Gatekeep privacy policy

Last updated: 25 October 2026

This policy covers Gatekeep, the private journal app, published by Rekto Digital LLC ("we", "us"). It is the same text the app shows under Profile → Privacy policy.

In short

Gatekeep is a private journal. Your pages live on your phone. The current version of Gatekeep has no account and no sign-in, and sends nothing off your device.

Gatekeep has no ads, no analytics, no tracking, and sends nothing to AI services. We never sell or share your data.

On your phone

Pages, photos, videos, voice recordings, and the people, collections and themes you create are stored in the app’s private storage on your device. Gatekeep works fully without an account.

Gatekeep opts out of Android’s system backups.

Exports and automatic backups

An export, and each automatic backup if you turn them on, is a complete copy of your journal — private pages included — saved as a .zip in a folder you choose. These files are not encrypted. Gatekeep doesn’t send them anywhere, but if the folder you choose is synced (Google Drive, for example), that service copies them as it does any file you put there. Gatekeep only ever deletes automatic backups it made itself, keeping the newest three.

If you sign in to sync (not available yet)

Sync isn’t offered in the current version: there is nothing to sign in to, and nothing on this list is collected. This section says what will happen once it is, so nothing changes without the policy saying so first.

Signing in will be optional. If you do, we store: your email address (to send sign-in codes), an account ID, and a copy of your pages and everything on them — text, photos, videos, recordings, people (names, birthdays, photos), collections, tags and themes.

This copy is used only to sync your pages between your devices. It is sent over encrypted connections (HTTPS), encrypted at rest by our hosting provider (Supabase), and database rules restrict it to your account. It is not end-to-end encrypted, so it is technically readable by the service operator; we do not look at it.

Permissions

The camera and microphone are used only when you take a photo or video or record a voice note. Photos are added through the system photo picker, so Gatekeep receives only the ones you choose and never has access to your whole library; where a photo was taken (its GPS position and any place names in it) is removed from the copy Gatekeep keeps. Your fingerprint, face or PIN is used only for the optional app lock, and is checked by your phone — Gatekeep never sees it.

The optional evening reminder is a notification your phone schedules for itself. It is never sent from a server and never contains what you wrote.

Once, after you have kept a few pages, Gatekeep may show Google Play’s own rating card. Google Play draws and handles it; nothing you wrote is sent.

Problem reports

If something goes wrong, Gatekeep notes a short description of the error on your phone — never what you wrote. It is only sent if you choose Profile → Report a problem, which opens an email you can read, edit or discard before sending.

Children

Gatekeep is meant for adults. If you keep memories about your children in it, that information is yours and is handled exactly like the rest of your pages.

Your control

Profile → Export everything gives you a .zip of all your pages, a full JSON copy, and your original media. Profile → Restore from a backup or export brings it back, on this phone or a new one.

Deleting a page or photo on a signed-in device deletes the synced copy too. Profile → Delete my account removes your account and everything synced to it from our servers. Erase data on this device removes everything from your phone.

Synced data is kept until you delete it or your account.

Changes and contact

Gatekeep is made by Rekto Digital. If this policy changes, the new version will be in the app and at rektodigital.com/gatekeep/privacy, with the date it changed. Questions: support@rektodigital.com, or Profile → Support in the app.