Your life stays on your phone.

Facet is a private record of your life. It has no account, no ads and no analytics, and nobody sells your data, including us. This page explains, plainly, the few times anything leaves your phone and why.

Effective 18 October 2026 · Applies to the Facet app for iPhone

The short version

Everything you put into Facet is stored on your iPhone. There is no Facet server that holds your data.
We do not collect analytics, track you across apps or websites, or show ads.
Data leaves your phone only when you use a feature that needs an outside service, such as AI reading with your own Claude key, dictation, or a connection you set up yourself (Gmail, Google Photos, Oura). The table below lists each one.
Health data from Apple Health is used only to show you your own patterns. It is never used for advertising and never shared with anyone.
You can export or delete everything at any time.

What Facet stores, and where

The moments, people, routines, plans, trips, homes, finances, health and body logs, journals, photos you pick and files you attach all live in Facet's storage on your iPhone. Secrets like your Claude key are kept in the iOS Keychain. Facet can lock behind Face ID.

iOS may include Facet's data in your iCloud or computer backups, according to your own backup settings. Those backups are handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy. Turning on iCloud Advanced Data Protection end-to-end encrypts them.

When something leaves your phone

Service	When	What is sent
Anthropic (Claude)	Only if you add your own Claude API key in Settings	The text, screenshots or files you ask Facet to read (for example a check-in or an import), plus the minimum context needed to understand it. Sent directly from your phone to Anthropic under your key and handled under Anthropic's privacy policy. Without a key, Facet reads on the device.
Apple speech recognition	When you dictate	Your voice recording, processed by Apple to turn speech into text, the same service the iOS keyboard microphone uses.
Google	Only if you connect Gmail or pick from Google Photos	Gmail: read-only access, used on your phone to find things like flight and booking confirmations. Google Photos: only the photos you pick. You can disconnect in Facet's Settings or in your Google account.
Oura	Only if you connect Oura	Your Oura token, used to read your own sleep and activity data into Facet.
Expo (app updates)	When Facet starts	A check for app updates, which includes basic technical details such as the app version and your IP address. No personal data from Facet is sent.
Downloads	When you turn on a feature that needs one	Facet downloads things like the on-device voice model or photos linked in a file you import. These are downloads only; nothing about you is uploaded.
Apple	If you choose to share crash reports or feedback	Crash reports and feedback you share through iOS or TestFlight go to Apple and the developer under Apple's terms. Facet keeps its own crash log on your phone only.

Permissions Facet asks for

Each one is optional and asked only when you use the feature. What Facet reads through them is processed on your phone.

Apple Health: sleep, steps, workouts and similar readings, shown back to you as your own patterns.
Calendar: your events, so Facet can show what actually happened next to what you planned.
Contacts: the people you choose to add, plus birthdays.
Photos: the photos you pick for your days and months.
Location: if you turn it on, places you visit, used on your phone to notice trips and routines.
Notifications: reminders and nudges, scheduled on your phone.

You can change any of these in iOS Settings, and Facet keeps working without them.

What we never do

Sell, rent or trade your data.
Use your data, including health data, for advertising or marketing.
Track you across other companies' apps or websites.
Keep a copy of your data on our own servers.

Your control

Export: Settings → Export a copy makes a backup file you keep, encrypted with a passphrase you choose.
Delete: Settings → Start over erases Facet's data on your phone. Deleting the app also removes it, apart from any device backups you made.
Disconnect: remove your Claude key, Gmail, Google Photos or Oura connection in Settings at any time.

Children

Facet is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. Because Facet has no account or server, any information a parent or caregiver records about a child stays on their own phone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. A meaningful change, such as a new service that receives data, will also be explained in the app before it applies to you.

Contact

Questions about privacy: help@facet.day. Facet is made by Carina D'Angelo, an independent developer in the United States.