Your Privacy.
The information in this document applies to our website and mobile application visitors and users (“users”, “you”, “your”).
Protecting your Personal Information
Welcome to Boom, your new Emotional Fitness Trainer.
Boom is here to help you feel your inspired, energized, and joyful, offering you both a place to jot down what's on your mind as well as guided Journals.
The following document sets forth our “Privacy Policy,” which governs our use of the Personal Information (as defined below) you submit through your use of our Service (as described below). Please read our Privacy Policy carefully.
Maintaining your information’s privacy is of paramount importance to us as it helps foster confidence, goodwill, and stronger relationships with you, our users. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please feel free to contact us at hello@boomjournal.com.
We understand that there is a lot of information in this Privacy Policy. We have tried to make it as accessible, precise, and transparent as possible. However, if you still find that it is too dense or daunting, here are the answers to the top three questions that we are commonly asked:
Top 3 Questions
Q1 - What does Boom do with your Personal Information, journal entries, and other data?
Your journal entries are meant to be read and accessible only by you. Your entries are encrypted by default by Boom, except for certain items such as some entries titles, moods and activities you enter. Moreover, we highly recommend that you add an additional layer of encryption by encrypting your journal entries with your own encryption key which you can set up in the settings. This will prevent anyone to access your journal entries without your own encryption key. We don't sell any of your data with third parties. We are making money by offering premium services and not by selling your personal data.
We can share some of your data (excluding any journal entries of course!) with third parties but only in compliance with the terms of our Privacy Policy below and mainly to conduct research on users' demographics, interests, and behavior and help continually improve our Service. We do have to analyze some data in case of crashes, and we can look at meta-data to see how many people are journaling at any given time, or generally how users interact with the Jour App, but that’s about it. We do advertise our services, so you may be retargeted by some ads, but once again, we have no access to your personal journal entries.
Q2 - If you terminate your account, does your data get erased/anonymized?
Yes! Except for any logs that we might still have in our system or in the systems of some of our third-party providers. But we can never see anything that you journal and you can still exercise your right to erasure at hello@boomjournal.com.
Q3 - Are your Personal Information safe on Boom?
1. Who are we?
2. What is the purpose of this Privacy Policy?
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, maintain and disclose your Personal Information when using the App. This includes information that identify or could be used to identify you (“Personal Information”), and other information that does not constitute Personal Information (“Non-Personal Information”) that is collected from you while using our Service. We take the privacy of your Personal Information very seriously. All individuals whose responsibilities include the processing of any Personal Information are required to follow our Privacy Policy, lastly updated 9/20/24.
We issued this Privacy Policy to ensure that we have standards in place to protect the Personal and Non-Personal Information that we may collect from you while using our Service. Collecting your Personal Information may be necessary for providing our Service, and is a consequence of the normal operations of our business. We published this Privacy Policy to make it easy for you to understand what Personal Information we collect and store, why we do so, how we receive and/or obtain that information, and the rights you have over your Personal Information or data in our possession.
3. What Personal Information do we process about you?
4. Why and How do we process Personal Information about you?
Most information is collected in association with your use of the Service. In particular, information is likely to be processed as follows:
Boom does not aim to process special categories of data about you such as information about your health, genetic, religious, ethnicity, religion, trade union membership, genetic and biometric data, sexual orientation or sex life. If we were to process such data, please be sure that we shall only do so in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Please, note that Boom may feature public forums where you and users with similar issues, interests, or conditions can share information and support one another or maybe in the future where you can post questions for experts to answer. Our forums are open to the public and should not be considered private. Any information (including Personal Information) you share in any online forum is by design open to the public and is not private. You should think carefully before posting any Personal Information in any public forum. What you post can be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we cannot control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, the information you post may also show up in third-party search engines. If you mistakenly post Personal Information in our Public Forums and would like it removed, you can send your right request below and send us an email to request that we remove it by using the following contact
address: hello@boomjournal.xyzAlso, our Service may include social media features. These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Service, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Service. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.
We understand that there are many circumstances in which we may collect information, and we work hard to ensure that you are always aware when your Personal Information is being collected.
5. Where do we process your Personal Information?
Boom has one headquarters in the United States. Personal Information about you may be accessible to Boom headquarter in the United States.
Where we process information in countries that may not provide the same level of protection as your own country, Boom will implement reasonable and appropriate legal and security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure including, but not limited to, maintaining binding contracts that require appropriate protection of information about users.
For residents of European Economic Area (“EEA”) – whenever we transfer your information outside of the EEA or Switzerland, we will take necessary steps to ensure that adequate safeguards are put in place to protect your information. Such safeguards include the use of European Commission approved standard contractual clauses.
6. Do we disclose your Personal Information?
7. What are your Rights?
Right to access and/or request a copy of your Personal Information. Under applicable privacy law (e.g. European data privacy law, local data privacy laws etc.), you may have a right to access and/or request a copy of information about you held by Boom.
Right to update, correct, delete your Personal Information. You may also have the right to update, correct, or delete Personal Information, which is incomplete, out of date or inaccurate. Your information can be updated by you in the App. For any question on how to do it or if you have issues in doing so, please contact us at hello@boomjournal.com. Please note that it is your responsibility to provide us with accurate and truthful information. We cannot be liable for any information that is provided to us that is incorrect. Also, you can request the deletion of your Personal Information if:
your Personal Information is no longer necessary for the purpose of the data processing,
you have withdrawn your consent on the data processing based exclusively on such consent,
you objected to the data processing,
the Personal Information processing is unlawful,
the Personal Information must be erased to comply with a legal obligation applicable to Boom.
