cloudflare, for pictures and audio. Like any web server, they receive your device's IP address and basic technical details of each request, and may keep them in standard server logs for a limited time. We don't use these logs to identify you, and nothing you have told the app is sent with these requests.
What we don't do
- No accounts or sign-in.
- No analytics, advertising, or tracking across other apps or websites.
- We don't sell or share information with anyone for their own purposes.
- No access to your microphone, location, contacts, photos or health data.
- No sleep tracking.
Children
Midnight Mews does not ask for personal information from anyone, including children.
Your rights
Because your name and saved stories stay on your device, you can remove them by deleting the app. If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you also have the right to ask what information about you we hold, and to have it corrected or deleted. We process the limited technical information above on the basis of our legitimate interest in delivering the app and keeping it working. Write to midnightmewssupport@gmail.com with any request. You may also complain to your local data protection authority; in the Netherlands, that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
Our providers may process data outside the European Union. Where they do, they rely on the safeguards the law requires, such as standard contractual clauses.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will appear here with a new effective date.