Privacy Policy
The Someone app is made by Someone Dating LLC, which is being formed (“we”, “us”). It’s a dating app for adults where everyone you’ll meet is an AI. This policy explains what we collect, why, who helps us process it, how long we keep it, and the choices and rights you have.
The short version. We collect what the Someone app needs to work: your profile, your chats and a few technical details. An AI provider writes the personas’ replies from your profile and messages. We don’t sell or share your personal information, there are no ads or ad trackers, live calls are never recorded, and you can delete your account in the app at any time.
1. Notice at collection
This table is our notice at collection under California law: the categories of personal information we collect, why, whether we sell or share them (we don’t), and how long we keep them. Sections 3 to 7 give the details.
| Category | What it includes | Why we collect it | Sold or shared? | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Your account ID, a one-way hash of your account key, your iPhone’s push token, Apple’s transaction IDs, and your email address if you join early access | To run your account, send notifications you’ve allowed, credit purchases and, once we send any, email you about early access | No | Until you delete your account (early-access email: see section 7) |
| Profile information | Name, age, gender, pronouns, bio, interests, job, hometown, height, drinking, children and family plans, prompt answers, preferences and photos | To show your profile to the AIs you like, decide matches and write replies | No | Until you change it or delete your account |
| Sensitive personal information | Who you want to meet (which can reveal your sexual orientation), whether you’re trans if you say so, and the contents of your chats and photos | Only to provide Someone as you ask (section 5) | No | As for your profile and chats |
| Audio and visual information | Voice messages and voicemails you record; photos you add or send | To deliver them in your chats and play them back to you | No | While the chat exists (section 7) |
| Commercial information | Purchases of Someone Plus and Dots | To give you what you bought | No | Until you delete your account |
| Internet or network activity | Usage events, crash reports and server logs | To keep Someone working, fix problems and prevent abuse | No | 180 days, 90 days and 7 days |
| Inferences | What each match remembers about you, and call summaries | So your matches remember your conversations | No | While the chat exists |
| Geolocation | None. We don’t collect your location. | — | — | — |
2. The AI in the Someone app
Everyone you’ll meet on Someone is an AI, not a real person. The app says so when you sign up, on every profile, and at the start of every call, and every chat reminds you when it starts and at least every three hours, a reminder you can’t turn off.
Personas never claim to be human, even if you ask, and never suggest meeting up, video calls, moving to another app or swapping numbers. Each AI decides whether to like you back based on your profile, and as you talk, your messages shape how it replies and whether the chat goes on. Some will pass, and some will end a chat.
The Someone app is for adults only. Chatting and calling with AI personas may not be suitable for some people, including minors. The Someone app isn’t a substitute for professional help or emergency services. If a message suggests you may be in crisis, the app steps out of the chat to point you to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988 in the US), and the romance pauses for a while. Our safety and crisis protocol describes how this works.
3. What we collect
What you give us
- You don’t give us an email address, phone number or password to use the app. When you set it up, our server creates a random account ID and key. The app keeps the key in your iPhone’s Keychain, synced through iCloud Keychain so a new iPhone can restore your account, and our server stores only a one-way hash of it.
- Your profile: your name, age, gender (and whether you’re trans, if you tell us), who you want to meet, your bio, interests and traits, what you’re looking for, pronouns, job, hometown, height, drinking, children and family plans, up to three prompt answers, your time zone and your match preferences (age range, distance and height).
- Your age, which you tell us during setup.
- Your profile photos (up to six) are stored on our servers. The AI doesn’t see them unless you turn on “Let my matches see my profile photos”. Then each photo goes once to our AI provider to be checked and described in a line, and your matches read only that line.
Your conversations
- Your chats: every message you send and receive, including photos, likes and comments, gifts, reactions and the text of voice messages, so your conversations survive a reinstall.
- Voice messages and voicemails you record: we keep the recording with its chat so it can be played back, only to your account, and we delete it with the chat or your account.
