Privacy Policy

What we send, and when

Nothing leaves your phone until you've turned on Full Access, agreed to our AI consent screen, and signed in. After that:

• Keyboard suggestions: only when you ask for suggestions, we send the conversation screenshot(s) you chose or just took, the text before your cursor (up to 1,500 characters), your chosen tone, and the dating app you're using.
• Profile analysis: when you share a profile screenshot to Retort, we send that screenshot.
• Screen recordings: when you share a screen recording to Retort, we send that recording.

Typing itself happens entirely on your phone. Retort does not log your keystrokes.

Who processes it (our AI providers)

Our server, hosted on Railway (United States region by default), receives your request and forwards it to an AI provider:

• Google Gemini — our primary provider for suggestions, screenshot and profile analysis, and screen recordings.
• Anthropic Claude — our backup provider, used if Gemini is unavailable.

Both are used through paid API access. Under their API terms, data sent through the API is not used to train their models. Screen recordings are uploaded to Google's Files API, which deletes them automatically within 48 hours.

What we store

• Your account: your Apple user ID, email (which may be an Apple private relay address), and display name — or your email and hashed password.
• Suggestions: the generated text, tone, score, reasoning, which app it was for, and whether you inserted it.
• Match profiles: the name, age, bio, prompts, interests and personality notes we extract when you analyse a match's profile, plus the raw analysis.
• Not your screenshots or chat text: we keep only a one-way SHA-256 hash of screenshots and conversation text, to avoid re-processing the same thing twice. We never keep the images or the text themselves.

We also keep a daily usage counter, which expires automatically. We do not store your screenshots, conversation text, or recordings — those are only sent for processing and never saved.

How long we keep it

Your account, suggestions, match profiles and usage data are kept until you delete them, or until you delete your account.

Deleting your data

Open the app, go to Settings → Delete Account, and your account, match profiles, suggestions and usage counters are removed from our database straight away.

Analytics and crash reporting

The Retort app has no analytics or crash reporting. Our website uses Vercel Analytics to understand traffic to this page.

Security

All traffic between the app and our server uses HTTPS.

Age requirement

Retort is intended for people aged 18 and over.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Retort changes during the beta. We'll update the date at the top of this page when we do.

Contact

For privacy-related questions, email us at support@retort.app.