Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 7, 2026

1. Who we are

MyLyfe (the "Service") is operated by Theodore Chan, doing business as MyLyfe, an individual sole proprietor located in the United States. MyLyfe is not currently incorporated. References to "we," "our," and "us" in this policy mean that individual.

You can reach us at any time at team.mylyfe@gmail.com.

2. Information we collect

a. Information you give us

• Phone number. Used to create and sign in to your account. We send a one-time verification code by SMS. You also receive service messages related to your account.
• Name and username. Shown to your friends.
• Date of birth. Collected once, to confirm you meet our minimum age of 13.
• Profile photo. Optional.
• Videos and photos you record, including their audio and any thumbnails generated from them, along with photo and emoji reactions you send to friends.

b. Your contacts — please read this one

If you grant contacts permission, the app reads phone numbers from your device's address book so it can tell you which of your contacts already use MyLyfe. Specifically:

• Phone numbers from your address book are transmitted to our database purely to be compared against existing MyLyfe accounts.
• We do not store your address book, and we do not keep the numbers of contacts who are not MyLyfe users. Numbers that do not match an account are discarded once the check completes.
• Your contacts' names never leave your device — they are only used to label the list you see.
• Invitations are sent by you, not by us. Choosing to invite someone opens your own Messages app with a message you can edit or cancel. We never send text messages on your behalf, and we never receive the phone number of anyone you invite.
• Contacts permission is entirely optional and can be revoked at any time in your device settings.

c. Location — only if you turn it on

Location is off by default. If you turn it on, we note roughly where a moment was recorded, so your weekly recap can say where the week actually happened. Specifically:

• What we collect is coarse. We record a city-level place name — for example "Santa Monica, CA" — and a coordinate rounded to three decimal places, which is roughly 110 metres and deliberately too imprecise to identify a building. The rounding happens on your device before anything is sent to us. We never collect or store your street address.
• We only read it while you are recording. The app uses the foreground location permission only. We do not track you in the background, and we do not keep a location history beyond the single reading attached to each clip you post.
• For a video you import from your camera roll, we use the location your camera already saved in that video — never wherever you happen to be at the moment you import it.
• The city name is included in the automated analysis described in section 5, so your recap can refer to where you were. The coordinates are not sent to that service; they stay in our database.
• You can turn it off, and take it back. Location can be switched off at any time in the app's settings or in your device settings, which stops future clips carrying one. The app also has a Delete Location History option that erases the location saved on every clip you have already posted.

Your time zone is a separate thing and is collected whether or not you enable location. A time zone spans a continent and tells us nothing about where you are; we use it only to work out which day and week a clip belongs to.

d. Information collected automatically

• Push notification token, if you enable notifications, so we can deliver them.
• Device and app information: operating system, app version, and time zone (used to work out when your week ends).
• Basic usage data: such as your streak, how many clips you have posted this week, and when you last posted.
• Error and diagnostic logs when something goes wrong, which may include your account identifier and technical details of the failure.

e. Our website

If you join the waitlist on our website, we collect the email address you submit and store it in our database, and in a private Google Sheet. We use it to send you launch updates and, if you are one of the first 1,000 people to join, to invite you to add a short video to our homepage. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time using the link at the bottom of any of them.

If you accept that invitation and upload a video, we store the video you submit, a still frame taken from it, and a record of the permission you gave us — what you agreed to, and when. Uploaded videos are reviewed by a person before they appear anywhere. We show them publicly on our homepage only, and only because you explicitly agreed to that when you uploaded. Audio is removed during processing and is not retained.

You can have your video taken down at any time by emailing us at team.mylyfe@gmail.com. Videos are deleted when you ask us to remove them, when we decline to publish them, or when we no longer need them.

3. What we do not collect

To be explicit, because policies of this kind often claim otherwise by default:

• We do not collect an email address for your app account.
• We do not collect your exact or street-level location, we do not collect location in the background, and we do not track your movements. The optional feature described in section 2(c) is city-level, read only while you are recording, and off unless you turn it on.
• We do not use advertising identifiers, ad networks, or third-party analytics or tracking SDKs in the app.
• We do not use cookies, web beacons, or pixels for tracking or advertising.
• We do not perform facial recognition and do not collect biometric identifiers.
• We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

4. How we use your information

• To create your account and sign you in.
• To store your videos and deliver them to the friends you share them with.
• To generate your weekly recap, including the automated analysis described in section 5.
• To send notifications you have opted into, such as when a friend posts or when your weekly recap is ready.
• To help you find friends, if you enable contacts.
• To give your recap a sense of place, if you enable location — for example, so it can name the city a week was spent in.
• To keep the Service working, diagnose problems, and prevent abuse.
• To respond to reports of objectionable content or conduct.
• To comply with the law.

5. Third-party services we use

We use the following providers to run the Service. They process your information on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes, except as described in their own terms.

