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Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 3, 2026

Trove AI ("we," "our," or "the app") is operated by Ashray Chowdhry. This policy explains what data we collect, why, and how we protect it.

1. Data We Collect

Account information. When you sign in with Apple or Google, we receive your name and email address. These are used solely for authentication and to identify your account.

Saved content. When you share a video URL to Trove AI, we store:

Articles you read with your subscription. If you save an article from a publication you subscribe to (for example by sharing it from Safari while signed in, or by signing in to the publication inside Trove's in-app browser), Trove captures the article text on your device, exactly as the publisher's site showed it to you. Your publisher usernames, passwords, and sign-in cookies never leave your device and are never sent to or stored on our servers — you sign in on the publisher's own web page. The captured article text is stored only on your own account for your personal reading, is never contributed to Explore or any shared feed, and is excluded from the shared processing cache described below. Deleting the save (or your account) deletes it.

User-created content. Notes, collections, and organization choices you make within the app.

Search queries. When you search within Trove AI or use Ask Trove, your queries are processed to return results. Search history is stored locally on your device. Ask Trove queries are sent to our AI services to generate responses.

Clipboard. Trove AI can notice when you have copied a web link and offer to save it. Detection happens entirely on your device using Apple's privacy-preserving APIs, which report only whether a link is present — Trove does not read what is on your clipboard at that point, and iOS shows no paste banner. Your clipboard is read only when you explicitly tap Save on the offer, or when you run the "Save my clipboard to Trove" shortcut; iOS may show its own paste-permission prompt at that moment, and declining it means nothing is read. Only the link itself is saved and processed. Clipboard contents that are not a link are never stored, transmitted, or retained. You can turn this off at any time — How to save → Detect copied links.

Usage analytics. We collect anonymous usage events (e.g., videos saved, features used) tied to a random device identifier — not your Apple ID or advertising identifier. These help us understand which features are valuable and improve the app.

Approximate location (optional). If you turn on reminders and grant location permission, Trove AI uses your approximate location — rounded to roughly city level (about two decimal places of latitude/longitude), never your precise GPS coordinates. It powers optional, contextual reminders: surfacing places you've already saved when they're relevant (for example "you're near that coffee shop you saved" or "welcome to San Francisco — here are some saved spots nearby"), weather-aware nudges, and regional Explore content. With the default "While Using the App" permission this happens only while Trove is open; if you separately opt in to "Always" location (a setting you control in the app), Trove can also send an arrival reminder when you reach a saved place or a new city even when the app is closed. Your precise location never leaves your device. When you are signed in and reminders are on, your approximate (city-level, ~1 km precision) coordinates are sent to our server and stored with your push registration so we can pick relevant reminders and add weather context; they are overwritten on each update and deleted with your account. Location is never used to track you, never linked to advertising, and never shared with third parties for their own purposes. You can decline it entirely and keep using every other feature; declining only turns off the location-based flavor of reminders.

Notifications. If you grant notification permission, we register a device push token with the Apple Push Notification service so we can deliver the reminders you opt into. You can turn notifications off at any time in iOS Settings.

Apple Health (optional). Trove AI can add a workout you finished to Apple Health, and read back how many workouts you did in the last 7 days to show a small progress line on your fitness saves. This is entirely optional and off until you tap "Log to Apple Health" or "Connect Apple Health" yourself — we never ask for Health access when the app launches or in the background. We request the narrowest scope that makes the feature work: workouts only. We do not request, read, or store heart rate, body measurements, sleep, nutrition, or any other Health category. What we write is the activity type and how long the workout took — nothing more. In particular we never write a calorie or energy estimate, because a number inferred from a video would not be a real measurement of what you did. Your Health data never reaches our servers. It stays in Apple Health on your device; it is never uploaded, never synced to your Trove account, never used for analytics, advertising, or model training, and never shared with third parties. You can revoke access at any time in the iOS Health app under Sharing → Apps, and everything else in Trove keeps working. Removing a workout Trove added is done in the Health app, which owns that data.

What we do NOT collect. We do not collect your contacts, photos, precise/GPS location, or advertising identifiers. We do not collect health data either: the optional Apple Health feature described above writes to and reads from Apple Health on your device only, and none of it is ever transmitted to or stored on our servers. We do not use Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework because we do not track you across other apps or websites.

2. How We Use Your Data

3. Third-Party Services

We share data with the following services, only as needed to operate the app:

Each third-party service processes data under its own privacy policy linked above. We have data processing agreements in place where required. We do not sell your data to anyone. We do not share your data with advertisers.

4. Data Storage and Security

Your data is encrypted in transit (TLS/HTTPS) and at rest (Supabase database encryption). On your device, data is stored in SwiftData's local database and protected by iOS's built-in data protection.

5. Data Retention

We retain your data for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, all associated data is permanently removed from our servers within 30 days. Locally stored data is deleted immediately upon account deletion.

6. Your Rights

You can:

7. International Users (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

For GDPR-related requests, contact us at support@aitrove.app.

8. California Residents (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

9. Children's Privacy

Trove AI is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you through the app or by email. The "effective date" at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last revised.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy or your data, contact us at:

support@aitrove.app

If you write to us through the contact form on our website, we keep what you submit — your message, plus a name and email address if you choose to include them — solely so we can respond and improve Trove. It is never sold, shared, or used for marketing, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.

Trove, in one line

An iPhone app that reads everything you save and answers questions from your own library, with the source save cited.

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