Anren holds what you share so it can remember you and reflect you back. It's stored securely, locked to your account, never sold, and yours to export or delete. Just ask.
Plain-language up top, with the fuller detail below — written for Anren's US, 18+, invite-only period. A lawyer will review and refine it (and a separate Washington consumer-health-data policy) before Anren opens to the public. See also our Terms of Service and Safety & Crisis Support. Questions any time: [email protected].
Your data is stored securely, locked to your account, and never sold. To work, your words pass through Anthropic's AI; to improve Anren, we may review conversations. It isn't a vault even we can't open. We have to read your words to do this. But it's handled by as few hands as possible, and only ever to serve you and make Anren better.
Your account email (how you sign in); your conversations (what you write, and Anren's replies); the picture Anren builds of you over time; and basic usage info (that the app was opened, rough activity, error and diagnostic data), not the content of what you wrote.
On Anren's servers (Supabase, in the US), encrypted and locked to your account, so no other user can ever see it.
No other user, ever. Anthropic, whose AI (Claude) Anren runs on, receives your conversation so the AI can respond; under contract they can't sell it, share it, or train on it, and they delete it after a short period. Our team and AI analysis tools may review conversations only to improve Anren (in this early alpha, mostly Faolan, the founder, who treats it as private). That's the whole list.
Never sell your data. Never share it with advertisers or use it to target ads. Never use it for anything except running and improving Anren.
Your work, your data, whether you're paying or not.
For this alpha, adults in the US. Anren isn't designed for or directed at anyone under 18.
Anren is a tool for reflection and growth. Not a therapist, not medical care, not a crisis service, and not a substitute for professional help.
The reflective work stops and Anren turns to care, pointing you to real human help. In the US, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), anytime, or 911 if you're in danger. Crisis support is always free.
Anren can't be a vault even Anren can't open. The AI has to read your words to reflect them. We'd rather tell you that plainly than promise more than we can keep.
Your words pass through Anthropic so the AI can respond, and a small number of people may review conversations to make Anren better. So your data is private, protected, and handled by as few hands as possible. Held with care, never sold, never used against you.
We keep what you share for as long as your account is open, so Anren can remember you and reflect you back over time. When you delete something, or delete your account, it's removed from Anren's live systems (deleted, not hidden). Anthropic, the AI provider, deletes the words passed to it after a short period. Backups and routine logs age out on a rolling basis. We keep only the minimum needed to meet a legal obligation or resolve a dispute.
A small number of trusted providers process data on Anren's behalf, only to run the service, under contracts that bar them from selling it or using it for their own purposes:
We'll keep this list current as Anren grows.
Whatever state you're in, and whether or not you're paying, you can see everything Anren holds about you, export it, delete your data or your whole account (deleted, not hidden), and withdraw consent and stop at any time — as easily as you gave it. You can export or delete right in the app (Tending → your data), or email [email protected] and we’ll do it for you. We won't charge you or treat you differently for exercising a privacy right, and we'll respond within the time the law allows.
Reflection naturally involves your relationships, and part of Anren holds them deliberately: the people you mention, who they are to you, and what’s alive or unresolved between you. Because this touches people who never signed up for Anren, it’s held under its own rules:
If Anren ever adds anything shared between two people, it will require both people’s clear consent — nothing crosses from one person’s Anren to another’s today.
Some of what you share — reflections about how you're doing, and the private sense Anren forms of that — can count as consumer health data under Washington's My Health My Data Act and similar laws. For that data: we collect and use it only with your consent and only to provide and improve Anren for you; we never sell it, and don't share it except with the processors above who help run Anren; and you can withdraw consent and ask us to delete it at any time. A separate, formal Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy will accompany this before Anren opens to the public.
California residents have rights to know, access, delete, and correct personal information, and to limit certain uses of sensitive information. Anren doesn't sell or share your personal information for advertising. To exercise a right, email us — we won't discriminate against you for it.
This is an early test, so things may evolve, and we'll tell you if anything important about your data changes. Questions, or want to see, export, or delete your data? Email [email protected].
See also our Terms of Service and Safety & Crisis Support. · Effective August 14, 2026.
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