Cadence Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 10, 2026

Contact: Zachary Belden, support@cadencelifeapp.com

Cadence is a personal life assistant app. This policy explains what data Cadence handles, where it goes, and the choices you have.

The short version

• Cadence works without an account. Unless you sign in, your plans, people, pantry and spending stay on your iPhone.
• Photos you choose to scan, and the text needed for smart features, are sent to an AI service to be read. They are not stored by Cadence.
• If you sign in with Apple, your data is backed up so it can sync to your other devices. You can delete your account and that copy at any time from Settings.
• Cadence does not sell your data, show ads, or track you across other apps or websites.

What Cadence stores on your iPhone

Your items, history of completed items, weekly goals, people you keep up with, pantry, grocery list, spending, and settings. This stays on the device unless you sign in.

Sleep and sick days

Morning check-ins (hours slept, how rested you feel, whether you're sick, and any symptoms you pick) stay on your iPhone. They are not uploaded, synced, or sent to the AI service. Sick-day guidance is written into the app, not generated by AI, and is general information, not medical advice.

Friends and sharing (optional)

If you create a profile, Cadence stores your display name, username, emoji and invite code so friends can find you. Only friends you accept see what you post. When you share a week, only the numbers you choose are shared (for example workouts, streak, sleep score); money is off unless you turn it on, and sick days, symptoms and Health details are never shared. Reactions and comments you leave are visible to the post's owner and their friends. If you block someone, you no longer see each other's posts or comments. Reports you file are seen only by us, to review. Profiles, posts, comments and reports are deleted when you delete your account. Inviting friends uses your iPhone's share sheet; Cadence never reads or uploads your contacts.

Apple Health (optional)

If you connect Apple Health, Cadence reads your sleep, steps, workouts and resting heart rate to fill in your morning check-in, calculate a sleep score, count workouts toward your goals, and show trends in your weekly recap. Cadence only reads; it never writes to Apple Health. Health data is processed and stored on your iPhone only. It is not uploaded, synced, sent to the AI service, shared with anyone, or used for advertising. You can turn it off any time in Cadence's Settings or in the Health app.

Calendars

If you connect your calendars, Cadence reads today's events on your iPhone to show them, plan around them, and remind you before they start. Calendar data is not uploaded or synced by Cadence.

Location, weather and drive times (optional)

If you turn on weather, Cadence uses your iPhone's location to ask Apple Weather for your local forecast and Apple Maps for drive times to the places on your list and calendar (so it can tell you when to leave). Your location goes only to Apple's services for these answers. Cadence does not store your location, upload it to its server, or send it to the AI service. You can turn location off any time in iPhone Settings → Cadence → Location.

Notifications

Reminders are scheduled on your iPhone. Cadence does not send reminder content to any server.

Smart features (AI)

When you use photo reading (fridge, pantry, bills, receipts), meal ideas, Plan my day, text ideas, or the weekly recap, Cadence sends what is needed for that request to its server, which passes it to an AI provider to generate a response:

• Photos you select, reduced in size.
• Text such as your ingredient list and any food allergies you set (so meal ideas avoid them), today's items and goal progress, or a friend's first name and what you like doing together.
• Weekly recap: once a week, a summary of that week's numbers (things done, workouts, focus time, meals cooked, spending totals and top stores, first names of people you saw, sleep averages) so a short recap can be written. Your weekly recaps are saved on your iPhone.

Cadence's server does not store photos or request text and does not log their contents. It keeps a count of how many smart requests each account makes, to apply your plan's limits and prevent abuse, and a record of each request's type, size in tokens, and cost, to keep the service running sustainably.

The AI provider is Anthropic, PBC. Anthropic processes requests to return a response and, under its commercial terms, does not train its models on them. It may retain requests for a limited period for trust and safety purposes. See Anthropic's privacy policy and commercial terms for details. Anthropic deletes these requests within 30 days, except content flagged for violating its usage policy (kept up to 2 years) or anything it must keep by law.

Avoid photographing full card or account numbers. Cadence asks you to check anything read from a bill or receipt before saving it.

Account and sync (optional)

If you sign in with Apple:

• Cadence receives an account identifier and, if you choose to share it, your email address (Apple may give a private relay address).
• Your items, history, people, pantry, grocery list, spending and weekly goals are stored with our hosting provider so they can sync between your devices. Example data is never uploaded.
• Each account can only access its own data.

Our hosting provider is Supabase. Your data is stored in the United States (Amazon Web Services us-east-1, Northern Virginia).

Deleting your data

• On your iPhone: Settings → Erase all data, or delete the app.
• Your account and cloud copy: Settings → Delete account. This permanently deletes your account, your synced data, and your usage records.

Children

Cadence is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions or requests: support@cadencelifeapp.com