• Supabase — accounts, authentication, and database. Also delivers your SMS verification codes through its telephony providers.
• Amazon Web Services (S3) — storage of videos, thumbnails, photo reactions, and profile photos, in the United States.
• Google (Gemini API) — see the callout below.
• Expo — delivery of push notifications.
• Vercel — hosting for our website.
• Google Sheets — storage of website waitlist emails.
• Resend — delivery of our waitlist and launch emails.

We may also disclose information where we are legally required to, for example in response to a valid subpoena, court order, or lawful request from a government authority; where necessary to investigate fraud, abuse, or a threat to someone's safety; or, if the Service is ever sold or transferred, to the acquiring party, who would remain bound by the commitments in this policy.

6. What other people can see

• Friends you have connected with can see your name, username, profile photo, streak, the clips you post, and your weekly recap.
• Reactions you send are shown to the person whose content you reacted to, attributed to you.
• Your weekly recap may appear alongside your friends' in a shared Monday recap.
• If you enable location, the city a clip was recorded in may be mentioned in the recap your friends see — for instance, a recap that refers to a weekend in another city. Only the city is ever used this way, never an address, and never the underlying coordinates.
• You can block or report another user from within the app at any time.

7. How long we keep things, and deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from within the app. When you do, we delete:

• your profile, including your name, username, and phone number;
• your video clips and their thumbnails, including any capture location stored on them;
• your weekly recaps;
• your reactions, including any photo reactions you sent;
• your profile photo;
• your friend connections.

These are removed from both our database and our file storage. To be straightforward about the limits of that:

• A friend's weekly recap that was already generated before you deleted your account may still contain a clip of yours that was compiled into it.
• Residual copies may persist in encrypted backups and server logs for a short period before being overwritten in the ordinary course.
• We may retain records relating to reports of objectionable content, safety issues, or legal claims for as long as necessary to handle them.
• Capture locations are kept for as long as the clip they belong to, unless you erase them sooner with Delete Location History. A recap that was already written may still refer to a city in its text after you clear it.
• Waitlist emails are kept until you ask us to remove them.
• Videos submitted for our homepage are kept until you ask us to remove them, or until we no longer need them. The record of the permission you gave us is kept for as long as we use the video, so we can show what was agreed.

8. Security

Data is transmitted over encrypted connections and stored with established providers using access controls. That said, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a breach affecting your personal information occurs, we will notify you and any regulators where the law requires it.

9. Children

The Service is not intended for anyone under 13. We ask for your date of birth during sign-up and block accounts below that age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and if we learn that we have, we will delete the account and its content promptly.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with information, contact us at team.mylyfe@gmail.com and we will remove it.

10. Your rights

Wherever you live, you can access, correct, or delete your information — most of it directly in the app, and the rest by emailing us. We will not treat you differently for exercising any of these rights.

California residents (CCPA / CPRA)

In the past twelve months we have collected the categories of personal information described in section 2: identifiers (phone number, name, username, account ID), age, audio and visual information (your videos and photos), internet or device activity (app usage and diagnostics), and — only from users who have turned it on — coarse, city-level geolocation. The purposes are set out in section 4 and the recipients in section 5.

We have not sold personal information, and we have not shared it for cross-context behavioural advertising, in the past twelve months. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16. You have the right to know, delete, and correct your information, and to be free from discrimination for exercising those rights. An authorised agent may submit a request on your behalf with proof of authorisation.

Geolocation. If you enable location, the coordinate we store may qualify as precise geolocation, and therefore as sensitive personal information, under California law. We collect it only from users who have turned the feature on, and we use it only to provide the recap feature described in this policy — never to infer characteristics about you, and never for advertising. That is the limited set of purposes permitted without a further right to limit its use, but you may switch the feature off and erase what we have saved at any time, as described in section 2(c).

United Kingdom (UK GDPR)

Our legal bases for processing are: performance of a contract (running your account and delivering the Service), consent (contacts access, location, push notifications — each withdrawable at any time), legitimate interests (keeping the Service secure and preventing abuse), and legal obligation where applicable.

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, and object to processing, and the right to data portability. You may lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Canada (PIPEDA)

You may request access to the personal information we hold about you and ask for corrections. Complaints may be directed to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Australia (Privacy Act / APPs)

You may request access to and correction of your personal information. Complaints may be directed to us first and then, if unresolved, to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

11. Where your information is held

The Service is operated from the United States, and your information — including your videos — is stored and processed there by the providers listed in section 5. If you are located in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, or elsewhere outside the United States, using the Service involves transferring your information to the United States, where privacy laws differ from those in your own country.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the Service changes. If we make a material change, we will update the date at the top and, where the change significantly affects how we handle your information, give notice in the app. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated policy.

13. Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints about this policy or your data:
team.mylyfe@gmail.com