Effective date: December 27, 2025 | Updated: July 16, 2026

Arete is made by The Uninterrupted Life LLC, a Florida limited liability company ("we," "us," "our"). This policy describes what information the Arete mobile app ("Arete," the "App") collects, how it is used, where it is stored, and the choices you have.

Questions or requests about your data: support@theuninterruptedlife.com

The short version:

Most of your day-to-day Arete data — your identities, mosaic tiles, habits, routines, journal text, mood logs, and focus sessions — is stored on your device, not on our servers.
We do not sell your data, show you ads, or share your data with advertisers or data brokers. There are no advertising SDKs in the App.
When you use Ari (our AI guide), relevant parts of your data are sent to our AI provider (Anthropic) to generate Ari's responses. Under our API agreement, Anthropic does not use this data to train its models.
Health and calendar data are read on your device, only with your permission, and are never uploaded to our database.
You can delete your account and server-side data at any time from Settings.

The rest of this policy is the detailed version.

1. Information we collect

1.1 Account information

When you create an account we collect your email address, first and last name, and a password (stored in hashed form by our authentication provider, Supabase — we never see or store your plaintext password).

If you sign in with Sign in with Apple, we receive an authentication token from Apple, your name (only on your first sign-in, if you share it), and your email address. If you choose Apple's "Hide My Email" option, we receive Apple's private relay address instead of your real email, and that works fine with Arete.

1.2 Data stored on our servers

The following is stored in our database (hosted by Supabase, see Section 4):

Profile data: your display name, profile photo (if you add one), membership tier (free, Plus, beta, or Founding Circle), and subscription expiry date.
Onboarding answers: the blockers you named during onboarding and your daily commitment level. These personalize Ari.
Weekly commitment: your Weekly Accountability Meeting (WAM) commitment and mid-week check-in status and note, if you use those features.
Financial wellness data (only if you turn the feature on): your written reflections about money — freedom vision, motivation, money relationship, generosity goal — and your check-ins (stress rating, feeling word, reflection, intention).
Ari session summaries: when you finish an Ari conversation, a short AI-generated summary (topic and key insight) is stored so Ari can remember what you talked about across sessions.
Ari's narrative: for Arete Plus members, a short AI-written paragraph summarizing Ari's evolving understanding of you, updated periodically.
Pinned memory items: facts about yourself that you explicitly confirmed Ari should remember (maximum 5). You can view and delete these in the App at any time ("What Ari knows").
Community content: posts, reactions, and survey responses you submit to the community feed. Posts are visible to other Arete users.
Content reports: if you report a community post or comment, we store the report (what was reported, the reason you selected, and any note you add) so we can review it and act on it.
Voice journal recordings: if you record an audio journal entry, the audio file is uploaded to our cloud storage and kept so you can play it back later. The transcript becomes the text of your journal entry.
Push notification tokens: a device token that lets us send push notifications to your device (see Section 1.5). Removed when you delete your account.
Bug reports: if you submit a bug report, we store your description, optional screenshot, app version, and basic device information (device model, OS version).
Invite codes: which invite code you redeemed, if any.
Usage counters: a daily count of your Ari chat messages, used for fair-use limits.

1.3 Data stored only on your device

The following lives in local storage on your phone and is not uploaded to our database:

Your identities (identity statements, aims, deadlines, deep whys, milestones)
Your mosaic and evidence log
Habits, routines, and completions
Journal entries (text; voice recordings are the exception noted above)
Mood logs
Focus sessions, daily rituals (Morning Claim / Evening Set), gratitude entries, and similar activity data
Your list of blocked community users (blocking is applied on your device)

This data stays on your device between sessions. It is included in device backups you control (e.g., iCloud or Google backups of your phone). Portions of it are transmitted transiently to generate Ari responses — see Section 2. If you delete the App from your device, this data is deleted with it and we cannot recover it — there is currently no cloud sync or cloud backup for it.

1.4 Health and calendar data (optional)

These integrations are off by default and only activate if you grant permission through your device's system prompts. You can revoke access at any time in your device settings.

Health data: with your permission, Arete reads your daily step count and last night's sleep duration from Apple HealthKit (iOS) or Health Connect (Android). Read-only — we never write to your health record. The numbers are processed on your device to suggest mosaic tiles ("Today's activity — 8,432 steps"). A suggestion becomes a saved record only if you explicitly tap Claim, and that record is stored on your device (Section 1.3), not on our servers. We never store your health data in our database, never use it for advertising or marketing, never sell it, and never share it with third parties. Health data is not sent to our AI provider; if you claim a health-based tile, only a generic label (such as "Today's activity") may appear in the activity summaries Ari sees — not the underlying health measurements.
Calendar data: with your permission, Arete reads today's calendar events — titles, start times, and end times only. Event notes, locations, and attendees are never read. Events matching your active goals are suggested as mosaic tiles; nothing is saved unless you tap Claim. Claimed calendar tiles are stored on your device. Note: the title of a claimed calendar event can appear in the recent-activity summary sent to Ari (Section 2).

1.5 Automatically collected technical data

Push notifications: if you allow notifications, Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google) issues a device token we store to deliver pushes. You can opt out in the App's notification preferences or your device settings.
Crash reports: we use Firebase Crashlytics (Google) to collect crash logs and basic device/OS information when the App crashes, so we can fix bugs. Crash reports do not include your journal or chat content.
We do not use analytics trackers, advertising identifiers, or third-party advertising SDKs.

2. Ari and how your data is used with AI

Ari is Arete's built-in AI guide, powered by Anthropic's Claude models via Anthropic's API.

