Privacy Policy

Plural Star is a private front-tracking, journaling, and system-management application for plural systems. Your privacy is fundamental to how this app is built. This policy explains what data the app handles, how it is used, and how it is stored, including our optional decentralized networking features.

1. Data the App Handles

All content you enter in the app is stored exclusively on your device. Depending on the features you enable, this includes:

• System information — system name, description, system-level banner and avatar
• Member profiles — names, pronouns, roles, colors, markdown descriptions, profile pictures, 900×300 banners, tags, group assignments
• Front history — timestamped records of who fronted across Primary, Co-Front, and Co-Conscious tiers, with mood, location, energy level, and notes per tier
• Journal entries — text entries with optional authors, hashtags, and per-entry or whole-journal passwords
• Chat — local-only system chat with channels, text messages, images (stored as base64 on your device), replies, and reactions
• Custom fields — user-defined per-member fields and values
• Noteboards — per-member note threads written by other headmates
• Polls — system polls with options, votes, and voter tracking
• Settings and preferences — theme, language, notification toggles, front-check interval, custom palettes, custom moods, saved locations
• Approximate location — only when GPS is explicitly enabled in Settings (off by default). Your device's coordinates are reverse-geocoded to a neighbourhood or city name via OpenStreetMap Nominatim. Raw GPS coordinates are never stored.
• Network and Sync Data (optional) — when using Friends & Syncing, the app handles cryptographic Peer IDs, friend lists, connection metadata, and encrypted sync payloads.

2. How Your Data Is Used

All data is used solely to provide app features — tracking fronting sessions, maintaining a system journal, managing custom fields and noteboards, running polls, generating history and insights, and facilitating secure peer-to-peer synchronization and friend interactions when explicitly enabled. Your data is never used for advertising, analytics, profiling, or any purpose beyond what you see in the app.

3. Data Storage and Transmission

All data is fundamentally stored locally on your device. Plural Star does not operate any centralized storage servers, does not require an account, and does not transmit your data to any third party, with four narrow exceptions:

• Decentralized Sync & Friends (optional): If you enable online features, your device communicates through our Decentralized LibP2P Relay Node Network (Plural-Star-Node). Your data is transmitted using end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and is only accessible to the specific peers (your other devices or explicitly approved friends) you authorize. Relay nodes merely facilitate the connection and NAT traversal; they cannot read, decrypt, or permanently store your system data.
• GPS location (optional): If you enable the GPS feature, your device's coordinates are sent over HTTPS to Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) to resolve a neighbourhood or city name. Only coordinates are sent — no identifiers, no account information, no system data.
• Simply Plural / PluralKit token import (optional): If you use the import feature with a token, the token is used for one-time API requests to those services to fetch your data. The token is not stored by Plural Star after the import completes.
• Simply Plural file import (optional): If you import a Simply Plural JSON export file, the file is read from your device's local storage only. No network traffic occurs during file import.

4. Data Sharing

Plural Star does not sell, share, or transmit your personal data to any third parties for any purpose beyond what is described in Section 3. When utilizing the Friends & Syncing network, you retain absolute control over which cryptographic peers receive your encrypted data.

5. Notifications

Plural Star can display local notifications on your device. All notifications are generated entirely on-device and are not transmitted anywhere.

• Front status notification: A persistent notification showing who is currently fronting across all three tiers. Displays when someone is fronting and updates when the front changes.
• Front-check reminders (optional): If you set a front-check interval in Settings (1, 2, 4, 8, 12, or 24 hours), the app schedules a recurring local reminder to prompt you to update the front. Notifications can be disabled at any time by clearing the interval or turning off notifications in Settings.
• Noteboard notifications (optional): When a new noteboard entry is created for a member, the app can surface a local notification. Disabled by turning off notifications in Settings.

6. Export & Backup

Plural Star includes optional export features you control entirely. JSON exports are reimportable; HTML exports are for offline viewing or upload to services like Google Drive; email exports open your device's native mail app with pre-filled content (the app does not send email directly). All exports offer per-category toggles so you choose exactly what leaves your device. Avatars and banners are encoded as base64 inside the payload so images travel with the backup.

7. Data Deletion

You can permanently erase all app data at any time using Share → Delete All Data. Uninstalling the app also removes all locally stored data from your device.

8. Children's Privacy

Plural Star is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.

9. Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes to this policy, the updated version will be published at this URL with a revised date at the top.

10. Contact

Questions about this privacy policy can be directed to:
the1hanyou@gmail.com