Overview

Anchorly ("Anchorly," "the App") is developed by Adelyons Software LLC ("we," "us," or "our"). Anchorly is a calm, dignified, local-first companion for the caregiver of someone living with dementia or Alzheimer's. It lets you keep a fast daily log; decode sundowning and agitation by capturing hard moments as Trigger → Behavior → What helped; track medications; keep a person-centered life story and calm card any new carer can read; and check in on your own wellbeing. This policy explains how the App handles your information.

Information Stored On Your Device

The following is created and stored locally on your device only, in a private database (SQLite) within the App. It is not transmitted to us or to any server unless you turn on Share with family:

• Loved-one profiles & life story: Names or nicknames, age, background, "about them" details, reminiscence prompts, photos you add, and the things that light them up or upset them.
• Daily logs: Agitation and mood, sleep, meals and appetite, toileting, wandering, the good moments ("glimmers"), and free-text notes.
• Decoder records (Trigger → Behavior → What helped): The triggers, behaviors, and what helped that you record for each hard moment.
• Medications: The medication schedule and your local "given?" records and reminders.
• Calm card: Favorite music, photos, phrases, and routines that help during agitation.
• Caregiver check-ins: Your own daily "how are you today" entries and wellbeing notes.
• Patterns & insights: The sundowning time-of-day curve, trigger ranking, "what helps" effectiveness, and (for Anchorly+) the weekly digest — all computed locally by fixed rules, not AI from the data above.
• Reports: The care-snapshot PDF, which is generated on your device.
• App settings & preferences: Your accessibility choices (large text, calm mode) and other in-app preferences.

Because this data lives only on your device, it is removed when you delete an entry in the App, clear the App's data, or uninstall the App.

Information About a Third Party

Much of what you record concerns another person — the loved one you care for, who may not be able to provide consent themselves. We have designed Anchorly so that this information is entered by you, the caregiver, and stays on your device unless you choose to share it with family members you link by code. You are responsible for recording this information appropriately and in keeping with your loved one's dignity and best interests, and for sharing any report you generate only with people who should see it. The care-snapshot and life-story PDFs are created locally and shared solely if and when you choose.

No Account

• Anchorly does not require you to create an account, sign in, or provide an email address, phone number, name, or any other identifier. There is no contacts grab.
• Unless you turn on Share with family, we do not receive, store, or back up your data.
• Your data is synced between devices only through Share with family. If your device's operating system backs up app data (for example through iCloud or Android backup that you have enabled), that backup is controlled by you and your platform provider under their policies — not by us.
• You can create your own backup using the App's local export/restore (CSV/PDF), which you save and share yourself.

Optional Purchases (Anchorly+)

Anchorly's core daily log, decoder, life story, and caregiver check-in are free forever, with an optional Anchorly+ upgrade. Purchases are the only feature that involves any data leaving your device, and they are handled by trusted providers:

• Apple App Store / Google Play: When you subscribe or make the lifetime purchase, the transaction is processed entirely by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies. We never receive or store your payment-card details.
• RevenueCat: We use RevenueCat to validate and restore your Anchorly+ entitlement. RevenueCat receives a purchase token, an anonymous app-generated user identifier, and basic device and purchase metadata needed to deliver and restore your purchase. It does not receive any of your loved one's or health data — no logs, decoder records, medications, profiles, life story, calm card, or reports. See RevenueCat's privacy policy.

If you never make a purchase, no purchase-related data is sent. Subscription terms (including auto-renewal) are described in our Terms of Service, and are also governed by Apple's Media Services Terms and Google Play's Terms of Service.

