Privacy Policy

Last updated: 7 September 2026

This page explains exactly what Mind Ahead saves, where it ends up, and who can see it. It is written to match what the app actually does — not to sound as good as possible. A policy that promises more protection than the app provides is worse than none.

What the app saves

The app saves how practice is going — not just that you practised. It remembers which words and letters are easy or hard, where things tend to go wrong, how long an answer takes, and when a session starts to become tiring. That is the whole point of the app: without it there is no way to see whether anything is improving.

More concretely, it saves:

• Every attempt: which task it was, what was answered, whether it matched, how many tries it took and how long it took.
• Which cues were used, and whether the app offered help unprompted after a while.
• The answers to the questions after a session: how it felt, tiredness, how familiar the words were, and whether help was needed. They are answered with buttons — the app has no free-text field anywhere.
• The name entered at first launch, and which language the app runs in.
• Your own words and photographs, together with the marker for whether a picture shows a person.
• Settings: which exercises are shown, how cues are given, speech and text size.

Who can see it

Whoever helps you can see your practice under Stöd (Support) in the app. Stöd has no password — anyone holding the phone can reach it. If you share a backup or a summary, with a speech therapist for example, they see everything included in it.

Worth knowing:

• Stöd is not protected by its own password — the phone’s lock screen is what decides who can reach the app.
• You decide whether and when to share an export or a summary, and with whom.
• Photographs you add may show other people, who were not the ones deciding to add them. They never leave the phone by themselves, but they do travel in an export you share and in the phone’s own backup. Mark them as showing a person when you add them.
• Mind Ahead has no employee and no service that can see your data. There is no such channel — none of the practice data reaches us.

The phone’s own backup

The app puts nothing in the cloud itself. But the app’s data sits in the phone’s documents folder, and the phone’s own backup includes that folder — just as it does for other apps. So if you have iCloud Backup switched on, a copy of the practice data and the photographs is in your own Apple account. That copy is yours, not ours: we cannot reach it, and it falls under Apple’s own terms.

What that means in practice:

• We have no cloud service, no server and no account keeping a copy for you.
• If you would rather the app’s data was not backed up, you can switch it off for Mind Ahead under Settings → your name → iCloud → iCloud Backup.
• Switch it off, and if the phone is lost or breaks the practice history is gone. That is the trade.
• A backup you make yourself under Profil becomes a file you choose the destination for — the phone’s files, an email attachment, or a cloud service you already use. That part is outside the app’s control.
• When you change phone you either restore from the phone’s backup or carry over an export yourself. The app does not do it automatically.

The network: one single exception

The app is built to work entirely without an internet connection, and it does. There is exactly one connection, and it is worth being clear about:

• The app asks the App Store whether your Pro subscription is active — when the app starts, and when you buy or restore. That question carries nothing about how you practise.
• Payment is handled by Apple. The app never sees card details, and we get no list of who has bought.
• No analytics or crash-reporting service is built in.
• No ads, no ad networks, no trackers.
• Speech uses the phone’s own voice and happens on the device — no audio is sent anywhere.
• This website has no cookies, no analytics and no third-party scripts.

Your control and your rights

Under Profil in the app you can export everything or erase everything at any time. Because the data only exists on your phone, you do not need to ask us for a copy of it or for its deletion — you do it yourself, directly, and it happens immediately. We cannot retrieve, change or delete anything for you, for the simple reason that we do not have it. If you still believe something is being handled wrongly, you have the right to complain to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (imy.se).

Data controller

Mind Ahead is developed by Viktor Vestlund as a private individual; there is no company yet. Because no practice data reaches us, we do not process it — there is no recipient, no storage on our side and no transfer to another country. The detail below identifies the person responsible for the app and this website, and works for any question about this.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about the app are welcome at:

vestlund.viktor@gmail.com

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes we update the date at the top of the page. Substantial changes are also described, so it is possible to see what is new.