3. Right to restrict processing of your Personal Information. You can request the restriction of the processing:
in the event the accuracy of your Personal Information is contested to allow Boom to check such accuracy,
if you wish to restrict your Personal Information rather than deleting it despite the fact that the processing is unlawful,
if you wish Boom to keep your Personal Information because you need it for your defense in the context of legal claims,
if you have objected to the processing but Boom conducts verification to check whether it has legitimate grounds for such processing which may override your own rights.
4. Right to data portability. You can ask for the portability of your Personal Information.
5. Right to withdraw consent. When your information processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us at any moment. Such withdrawal shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
6. Right to object to processing of your Personal Information. You may have the right to object to processing of your Personal Information, including information being used for the purposes of direct marketing. When you receive newsletters or promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications from us and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the e-mail you receive or by contacting us directly at hello@iammattwest.com. Despite your indicated e-mail preferences, we may send you service-related communications, including notices of any updates to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.
7. Right to instructions after death. Depending on your country, you may also have the right to provide us with your instructions regarding the storage, deletion or disclosure of your Personal Information after your death. Such instructions may be general or specific.
8. Right to lodge a complaint. In the event that any individual located in the EEA countries or Switzerland believes that Boom has processed Personal Information in a manner that is unlawful or breaches his/her rights, or has infringed the “General Data Protection Regulation”, such individual has the right to complain directly to the applicable Data Protection Authority.
9. Your rights may be subject to limited applicable legal and regulatory restrictions. To exercise your individual rights please write to hello@boomjournal.com. Depending on the applicable laws and the nature of the request, individuals may be required to provide some additional information.
10. California-Specific Rights. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act 2018 (CCPA), California residents have specific rights regarding their personal information held by private companies. California consumers can reference their detailed applicable rights below.
8. How do we ensure the safety & security of your Personal Information?
9. How long do we retain your Personal Information?
Unless indicated otherwise, Boom makes sure to retain your Personal Information for no longer than is necessary for the specific purposes for which it was collected. Your Personal Information may be retained for a longer duration where applicable laws or regulations require, or allow Boom to do so.
This means that you may close your account by contacting us at hello@boomjournal.xyz, but we may retain Personal or Non-Personal Information for an additional period as is permitted or required under applicable laws. Even after we delete your Personal Information, it may persist on backup or archival media for an additional period of time where applicable laws or regulations require, or allow Boom to do so.
10. Do we process children Personal Information?
Boom website and App are not intended or designed for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13.
If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has used our Service and provided Personal Information to us, please contact us at hello@boomjournal.xyz, and we will work to delete those Personal Information from our servers without undue delay.
If you are under the age of 18, you must have your parent's permission to access and use our Service.
11. Do we use Cookies?
Boom uses a technology known as “cookies” and similar tracking technologies on its website only. Please, read our Cookies Policy carefully here.
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12. Change to this Privacy Policy
We may revise from time to time our Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post updates on the Service: we will post the new Privacy Policy on the Website and its App with a new effective date to notify you of these changes and/or we will notify you by sending you an email or other notification as required by applicable law (the “Modifications”). Modifications will apply to all current and past users of the Services as of its effective date and will replace any prior policies. In addition, by accessing the Services on or after the effective date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current Modifications.
Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for changes, and especially before you provide any Personal Information. If Modifications to this Privacy Policy are not acceptable to you, you should cease accessing, browsing, and otherwise using the Service.
13. Contacting us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your dealings with our Service, or a complaint about our handling of your Personal Information, please contact us at: hello@boomjournal.xyz.
CALIFORNIA CONSUMER INFORMATION :
PRIVACY STATEMENT-CALIFORNIA
This California Consumer Information supplements the information contained in the Privacy Policy of Boom (“we”, “us”, “our”, “Boom” or the “App”) and applies solely to visitors or users of Boom who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
1. What We Collect
2. How We Use Your Data
We use your data to:
• Deliver personalized mental wellness experiences.
• Improve Boom AI’s features and functionality.
• Support colleges with aggregated, anonymous wellness reports.
• Respond to support requests and ensure security.
• Fulfill legal and contractual obligations.
We never sell your data.
3. What Colleges Can See
4. How We Share Data
We may share limited data:
• With trusted service providers who help us operate Boom (under strict privacy terms).
• When required by law or to protect rights and safety.
• In connection with a business transfer (e.g., acquisition or merger).
We do not share or sell student-level data to advertisers or third parties.
5. Your Rights
You can:
• Access or update your personal info.
• Request deletion of your account and data.
• Ask questions about your privacy.
Just email us at hello@joinboomapp.com
6. How We Protect Your Data
7. For Students Under 13
Boom AI is not intended for children under 13. If we learn we’ve collected data from a child without parental consent, we’ll delete it.
8. Changes to This Policy
If we make major changes, we’ll notify you in the app or by email.
Contact Us
For any questions about this policy, reach out:
Email: hello@joinboomapp.com