Privacy Policy

How information is handled for Nothing Worse

Privacy-first summary: The core Nothing Worse experience is designed to work on-device without an account. Daily content, preferences, widgets, and local reminder settings are generally stored locally. The App does not use your private life, messages, relationships, or behavior to decide which fictional humor message you see.

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy explains how the individual developer and operator of Nothing Worse, conducting business under the 995 Studio brand ("Developer," "995 Studio," "we," "us," or "our"), collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects information when you use the Nothing Worse mobile application, its widgets, notifications, support channels, websites, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

This Policy applies only to information controlled by the Developer. Apple, Google, device manufacturers, app stores, payment processors, websites, and other third parties have their own privacy practices. Their policies apply to information they control.

If a translated version conflicts with the English version, the English version controls to the extent permitted by law.

2. Who is responsible for your information

Nothing Worse is developed and operated by an individual developer conducting business under the 995 Studio brand. That individual Developer is the controller of personal information described in this Policy, except where a third party independently determines how it processes information. 995 Studio is a public-facing brand name and is not represented in this Policy as a corporation, limited liability company, or separate legal entity.

Contact: 995 Studio, Hayward, California, United States; support@995studio.com; https://995studio.com.

3. Our current privacy design

Nothing Worse is built as an offline-first, single-purpose humor experience. Based on the current design:

• You do not need to create a 995 Studio account to use the core App.
• Daily message selection and the content displayed in the App or widget are performed on your device using local data and date-based or randomized logic.
• The core App does not send your daily message history, private thoughts, relationships, conversations, or personal situation to the Developer.
• Notification preferences and reminder schedules are stored and processed locally by the App and your operating system.
• The App does not access your contacts, text messages, email, call history, microphone, camera, photo library, precise location, health information, biometric information, or financial-account credentials for its core features.
• The current core experience does not use personal information to profile you, predict your behavior, evaluate trust, or determine whether any fictional message is true about you.

Your operating system may still process technical information needed to install, secure, update, display, and operate the App. That platform-level processing is governed by the platform provider's privacy policy.

4. Information we collect

4.1 Information stored locally on your device

The App may store settings and functional data locally, such as consent choices, selected theme or display preferences, notification time, time-zone-related values, daily selection state, content order or history needed to reduce repetition, widget state, purchase entitlement status, and similar preferences.

Local data generally does not leave your device through the Developer's systems. It may be included in device backups, device transfers, or platform synchronization if you enable those services. Apple, Google, or your device provider controls those services. You can usually remove local App data by deleting the App, clearing App storage where the platform allows it, or changing device settings.

4.2 Information you send to us

If you contact support, send feedback, report a problem, request privacy help, or otherwise communicate with us, we collect the information you choose to provide. This may include your name, email address, message, attachments, screenshots, app version, device or operating-system details, transaction reference, and correspondence history.

Please do not send passwords, full payment-card numbers, government identification numbers, medical records, intimate information, confidential third-party data, or other information that is not necessary for us to help you.

4.3 Purchases and app-store information

Apple, Google, or another store processes purchases. We do not receive your full card or bank-account information. We may receive or verify limited purchase information needed to provide paid features, restore purchases, prevent fraud, or provide support, such as product identifier, entitlement status, purchase or expiration date, country or storefront, and a transaction or receipt identifier.

The store provider may independently collect account, payment, device, and transaction information under its own privacy policy.

4.4 Technical and diagnostic information

The App may receive limited crash or diagnostic information from Apple, Google, or your device when you have chosen to share diagnostics with the platform and the platform makes that information available to developers. Depending on the report, this may include App version, device model, operating-system version, language, approximate time of an error, performance information, and technical crash data.

Our website or support infrastructure may automatically receive ordinary network and security logs, such as IP address, browser or device type, requested page, timestamp, referring page, and security events. We use this information to deliver, protect, and troubleshoot those online services.

4.5 Advertising, analytics, and tracking

As of the effective date, the core App design does not use third-party behavioral advertising or third-party analytics SDKs to track your activity across other companies' apps or websites. The Developer does not use App data to create a relationship, trust, emotional, or behavioral profile about you.

If a future version introduces advertising, analytics, tracking, or another material data practice, we will update this Policy and applicable app-store disclosures before or when the change takes effect and will request permission where required by law or platform rules. Your device and app-store settings may provide additional controls.

4.6 Information we do not intentionally collect

We do not intentionally collect the contents of your private messages or calls, contacts, precise geolocation, health data, biometrics, government identifiers, financial-account credentials, or information about your race, religion, sexual orientation, immigration status, or union membership through the core App. We do not need this information to provide daily humor. If you voluntarily include sensitive information in a support message, we will use it only as reasonably necessary to respond, protect the Service, or comply with law.

