Cura

Privacy Policy

Effective 30 October 2026 · Version 1.3

The short version. No account. Your notes are saved on your phone, not on a Cura server. There is no server of ours, no analytics, and nothing that tracks you. We cannot read your journal, your symptoms or your due date, because Cura never sends them to us. Deleting the app deletes Cura's copy on your phone, but not copies already in your phone's own backups.

The longer version below says the same thing precisely, and is honest about where something can leave your device: Apple, when you buy something; a check for app updates; lesson recordings, if you press play; and your phone’s own backups, if you have them on, which go to your Apple or Google account, not to us.

Who we are

Cura is a pregnancy companion app published by Cura Family LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“Cura”, “we”, “us”). This policy covers the Cura mobile app and nothing else. Questions about it go to support@cura.family.

What Cura stores, and where

All of it is stored in Cura’s private storage area on your own device. None of it is transmitted to us, because there is nowhere to transmit it to — Cura has no server, no database and no account system. Like most apps, Cura’s storage is included in your phone’s own backups: iCloud Backup or a computer backup on iPhone, or Google backup on Android. Apple or Google makes those backups under your settings and keeps them in your account or on your computer. Cura cannot see, reach or delete them.

Your pregnancy. Your due date or last period, the week you are in, and your region.
Who you are to each other. The names or nicknames you enter, pronouns, and which role you picked. If you add a profile picture, a small square copy of it.
What you write. Journal entries — letters, feelings and notes — and any photo you attach to one. Photos are saved as files in Cura’s own storage area; the original stays in your camera roll.
What you are keeping track of. Appointments, checklists, symptoms you have logged, notes you have added to them, and a care provider’s phone number if you enter one.
Your settings. Notification preferences and the time of day you chose, theme, and region.
A support code. A random code generated when you install Cura, shown in Settings. It is not derived from anything about you or your device — it exists so that if you email us, we can tell one thread from another.
An optional sign-in record. If you use Sign in with Apple, Cura keeps a label to show in Settings and Apple’s per-app identifier for you. The signed token Apple issues is deliberately not kept, because nothing here has any use for it.

The mind check stores nothing at all

The mental-health check-in is the one screen whose answers are never written down. They exist only while the screen is open and are gone when you leave it — not saved, not counted, not summarized. This is deliberate and is not going to change.

What Cura does not do

No analytics, no usage tracking, no crash reporting SDK, no session replay.
No advertising, no ad identifiers, no profiling.
No selling or sharing of personal information. There is nothing to sell.
No cross-app or cross-site tracking, and nothing that would require Apple’s tracking permission prompt.
No location collection. Your region is guessed from your device’s language and time zone settings, on the device, and you can change it in Settings.
No contacts, no microphone, no health-app access.

Cura asks for the camera and photo library only when you choose to add a photo to a journal entry or set a profile picture, and for notification permission only if you turn reminders on. Both are handled by your operating system and can be revoked there at any time.

Who else is involved

Apple

Purchases are handled entirely by Apple. Cura never sees your payment details. What Apple tells Cura is limited to what this device has bought — the product, a transaction identifier, the relevant dates, and whether it was a real or test purchase — and that information is saved on this device with everything else, not on a Cura server. Apple also handles refunds and subscription cancellation. Their handling of your data is governed by Apple’s privacy policy.

If you use Sign in with Apple, Apple decides what to share with the app and lets you hide your email address. Signing in is optional in Cura and unlocks nothing on its own.

App updates

Cura checks for over-the-air updates from Expo’s update service (u.expo.dev), which, with lesson audio below, is one of only two network requests the app makes. That check sends technical information only — the app and runtime version, the platform, and an identifier for the update channel. It sends nothing you have written and nothing about your pregnancy. See Expo’s privacy policy.

Lesson audio

If you press play on a lesson, Cura downloads that lesson’s recording from our website, legal.cura.family, which is hosted by Cloudflare. The request asks only for the file. Like any web request, it reveals your IP address and which recording was requested, and Cloudflare may log this under Cloudflare’s privacy policy. It sends nothing you have written. The recording is then kept in your phone’s cache, so later plays stay on the device. The recordings were made from Cura’s lesson text with ElevenLabs text-to-speech; no information about you is ever sent to ElevenLabs.

Links out

Clinical content in Cura cites its sources, and tapping one opens that organization’s website — the NHS or the CDC, for example — in your browser. Those sites are not ours and have their own privacy policies. Cura does not tell them anything about you.

Notifications

Reminders are scheduled by your device, not sent from a server. Cura has no push notification service, holds no push token, and cannot send you anything remotely. A reminder’s text is composed on your phone from what is already there.

Your controls

Erase everything. Settings → Privacy and data has a single action that deletes all stored data and every photo Cura holds. There is no survey and no retention flow; it deletes. It cannot reach copies already in your phone’s own backups. Delete those in your iCloud, Google or computer backup settings, or restoring an older backup will bring the data back.
Delete the app. Removing Cura removes its storage from your phone. Copies in backups you already have stay until those backups are replaced or deleted. Purchases stay attached to your Apple ID and can be restored if you reinstall.
Take it with you. Settings can export everything to a backup file, including photos. That file goes wherever you send it through your device’s share sheet — it is yours, and it is unencrypted, so treat it the way you would treat a diary.
Turn things off. Notification, camera and photo permissions are all revocable in your device settings.

Keeping it safe

Because Cura never sends your notes to us, there is no server to breach and no account to compromise. What protects your data is your device: Cura’s storage sits in the app’s private container, covered by your operating system’s own file protection and your passcode or biometric lock. Cura does not add a second layer of encryption on top of that, and a device with no passcode, or one that has been jailbroken or rooted, is outside what any app can protect against. Backup files you export are not encrypted. Your phone’s own backups are protected by Apple or Google, not by Cura. iCloud Backup is encrypted, but Apple holds the keys unless you have Advanced Data Protection turned on (where Apple offers it). A computer backup is encrypted only if you choose that option. You can stop backing up Cura by excluding it in your iCloud Backup settings or by turning backups off.

Sensitive information

Information about a pregnancy is sensitive, and some laws — including Washington’s My Health My Data Act and the health provisions of other state and national privacy laws — treat it as a special category. Cura’s answer to that is structural rather than procedural: we do not collect it. It is not sent to us, not held by us, not processed by us, and not disclosed to anyone. Your phone’s own backups, described above, are made by Apple or Google under your settings with them, not sent by Cura. If that ever changes, this policy will change first, and the app will ask before Cura sends anything off your device.

Children

Cura is intended for adults and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children. Because Cura collects nothing at all, there is nothing for us to delete on request — but you can erase everything on the device using the action described above.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or export your personal information, to know whether it has been sold or shared, and not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights.

In Cura’s case these are all things you exercise yourself, on your own device and without asking us: your data is in front of you in the app, it is editable there, Settings exports it, and Settings deletes it. We hold no copy, so there is nothing for us to hand over, correct or erase on your behalf. Copies in your phone’s own backups are in your Apple or Google account, and you manage them there. We have never sold or shared personal information and do not use it for targeted advertising.

If you email us, we will of course have whatever you put in that email. Write to support@cura.family and we will answer.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the effective date at the top changes with it and the previous versions remain in the app’s source history. Any change that alters what happens to your data — rather than clarifying wording — will be surfaced in the app before it takes effect, not published quietly here.

Contact

Cura Family LLC
Texas, United States
support@cura.family