Your data. Your choice.
Many free apps make money by selling your information or showing you ads. We don't do either, and we never will. As a nonprofit with no owners, we have no reason to.
What we never do
- Sell your information, to anyone, ever.
- Use it for advertising.
- Share it with employers, insurers, funders, or partner organizations.
- Track you for advertising, in our apps or on this website.
- Put features behind a paywall.
How each app works
| App | Account | Where your entries are stored | Uses AI? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goal Getter | Yes | Your account, on our secure cloud servers | No |
| Care About You | Yes | Your account, on our secure cloud servers | Yes, for optional kindness suggestions |
| Beat the Craving | Yes | Your account, on our secure cloud servers | No |
| Advocate's Compass | Yes | Your account, on our secure cloud servers | Yes, for Advocate Now scripts |
Your account means your information is there when you get a new phone or use more than one device.
What we collect
Only what each app needs to work: your email and a name or username for your account, the entries you create, and basic technical details like device type and crash reports. We don't collect your precise location, and we don't build advertising profiles. Care About You asks your permission before adding anything to your calendar.
Who can see your entries
Our team doesn't read your entries. The only exceptions are when you ask us for help with a support issue, when the law requires it, or when we need to investigate a security problem. Trusted service providers, like our cloud host, store information for us under written agreements that let them use it only to run our apps.
How we protect it
Your information is encrypted while it travels between your device and our servers. Access is limited to the few people who operate and support the apps.
About AI
Two apps use AI, and only when you ask. In Care About You, tapping for a suggestion sends the person's name, your notes, and your recent kindness history to our AI service provider. In Advocate's Compass, asking Advocate Now for a script sends what you type. Goal Getter and Beat the Craving don't use AI at all.
Sensitive information
Entries in Beat the Craving may relate to recovery, substance use, or emotional well-being. We treat them as sensitive and protect them that way.
Deleting your information
- Delete any entry inside the app at any time.
- Delete your whole account by emailing support@appsforchange.org. We remove it from our active systems within 30 days and from backups within 90 days.
- Uninstalling an app doesn't delete your account. To erase your information, delete your account.
How we report our impact
When we tell funders and our Board how we're doing, we use only totals, like the number of people using our apps. We never share anyone's individual entries.
Age
Our apps are for people 13 and older. If you're under 18, please use them with a parent's or guardian's involvement.
Questions
Or email support@appsforchange.org.