Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to WITHRA's mobile application, website, browser experience, and related services.

We aim to collect and retain only information that is reasonably necessary to operate WITHRA, provide communication features, protect users and the service, and comply with applicable law.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not sell your private conversations. WITHRA does not use private conversation content to build advertising profiles.

The information WITHRA handles depends on which features you choose to use.

• Account information, including your email address, account identifier and authentication information.
• Profile information you choose to provide, such as your username, display name and profile photo.
• Communication content, including messages, polls and other content you choose to send in conversations.
• Files and media you choose to share, such as photos, documents and voice messages.
• Story content you choose to publish, including photos, text and captions.
• A location you deliberately choose to share in a conversation.
• Contact information from an individual contact you deliberately choose to share.
• Push-notification identifiers needed to deliver notifications to your device.
• Basic technical and security information needed to operate, troubleshoot and protect the service, which may include device, network, IP-address and application-log information.

WITHRA does not require you to upload your address book simply to create an account or find another user. People can be found using WITHRA usernames.

We use information to:

• Create and maintain your WITHRA account.
• Let users find one another by username.
• Deliver messages and other content between conversation participants.
• Store and display Stories and other content you choose to publish.
• Provide notifications about account and conversation activity.
• Provide features you deliberately request, such as sharing a location, contact, file, photo or voice message.
• Provide optional AI features when you deliberately invoke them.
• Protect WITHRA against abuse, unauthorized access, fraud and technical attacks.
• Diagnose errors, maintain service reliability and improve product performance.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce applicable terms and policies.

WITHRA may request device permissions when you use a feature that needs them.

• Camera access is used when you choose to take a photo for WITHRA.
• Photo-library access is used when you choose a photo to share or use as permitted by a feature.
• Microphone access is used when you choose to record a voice message.
• Location access is requested when you deliberately choose to share your current location.
• Contacts access is used when you deliberately open the contact-sharing feature and choose a contact.

WITHRA does not need these permissions for ordinary text messaging. You can manage system permissions through your device settings.

Conversation content is processed so WITHRA can deliver the content to the people participating in that conversation and maintain the conversation experience.

WITHRA uses technical safeguards, access controls and encryption mechanisms appropriate to the feature and platform. Not every category of data necessarily receives identical technical treatment, so we do not rely on a single security claim to describe every feature.

Attachments and other media may be stored using private storage services and made available only through authenticated or time-limited access mechanisms.

Stories are designed to disappear from normal Story visibility after 24 hours. Operational copies may remain temporarily when reasonably necessary for storage processing, backups, security, legal compliance or service recovery.

WITHRA's AI features are optional. AI is not intended to silently read every conversation or automatically participate in chats.

When an AI feature is available, WITHRA is designed so that you deliberately choose the context supplied to that feature. Supported local AI features may process that approved context on your device.

WITHRA does not use private conversation content to train advertising systems or sell conversation data to AI companies.

WITHRA uses service providers to operate parts of the service. Depending on the feature and platform, these can include providers supporting authentication, databases, private file storage, hosting, notifications and mobile operating-system services.

Current infrastructure may include services provided by Supabase, Expo and Apple or Google platform services. These providers may process information only as needed to provide their services to WITHRA or as otherwise permitted by their applicable terms and privacy obligations.

We may also disclose information when required by law, legal process, or a valid governmental request, or when reasonably necessary to protect users, WITHRA, or others from fraud, security threats or serious harm.

We do not sell personal information to data brokers or advertising networks.

Account and profile information is generally retained while your account remains active or while reasonably necessary to provide WITHRA.

Conversation history can remain available so participants can return to their conversations. Files and messages can therefore be retained for longer than temporary content such as Stories.

Security logs, deletion records, backups and other operational records may be retained for a limited period when necessary for security, reliability, fraud prevention, legal compliance or recovery from technical failures.

WITHRA provides an account-deletion control inside the application.

When your account is successfully deleted, your authentication account and profile-identifying information are removed or anonymized. This includes your username, display name, profile photo association and sign-in credentials.

Messages and files you previously sent in conversations with other people may remain as part of those participants' conversation history. When retained after account deletion, that content is re-associated with an anonymous "Deleted account" identity rather than your former profile.

Limited non-public deletion records may also be retained to verify that deletion completed successfully and to diagnose an interrupted deletion process.

WITHRA uses administrative and technical safeguards intended to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, loss or disclosure.

These protections can include encrypted network connections, authentication, database access controls, private storage, short-lived access links, device security features and application-level authorization.

No internet-connected service can guarantee absolute security. Users should protect their device, password and account access and should contact WITHRA if they believe their account has been compromised.

• Edit your display name, username or profile information through available profile controls.
• Block another WITHRA user.
• Mute another user's Stories.
• Control camera, photo, microphone, location, contact and notification permissions through your device.
• Choose whether to use optional WITHRA AI features.
• Delete your WITHRA account through the account-deletion control in the app.

Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide additional rights relating to access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability of personal information.

WITHRA may update this Privacy Policy as the product, legal requirements or privacy practices change.

When we make material changes, we will update the effective date on this page and may provide additional notice when appropriate.