What is sent to Anthropic, and when: When you interact with Ari (chat, goals sessions, journal assistance, daily rituals with personalized messages, weekly insights), the App sends Anthropic the content needed to generate a useful response. Depending on the feature, this can include:

Your chat messages and the recent conversation
Your active identities (statements, aims, deep whys, blockers, milestones)
Titles of your recent activity (last 7 days of mosaic evidence)
Your recent mood entries and any notes on them
Excerpts of your most recent journal entries (up to the first 500 characters of your last 3 entries)
Your vision statement, onboarding answers, and weekly commitment
Your financial wellness reflections and check-ins (only if that feature is on)
For Arete Plus members: recent Ari session summaries, Ari's narrative about you, and your pinned memory items

Safety screening: Each chat message is also checked — by a fast, automated AI classifier — for signs of a mental-health crisis, so the App can show you real crisis resources (988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Crisis Text Line) when it matters. This check sends only the message itself.

Session summaries: When an Ari conversation ends, the conversation is summarized by AI into a short topic-and-insight note stored on our servers (Section 1.2).

What Anthropic does with this data: We use Anthropic's commercial API. Under Anthropic's commercial terms, API inputs and outputs are not used to train Anthropic's models, and are retained by Anthropic only for a limited period for abuse and safety monitoring. See Anthropic's privacy documentation at anthropic.com for details.

Voice journaling transcription: If you record a voice journal entry, the audio file is sent to OpenAI's Whisper API to be transcribed into text. Under OpenAI's API terms, API data is not used to train OpenAI's models and is retained only for a limited period for abuse monitoring.

Ari is not a professional: Ari's responses are AI-generated and can be wrong. Ari is not a therapist, doctor, financial advisor, or any other licensed professional, and nothing Ari says is medical, mental-health, legal, or financial advice. See the Terms of Service for the full disclaimer.

3. How we use your information

We use your information to:

Provide the App — authenticate you, sync your profile, deliver community features, generate Ari responses
Process your subscription (Section 4, RevenueCat)
Send push notifications you've opted into
Respond to support requests and bug reports
Fix crashes and improve the App
Enforce our Terms of Service and comply with law

We do not:

Sell your personal information, or share it for advertising
Use your content to train AI models (nor, under our API agreements, do our AI providers)
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Aggregated, de-identified information (for example, survey response summaries or overall feature-usage counts) may be used internally to improve Arete and in investor or business reporting. It never identifies you.

4. Service providers (who processes your data)

We share data only with the service providers below, only as needed to run the App:

| Provider | What they do | What they handle |

| Supabase | Database, authentication, file storage, server functions | Account credentials, all server-side data in Section 1.2, uploaded files (profile photos, voice journal audio, bug report screenshots) |

| Anthropic | AI models that power Ari | The content described in Section 2, transiently |

| OpenAI | Voice journal transcription (Whisper) | Voice journal audio files, transiently |

| Google (Firebase) | Push notification delivery, crash reporting | Device tokens, crash logs, device/OS info |

| RevenueCat | Subscription management | An anonymized user ID and your purchase/subscription status from Apple or Google. We and RevenueCat never see your payment card details — payment is handled entirely by Apple's App Store or Google Play. |

| Apple / Google | Sign in with Apple; App Store / Play billing | Authentication tokens; purchase records under their own privacy policies |

We may also disclose information if required by law, or as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets (in which case this policy would continue to apply to your data or you would be notified of changes)

5. Data retention

Server-side data (Section 1.2) is kept while your account is active and deleted when you delete your account (Section 6).
On-device data (Section 1.3) stays on your device until you delete the App.
Ari conversation content is not stored as a transcript by us; only the short session summary is kept. Anthropic and OpenAI retain API data briefly per their policies (Section 2).
Crash reports are retained per Firebase Crashlytics' standard retention (90 days).
Bug reports may be retained after account deletion in de-identified form (the link to your account is removed).

6. Account deletion

You can permanently delete your account in the App: Settings → Delete Account. This immediately and permanently deletes, on our servers:

Your authentication account (email, name, credentials)
Your profile and all data listed in Section 1.2, including community posts, Ari session summaries, memory items, financial check-ins, and device tokens

This cannot be undone. We do not keep a copy.

Two things account deletion does not remove:

Data on your device (Section 1.3). Deleting your account removes your server-side data; the locally stored data on your phone is removed when you delete the App from your device.
De-identified bug reports (Section 5).

You can also request deletion by emailing support@theuninterruptedlife.com from your account email.

7. Your rights and choices

Access / copy of your data: email support@theuninterruptedlife.com and we will provide a copy of the data we hold about you. (An in-app self-serve export is planned but not yet available. Remember that most content data lives on your device, where you already hold the only copy.)

Correction: you can edit your profile, journal, and other content directly in the App, or email us for anything you can't change yourself.
Deletion: Section 6.
Push notifications: opt out in the App or device settings.
Health / calendar access: revoke at any time in device settings.
Ari memory: view and delete pinned memory items in the App ("What Ari knows").

Depending on where you live, you may have additional legal rights (for example under the California Consumer Privacy Act or the EU/UK GDPR), including rights to access, delete, correct, and port your data, and the right to complain to a supervisory authority. We honor the rights described above for all users regardless of location.

We do not discriminate against you for exercising any privacy right.

8. Children

Arete is not directed at anyone under 17, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 17. If you believe someone under 17 has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.

9. Security

Data in transit is encrypted (TLS). Server-side data is protected by row-level security so each user can only access their own records, and account deletion and AI features require authenticated requests. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach affecting your personal data, we will notify you as required by law.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Arete evolves. We will post the updated version at this URL and update the effective date; for material changes we will notify you in the App or by email.

11. Contact

The Uninterrupted Life LLC (Florida, USA)

support@theuninterruptedlife.com