Privacy Policy

What we collect

Aligned Self collects only the information needed to create an account, sign you in, sync your content, and run the features you choose to use.

• Account information, such as your email address, first name, and account creation date.
• Authentication and security records, such as hashed magic-link tokens, session records, sign-in timestamps, IP address, and browser or device user-agent details used to protect the service.
• Content you choose to save in the app, including goals, mood entries, daily log notes, gratitude entries, and commitments.
• Messages you send to Charlie, your AI preferences, and, when you choose to keep conversations, saved replies, conversation memory and planned small steps.
• Apple Health data you choose to share through HealthKit, such as activity, sleep, mindfulness, workout, or other wellness-related data used only to power app features you enable.
• Location data, if you grant permission, used to provide weather, local context, or location-based app experiences.
• Weather information related to your approximate or precise location when you use weather-enabled features.
• Apple purchase and subscription identifiers, entitlement status, credit grants, balances and activity charges, so access, purchases and refunds can be managed accurately.
• Account-linked usage records, including days you return, completed credit-funded activities, AI request counts, token usage and estimated provider costs. These measurement records do not contain your conversation text.
• Notification preferences stored on your device for Manifestation Alarm reminders.

Charlie and AI features

Charlie is an optional AI companion powered by OpenAI. Before using Charlie, you choose whether to allow the information needed for replies to be shared with OpenAI. This can include your messages and recent conversation, relevant goals, first name, app language, current page, local time context, preferences and summaries of your use of the app.

You separately choose whether Charlie may use your recent mood and progress logs, gratitude entries and achievements. If enabled, selected entries can be included in the context sent to OpenAI. Charlie does not receive raw HealthKit readings or your device location through this context.

Goal and Diary AI reflections also send the content needed for the analysis you request to OpenAI. Avoid including information you do not want processed by this provider.

We request replies without OpenAI response storage. This does not eliminate provider safety retention: OpenAI may retain API inputs and outputs in abuse-monitoring logs for up to 30 days, or longer when required for legal or safety reasons. OpenAI states that API data is not used to train its models by default. Its current data practices are described at https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data.

Your conversation and memory choices

You can use Charlie without saving a conversation to your account, or choose to keep conversations so Charlie can pick up where you left off. When saving is enabled, we store your messages, replies, relevant conversation memory and planned small steps on our servers.

You can clear saved chats and memory in Charlie preferences. Turning off conversation saving or AI consent also clears these saved conversations and memory. Turning off previously enabled reflection context clears saved conversation context as well. Clearing our saved history does not remove information already subject to OpenAI's separate retention policies.

Without conversation saving, we process the conversation to prepare your reply but do not save its text as account conversation history. We keep limited delivery and credit records to prevent duplicate charges. Other AI features may temporarily keep a result to support retries without charging twice.

Apple Health and HealthKit data

Aligned Self may request permission to read selected Apple Health data through HealthKit so that wellness, reflection, habit, weather, or manifestation features can be personalized based on the data you choose to share.

HealthKit permissions are optional and controlled by you. You can enable, disable, or change HealthKit access at any time in the Apple Health app or iOS Settings.

HealthKit data is used only to provide and improve the health, wellness, and app features you choose to use. We do not use HealthKit data for advertising, marketing, cross-app tracking, or selling to advertisers.

We do not share HealthKit data with third-party advertising platforms, data brokers, or analytics services for advertising purposes.

Weather and location use

Aligned Self may use your location, if you grant permission, to provide weather-related features, local conditions, or context-aware content in the app.

Depending on the feature, the app may use approximate location or precise location. You can change or revoke location access at any time in iOS Settings.

Weather and location data are used only to provide the app features you request, maintain reliability, and improve the relevance of in-app experiences.

