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Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 5, 2026

1. Who we are

Wakeup Buddy is a mobile app for iOS. It is intended for users aged 16 or older.

Wakeup Buddy is operated by Victor Harvey.

2. What data we collect

We collect the data needed to create your account, run your alarms, personalize your wake-up, manage subscriptions, and keep the app reliable.

This may include:

  • account information, such as your name, email, phone number, password, age, language, timezone, and optional profile details
  • alarm and wake-up settings, such as wake-up time, repeat days, alarm title, selected buddy or voice, tools, tool order, sounds, and tool settings
  • location information, if you allow it or enter it manually, mainly to provide weather and local news
  • custom prompt text, if you use the prompt tool
  • wake session, call, and stats information, such as session time, duration, selected tools, buddy, and progress history
  • feedback you choose to submit
  • subscription and purchase status
  • technical and security data, such as IP address, device or platform information, app logs, error logs, authentication data, and notification or local alarm identifiers

3. How we collect data

We collect data when:

  • you enter it in the app
  • the app sends it to our backend to provide a feature
  • your device provides it after you grant permission, such as location access
  • service providers send us information needed to run the app, such as subscription updates
  • the app stores settings locally on your device

4. How we use data

We use your data to:

  • create and secure your account
  • verify your phone number
  • create, schedule, update, and delete alarms
  • personalize your wake-up experience
  • generate weather, news, motivation, meditation, fitness, and custom prompt content
  • generate voice/audio for your wake-up
  • show progress and insights
  • manage subscriptions and paid access
  • respond to support and password reset requests
  • review feedback
  • prevent abuse, debug issues, and improve Wakeup Buddy
  • meet legal, security, and platform requirements

5. Service providers

Wakeup Buddy uses service providers to make key features work. We share data only as needed to provide, secure, support, or improve the app.

Depending on the feature, data may be processed by providers for:

  • phone verification
  • payments and subscriptions
  • AI text generation
  • voice generation
  • wake session connection and audio transport
  • weather and news
  • feedback review
  • email delivery
  • app hosting, database, logging, diagnostics, and storage

For personalized wake-ups, your selected wake-up settings and, if used, custom prompt text may be processed by AI text generation and voice generation providers.

For weather and news, we may send your city-level location or selected news categories to weather and news providers.

For subscriptions, payment and subscription providers may process purchase and subscription information. Wakeup Buddy does not directly collect your full payment card details.

For phone verification, a communication provider may process your phone number to send verification messages.

For feedback and internal review, business tools may process feedback and account information needed to review your submission.

We expect service providers to protect user data at least to the level required by applicable law and platform rules.

We do not sell your personal data.

6. Custom prompts

The prompt tool can make your wake-up more personal, but it can also contain sensitive information if you type sensitive information into it.

Custom prompt text may be stored locally, stored with your alarm on Wakeup Buddy servers, and processed by AI and voice providers when creating your wake-up.

Please do not enter passwords, bank details, private secrets, emergencies, or anything you are not comfortable having processed by Wakeup Buddy and its service providers.

7. Local storage

The app stores some data on your device so it can work reliably. This may include login state, language settings, alarm settings, local notification or AlarmKit identifiers, weather location, tool defaults, custom prompt cache, and local stats.

Deleting the app may remove local device data, but it does not automatically delete data already stored on Wakeup Buddy servers or with service providers.

8. Retention and deletion

We keep personal data only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, unless we need to keep it longer for legal, security, billing, dispute, abuse-prevention, or operational reasons.

If you delete your account in the app, your account is marked as deleted and deactivated, and authentication tokens are revoked. The main account record is designed to be permanently deleted after a retention period.

Some related records, such as billing records, logs, feedback records, call or stats history, provider-side records, or legally required records, may have separate retention rules.

You can request deletion of your data by contacting hello@wakeupbuddy.ai.

9. Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or receive a copy of your personal data.

You may also withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

You can control some permissions directly on your device:

  • location access in iOS settings
  • notification permissions in iOS settings
  • subscriptions through the app store or the in-app subscription flow where available

If you turn off a permission, some features may stop working or may require manual input.

10. Security

We use technical and organizational measures intended to protect your data, including authenticated API requests, secure local storage where supported, password hashing, token handling, and access controls.

No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. International processing

Wakeup Buddy and its service providers may process data in countries other than where you live. Where required, we rely on appropriate legal mechanisms and provider commitments for international data transfers.

12. Changes

We may update this policy when our app, providers, data practices, legal requirements, or platform requirements change.

If we make material changes, we will update the date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app or through another reasonable channel.

13. Contact

For privacy questions, data access requests, correction requests, deletion requests, or consent withdrawal requests, contact:

hello@wakeupbuddy.ai