Privacy policy
Seize Sleep is built to keep what it knows about you on your phone. There is no account, no sign-up, no purchases, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. This page sets out what the app keeps, the one thing it sends, and what this website does.
The short version
- What the app knows stays on your phone. Your choice of voice and music, your settings, which nights you played a session and what you said the next morning are kept on the phone and are not sent to us or anyone else.
- One kind of request leaves your phone. When you download a session, the app asks our audio host for one file. That request shows the host which voice and music you picked, along with your IP address. We keep no record of it.
- The bedtime reminder is a notification your phone makes itself. Nothing is sent to set it or to show it.
- No outside code that watches you. The app contains no analytics, advertising or crash reporting, and no third-party software at all. We sell nothing to anyone.
- This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
Who we are
Seize Sleep is made by Totte Studios Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, number 17369157, registered office Apartment 116 Siena House, 9 Bollinder Place, London EC1V 2AU. We are the controller for the small amount of personal data described here. You can reach us at hello@tottestudios.com.
What stays on your phone
The app keeps these in its own private storage on your phone:
- your choice of voice and music, whether you chose sleep or nap and for how long, how long the music carries on after the voice, and the Day or Night colour setting
- whether the bedtime reminder is on, and the time you set
- whether downloads may use mobile data
- that you have been through the first run and read the safety screen, and when
- the nights and naps you played a session: when it started, when it ended, how long you listened, which voice and music, and whether it played to the end
- your answers to the morning check-in, if you give them
- the session you downloaded, so it plays with no connection
None of this is sent to us or anyone else. The morning check-in and the list of your nights exist so you can look back at them. The app does not analyse them, score them or send them anywhere.
If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, the backup includes your settings, your nights and your check-ins, as it does for every app. The downloaded session is left out of the backup and downloads again when needed. Backups are handled by you and Apple, and we cannot read them.
The one thing that leaves your phone
- What is sent
- A request for one audio file. Its name is a code for one of the ready-made recordings, so it shows which voice and music you picked. Like any web request it also carries your IP address, a standard label naming the app and your phone's software version, and your preferred language.
- Where it goes
- audio.seizemind.com, where the recordings are hosted on Cloudflare. It is the same host that serves our sibling app, Seize Mind.
- When
- When you download a session, which the app asks you to do once, over Wi-Fi, when you first set it up. After that the session plays from your phone. If you remove it, or change voice or music, the app downloads the new one the same way.
We have not switched on request logging for the recordings, so we keep no record of who downloaded which session. Cloudflare delivers the file for us, and processes your IP address to do it, as any web host must. We rely on our legitimate interest in delivering the recording you asked for. Cloudflare runs servers around the world, so the request may be handled outside the UK and the EU. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension, which covers that.
Never sent: your settings, your nights, your check-in answers, or anything else about you.
The bedtime reminder
If you switch the reminder on, the app asks iOS for permission to show notifications, at that moment and not before. The reminder is then a repeating notification that your phone schedules and shows by itself, at the time you chose. It says the same thing every night and nothing about you. No message is sent from anywhere to make it appear, and we are not told whether it is on. Switching it off in the app, or turning off notifications for Seize Sleep in the Settings app, stops it.
What we do not do
There is no account and no sign-in. There are no purchases and no subscriptions. The app contains no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting. We do not track you across apps or websites, and we sell or share nothing with anyone. If a future version does any of these, this page and the app will say so first.
Apple
Apple runs the App Store and iOS, and handles anything it collects under its own privacy policy. If you have chosen in iOS settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may pass us crash reports and aggregated usage figures. You can turn this off in Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements.
Children
Seize Sleep is rated 9+ on the App Store. It collects nothing from anyone who uses it, children included, so there is nothing about them for us to keep.
Keeping and deleting your data
Everything is on your phone, so it is in your hands.
- A night, or your morning answer for it: on Your nights, swipe the night left, then Delete.
- Every night: Your nights, then Clear, then Delete all.
- The downloaded session: Settings, Downloads, then Remove.
- Your settings and everything else: delete the app.
We hold nothing about you, so there is nothing on our side to keep or delete.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law, and the EU GDPR if you live in the European Union or the EEA, you have the right to access your personal data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its use, and to receive it in a portable form. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, or to the data protection authority where you live, without coming to us first.
To use any of these rights, write to hello@tottestudios.com. We will reply within one month. Because there is no account and we keep no records, we hold nothing we could match to you. When that is the case we will say so plainly, and we will not ask you for identity documents.
The voices
Emily and George are synthetic voices, made with an AI voice service from scripts we write. Every session is made before it is published, and nothing about you is sent to make it.
Not medical care
Seize Sleep is a relaxation session, spoken using hypnosis techniques, to listen to in bed at night. It is not medical care, it is not a medical device, and it is not treatment for any condition. Do not listen while driving or operating machinery, do not listen while you are intoxicated, and if you have epilepsy, speak to your doctor before listening.
This website
seizesleep.com is hosted on Cloudflare. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics or trackers and has no forms. Cloudflare processes your IP address to deliver the pages and protect the site from attacks, under its own privacy policy. We have not switched on any logging.
Changes to this policy
If the app changes how it handles data, we will update this page and its date before the change ships. If a future version sends more off your phone, we will say so here and in the app first.
Contact
Totte Studios Ltd
Apartment 116 Siena House, 9 Bollinder Place, London EC1V 2AU
hello@tottestudios.com