Share with Family (Optional)

If you choose Settings → Share with family, you can link your phone with the phones of other people who help care for the same person, by showing a one-time code (or QR code) on one phone and entering or scanning it on the other. While phones are linked:

• What is sent: the profiles, daily logs, decoder records, good moments, calm card, medications and doses given, and life-story text you keep in the App, and later changes to them. Your own caregiver check-ins and any photos are not sent.
• Where it goes: our sync service, hosted by Supabase, over an encrypted (TLS) connection. It is stored there as a change log so that each linked phone can fetch what it is missing. Linked phones are identified by a random device token; no name, email address, or account is involved. We do not read, analyze, sell, or share this data, and it is not used for advertising.
• Who can see it: only the phones you have linked with a code.
• Stopping and deleting: any phone can stop sharing at any time and keeps what it already has. The phone that started sharing can delete the shared copy from our server in the App (Delete the shared copy). A shared copy that no phone has used for 180 days is deleted automatically. You can also email us to have it deleted.

Invite a Friend (Optional)

Anchorly includes an optional invite feature: if a friend enters your invite code, you both receive 30 days of Anchorly+ at no charge. It is entirely optional, and the rest of the App never needs a connection.

When — and only when — you open the invite screen or enter a code, the App sends the following to our invite service (hosted on Supabase) so the free month can be granted through RevenueCat:

• A random installation identifier generated on your device the first time the invite screen is used. It is a random value, not a device or advertising ID, and it is not derived from your device or from you.
• Your RevenueCat anonymous customer identifier, so the free month is applied to the right installation.
• The six-character invite code being created or redeemed.

That is the entire payload. It does not include your notes, routines, or history about the person you care for — none of your care notes is involved in the invite feature in any way. We do not learn your name, email address, contacts, or location, and there is still no account and no login. Records of invite codes and redemptions are kept only to grant the reward, to prevent abuse, and as an audit trail; email us and we will delete yours.

What We Do NOT Collect

• We do not collect, upload, or store your or your loved one's data on any server, except the shared copy you create with Share with family.
• We do not require an account, email address, phone number, name, or login, and we do not request access to your contacts.
• We do not collect location data.
• We do not use advertising identifiers or any cross-app tracking, and we do not show ads.
• We do not use third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDKs in the App that send your usage or personal data to us.
• We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone. There is nothing for us to sell — your data stays on your phone.

Data Retention & Deletion

Because your profiles, logs, decoder records, medications, life story, calm card, check-ins, and reports are stored only on your device, you control them directly and they are kept for as long as you keep them:

• Delete in-app: Remove individual entries at any time, or clear the App's data from within the App or your device settings.
• Uninstall: Deleting the App from your device permanently removes all of its locally stored data.
• Purchase records: Subscription and purchase records held by Apple, Google, or RevenueCat are retained under their respective policies. You can manage or cancel a subscription from your device's store settings.

Security

Your data stays within the App's private storage on your device, protected by your device's operating system. Communication with the App Store, Google Play, and RevenueCat for purchase handling — and the one-time AI model download, if you opt in — uses encrypted (TLS) connections. No system can guarantee absolute security, but keeping your data on-device means that, unless you share with family, there is no central copy of your family's information to breach. A shared copy travels and is stored over encrypted connections, and only the phones holding a device token issued when you linked them can read it.

Children's Privacy

Anchorly is designed to be used by adult caregivers. It is not directed to children, and it does not request that children provide information to us. Because everything is local and there is no server, we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone — there is nowhere for such data to be sent to us. If you believe information somehow reached us (which our architecture is designed to prevent), contact us using the details below and we will help.

Your Rights

Privacy laws such as the GDPR (EU/EEA/UK) and CCPA/CPRA (California) give you rights to access, correct, delete, and port your personal data, and to opt out of its sale. Because Anchorly does not collect or store your personal data on our servers, we hold nothing about you or your loved one to disclose, correct, or sell. You can exercise full control over your in-app data using the deletion and export options above. For any purchase data held by Apple, Google, or RevenueCat, contact those providers or reach us using the details below and we will help.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as the App evolves. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Effective date" above and, where appropriate, through an in-app notice. Continued use of the App after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

Questions about this policy or your data? Email dev@adelyons.com.

Adelyons Software LLC
https://adelyons.com