Legal

Terms & Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 28, 2026

1. Terms of Use

1.1 Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction to use the App. By using the App, you represent that you meet these requirements.

1.2 User Accounts

To access certain features, you may need to create an account. You agree to provide accurate information and keep it updated. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities under your account. Notify us immediately of any unauthorized access.

1.3 License Grant

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the App for personal, non-commercial purposes, subject to this Agreement. You may not modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the App.

1.4 User Content and Data Collection

You may upload, input, or collect data ("User Content") through the App for processing via external AI processors. For Private collections, User Content remains on your device except for temporary transmission to AI processors if you choose to process it. For Shared collections, User Content is stored in the cloud and may be shared with or contributed to by other users.

You retain ownership of your User Content but grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, store, process, and transmit it as necessary to provide the App's services, including sharing with our AI processor xAI (Grok), email and push-delivery providers, and other users for Shared collections.

Prohibited Data Types in Shared Collections: You are strictly prohibited from uploading, storing, or sharing the following in Shared collections:

• Personal health information (e.g., medical records, diagnoses, genetic data, or biometric health metrics), as defined under HIPAA
• Financial information (e.g., bank account numbers, credit card details, or credit reports)
• Government-issued identifiers (e.g., Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers)
• Sensitive personal data (e.g., racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or criminal records)
• Personal information about children or anyone else who is not legally eligible to use Dattle

1.5 Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to:

• Use the App for illegal purposes or to violate any laws
• Upload harmful content, including malware, viruses, or infringing material
• Interfere with the App's operation or other users
• Collect or harvest data from other users without consent
• Share User Content in Shared collections without obtaining necessary consents from data subjects
• Attempt to access or modify Private collections of other users

1.6 Advertising

The current release does not display third-party advertisements and does not use personal information for cross-app advertising tracking. We will update this Agreement and the applicable store disclosures before introducing advertising or advertising tracking and obtain any consent required by law or platform policy, including Apple's App Tracking Transparency permission if tracking applies.

1.7 Intellectual Property

The App, including its design, features, and underlying technology, is owned by us or our licensors and protected by U.S. copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. You may not use our trademarks without permission.

1.8 Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the App at any time for any reason, including violation of this Agreement. Upon termination, your license ends and you must cease using the App.

1.9 Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability

The App is provided "as is" without warranties. We disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the App. Our total liability shall not exceed $100.

1.10 Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Oregon. Any disputes shall be resolved through binding arbitration in Portland, Oregon, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, except for small claims.

1.11 Miscellaneous

If any provision is unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect. This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding between you and us.

2. Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our practices regarding personal information under U.S. laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other applicable regulations.

2.1 Information We Collect

• Personal Information: Apple or Google account identifier, name, email address, and profile image URL when provided; contact email if you provide one in a support request
• User Content: Data you collect or input for AI processing, which may include text, images, or other files. For Private collections, this is stored only on your device; for Shared collections, it is stored in the cloud.
• Usage Data: App interactions, screen views, app and device information, Firebase installation or device identifiers, IP address, and approximate region inferred by service providers
• Membership and notices: Dattle titles, roles, and member emails needed to send invites, join codes, transfer notices, and pause notices
• Poll responses: Answers submitted through polling links, response timestamps, completion time, collection source, and a pseudonymous device identifier used to flag or limit repeat responses
• Purchases: Subscription and in-app purchase history, product and transaction identifiers, entitlement status, and the Dattle user ID used to associate purchases with an account. Dattle and RevenueCat do not receive your full payment-card number from Apple or Google.
• Notifications and support: Expo push tokens, notification preferences, and—when you contact support—your message, request type, user ID, contact email, app and platform versions, and device name when supplied

Dattle is intended only for people who are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in their jurisdiction. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone who does not meet that requirement.