5. How we use information

We use information only as reasonably necessary for the following purposes:

• Provide, operate, maintain, localize, and support the Service.
• Honor settings, permissions, purchases, and feature entitlements.
• Respond to questions, feedback, support requests, privacy requests, and legal notices.
• Diagnose crashes, fix bugs, measure reliability, maintain compatibility, and improve accessibility and performance.
• Protect users, the Developer, app stores, and others from fraud, abuse, security threats, infringement, or unlawful conduct.
• Enforce our Terms and Conditions and defend legal rights.
• Comply with tax, accounting, consumer-protection, privacy, law-enforcement, and other legal obligations.
• Complete a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, asset sale, or similar transaction, subject to appropriate protections.

We do not use a fictional daily message as a factual conclusion about you. We do not use information to make decisions about your eligibility for employment, housing, credit, insurance, education, health care, or other legally significant opportunities.

6. Legal bases for processing

Where the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction requires a legal basis, we rely on one or more of the following:

Performance of a contract. We process limited information needed to provide requested features, verify purchases, and respond to support requests under our Terms.

Legitimate interests. We process limited information to secure, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the Service; prevent abuse; communicate with users; and protect legal rights, where those interests are not overridden by your rights.

Consent. We rely on consent when required, such as for optional permissions, certain diagnostics, notifications, or future technologies that require consent. You may withdraw consent through device settings or by contacting us, without affecting earlier lawful processing.

Legal obligation and vital interests. We process information when necessary to comply with law, valid legal process, or tax and accounting obligations, or to protect someone's vital interests in an emergency.

7. How we disclose information

We do not sell personal information for money. As of the effective date, we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We may disclose limited information in the following circumstances:

• Service providers. Vendors may process information on our behalf for hosting, email, customer support, security, diagnostics, legal, accounting, or similar business functions. They are authorized to use it only for contracted purposes and must protect it appropriately.
• Platform and transaction providers. Apple, Google, device manufacturers, app stores, and payment providers process information needed to distribute the App, deliver platform features, verify purchases, prevent fraud, and comply with their obligations.
• Legal and safety reasons. We may disclose information if we reasonably believe it is necessary to comply with law, subpoena, court order, or valid government request; investigate unlawful conduct; enforce agreements; protect rights or safety; or detect and address fraud or security issues.
• Business transfers. Information may be disclosed to advisers, lenders, investors, or a successor in connection with due diligence, financing, merger, acquisition, restructuring, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar transaction, subject to confidentiality and applicable law.
• With your direction or consent. We may disclose information when you ask us to or provide valid consent.
• Aggregated or de-identified information. We may use or disclose information that cannot reasonably identify you, and we will not attempt to re-identify it except to verify that de-identification works or as allowed by law.

We require third parties processing information on our behalf to provide privacy and security protections appropriate to the information and applicable law.

8. Third-party platforms

Your use of the Service may involve independent third parties. For example, Apple's and Google's systems may install and update the App, process payments, provide crash reports, manage notifications, synchronize backups, and enforce device or store settings.

The Developer does not control those companies' data practices. Review their current policies and controls:

• Apple Privacy Policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
• Apple App Store and privacy information: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/app-store/
• Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Google Play data and privacy controls: https://support.google.com/googleplay/

9. Retention

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including providing the Service, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, maintaining security, and meeting legal, tax, accounting, and audit obligations.

Local App data. Data stored only on your device remains until the App or operating system overwrites it, you clear App storage, you change settings, you delete the App, or a backup retains a copy under the platform provider's rules.

Support and feedback. We generally retain routine support correspondence for up to 24 months after the matter is closed, unless a longer or shorter period is appropriate because of the request, legal obligations, security, or an ongoing dispute.

Purchase, legal, and accounting records. We may retain transaction references and required business records for up to seven years or another period required by applicable law.

Diagnostics and security logs. We generally retain developer-accessible diagnostics and ordinary logs for up to 24 months, unless needed longer to investigate a continuing security incident, prevent abuse, comply with law, or establish or defend legal claims.

When information is no longer needed, we delete, de-identify, or securely isolate it, subject to technical limitations, backup cycles, legal holds, and platform-controlled records.

10. Your choices and controls

Local data. You may reset or remove local settings by using available in-App controls, clearing App storage on supported platforms, or deleting the App. Deleting the App may not remove platform backups, purchase history, or store records controlled by Apple or Google.

Notifications. You can grant, deny, or revoke notification permission and adjust schedules through the App or device settings. Revoking permission stops future notifications from the App but does not necessarily delete other local settings.

