Privacy Policy
Five Year Diary · Last updated 26 October 2026
The short version
- Everything you write stays on your phone. We don't have servers, and the app never sends your diary anywhere.
- There's no account, no sign-up, no advertising and no analytics.
- We can't see your entries, photos, tags or stamps, and we can't share what we never receive.
This Privacy Policy explains how the app Five Year Diary
(package name com.kawaii.diarywidget), published by Kawaii Inc
("we", "us", "our"), handles information. If you have questions, email
support@widgetgames.com.
What the app stores, and where
The app stores the following only on your phone, in the app's private storage:
- Your diary entries: the text you write for each day, across the years.
- Photos you attach to a day. They are copied into the app's private storage; the app does not read the rest of your gallery.
- Your tags, and the stamps you add to a day, such as weather, mood and a star.
- Your settings, such as the diary length, paper and background themes, fonts, the day-start time and the reminder time.
- If you turn on the app lock, a scrambled (hashed) version of your PIN. The PIN itself is never stored.
None of this is sent to us or to anyone else. The app has internet access only because Google Play's billing
library, which handles purchases, needs it. Nothing you write is ever sent to us.
Things the app reads from your phone
- Photos you pick, only when you choose them. When you add a photo, Android's photo picker lets you
choose a single image and gives only that image to the app. The app can't browse or read the rest of your photos.
Notifications
- The daily reminder is off until you turn it on. When it's on, the app shows one gentle reminder at the time you pick,
with no diary text in it.
- On the home screen, you can turn on a private mode so the widget shows only the date and whether you've written,
never your words.
Backups, and moving to a new phone
- Android automatic backup. So your words aren't lost if you lose your phone, Android's built-in
backup includes your diary text and settings in the backup tied to your own Google account. This is handled
by Android and Google, encrypted under your account — it does not go to us, and we never see it. You can turn this off
in your phone's Google backup settings. Photos are not included in this cloud backup, and neither is
your app-lock PIN or your purchase status.
- Moving to a new phone. If you use Android's phone-to-phone transfer when you set up a new phone,
your entries, settings and photos can be copied directly to it. Your app-lock PIN is not copied.
- Backups and exports you make yourself. You can save a backup file or a PDF diary book to a location
you choose, through your phone's own file picker. That file is yours; keep it somewhere safe and delete it when you no
longer need it. Nothing is uploaded anywhere by the app.
Purchases
Optional premium features are sold through Google Play, as a one-time Lifetime purchase or a monthly or annual
subscription (subscriptions may start with a free trial). Google handles the payment, and we never see your card or
payment details. Google Play tells the app on your phone whether you have an active purchase, so it can unlock the
premium features. Google Play's billing library may also send Google technical information about purchases, for example
whether a purchase screen opened or failed. It never includes anything you write in the app. Google's handling of your
purchase is covered by the Google Privacy Policy. You can manage or
cancel a subscription anytime in Google Play.
Information Google may collect
If you have allowed it in your Android settings, Google Play may send us anonymous crash and performance reports,
such as the phone model, the Android version and the point in the app where a crash happened. These reports don't
contain anything you've written in the app.
Your choices and rights
Because your information stays on your phone, you're in control of it:
- See or copy your data: everything is in the app, and you can save a backup or export a PDF at any time.
- Correct it: edit or delete any day's entry, photo, tags and stamps in the app.
- Delete everything: uninstall the app, or clear its storage in Android Settings. We hold no copy,
so there's nothing left for us to delete. To remove a copy kept in Android's cloud backup, turn off backup for the app
or delete the app's backup in your Google account settings.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over personal data, for example under the GDPR or the CCPA.
Since we don't collect or store your personal data, we have none to give you, correct or delete. If you have a
question about your rights, email us.
Personal information
What you write in a diary can be personal and sensitive. That is why it never leaves your phone through us. We
don't sell, rent or share personal information, and we don't use it for advertising.
Children
The app is meant for a general audience and is not directed at children, and we don't knowingly receive information
from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If the way the app handles information changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the change
reaches the app. If a change matters, we'll also mention it in the app's update notes.
Contact
Kawaii Inc · support@widgetgames.com