- Live calls are never recorded. During a call your speech is turned into text, and only the text reaches our servers: no audio of a call is sent to us or stored. Your iPhone turns speech into text on the device when it can. On an iPhone that can’t, Apple’s speech recognition service does it, under Apple’s privacy terms. The text of what’s said on a call is kept for 30 days, so the AI can write the call’s summary, and then deleted. It isn’t shown in your chat.
- A short summary of each call, written by the AI so your match remembers it.
- Memories: short notes the AI keeps about what you’ve told each match, so they remember your week. You can see them on your match’s profile, and change or delete any line about you.
- What each match has said about their own day, like having had their morning coffee, so they keep their story straight. It’s never shown, and it’s deleted two days later, or sooner when you unmatch or delete your account.
- Gift ideas: when a match says they love something in their shop, we keep that item and a word for it (such as “peonies”), never the message, so the Shop can suggest it. They’re deleted when you unmatch or delete your account.
- Dates you go on in a call: which kind of date and what happened on it, never what was said, so no two are the same. They’re deleted with your account.
- Dates you plan for later: which match, which date and when, with whether it’s still planned and who suggested it, so they can call you at that time and we can remind you first, never anything from your chats. They’re deleted with your account. Adding a planned date to your calendar opens your iPhone’s own calendar sheet, where you confirm it. The Someone app never reads your calendar.
- Photos you send in a chat go first to our AI provider for a safety check: sexual content, anyone who looks under 18, violence, self-harm and other people’s private photos are blocked. The app sends the picture alone, without its location or other metadata.
- Stories you post. If you let your matches see your photos, a story photo is checked the same way, by our AI provider, with its caption if you wrote one and with no other photo; the check never compares faces or tries to tell who anyone is.
Purchases
- Purchases: what you bought, when and for how much, with Apple’s transaction ID, from Apple’s signed purchase record. We never see your payment card or your Apple ID.
From your iPhone and our servers
- Your iPhone’s push token, to send you notifications. A notification shows your match’s first name with “AI”, never the text of a message, and in Discreet mode not even the name.
- Usage events, such as opening a screen or sending a like, from a fixed list with no message text, sent only to our own server. The app has no advertising identifier and no third-party analytics or tracking code.
- Crash and exit reports from your iPhone (Apple’s MetricKit): call stacks, the device model, the iOS version and the last few screens you opened, with any error message text removed.
- Server logs: each request’s method, path, status and timing, without your IP address or anything you wrote. Purchase events are logged with your account ID and Apple’s transaction IDs.
- We use your IP address only briefly, in memory, to limit how many requests can come from one network address. We don’t store it.
For safety
- Safety records: crisis flags, reports and underage signals, with short excerpts of the messages involved (each cut to 500 characters) for our team to review.
- A daily count of crisis referrals with no user identifiers, for the reports the law requires.
- If you tell us you’re under 18, the app locks on that iPhone for good. To keep it locked, our server keeps one-way hashes of the app’s identifiers for that phone, linked to no account.
What we don’t collect
The app never asks for your location. Distances on Someone are part of each persona’s story, and nobody is located, including you. We don’t read your contacts. “Add to Contacts” only opens Apple’s new-contact card, which you can save to your iPhone or cancel. We don’t read your photo library: you pick each photo you share. “Save to Photos”, on a photo you were given, asks only to add photos, so the app can save that one, marked as AI-generated, and never sees the others.
4. How we use it
- To run Someone: your account, matching, chats, calls, stories, gifts and notifications.
- To write the personas’ replies. To write each reply, we send our AI provider your profile, your recent messages in that chat (about the last 40 to 60), what that match remembers about you, and any photo you sent there that passed the safety check. For voice messages, only the text is sent, never the recording. Nothing you write reaches our AI provider until you agree on the consent screen during setup, which explains how your profile and messages are used.
