Privacy Policy

Charged · Last updated 27 August 2026

Charged is an app for two people in a relationship to see how each other is actually doing. It handles information about your emotional state, which is about as personal as app data gets. This policy says plainly what is collected, where it goes, and what your partner can and cannot see.

We do not sell your data, we do not show ads, and there are no third-party analytics or advertising trackers in the app.

What Charged stores

DataWhyWhere
Email addressSigning in. Charged uses a six-digit emailed code — no password is ever collected.Server
Display nameSo your partner knows who they are looking at.Server
Check-in ratingsYour battery level and the six need channels behind it.Server
Check-in notesAnything you type when checking in.Server, owner-only
Love-languages surveyWeights how Charged reads your needs.Server
GesturesWhat you did for your partner, used to learn what actually helps them.Server
PreferencesNotes about how you like to be cared for.Server, except discreet wording
Discreet preference wordingThe most sensitive text in the app.Your device only
Notification tokenOnly if you turn on partner notifications.Server
Subscription statusWhich features are unlocked.Server

Discreet notes never leave your phone

When you mark a preference as discreet, the wording is stripped before anything is sent to our servers. It is stored on your device and nowhere else. Your partner is told that something exists and how long it has been, never what it says.

The trade-off is real and you should know it: because the wording is never uploaded, it does not transfer to a new phone, and it cannot be recovered if you lose the device.

What your partner can see

You choose this, and you can change it at any time on the Sharing screen. It is enforced by the database, not merely hidden in the app, so no version of the app can route around your setting.

Your check-in notes are never shared with your partner in any mode. Nor is your history: a partner sees how you are now, not a month of your check-ins.

Your Confidant, the AI catch-up

If you use the conversational catch-in, the text you write is sent to Anthropic's API to be read into suggested adjustments, which you confirm or reject before anything moves. The request is made from our server, never from your phone, and it is used to answer that one request. Your partner never sees what you wrote.

The free version has no AI features at all — it is a rating scale, and nothing you type is sent anywhere but our own database.

Safety features

Charged looks for language suggesting a crisis, and when it finds any it shows helpline information instead of continuing. This check runs on your device, before any network request. A crisis detection is never written to any shared column and is never visible to your partner — safety disclosures are frequently about a partner, and an app that reported them to that person would be dangerous.

Children

Charged is not intended for anyone under 18 and we do not knowingly collect data from children.

Deleting your account

Account → Delete account, inside the app. This removes your profile, check-ins, gestures, preferences and pairing from our servers, and clears the copy on your device. It is immediate and cannot be undone. You do not need to email anyone or wait for us.

Where data is held

Charged uses Supabase for its database and authentication, and Anthropic's API for the optional AI catch-up. Row-level security means each account can only read its own rows and whatever a paired partner has explicitly agreed to share.

No advertising, no data sales, no third-party analytics SDKs. Charged makes money from subscriptions, which is the whole reason it does not have to make money from you.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the app will say so before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about your data, or a request we have not handled: privacy@charged.love