Privacy Policy

What we collect

When you sign in with Google or Apple, we receive your name, email address, and profile picture from that provider. We never see or store your provider password.

When you use the app, we store what you write and upload:

• The cases you file, including the title, your account of events, and the labels you give each side.
• Screenshots you attach as evidence. We re-encode every image on upload, which strips EXIF metadata including GPS location, before it is stored.
• Comments you post and jury votes you cast.
• Reports you file and users you block.

We also store a device push token if you leave notifications on, and your subscription status.

Separately from what you write, we collect information about how the app itself is used and when it fails. That is covered in its own section below.

We do not ask for your contacts, camera roll beyond the images you pick, precise location, or advertising identifier for tracking.

Your public identity

Your real name and email are never shown to other users. The first time you take a public action, we assign you a pseudonym, and that pseudonym is the only identity other users see. Raw account identifiers never leave our servers.

How your writing is processed by AI

Rulings are generated by a large language model operated by OpenAI. When you request a ruling, the case title, both sides' accounts, and any attached screenshots are sent to OpenAI for processing and the result is stored as the verdict.

Text and images are also screened for high risk content before publication, using OpenAI's moderation service.

OpenAI processes this data as our service provider. We do not use your content to train models, and our API usage is not used by OpenAI to train its models.

How the app is measured

Separately from your writing, we collect information about how the app is used and when it breaks. This is handled by PostHog, which processes it as our service provider on servers in the United States.

What PostHog receives:

• Usage events, such as the screens you open and the actions you take, so we can see where the app is confusing or broken.
• Crash reports and technical diagnostics, including the app's own internal warnings, so a crash on your phone reaches us without you having to tell us about it.
• An identifier PostHog assigns to your device the first time the app opens. Before you sign in it is anonymous and not connected to you. After you sign in it is linked to your account, which is how we can tell that one person opening the app and later filing a case is one person rather than two.
• Device and app information attached automatically to each of the above, such as your device model, operating system and its version, language, time zone, and the version of the app you are running.

PostHog can also record replays of app sessions. Recordings are masked as they are captured: all text, every input, and every image are hidden, so a replay shows how somebody moved through the app and never what they wrote, uploaded, or read. Session recording stays switched off unless we turn it on.

We may also ask you a short question inside the app. If we do, what you write in the answer goes to PostHog along with everything above. Answering is always optional.

None of this is used for advertising, none of it is combined with data from other companies, and none of it is sold.

Who else sees your data

We share data only with the service providers that make the app work:

• OpenAI, for generating rulings and screening content.
• Our hosting and database providers, for storing the app's data.
• RevenueCat and the Apple and Google app stores, for processing subscriptions and purchases.
• Google AdMob, for rewarded ads. Ads are requested as non-personalized, so AdMob is not given an advertising identifier for tracking.
• PostHog, for usage analytics, crash reporting, and session recordings.
• Expo, for delivering push notifications.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross context behavioural advertising.

What other users see

A case you file as a member is private until you publish it. A free ruling goes to the public Docket once the personal information screen passes, unless the court finds the story delicate and keeps it in chambers. You can publish a chambers case yourself. A two sided case needs both participants to agree before it becomes public. Once public, its title, the accounts of events, attached screenshots, the verdict, and the discussion are visible to any signed in user, attributed to pseudonyms.

You can withdraw a published case at any time, which removes it from the public feed. Votes already cast are kept, because they are part of a verdict other people took part in.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account from Settings, in the app, at any time. Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone.

When you delete your account:

• Your sign-in link to Google or Apple is deleted, and every session is signed out. Signing in again with the same provider account creates a brand new, unconnected account.
• The cases you filed are deleted outright, including their rulings, the evidence you attached, and the discussion on them.
• Your comments are erased everywhere they appear, including the frozen copies inside any ruling that quoted the discussion.
• Your votes, reports, blocks, and pseudonym are deleted.
• Your name, email address, and profile picture are erased from our records.

If you replied to someone else's case, your reply and the ruling built from it are deleted and their case is returned to them to run alone. Their own account of events is theirs, so it stays.

One record is kept, holding no personal information: an empty placeholder account that other people's case histories point at, because a ruling someone else paid for has to keep making sense. It carries no name, no email address, and no way to sign in.

Retention

We keep your data for as long as your account exists. After deletion we keep only the de-identified records listed above.

Children

AITA is not intended for children. Users write about real interpersonal conflict, and the app is rated accordingly. If you believe a child has created an account, write to us and we will remove it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data. Deletion is available in the app immediately. For anything else, write to support@lipsum.fun and we will respond.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that affects how we handle your data, we will update this page and the date at the top of it.