LEGAL COMPLIANCE

EmpathIQ Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 2026 • Applicable App: EmpathIQ (com.empathiq.app.empathiq)

1. Commitment & Principles

Welcome to EmpathIQ (“we”, “us”, or “our”). We deeply respect the personal, confidential, and nuanced nature of interpersonal communications and psychological reflections. Protecting user privacy is our highest priority.

Key Principles:
  • Data Minimization: No account, phone number, or identity registration is required to use core decoding features.
  • Zero Trackers: We do not integrate any third-party behavioral profiling, advertising, or marketing trackers.
  • Zero AI Training: Your inputs and uploaded screenshots are strictly never used to train or fine-tune Google Gemini, OpenAI, or foundation AI models.

2. Data Lifecycle: In-Memory Processing Only

Ephemeral Processing of Chat Text & Screenshots

When you input conversational text or upload a chat screenshot:

  • Data is transmitted strictly via encrypted TLS 1.3 to our stateless serverless proxy solely to perform real-time cognitive and psychological semantic inference.
  • No Cloud Persistence: We do not store your chat screenshots or text in any cloud database, object storage bucket, or persistent disk. Once inference completes, all in-memory buffers are immediately deallocated and wiped.

3. Local Device Storage (Local-Only)

The following data remains strictly on your local device hardware via encrypted local storage:

  • Daily scan quota check-in records
  • Up to 10 most recent cached local decode results
  • Locally saved custom API keys (if explicitly configured by the user)

You can purge your local history and credentials at any time in the in-app Settings panel.

4. Device Permissions

  • Internet Access (android.permission.INTERNET): Used exclusively to perform encrypted HTTPS requests to generate psychological decoding results.
  • Photo Library / File Selection: Requested solely when you intentionally tap “📷 Upload Chat Screenshot”. We never index, scan, or access any other photos or media on your device.
  • Clipboard Access: Used exclusively on the front-end to detect short active text snippets for convenient one-tap pasting. No clipboard history is ever logged or transmitted.

5. User Rights & Data Deletion

You retain absolute control over your digital footprint. Simply uninstalling the application or selecting “Clear App Data & Cache” in your Android settings will permanently erase all locally stored data.

For privacy inquiries or data rights requests, please contact: littlespot2026@gmail.com.