Buddy is a coach you text. To coach you well it remembers a lot — so we hold that to a high bar. Here's exactly what we collect, who touches it, and how to make it all disappear.
Buddy works entirely over text, so your phone number is your account. From there, we only store what you choose to send and what the coaching requires:
We use your data to do one job: coach you. Concretely, that means we use it to
We do not use your data to build advertising profiles, and we do not sell or rent it to anyone.
To deliver Buddy we rely on a small set of trusted services. Each gets only what it needs for its job, and is bound by its own data terms.
Some of these (food lookups, voice transcription, photo storage, payments) are optional capabilities; if a feature is turned off, its provider receives nothing.
By texting Buddy, you consent to receive texts back — both your replies and a limited number of proactive coaching messages. We hold proactive, unprompted messages to about one per day, always inside the quiet hours we infer or you set. You're in control:
We keep your data for as long as you have an account, because the coaching depends on your history — your trend, your PRs, your memories. When you want it gone, it's gone:
Text delete my data and Buddy runs a full deletion — purging your records from the database and your photos from storage. This is irreversible; once it's done, your history can't be recovered. Cancelling your subscription stops billing but, on its own, keeps your data so you can pick up where you left off; use the deletion command when you want a clean wipe.
Traffic to and from Buddy is encrypted in transit, inbound webhooks are authenticated with a secret token, and access to your data is limited to what the coaching service needs. We apply per-user rate limiting to prevent abuse. No system is perfectly secure, but we keep the moving parts few and the access tight on purpose.
Your rights. You can ask to access, correct, or delete your data — the fastest path for deletion is the one-text command above. Just ask Buddy, or reach a human at the address below.
Children. Buddy is for adults. It's not intended for anyone under 18, and we don't knowingly collect data from children.
Changes. If we update this policy, we'll change the date at the top and, for anything material, give you a heads-up by text.
Text the coach, or email privacy@gvq.io. We'll get back to you like a human.
This policy is written in plain language to match how Buddy actually works; it isn't legal advice. Have it reviewed by counsel before you rely on it for compliance.