Privacy policy
Forget Me Not (Android app) · Ruthless Ideas LLC · Effective November 10, 2026
The short version: everything you put in Forget Me Not stays on your phone. Your location, your places, your checklists, your notes and your proof photos are stored only on your device. The app has no account, no server, no analytics, no ads and no tracking, and it does not send your data to Ruthless Ideas LLC or to anyone else. The Android app does not even request permission to use the internet.
Who we are
Forget Me Not is made by Ruthless Ideas LLC, a Michigan limited liability company. Questions about this policy: austonruth@ruthlessideas.com.
What the app uses, and why
| What | Why | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Precise location, while you use the app | To save a place (for example, you stand at your front door and tap “use this spot”), to tell which of your saved places you are at when you open the app, and to stamp your proof entries with where they were made. | Stays on your phone. |
| Location in the background (“Allow all the time”), only if you turn it on | So the app can notice when you leave or arrive at a place you saved, even when the app is closed or not in use, and show your leaving or arriving checklist at that moment. The app registers a circle (a “geofence”) around each saved place with Android, and Android tells the app when you cross it. The app does not record a trail of where you go. | Stays on your phone. |
| Camera, only when you tap to take a photo | To take proof photos (the stove dials, the locked door) and an optional photo of your open bag. | Saved in the app's private storage on your phone. Not added to your gallery, not uploaded. |
| A photo you pick, only if you tap “From my photos” | To use as the picture of your bag. Android's photo picker hands the app only the one photo you choose. | A copy is saved in the app's private storage on your phone. |
| Notifications | One gentle notification when you leave or arrive at a saved place. They are created on your phone; there is no notification server. | Nothing leaves your phone. |
| What you type: place names, checklists, bags, notes | So the app can show them back to you. | Stays on your phone. |
Address search (optional)
If you choose “Type the address” instead of standing at a place, the app asks Android's built-in address lookup (part of your phone's system, provided by Google) to turn the address into a point on the map. That lookup is handled by your phone's operating system under Google's own privacy policy. Forget Me Not itself does not send the address anywhere and does not keep a record of the lookup beyond the saved place. You never have to use it: standing at the place works without it.
What we collect
Your data is kept in the app's private storage, which other apps on your phone cannot read.
Nothing. Ruthless Ideas LLC does not receive, collect, store, sell or share any data from the app. There are no accounts, no analytics or crash-reporting tools, no advertising IDs, no third-party SDKs that send data, and no cloud sync. The app turns off Android's automatic cloud backup for its data, so your proof photos and places are not copied to a backup service by the app.
Keeping and deleting your data
Your data stays on your phone until you delete it. You can delete a single proof entry (and its photo) in the app, remove places, bags and notes, or wipe everything with Settings → Erase everything. Uninstalling the app deletes all of its data from your phone. Because we hold no copy, there is nothing for us to delete on our side; if you have a question, email us.
Permissions you can change
Every permission is optional and can be turned off at any time in your phone's Settings → Apps → Forget Me Not → Permissions. If you don't allow background location, the app still works: tap “I'm leaving” or “I'm home” and the same checklists open.
Children
Forget Me Not is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If the app ever starts sending any data off your phone, this page will say so plainly before that version is released.
Contact
Ruthless Ideas LLC · Michigan, USA · austonruth@ruthlessideas.com