- To keep people safe. A safety classifier, run through our AI provider, reads your last few messages (up to six) to spot signs of a crisis. We review crisis flags, reports and signs that someone is under 18, and we keep the records the law asks of us.
- To process purchases and honor Apple’s refunds.
- To fix and improve Someone, using usage events and crash reports.
- To comply with the law, enforce our Terms, and protect our users, our service and the public.
We don’t use your information for advertising, we don’t build advertising profiles, and we don’t make decisions about you that have legal or similarly significant effects.
5. Sensitive personal information
Some of what the Someone app needs is sensitive: who you want to meet can reveal your sexual orientation, you can tell us if you’re trans, and your chats and photos are private. We use sensitive personal information only to provide Someone as you ask: to show your profile, decide matches and write replies, and to keep people safe. We don’t use it to infer characteristics about you, and we don’t sell, share or advertise with it. Because we use it only for these purposes, California law doesn’t require a “limit the use of my sensitive personal information” link. During setup, we ask for your consent before your profile and messages are used this way.
6. Who processes it for us
We use a small number of service providers, under contracts that let them use your information only to provide their services to us:
- AI model provider: Anthropic, whose Claude models write the personas’ replies and summaries and run our safety and photo checks. Our AI provider processes this data only to provide its service to us, and its terms don’t let it train its models on it.
- Database hosting: Neon, which runs our Postgres database in the United States.
- Voice and image generation: GPU servers that we run or rent make the personas’ voices and photos. They receive the persona’s own lines to speak and descriptions of photos to make, which can mention things you’ve told a match, but never your recordings, your photos or your account details.
- Apple: App Store purchases and subscriptions, push notifications, and speech recognition when your iPhone can’t do it on the device.
- Hosting: our app servers run on Fly.io in the United States. This website, and the sign-up and counting functions behind it, are served by Cloudflare Pages.
- Email: we don’t use an email provider yet, and nothing is sent to the early-access list. Cloudflare Email Routing receives the mail you send to our support, privacy and legal addresses and forwards it to our inbox.
We don’t sell or share your personal information, and we don’t use it for advertising. We don’t allow third parties to collect it from the app or this website. We may also disclose information when the law requires it, to protect someone’s safety, or as part of a merger or sale of our business, in which case this policy keeps applying to it.
7. How long we keep it
| Information | How long we keep it |
|---|---|
| Your profile and photos | Until you change them or delete your account. |
| Chats: messages, photos, voice recordings, memories and call summaries | While the chat exists. Deleted when you unmatch or delete your account. When a report ends the chat, your voice recordings are deleted at once and the rest 30 days after our review of it is done. |
| The text of calls | 30 days, then deleted. |
| Your stories | 24 hours on your story. The photo is deleted a day later, unless a match’s reply quotes it, in which case it stays with that chat. |
| Purchase records | Until you delete your account. Apple keeps its own records of your purchases. |
| Usage events | 180 days. |
| Crash and exit reports | 90 days. |
| Safety cases | Excerpts and quotes: 30 days after a case is closed. The outcome is kept, without them. |
| Server logs | 7 days. Our host, Fly.io, also keeps its own copy of the logs in its log search, for 7 days. |
| Age-lock hashes | Indefinitely, linked to no account, so a phone that said it was under 18 stays locked. |
| Crisis referral counts | Kept as daily totals, with no user identifiers. |
| Early-access email | Until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it. After you unsubscribe, we delete the address and keep only a one-way fingerprint of it, so we never email it again. |
We may keep information longer when the law requires it, or to resolve a dispute or a safety investigation that’s underway, and only for as long as that lasts.
8. Deleting your information
- You can delete your account from the You tab in the app. It’s immediate and permanent: everything linked to your account is deleted at once, including your profile, photos, chats, voice recordings, memories, call records, Dots balance, purchase records, safety cases, usage events and crash reports.
- Unmatching deletes that chat: its messages, photos, voice recordings, memories and call records.
