Privacy Policy

📱 Overview

Veritas: Reality Checker ("Veritas", "we", "our", or "the app") is a wellness application designed to help users with grounding and reality-checking exercises. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal data remains secure.

The short version: We don't collect, store, or transmit any of your personal data. Everything stays on your device.

🎙️ Microphone Access

Veritas requests microphone access solely for the Audio Reality Check feature. Here's how we handle audio data:

• Purpose: To analyze ambient sounds and detect human voices
• Processing: All audio is processed locally on your device using Apple's built-in speech recognition framework
• Storage: Audio is never recorded, saved, or stored in any form
• Transmission: Audio data is never transmitted to external servers
• User control: The microphone is only activated when you explicitly start an Audio Check

📷 Camera Access

Veritas requests camera access solely for the Visual Reality Check feature. Here's how we handle visual data:

• Purpose: To detect the presence of people in your environment
• Processing: All image analysis is performed locally on your device using Apple's Vision framework
• Storage: Images and video are never recorded, saved, or stored
• Transmission: Visual data is never transmitted to external servers
• User control: The camera is only activated when you explicitly start a Visual Check

🗣️ Speech Recognition

Veritas uses Apple's on-device speech recognition to analyze audio during reality checks:

• Processing: Speech recognition runs entirely on your device
• No Apple servers: We use on-device recognition only; your audio is not sent to Apple's servers
• No transcripts stored: Recognition results are used momentarily and immediately discarded

💾 Local Data Storage

Veritas stores certain data locally on your device to provide its features:

• Journal entries: Your personal notes and reflections
• Check history: Records of past reality checks and their results
• Episode tracking: Data about tracked episodes
• App preferences: Your settings and customizations
• Safe contacts: Contact information you choose to save

All locally stored data:

• Remains exclusively on your device
• Is never transmitted to external servers
• Is never accessible to us or any third party
• Can be deleted by uninstalling the app

🚫 Data We Do NOT Collect

We want to be explicitly clear about what we don't do:

• We do not collect personal information
• We do not collect usage analytics
• We do not use tracking technologies
• We do not use cookies
• We do not collect device identifiers
• We do not collect location data
• We do not share data with third parties
• We do not sell any data
• We do not use advertising

🌐 Third-Party Services

Veritas does not integrate with any third-party services, analytics platforms, or advertising networks. The app functions entirely offline and does not require an internet connection to operate.

The only external links in the app are to crisis support helplines, which open in your device's phone app or web browser.

👶 Children's Privacy

Veritas is intended for users 18 years of age or older, or minors with parental consent. We do not knowingly collect any information from children. Since we don't collect any data at all, there is no risk of children's data being collected or stored.

🔄 Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

If we make material changes to how we handle your data (though we currently don't collect any), we will notify users through an app update.

⚖️ Your Rights

Since Veritas does not collect any personal data, traditional data rights (access, deletion, portability) are not applicable. However, you maintain full control over your locally stored data:

• You can view all your data within the app
• You can delete individual entries (journal, history)
• You can delete all app data by uninstalling Veritas