Privacy

Avenelle is a small, personal correspondence, and what you write is personal. This page explains exactly what we collect, why, and what we will never do with it. The short version: we collect only what the app needs to work, we never sell your data, and you can erase everything yourself, in the app, at any time.

What we collect

• Your account. Your email address and the name you give us, when you sign in with email or Apple.
• Your correspondence. The passages you're given, the letters written for you, and the entries you write.
• Passages sent to others. When you send a passage to someone, we store the first name you give them, the context you add, and the note you write. The context stays private to you: it's used only to shape the note and is never shown to the recipient; what they see is the passage itself and your note. Share thoughtfully: what they receive is built from what you tell us.
• Notifications. A push token, only if you turn reminders on.
• Subscription status. Whether you have an active subscription, processed through Apple and RevenueCat. We never see your card number or payment details. Apple keeps those.
• Error logs. Basic crash and error reports, processed by Sentry, so we can fix what breaks. The content of your letters and entries is scrubbed out before any report is sent.

That's the full list. No advertising identifiers, no location, no contact-list access, no tracking across other apps or websites.

How the letters are written

Your letters are written with the help of Claude, an AI model by Anthropic. To write a letter, our server sends what you've written (such as your entries or the note you wrote for a friend) and the day's passage to Anthropic's API. The app also uses Claude to notice patterns across your entries and to write your Sunday letters, which means your entries are sent to Anthropic for those features too. In every case the same rule applies: Anthropic does not use this data to train its models. What comes back is stored in your account and belongs to your correspondence.

Sent passages

When you send a passage to someone, the app creates a link on avenelle.app with a long, unguessable address. Anyone who has that link can view that single passage and note, which is what makes it shareable by text or any app you choose. The link exposes only that one page, never your account or history.

Two things both sides should know: when the page is first opened, it's marked as seen so the sender knows it arrived. And if the recipient writes a reply, that reply is stored with the passage and shown to the sender.

Where your data lives

Your data is stored with Supabase, our database provider, protected by row-level security so each account can only read its own rows. Payments are processed entirely by Apple; subscription state is managed by RevenueCat.

Deleting your data

Open the app → Settings → Delete account. This is immediate and permanent: your account, letters, entries, threads, and push tokens are all erased, including the passages you've sent to others, so links you've shared stop working. Passages someone else sent to you stay in their correspondence, with your identity removed. If you can't access the app, email [email protected] and we'll do it for you.

The website

avenelle.app is hosted on Vercel. It sets no tracking cookies and builds no profile of you. We use Vercel's cookieless, aggregate analytics to count page views and measure page speed. It cannot identify you and follows you nowhere. Standard request data (such as your IP address) is used transiently to protect the site from abuse, and the reply form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to keep bots out, a check Cloudflare processes.

What we will never do

• Sell or rent your data to anyone.
• Show you ads or share data with ad networks.
• Read your entries for any purpose other than operating the app.

Children

Avenelle is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If our practices change, this page changes first, with a new effective date. Material changes will be announced in the app.

Contact

Questions about your data: [email protected].