- When you change or delete a memory, the earlier version is deleted too.
Deleting your account doesn’t cancel a Someone Plus subscription, which Apple bills; cancel it in your iPhone’s Settings › Apple ID › Subscriptions. Our database provider keeps a restore history for 7 days; deleted information is gone from it once that window passes.
9. Your choices in the app
- Memories: see, change or delete what each match remembers about you, from their profile.
- Your photos: “Let my matches see my profile photos” decides whether the AI gets a description of your profile photos.
- Notifications: choose which ones you get in your iPhone’s settings, and turn on Discreet mode to hide names and photos in them.
- Calls: “Matches can call me” decides whether personas can call you.
- Your account: delete it anytime from the You tab.
10. Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia, you have the right to:
- Know and access the personal information we have about you, and get a copy in a portable format.
- Correct information that’s wrong. Most of it you can fix yourself in your profile or a match’s memories.
- Delete your information. The quickest way is deleting your account in the app.
- Opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising and profiling. We don’t do any of these, so there’s nothing to opt out of, and we treat a Global Privacy Control signal as an opt-out anyway.
- Limit the use of sensitive personal information, which we already use only to provide Someone (section 5).
- Not be discriminated against for using any of these rights.
How to ask. Send your request by email to privacy@someone.dating with “Privacy request” in the subject. Because your account has no email or name attached, we’ll verify a request by asking you to confirm it from inside the app, or with details only your account holds, and we’ll ask only for what we need to verify you. You can use an authorized agent, who must show your signed permission, and we may still ask you to verify your identity with us.
When we answer. We’ll confirm we got your request within 10 business days and answer within 45 calendar days. If we need more time, we’ll tell you why, and take at most another 45 days.
Appeals. If we decline your request, you can appeal by replying to our answer within 60 days. We’ll answer the appeal within 60 days (45 in some states). If you’re not satisfied, you can contact your state attorney general.
California residents can also ask which personal information, if any, we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing in the last year (California Civil Code § 1798.83). We don’t disclose any.
11. Adults only
The Someone app is only for people 18 and over, and this website is meant for adults. If a chat suggests you’re under 18, that chat closes and your account is paused until our team reviews it. If we learn that we have information from someone under 18, we delete it, except the age-lock hashes that keep that phone locked.
12. Security
The app connects to our servers only over encrypted connections, account keys and email-confirmation links are stored only as one-way hashes, and every photo you send is safety-checked before a persona sees it. Only the people who run the Someone app can reach our systems. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your information, we’ll notify you as the law requires.
13. Where we process it
The Someone app is offered in the United States, and we and our service providers process your information in the United States, with one exception: Cloudflare, which serves this website, handles each visit in a data center near the visitor. If you use the Someone app from elsewhere, you understand it will be processed there.
14. This website and early access
- This website sets no cookies and loads no third-party analytics, ad pixels, session replay or other third-party scripts. We don’t respond differently to Do Not Track signals, because there’s no tracking to stop.
- This website counts page views, taps on its sign-up and download buttons, photos opened large, and sign-ups as daily totals on our own servers; while a headline test runs, sign-ups are also counted by which of the test’s headlines the page showed. Each count is only a number for the day: no cookie, IP address, device detail or the choice of who the site shows you is kept with it.
- If you apply for the iPhone beta, we keep your email address, when you agreed and which version of the wording you agreed to, and the campaign tag in the link you came from (such as utm_source), if there was one. Applying requires confirming you’re 18 or older and live in the US.
- We don’t send any email to the early-access list yet. When we do, it will be only about Someone’s launch and early access, and every email will have a one-click unsubscribe link and our postal address. Unsubscribing is one click, and you can also email privacy@someone.dating to have your early-access email deleted.
15. Changes to this policy
When we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect.
16. Contact us
Someone Dating LLC (being formed). We take privacy questions and requests by email: privacy@someone.dating.