Privacy Policy

This page explains what Aaria collects, why, where it goes, how long we keep it, and what you can do about it. It covers the Aaria app and this website.

Who is responsible

The controller of your personal data is Ava Lane Oy (business ID 3189471-3), Kreetantie 7 A 4, 33950 Pirkkala, Finland. Email hello@aaria.app for anything on this page.

The short version

• We collect what we need to write and play your track, and little else.
• Your answers are sent to an AI writer and an AI voice to make your track, only with your permission.
• Speech recognition runs on your phone. Your voice recording never leaves it.
• No ads, no tracking across apps or sites, no selling of your data. Ever.
• You can delete your account from inside the app. That deletes everything we hold for you, and our providers delete their copies on their own schedule (see How long we keep it).

What we collect in the app

• Your account. If you sign in with Apple, we receive an Apple account identifier and the email address Apple shares with us (which may be a private relay address).
• Your name. The first name you want to hear in your track, and, if you add it, how it sounds.
• Your pronoun. If you pick one, the pronoun you want to hear for your future self (she, he, they, or just “you”). It is optional. It is sent with your answers to our AI writing provider so the track talks about your future self the way you asked.
• Your answers. The focus you choose and what you write or say in the questions: your goals, the places and moments you describe, what gets in your way, and the words you want to hear.
• Your mornings. The days you finish your track, and the one word you add afterwards, if you add one. We use them to show you how many mornings you have shown up.
• Changes you ask for. If you use Make it better, what you pick and any note you write.
• Your preferences. The voice you pick, your morning reminder time, and when you agreed to send your answers to our AI providers. Every track has the same length, so there is no length to choose.
• Your track. The written script and the audio file made from it.
• Purchase status. Whether your subscription is active, which plan you are on, and when it renews. Apple handles the payment. We never see your card.
• A device identifier. A random id the app creates, used to keep your answers together before you sign in and to limit how many free samples one phone can request. It does not identify you or your phone to anyone else.
• Crash reports. If the app crashes, it sends a technical report of what went wrong: the error and where in the code it happened, the device model, system version and app version. The report does not include your account id. Before a report leaves your phone we strip your name, email address, answers, device identifier and sign-in tokens from it.

Someone else’s name

One question asks who is in your life with you, and a first name is enough. If you answer it, that name is stored with your answers and spoken in your track. It is optional and you can remove it at any time. We never ask for anything else about that person and we never contact them.

Your voice stays on your phone

When you answer a question by speaking, your phone turns your speech into text using Apple’s on-device recognition. The audio is not recorded, stored or sent anywhere. Only the text you keep is saved, exactly as if you had typed it.

The free sample

Before you subscribe, the app can play a short sample with your name and one line of your own words. To make it, those words are sent to our voice provider. We do not store them with the sample request. We keep only the device identifier and a one-way scrambled form of your IP address, so we can limit how many samples are requested. That record is deleted after 30 days.

What we collect on this website

If you join the waitlist, we collect your email address, which form you used, and, if you choose one, the dream area you picked. We use them to confirm your signup, send you the sample and a few emails about Aaria, and tell you when it opens. This site sets no tracking cookies and runs no analytics.

Why we use it, and on what legal basis

Sensitive answers

Some answers can say something about your health, your body, your relationships or what you believe. That is special-category data under the GDPR. We process it only with your explicit consent, which you give on the screen before your free sample, where the app names who receives your answers and that they go to the United States. You can withdraw it at any time (see Your rights). If you withdraw it, we delete your answers from our servers and stop writing new versions and rewrites. If an answer says you want to harm yourself, an automatic check on our server pauses your track and the app shows you where to find help. We store only a short neutral code for that pause, never your words, and tell no one. One tap continues without those words, which deletes that answer and clears the code.

About the AI

Your track is written by an AI model from your answers and read aloud by an AI-generated voice. No person writes or records it. Every track and every sample is marked inside the audio file as AI-generated. To write it, we send your first name, your pronoun and your answers to Anthropic, along with any Make it better note, which is how your track gets rewritten. To voice it, we send the finished words to ElevenLabs. We use your answers to make your track and for nothing else, and we do not use them to train any model ourselves. We use both providers as business customers of their APIs, under their standard terms for business customers. Those terms set what each provider may do with the data it receives, including how long it keeps it. Ask us and we will point you to them.

Who processes your data

We use a small set of providers. Each one processes your data only to provide its service to us, under its terms for business customers, and must protect your data to the same standard as this policy.

Apple runs Sign in with Apple, the App Store and payments as an independent controller under its own privacy policy. We receive only what is described above.

Transfers outside the EU

Some providers above are based in the United States. Where your data goes there, it is protected by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where the provider is certified, and otherwise by the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. Ask us for a copy of the safeguards that apply.

How long we keep it

• Your account, name, answers, preferences, mornings and Make it better notes: for as long as your account exists.
• Your audio: we keep your current track. When a new version replaces it, the old audio is deleted 14 days later.
• Free sample records: 30 days.
• Crash reports: up to 90 days.
• Purchase records: kept after an account is deleted, without your profile, for as long as bookkeeping law requires.
• If you leave at the paywall before signing in: your answers stay on your phone for up to 30 days, then are deleted.
• Waitlist email: deleted within 30 days after you unsubscribe, or sooner if you ask us.
• Copies our providers keep: Anthropic and ElevenLabs keep what we send them only as long as their business terms allow, to run and secure their service. Our hosting and job providers keep short technical logs, which can include your account id, for a limited time. Deleting your account does not reach these copies; they expire on the provider’s own schedule.

Deleting your account

In the app, go to Settings › Account › Delete account. This permanently deletes your account, your name, your answers, your preferences, your mornings, your Make it better notes, your track records and every audio file we hold for you. It cannot be undone. The app also clears what it stored on your phone and cancels your morning reminder. Copies held by our providers expire on their own schedule (see How long we keep it).

Deleting your account does not cancel your subscription, because Apple manages billing. Cancel it in your Apple Account settings first (see Support).

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can:

• get a copy of the data we hold about you
• correct anything that is wrong
• delete your data, in the app or by email
• object to processing based on legitimate interest
• withdraw consent at any time, without affecting what happened before: in the app under Settings, then Stop using my answers, or by email. We then delete your answers, Make it better notes, reflection words and the server copy of your audio. Your account, subscription, purchase records and mornings count stay, and so does the file on your phone
• receive your data in a portable format

Email hello@aaria.app and we will reply within one month. You can also complain to the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman at tietosuoja.fi, or to the authority where you live.

What we never do

• No advertising, in the app or with your data.
• No tracking across other apps or websites.
• No selling, renting or sharing your data for marketing.
• Nobody at Aaria reads your answers unless you ask us to, for example in a support request.

Children

Aaria is for people aged 16 and over. It is not meant for anyone under 16, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has given us data, email us and we will delete it.

Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date above, and tell you in the app if the change is significant.