Privacy Policy
Effective 1 November 2026. Mirrymas Crochet is made by Miriam Masendu. This policy explains, in plain language, what Mirrymas Crochet collects, why, where it's kept, and how to have it deleted.
What we collect, and why
Signing in
When you first open the app, we create an anonymous account for you — no personal information is needed to start browsing, saving patterns, or using your toolkit. If you choose to sign in with Google (so your account can be restored on a new phone, or so you can comment and share Maker Notes), we receive your Google name, email address, and profile photo, and link them to that same account.
On iPhone you can also sign in with Apple. Apple gives us your name (the first time only) and either your real email address or a private relay address, depending on the choice you make in Apple's sign-in screen. We link these to the same account. If you choose "Hide My Email", we never see your real email address.
Your saved content
To make the app useful, we store the things you save in it: favourite patterns, your progress on each pattern (row counters, stopwatch times, and any private notes you write), your To-Do list and Notes, your Inventory of yarn and supplies, and any PDFs you've added to "My PDFs" — both on your phone and, if you're signed in, a backed-up copy in the cloud.
Community content
If you sign in with Google or Apple, you can post comments on a pattern's Q&A and share photos of your finished projects ("Maker Notes"). Your Google or Apple display name (or the part of your email before the @ if you haven't set one; we never show an Apple private relay address as your name) is shown publicly alongside anything you post, along with your comment text, or your Maker Notes photo and caption. Other makers can like your Maker Notes photos; we keep track of who liked what so the app can show "already liked."
Purchases and subscriptions
Mirrymas Pro is a paid subscription, bought through Google Play on Android or the App Store on iPhone. Google or Apple handles your payment, your billing details and any free trial. We never see or store your card details.
To unlock Pro and to let you restore it, we use RevenueCat, a subscription service. RevenueCat receives your app's account ID, the details of your purchase (which product, when it started, when it renews or ends, and whether it is in a free trial), and basic device and app information, so it can confirm your subscription with Google or Apple. It does not receive your card details. You can buy Mirrymas Pro without signing in; in that case the purchase is linked to the anonymous account created when you first opened the app, and we recommend signing in so you can restore it and keep your data if you change phone.
If you delete your account in the app, we also ask RevenueCat to delete your subscriber record. Deleting your account does not cancel your subscription: please cancel it in Google Play or in your Apple Account settings first.
Reports and blocking
If you report a comment or Maker Notes photo, we store the report (what you reported, why, and when) so we can review it — reports are never visible to other users, only to us. If you block another maker, we store that so their content stops being shown to you.
Ask AI conversations
Ask AI doesn't require you to sign in with Google — anonymous and signed-in makers can both use it. The first time you open Ask AI, the app explains how it works and asks you to agree; nothing is sent until you tap "I agree". Whatever you type, along with your recent messages in that conversation, is sent to Cloudflare to generate a reply (see "Who we share information with" below). Every message also includes your app session's own sign-in token — even an anonymous session has one — so we can apply the daily limit described below; it isn't a Google account and isn't used for anything else. If you're signed in with Google or Apple, we also save your Ask AI conversation to your account so it's there next time you open it; if you're not signed in, nothing is saved once you close the app. You can delete your saved Ask AI conversation at any time with "Clear conversation" in Ask AI.
To keep Ask AI available and fair for everyone, there's a daily limit on how many questions you can ask. To enforce it, we keep a short-lived usage count: how many questions your account has asked today, and how many have come from your general internet connection today. For the second of these, we never store your actual IP address — only a one-way "hashed" version of it, which can't be turned back into the original address. Both counts reset every day and are automatically deleted after about 48 hours. They're used only to enforce this daily limit, never for tracking, profiling, or any other purpose.
What we don't collect (yet)
We do not currently use any analytics or crash-reporting tools — we have no insight today into how you use the app beyond what's needed to run the features above. We plan to add Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics (both Google products) in the future to help us fix bugs and understand which features are useful. We'll update this policy before either is switched on. We do not use the information collected for tracking you across other companies' apps and websites.
Where it's stored
- Google Firebase — your sign-in details, and everything listed above except Maker Notes photos: favourites, progress, notes, to-dos, inventory, comments, PDF backups (files and their details), reports, and blocked users.
- Cloudflare — the photos you share in Maker Notes, and the short-lived Ask AI usage counts described above.
- RevenueCat — your subscription status and purchase details, as described under "Purchases and subscriptions".
This data is processed on Google's and Cloudflare's servers, which may be located in other countries than where you live.
Who we share information with
We don't sell your personal information, and we don't share it for advertising. We do use a small number of service providers to run the app:
- Google / Firebase — provides sign-in, our database, and cloud file storage, as described above.
- Cloudflare — stores your Maker Notes photos, keeps the short-lived Ask AI usage counts described above, and runs the small server-side program ("Worker") that creates secure upload links for your photos and removes them when you delete a Maker Note.
- YouTube (Google) — pattern videos play through YouTube's player. When you play a video, YouTube may collect information about your viewing under Google's own privacy policy.
- RevenueCat — manages and confirms Mirrymas Pro subscriptions, as described under "Purchases and subscriptions".
- Google Play and Apple — process your payment and free trial when you subscribe, under their own privacy terms.
- Cloudflare Workers AI — powers Ask AI. Your message and recent conversation are sent to a hosted AI model (currently Meta's Llama 3.1, run by Cloudflare) to generate a reply. This happens whether or not you're signed in, and the message content isn't linked to your name or email when it's sent.
Each of these providers only receives what it needs to perform its part of the app, and is bound by its own privacy terms as a data processor — we don't control how Google or Cloudflare themselves handle infrastructure-level data (for example, server logs).
How long we keep it, and how to delete it
We keep your information for as long as your account exists. You can delete your account and everything in it at any time: in the app, tap the profile icon, then Delete account. If you signed in with Apple, we also remove the Mirrymas Crochet link from your Apple Account. See our account deletion page for the full details, or how to do this by email if you no longer have the app installed.
A small amount of information is kept even after your account is deleted: a de-identified record of any moderation report you filed or were the subject of, and any records that the law or the Google Play or App Store policies require us to retain (such as store transaction records). See the account deletion page for the full details — nothing kept for these reasons is used for anything beyond moderation history and legal compliance.
Your choices and rights
You can delete your account and everything in it at any time, right in the app. You can also email us to ask what information we hold about you, or to correct anything that's wrong — see "Contact us" below.
If you're in the European Union, the UK, California, or anywhere else with its own privacy laws, you may have additional rights — for example, to access, correct, delete, or transfer your data, or to object to how it's used. We honour those rights for everyone who asks, wherever you are.
Children
Mirrymas Crochet is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children. You must be at least 13 years old to use the app and create an account. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us using the details below and we'll delete it.
Community content and moderation
Comments and Maker Notes are public to everyone using the app — think before you post anything you wouldn't want to be seen by other makers. We review reported content and may remove it, or restrict an account, if it breaks our Terms of Use. See the Terms for more on what's and isn't allowed.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time — for example, as we add features like analytics. We'll update the effective date above when we do, and for significant changes, we'll let you know in the app.
Contact us
Questions about this policy, or about your data? Email us at mirrymascrochet.support@gmail.com.
This policy lives at https://mirrymascrafts.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-mirrymas-crochet-app.html. Our Terms of Use explain the rules for using the app.