Scope
This Privacy Policy explains how Echoist handles personal data when you use the Echoist mobile app, this website, and related support services.
Echoist is an adults-only AI companion and social-connection product. The app supports account creation, AI companion setup, long-term AI conversations, real-user introduction requests, group intro chats, uploads, notifications, and paid digital features.
Information We Collect
Account and profile information
When you create or maintain an account, we may process information such as your email address, verification activity, password credentials, nickname, gender, city, biography, interests, timezone, app language, AI conversation language, and other profile settings you choose to provide.
AI companion and relationship data
We may process AI companion selections, customization choices, template identifiers, relationship-related state, conversation context, and other data needed to provide an ongoing AI companion experience.
Messages and introduction data
We process AI chats, friend chats, group introduction chats, introduction requests, invitation status, message timing, read state, delivery state, and related metadata needed to operate conversations and connection flows.
Uploads and media
We may process profile photos, additional profile images, AI-related images, chat attachments, and support screenshots, together with metadata such as file type, upload time, and storage path.
Device, technical, and settings data
We may process device identifiers, app version, operating-system details, package information, locale, timezone, notification state, request logs, and other technical data used for app security, diagnostics, and delivery of the service.
Advertising data
When advertising is enabled, we use the Google Mobile Ads SDK to request and display ads. Google and its advertising partners may process advertising identifiers, IP address, device and app information, ad request and interaction data, and information used for ad delivery, measurement, frequency capping, and fraud prevention. Where required, we present Google's consent choices before requesting ads and provide an in-app advertising privacy settings entry point when Google requires one.
Purchase and entitlement data
If you purchase subscriptions or attempt-related digital products, we may process product identifiers, purchase tokens, order references, entitlement state, transaction timestamps, price and currency information, and refund or revocation events.
Affiliate attribution and purchase reporting
Echoist uses the GoMarketMe affiliate attribution and transaction-reporting SDK to identify the source of eligible promotional installs and purchases and to calculate affiliate revenue sharing. Depending on the platform and availability, GoMarketMe may process device or advertising identifiers (such as Android AAID or Apple IDFA), app and device technical information, install-referrer or campaign information, affiliate and offer codes, and purchase metadata such as product, order or transaction identifiers, timestamp, price, and currency. Our integration does not send your Echoist account ID or chat content to GoMarketMe, and this data is not used to operate AI conversations or social features.
We use this information for promotional-source attribution, affiliate commission calculation, transaction reconciliation, fraud prevention, and reporting to the service provider. Where consent or platform controls are required, the relevant device or app consent choices apply. You may also limit advertising or tracking through your device settings where those controls are available.
Website and local storage data
This website is currently a static informational site without advertising cookies or third-party analytics in the page itself. Hosting logs may still capture technical request information. In the app, local storage or local cache may store session state, language preferences, recent chat data, or other product settings.
Permissions and Device Access
- Notification permission may be used for chat updates, intro requests, and account-related notices.
- Photo or media-library access may be used when you upload avatars, profile images, or chat attachments.
- Device APIs may be used to read language, timezone, app package identity, and related technical values.
- Other permissions may be requested only where needed to support specific current product features.
Some permissions are optional. If you deny them, some parts of the Echoist experience may be limited or unavailable.
How We Use Information
We use personal data to:
- create, verify, authenticate, and secure accounts;
- provide AI companion setup, AI conversation continuity, and related in-app personalization;
- operate friend-introduction requests, invitation states, and group introduction chats;
- store and deliver user-uploaded images and chat attachments;
- send push notifications and in-app service updates;
- process subscriptions, purchase verification, entitlements, and refunds;
- request, display, measure, frequency-cap, and protect advertising where advertising is enabled;
- maintain local and server-side service state, diagnostics, and abuse-prevention records;
- provide support, review reports, and enforce our Terms and safety standards.
Legal Bases
If you are in a jurisdiction such as the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases depending on context:
- Contract: to provide account access, companion chat, introductions, uploads, and paid features.
- Consent: where required for notifications, media access, personalized advertising, or other permission-based processing.
- Legitimate interests: to secure the service, prevent abuse, troubleshoot failures, and keep Echoist usable and safe.
- Legal obligations: to keep records, respond to lawful requests, and comply with consumer, financial, safety, or other legal requirements.
Retention
We retain data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described above, including:
- account and profile data while your account remains active, and for a reasonable period afterward for security, dispute, and compliance needs;
- conversation, introduction, and moderation records while needed to operate the service and enforce safety controls;
- purchase and entitlement records for accounting, fraud prevention, refunds, and legal compliance;
- affiliate attribution and transaction-reporting records for commission reconciliation, fraud prevention, and reporting for as long as reasonably necessary for those purposes;
- device and notification records until refreshed, deleted, invalidated, or no longer needed.
International Transfers
Echoist and its service providers may process data in countries outside your own. Where local law requires it, we rely on appropriate contractual or operational safeguards for international transfers.
Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or port personal data, to object to certain processing, and to withdraw consent where consent is the legal basis.
- You can update parts of your profile and settings in the app.
- You can block other users and manage account-related settings in the product.
- You can request privacy support through the contact details below.
Security
We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal data, including authentication controls, access limits, and storage separation for uploaded content. No service can guarantee absolute security.
Children
Echoist is intended only for adults. The service is not intended for children under 18, and we do not intend to provide the product to minors.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. If a change materially affects your rights or the way we use data, we will provide additional notice where required by law.
Contact
For privacy questions or data-rights requests related to Echoist, contact us using the details below:
- Service name: Echoist
- Privacy email: [email protected]
- In-app route: Settings > Help Center / Feedback
- Representative details, if required by local law: Representative details will be provided here if and when applicable law requires them.