Diagnostics. You can manage platform diagnostic-sharing controls through your device or app-store settings where available.

Communications. You may ask us to stop non-essential direct communications. We may still send transactional, legal, security, or support responses that you request or that are necessary.

Privacy requests. You may submit a request to support@995studio.com with the subject "Privacy Request." We may need information to verify your identity and authority. Because the core App has no 995 Studio account and most App data stays on-device, we may not possess data that identifies or can be linked to you.

11. Privacy rights

Depending on where you live and subject to legal exceptions, you may have rights to request access to or a copy of personal information; correction; deletion; restriction; portability; information about collection and disclosure; withdrawal of consent; or objection to certain processing. You may also have the right to appeal a denied request or complain to a privacy regulator.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted, but we may require proof of authority and may verify the request directly with you. We may deny or limit a request where permitted, such as when we cannot verify it, do not control the information, must retain records by law, need information to complete a transaction, or must protect rights and security.

To exercise a right, email support@995studio.com. Describe the right, your jurisdiction, the Service involved, and enough detail for us to evaluate the request. Do not send government identification unless we specifically explain why it is necessary.

12. United States state privacy disclosures

This Section supplements the rest of the Policy for residents of California and other U.S. states with applicable comprehensive privacy laws. Rights and obligations apply only to the extent the relevant law covers the Developer and the requested information.

12.1 Categories handled

During the preceding 12 months, we may have handled the following categories: identifiers such as name, email address, IP address, or transaction identifier; commercial information such as product purchased and entitlement status; internet or electronic activity such as website logs and crash or diagnostic events; device and technical information; and the contents of support communications you choose to send.

Sources include you, your device or browser, Apple or Google, app stores, payment or platform providers, and service providers. We use and disclose these categories for the purposes and to the recipients described in Sections 5 and 7.

12.2 Sale, sharing, sensitive information, and incentives

We have not sold personal information for money during the preceding 12 months. As of the effective date, we have not shared personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising and do not knowingly sell or share personal information of users under 16. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information to infer characteristics or for purposes that require a right to limit under California law. We do not offer financial incentives in exchange for personal information.

12.3 California and similar rights

Where applicable, you may request to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected; learn the categories of sources, purposes, and recipients; correct inaccurate information; delete information; obtain a portable copy; opt out of sale, sharing, or certain targeted advertising; limit certain uses of sensitive personal information; and receive equal service and pricing.

Because we currently do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, we do not provide a separate "Do Not Sell or Share" mechanism for the core App. If that practice changes, we will provide legally required opt-out methods and honor recognized opt-out preference signals where required.

13. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Some browsers transmit "Do Not Track" signals, but there is no universally accepted standard for responding to them. Our website does not currently use Do Not Track signals to change its behavior. Where applicable law requires recognition of the Global Privacy Control or another valid opt-out preference signal, we will treat it as a request to opt out of covered sale, sharing, or targeted advertising for the browser or device sending the signal.

The core App does not currently sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

14. Children's privacy

The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. We do not ask for age, create child profiles, or use the core App to behaviorally advertise to children.

A parent or guardian who permits a child to view offline content should supervise that use and should not allow the child to contact us or submit personal information. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13 without legally valid consent, we will delete it as required. Contact support@995studio.com with the subject "Child Privacy."

Additional age thresholds or parental-consent rules may apply in some countries. We will apply those rules where required.

15. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of information we control. The offline-first design reduces the amount of App data transmitted to us. However, no device, network, transmission, storage method, or security measure is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for securing your device, operating-system account, app-store account, backups, and lock-screen notification settings. Widgets or notifications may reveal content to anyone who can view your screen.

16. International processing

The Developer operates from California, United States. Information you send to us may be processed in the United States and other countries where our service providers operate. Those countries may have different privacy laws from your country.

Where required for transfers from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we use an approved legal mechanism, such as adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses, or another lawful safeguard. You may contact us for information about applicable safeguards.

17. Automated decision-making

The App may automatically select and display a daily message based on local date, stored order, or randomized logic. This is content delivery, not an evaluation of you. It does not produce legal or similarly significant effects and is not based on private relationship, trust, emotional, health, financial, employment, or behavioral information.

18. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy to reflect changes in the Service, law, technology, or our practices. We will post the revised Policy and update the "Last updated" date. If a change materially affects how we use personal information, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent where required. We encourage you to review this Policy when the App is updated.

19. Contact us

For privacy questions, requests, or complaints, contact:

995 Studio (operating brand)
Hayward, California, United States
Email: support@995studio.com
Website: https://995studio.com

Use the subject "Privacy Request" and describe your request. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may have the right to appeal or complain to your local data-protection or consumer-protection authority.