2.2 How We Use Your Information

• To provide and improve the App's services, including data processing via external AI
• To enable sharing and contributions for Shared collections based on your permissions
• To process account deletion, ownership transfer, pause, take-over, archive, and permanent deletion
• To send join codes, invite emails, transfer notices, and pause notices using Dattle titles and member contact information
• For analytics, security, and fraud prevention
• To collect and summarize poll responses, enforce response limits, and identify possible duplicate submissions
• To communicate with you (e.g., updates, support)
• To comply with legal obligations

2.3 Sharing Your Information

We share information with:

• External AI Processors: Currently xAI (Grok), including speech-to-text transcription. When you request AI features, selected text, images, or audio and its transcript are sent to xAI for processing. This also applies to Private collections. We may change or add AI processors in the future. Before sending User Content to a new processor, we will update this Privacy Policy and applicable store disclosures and provide any notice or obtain any consent required by law or platform policy.
• Other members and invitees: For Shared collections, with members based on the Collection Owner's permissions, and with people who receive a join code or email invite. Transfer or pause notices may include the former owner's display name and the Dattle title.
• Service Providers: Google Firebase for authentication, hosting, database, storage, server functions, analytics, and App Check; RevenueCat and Apple or Google for purchases and entitlements; Expo for push delivery; and Resend for support, invite, and lifecycle email
• Legal Requirements: If required by law, subpoena, or to protect rights

We do not sell your personal information and do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

2.4 Analytics and Device Technologies

Firebase Analytics automatically collects app interaction and technical data and receives custom feature events without Dattle titles, row contents, or live route identifiers. Dattle does not use the advertising identifier or link this information with third-party data for advertising. The current website does not contain an advertising or analytics pixel.

2.5 Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your data, but no system is 100% secure. For Shared collections, cloud storage uses encryption and access controls.

2.6 Your Rights

Under CCPA and similar laws, you have the right to:

• Access, delete, or correct your personal information
• Ask about our sharing practices
• Limit use of sensitive personal information
• Change optional notification permissions and per-Dattle notification preferences in the App or device settings

To exercise these rights, contact us at the address below. We respond within 45 days.

2.7 Data Retention

Account deletion includes your account profile, shared entries, comments and uploaded media. Other members’ contributions and shared collections may continue; an empty placeholder may preserve their replies to a removed entry. You do not need to separately delete your shared contributions before deleting your account.

Private collections are stored on your devices. In-app account deletion clears private data on that device; support cannot remotely erase other devices. We complete account-deletion requests within 7 days after verifying ownership. See our account-deletion page for instructions and support if you have already deleted your account.

Dattle does not keep a synced cloud copy of Private collections or provide Private-collection recovery. Your device platform may include app data in an encrypted device backup or transfer according to your Apple or Google settings; Dattle cannot view or remotely erase those backups. Copies you export, share, or save to the photo library are outside Dattle and must be deleted where you saved them.

Uninstalling Dattle removes the copy in the installed app's local container, subject to any platform-managed backup or transfer. If a device is lost or unavailable, Dattle cannot recover or remotely erase its Private collections. Shared collections remain in Dattle's cloud and become available again after an authorized account signs in.

After account deletion completes, we retain a minimal technical record containing the deleted account identifier, completion status and dates for 30 days to prevent delayed service events from restoring the account. It is then removed by our daily cleanup. Unfinished deletion requests remain recorded until resolved; unexpected remaining account records require review before the technical record is removed.

Shared collections remain until their owner archives or permanently deletes them, an eligible member takes over a paused collection, or the applicable cleanup period ends. A collection paused because its owner deleted their account is retained for up to 30 days for member take-over, then permanently deleted if unclaimed. An archived collection is retained for up to 30 days unless its owner restores or permanently deletes it sooner.

Purchase and transaction records may be retained by Apple, Google, RevenueCat, or us as needed for entitlement administration and legal, tax, accounting, security, or fraud-prevention obligations under the applicable provider policies and law.

2.8 International Transfers

Data may be transferred to the U.S. or other countries. We ensure adequate protections.

2.9 Third-Party Links

The App may link to third-party sites. We are not responsible for their practices.

2.10 Contact Us

For questions or to exercise your rights, contact: