Privacy Policy

1.Who runs Anasio

Anasio is provided by the Anasio team. We decide how and why the personal data described here is processed, which some laws describe as being the “controller”. Questions about anything in this policy can be sent to hichien.apps@gmail.com. Our Terms of Use sit alongside this policy and should be read with it.

2.Data the app handles

Anasio processes data for one purpose: making the app work. Everything listed below is linked to a random identifier for your device, and not to your name or to any account.

• What you write. Chat messages, image prompts, idea requests and the story text you send to an AI feature, together with the reply that comes back. Our server handles them so the result can be produced and returned to you.
• Photos you attach. A chat message can carry up to five photos for the AI to look at. You choose them in the iOS photo picker, so the app receives just the pictures you pick and cannot look through anything else in your library. The app does not use the camera.
• Images the AI makes. Pictures created for you pass through our server on their way to your device.
• Recent conversation. So that a chat stays coherent, the app sends the text of the latest messages in that chat, up to 20 of them, along with your new message. A photo is sent only with the message it was attached to. Images the AI made earlier in the chat are represented by the text description used to create them, never by the picture itself.
• Device identifier. The app generates a random identifier and stores it in your iPhone’s Keychain, where it survives deleting and reinstalling the app as well as Clear All Data. We use it to apply usage limits, stop abuse, record whether and when you accepted the AI data notice, and connect the technical records of your requests, and any report you send, to the same device. It is not tied to your name, to an account or to Apple’s advertising identifier.
• Reports. When you report an AI result, we receive the reason you picked, any note you add, the first 500 characters of the reported content, the app version and the device identifier. Images are never part of a report.
• Technical logs. Our server keeps logs of identifiers, the kind of request, its status and any error code, timing and size, and your IP address with its last part removed. Your messages, stories, prompts and images are never written into these logs.

3.Why the data is used

• To deliver the AI features you use: forwarding each request to an AI provider and returning the result.
• To keep the service fair and running, by applying limits on how many requests a device can make.
• To protect the service and the people using it: spotting abuse, running automated safety checks on requests and reviewing the reports you send.
• To keep a record that you accepted the AI data notice, and when.
• To investigate problems. When something fails, the app shows an Error ID that lets us match your request to our technical records.
• To comply with the law where it requires something of us.

Your data is not used for advertising and is never sold.

4.AI processing and your agreement

Before Anasio sends anything to an AI provider for the first time, it shows an AI data notice and asks whether you agree. Until you accept, no content goes to any provider. If you choose “Not now”, the app makes no AI request at all. The date you accepted is shown in Settings.

After you accept, each request carries only what that feature needs: the text you write, any photos you attach and, for writing features, the story text involved. It goes from the app to our server and on to one of these providers:

• OpenAI, for its ChatGPT models;
• Google, for its Gemini models.

The providers process a request only to create your result. Each is an independent company that applies its own privacy policy and its own retention rules; see the OpenAI privacy policy and the Google privacy policy.

Requests can be screened by automated safety filters before they are processed, and a request that breaks our rules may be refused. Should we ever change what is sent to AI providers, you will be asked in the app to accept the AI data notice again.

5.Photos and generated images

Attaching photos relies on the system photo picker. iOS hands Anasio only the photos you select, so the app needs no permission to read your library.

Photos you attach and images the AI makes are held for a short time in temporary cloud storage provided by Cloudflare (R2), so they can move between the app, our server and the AI provider. They are deleted automatically 15 minutes after the request finishes. A photo that was uploaded but never used in a request is removed after about one hour.

Images you create are saved within Anasio on your iPhone. They are added to your photo library only when you choose to save one. The first time you do, iOS asks whether Anasio may add photos; that permission lets the app add pictures but not read them. You can change it at any time in the iOS Settings app.

6.What stays on your iPhone

Your novels and chapters, saved ideas, chat history, attached and created images, and your settings are stored only on this iPhone, inside Anasio. They are not synced to any cloud, we keep no copy of them, and we cannot recover them if they are lost. Removing the app removes them.

7.No tracking, analytics or ads

Anasio does not track you. It contains no advertising, no analytics or crash-reporting software and no connections to tracking domains, and it does not read Apple’s advertising identifier. We do not sell your data, and we do not hand it to anyone for advertising.

8.Who receives data

• Our server receives your AI requests, forwards them and returns the results.
• OpenAI and Google process the content of AI requests to return a result, as explained in section 4.
• Cloudflare hosts the temporary storage for attached photos and AI-made images, as explained in section 5.
• An email delivery service carries the reports you send to our support mailbox.

We may also disclose information when a law, a court order or a public authority requires it.