How we use information

• To create and secure your account.
• To send sign-in emails and let you access Aligned Self.
• To sync your saved goals, diary, gratitude, and reflection content across sessions.
• To show the daily content and guides available in the app.
• To provide HealthKit-powered wellness features when you grant Apple Health permissions.
• To provide weather or location-based features when you grant location permission.
• To manage premium access and restore purchases.
• To provide the AI replies and reflections you request, using your chosen context and conversation settings.
• To maintain credit balances and understand first meaningful use, return visits, allowance usage and paid conversion, so we can improve the app.
• To support reminders you enable and to keep the service secure and reliable.

How information is stored

Account information and content you save in Aligned Self may be stored on our servers so your account and saved content can be available across sessions.

Some information, such as notification preferences and certain device settings, may be stored locally on your device.

Apple Health data may remain on your device unless a feature requires server-side storage or syncing. Where HealthKit-derived data is stored by Aligned Self, it is treated as sensitive information and protected accordingly.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration.

How information is shared

We do not sell your personal information. We only share data when it is needed to operate the app or when required by law.

• Apple processes in-app purchases and subscription billing under Apple's own privacy terms.
• OpenAI processes information sent for the AI features you choose to use, as described above. Service providers may process information outside your country under their applicable data protection arrangements.
• Our hosting, database, email, weather, and infrastructure providers may process data on our behalf so the app can function.
• Weather service providers may receive location or approximate location information when needed to return weather data for features you use.
• We do not share Apple Health or HealthKit data with advertisers, data brokers, or advertising networks.
• We may disclose information if required to comply with legal obligations, enforce our terms, or protect the rights, safety, and security of our users or services.

Tracking, analytics, and advertising

Aligned Self does not currently use third-party advertising SDKs, does not sell data to advertisers, and does not use app tracking for cross-app advertising purposes.

We use our own account and usage records to measure app engagement, credit usage and purchases. These records are used for operating and improving Aligned Self, rather than tracking you across other companies' apps or websites.

Apple Health and HealthKit data is never used for advertising, targeted advertising, marketing profiles, or cross-app tracking.

Notifications

If you enable Manifestation Alarm reminders, the schedule you choose is stored on your device and used to request local notifications. You can turn notifications off at any time in the app or in iOS Settings.

Data retention

We keep account information and saved content while your account remains active so the app can work as expected. Security-related sign-in and session records may be retained for longer where needed for fraud prevention, troubleshooting, or legal compliance.

HealthKit-derived data and location-related data are retained only for as long as needed to provide the features you use, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain security, or support account recovery and troubleshooting.

When information is no longer needed, we delete it or de-identify it where reasonably possible.

When you delete your account, we delete its saved conversations, memory and credit account records. We retain limited store transaction identifiers and de-identified purchase and AI cost records to prevent a purchase being claimed again and to support accounting, fraud prevention and legal obligations.

Your choices

• You can update or delete the content you save inside the app at any time where app features allow.
• You can log out whenever you want.
• You can cancel subscriptions through your Apple account settings.
• You can manage HealthKit permissions in the Apple Health app or iOS Settings.
• You can manage location permissions in iOS Settings.
• You can turn notifications off in the app or in iOS Settings.
• You can choose Charlie's reflection context, turn conversation saving off, clear chats and memory, or withdraw AI consent in Charlie preferences.
• You can request a copy or export of your account information and saved content by contacting hello@emilysapps.ltd.
• You can delete your account in the app's Settings or request deletion by contacting hello@emilysapps.ltd.

Deletion and export requests

You can delete your account in Settings. You may also request deletion or export of your account information and saved content by contacting hello@emilysapps.ltd. We may need to verify your identity before completing a support request.

When you request deletion, we will delete or de-identify account information and saved content unless we need to retain limited information for legal, security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or compliance purposes.

Deleting the app from your device may not delete account information already stored on our servers. To delete server-side account information, please request account deletion.

Some Apple Health data may remain in the Apple Health app or on your device after you delete your Aligned Self account. You can manage or delete Apple Health data through Apple Health or iOS Settings.

Children

Aligned Self is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date on this page.