Privacy Policy — Empty Boat

Application: Empty Boat (emptyboat.app)
Publisher: mumaidi
Contact: mumaidi@proton.me
Effective date: 7 August 2026
Last updated: 7 August 2026

1. Summary

Empty Boat is a Buddhist-inspired reflection and mindfulness app. It has no user accounts, no login, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. The publisher operates no server and does not receive, store or hold any of your data.

Almost everything you do in Empty Boat stays on your device. There is one exception, and it is the most important part of this policy: text you type into the Companion screen is sent over the internet to a third-party service that generates the reply. That is described in Section 4.

2. Who is responsible for your data

The publisher, mumaidi, is the data controller for the limited processing described here.

Email: mumaidi@proton.me

We aim to respond to privacy requests within 30 days.

3. Data stored on your device

The following is written to the app's local storage on your phone. It is not transmitted to the publisher, and the publisher cannot read it.

This data is removed completely when you clear the app's storage or uninstall the app (Section 8).

4. Data sent off your device — please read

When you use the Companion screen, the message you type, together with the recent messages in that same conversation, is transmitted over an encrypted HTTPS connection to a third-party language-model provider, DeepSeek (api.deepseek.com), which generates the response you see. This processing takes place on servers operated by DeepSeek outside Indonesia, including in the People's Republic of China.

What this means in practice:

• Your Companion messages leave your device. They are handled by DeepSeek under DeepSeek's own privacy terms, which the publisher does not control.
• No identifier is attached. The app sends no name, email, device ID, account, wallet address or location alongside your message. The request cannot be linked to you by the publisher, because the publisher never sees it.
• The publisher never receives a copy of your messages or the replies.
• Nothing else is sent. Your journal entries, practice records and wallet address are never transmitted anywhere.

Because these messages may describe personal difficulties, distress or health matters, please treat the Companion screen as you would any online service: do not enter your full name, address, phone number, financial details, government identifiers, or anything you would not want processed by a third party. If you want to reflect privately with nothing leaving your device, use the Journal screen instead, which is entirely local.

DeepSeek's privacy policy is available at https://www.deepseek.com/en/privacy-policy — please read it, as it governs their handling of that text.

5. Wallet connection

Empty Boat asks you to connect a Solana wallet using the Solana Mobile Wallet Adapter. When you approve the connection in your wallet app:

• The app receives your public wallet address only, and stores it on your device to display which account is connected.
• The app never receives, requests, stores or transmits your seed phrase, private keys or recovery phrase. Those never leave your wallet app.
• The app does not initiate transactions, transfers, signatures, approvals or any movement of funds or assets.
• Your address is not sent to the publisher or to any third party.

6. What we do not do

• No advertising, ad networks or ad identifiers.
• No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or usage measurement SDKs.
• No cookies or cross-site tracking.
• No location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or file access. The app requests only the INTERNET permission.
• No sale of personal data, and no sharing of personal data for advertising or marketing, ever.
• No profiling and no automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.

7. Children

Empty Boat deals with emotional difficulty and is not intended for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has used the app and had data processed, contact mumaidi@proton.me and we will assist.

8. Retention and deletion

Because the publisher holds no data, there is no server-side account to erase. You have full control:

• Delete individual entries: use the Delete button on any journal entry.
• Delete everything: Android Settings → Apps → Empty Boat → Storage & cache → Clear storage, or simply uninstall the app. This erases all journal entries, practice records, the stored wallet address and all preferences.

Deletion is immediate and permanent. There is no backup held by the publisher. Any retention of Companion messages by DeepSeek is governed by their policy; you may contact them directly regarding their retention and deletion practices.

9. Security

Traffic to the language-model service uses HTTPS/TLS. App content is served locally from within the app package over an internal https:// origin, and the app disables cleartext (unencrypted) network traffic. Data on your device is protected by Android's per-application sandbox and by your device passcode or biometric lock.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. Please keep your device locked and up to date.

10. International transfers

As described in Section 4, Companion messages are processed outside Indonesia, including in the People's Republic of China. Data-protection law in a receiving country may differ from the law of your own country. By using the Companion screen you consent to this transfer. If you do not wish your text to be transferred internationally, do not use the Companion screen — every other feature of the app works entirely offline.

11. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to processing of your personal data, to data portability, and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

For data held on your device, you can exercise access and erasure directly and immediately using the controls in Section 8. For any other request, or to complain, contact mumaidi@proton.me.

12. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially, the updated version will accompany the app release that introduces the change, with a new "Last updated" date. Continuing to use the app after an update means you accept the revised policy.

13. Contact

mumaidi Email: mumaidi@proton.me

This policy is governed by the laws of the Republic of Indonesia.