Because your work is stored only on your device, other people who use Anasio cannot see it. Reports reach our support mailbox by email, and we review every report.

9.Retention periods

Content of an AI request (your message, story text or prompt, and the reply)

Up to 15 minutes after the request finishes, so the result can still reach you on a weak connection; then deleted automatically.

Attached photos and AI-made images in temporary storage

Deleted automatically 15 minutes after the request finishes. Uploads never used in a request: about one hour.

Technical details of requests and uploads (feature, status, error code, AI provider and model, size and timing)

Up to 90 days.

Reports (reason, note, 500-character excerpt, app version, device identifier)

90 days.

Device record and the record of your agreement to the AI data notice

Until the device has been inactive for 365 days.

Technical logs (no content, shortened IP address)

Kept long term.

Your novels, ideas, chats, images and settings on your iPhone

Until you delete it, use Clear All Data or remove the app.

Records in our database are removed automatically when these periods end. Data handled by OpenAI and Google is governed by their own policies (section 4).

10.Removing your data

• Clear All Data. In Settings, Clear All Data asks you to confirm twice and then erases your novels, ideas, chats, images and settings from the device. If you had accepted the AI data notice, the app also informs our server that you have withdrawn your agreement, and AI features stay off until you accept again. The random device identifier in the Keychain is not removed.
• Removing the app. Deleting Anasio from your iPhone deletes everything it stored there, apart from the device identifier kept in the Keychain.
• Records on our server. These expire automatically on the schedule in section 9.

11.Your options and legal rights

Inside the app

• Accept or decline the AI data notice. “Not now” keeps AI features off and sends nothing.
• Check in Settings when you accepted the notice.
• Withdraw your agreement and wipe the device with Clear All Data.
• Decide in the iOS Settings app whether Anasio may add images to your photo library.

Under data protection law

Depending on your country or state, the law may give you rights over your personal data, for example to see it, have it fixed or erased, limit or object to how it is used, get a copy in a portable form, and take back your consent whenever you choose (which does not undo earlier processing). To exercise a right or ask about one, write to hichien.apps@gmail.com. We will answer within the time limit set by the law that applies to you, and exercising a right will never lead to worse treatment.

Anasio has no accounts and holds no name or email address for you. We may therefore ask for details that help us find records linked to your device, such as an Error ID the app showed you. If we cannot connect a request to any records, we will explain why. Most server records are short-lived and expire on their own, as listed in section 9.

12.Notes for specific regions

Europe (EEA) and the United Kingdom

Under EU data protection law (the GDPR) and its UK version, you have the rights listed in section 11. The legal grounds for processing are:

• Consent, for passing your requests to OpenAI or Google and delivering what they return, including any sensitive details you decide to include. You give it through the AI data notice and can withdraw it with Clear All Data.
• Legitimate interests in keeping the service secure, fair and working: the device identifier, usage limits, abuse prevention, safety filters, technical records and logs, and handling reports.
• Legal obligation where a law requires us to keep or disclose information.

A complaint may also be brought before a data protection authority, for example the one in your home country.

United States

Some state laws, including California’s, give residents rights to learn which personal information is collected, to see, fix and delete it, and not to be penalized for using those rights. The categories Anasio handles are: identifiers (the random device identifier and a shortened IP address); content you provide (text and photos); and internet or network activity (technical records of requests and server logs). Their source is you, through the app, and they are used for the purposes in section 3 and are kept as set out in section 9. Personal information is not sold, and it is not shared for cross-context behavioral advertising. If your content includes sensitive information, it is used only to give you the result you asked for.

Other countries

Privacy laws in many other places, such as Brazil, Canada, Japan or South Korea, may give you similar rights. To use them, email us. You can also raise a complaint with your national privacy authority.

13.Keeping data secure

Traffic between the app and our server is always encrypted with HTTPS. Photos and AI-made images stay in temporary storage just briefly before automatic deletion, our logs leave out what you write, and IP addresses are shortened before they are logged. Even so, no method of storing or sending data is completely safe, and we cannot guarantee it will never be exposed.

14.Data across borders

Our server and the providers named in section 8 may process data outside the country where you live, under data protection rules that can differ from yours. If moving personal data out of a country calls for legal safeguards, we use the safeguards that country’s law allows.

15.Do Not Track signals

Anasio does no cross-app or cross-site tracking, so a Do Not Track setting makes no difference to how it behaves.

16.Updates to this policy

We may revise this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page always shows the current version. If a revision changes what goes to AI providers, you will be asked in the app to accept the AI data notice again before anything is sent on the new basis.

17.How to reach us