Assume It Privacy Policy
Effective date: July 13, 2026
Artifex Innovations LLC ("we," "us")
Assume It is built to keep your personal practice personal. This policy explains what information the app handles, why it is handled, and where it goes.
YOUR SCENES AND VOICE RECORDINGS
The scenes you write and the scene recordings you make are stored locally in the app's private storage. We do not upload, read, or receive them. Daily lines you choose to show in the home-screen or lock-screen widget are shared locally between the app and its widget through Apple's App Group storage on your device.
If you use iCloud device backup, Apple may include locally stored app content in your backup according to your iCloud settings and Apple's privacy terms.
OPTIONAL ACCOUNTS AND SIGN-IN
You can use Assume It without creating an account. If you choose a sign-in option, Firebase Authentication, a Google service, processes the account details needed to authenticate you. Depending on the option you choose, these details may include your name, email address, and a unique user identifier.
We use account information to:
• sign you in and keep your session active,
• protect and operate your account, and
• check whether your account has complimentary access.
If you choose Google Sign-In, Google Sign-In and Firebase Authentication may process your name, email address, phone number, user and device identifiers, IP-derived general location, other authentication or technical data, and sign-in interaction data. Google Sign-In declares these data as linked to you for authentication and app functionality and, for some technical, identifier, and usage data, service analytics. Assume It requests only Google's basic profile scopes and does not use Firebase phone authentication; Artifex uses the returned account identity only to sign you in, secure your account, and check complimentary access.
Firebase Authentication separately declares limited diagnostic data that is not linked to you for service analytics. Artifex does not use account, diagnostic, or sign-in interaction information for advertising, cross-app tracking, or profiling.
MICROPHONE AND SPEECH RECOGNITION
Assume It requests microphone access when you choose to record a spoken scene or dictate scene text.
• Scene recordings are saved locally for your playback and are not sent to us.
• Dictation uses Apple's Speech framework. iOS processes speech on your device when supported. Otherwise, iOS may send speech audio to Apple for transcription under Apple's privacy terms. We do not receive that speech audio.
LOCATION
If you enable Auto appearance, the app can use an approximate location to match day and night themes to local sunrise and sunset. The app caches the approximate coordinate locally so the theme can continue to work between launches. Assume It does not transmit that coordinate to our servers.
This on-device appearance feature is separate from the IP-derived general location that Google Sign-In may process when you choose Google authentication, as described above.
NOTIFICATIONS
If you enable reminders, the app schedules local notifications on your device. Assume It does not send reminder content to our servers.
PURCHASES
Apple processes subscriptions and payment information through the App Store. We do not receive your card or bank details. The app reads App Store entitlement information to determine whether Premium access is active.
DIAGNOSTICS, ANALYTICS, ADVERTISING, AND TRACKING
The iOS app does not include advertising SDKs, cross-app tracking, or an App Tracking Transparency prompt, and Artifex does not analyze your scenes, habits, or recordings. Google Sign-In and Firebase Authentication may perform the limited sign-in service analytics described above. We do not sell or rent personal information.
WEBSITE ANALYTICS
When you visit artio.space, Squarespace hosts and delivers the site. The site also uses Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to understand visits and improve the website. These services may use cookies or pseudonymous identifiers and process information such as browser and device details, IP-derived general location, traffic source, pages visited, clicks, scrolling, interaction playback, errors, and performance data. Microsoft states that privacy-sensitive fields are masked in Clarity recordings.
Website analytics do not receive the scenes, recordings, reminders, or other private content stored inside the Assume It app. Artifex does not use these website tools to serve ads or connect website behavior to activity inside the app. Google, Microsoft, and Squarespace process website data under their own terms and privacy policies. You can limit cookies through your browser or device settings.
DATA RETENTION AND DELETION
• Scenes, recordings, reminders, and preferences remain in local app storage until you remove them or uninstall the app, subject to any device backup you control.
• Account information remains with Firebase Authentication while your account exists. Settings includes Delete Account, which removes the Firebase authentication account after any required recent sign-in and provider-token revocation steps succeed.
• Complimentary-access records are separate from the authentication account. If an email address was granted complimentary access, that record may remain after account deletion. Email [email protected] to request its removal.
• Provider records such as security or diagnostic logs may be retained by Apple or Google according to their own policies and legal obligations.
• Subscriptions are managed by Apple. Deleting an optional Assume It account does not cancel an App Store subscription. You can manage it in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions.
You may email [email protected] to ask what account or complimentary-access information we hold for your email address or to request deletion.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Assume It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
If this policy changes, we will post the updated version with a new effective date.
CONTACT
Artifex Innovations LLC
[email protected]