Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 26th September, 2025

Last Updated: 9th November, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what information Byrde (the “App”) collects, how it is collected, everything it is used for, and who it is shared with. Byrde is provided by Shamsudeen Adedokun (“we,” “us,” or “our”).

The short version:

• Your financial data lives on your device. Byrde works fully offline and never connects to your bank — everything in the App is something you typed or spoke yourself.
• An account is used to back your data up to your own private space in our cloud database so it can follow you across devices.
• Penny’s smarter parsing and answers use a secure third-party AI provider. On iOS the App asks your permission before anything is sent, and you can keep everything on-device instead.
• We use no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs, and we never sell your personal information.
• You can delete your account and all its data from inside the App.

1) Information We Collect

• Entries you log: the text you type or speak (e.g., “Shawarma 4000”), and the resulting amounts, categories, notes, entry types, and dates. Collected directly from what you enter in the App.
• Budgets and preferences: monthly category budgets, currency, reminder settings, and Penny’s tone. Collected from your choices in the App.
• Onboarding responses: your goals and approximate monthly income, if you share them during setup. Used to personalize budgets and insights.
• Account data: when you sign in with Apple or Google — your email address, your name if you choose to share it, and an authentication identifier. Collected from the sign-in provider.
• Purchase data: your subscription or purchase status (not payment details), provided by Apple’s App Store or Google Play through our subscription-management provider. We never see your card number.

What we do not collect: bank or financial-institution connections (Byrde has none), payment card numbers, precise location, contacts, photos, browsing history, or advertising identifiers. The App contains no analytics or advertising SDKs. If you set an app-lock PIN or enable biometric unlock, the PIN is stored only on your device and biometrics are handled entirely by your device’s operating system — neither ever leaves your device or reaches us.

2) Where Your Data Lives

Byrde is offline-first: your device is the source of truth, and the App is fully functional without an account. When you are signed in, your entries and preferences are backed up to your own row in our cloud database (hosted by Supabase), encrypted in transit and protected by row-level security so that only your authenticated account can read or write it.

3) AI Processing

Penny, Byrde’s assistant, first tries to understand your entries entirely on your device. Some features use a secure third-party AI provider (currently OpenAI, reached only through our own backend — the App never contacts the provider directly):

• What is sent: when the on-device parser can’t fully understand an entry, the text you typed or spoke; and when you ask Penny a question, your question along with your recent entries (amounts, categories, notes, dates), your budgets, and your currency. Nothing else — never your name, email, or anything else on your device.
• Your permission: on iOS, the App asks for your permission before the first time anything would be sent, and you can decline and keep everything on-device. You can change your choice at any time in Preferences inside the App.
• How it is protected: the data is used only to generate Penny’s reply. It is never used to train AI models, never made public, and never stored by Byrde. The provider processes it under data-protection and confidentiality commitments that provide the same or equal protection as this policy; requests may be retained briefly by the provider solely for abuse monitoring before being automatically deleted.

4) How We Use Information

• Operate the App’s features: parsing your entries, generating insights and charts, tracking budgets, and answering your questions.
• Back up and restore your data across devices when you are signed in.
• Verify your subscription or purchase and unlock access.
• Send the local daily reminder you schedule (generated on your device — we do not use push-notification servers).
• Respond to support requests you send us.
• Detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, and security risks, and comply with legal obligations.

5) Sharing of Information

We share data only with the service providers needed to run the App, and each receives only what its role requires:

• Supabase — cloud database and authentication (your account, backed-up entries, and preferences).
• OpenAI — AI processing described in Section 3, only with your permission on iOS.
• RevenueCat — subscription and purchase status management.
• Apple / Google — sign-in and payment processing under their own terms.

Each provider is bound by contractual and technical safeguards that provide the same or equal protection for your data as described in this policy. We may also disclose information where required by law, to protect rights and safety, or as part of a business transfer. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with data brokers or advertisers.

6) Data Retention & Deletion

Data on your device stays until you edit or delete it, or delete the App. Your cloud backup is kept for as long as your account exists. You can delete your account from inside the App (You tab → Preferences → Delete account): deletion is scheduled with a 30-day grace window — sign back in within that window to cancel — after which your account and all its data are permanently and irreversibly deleted from our systems. See the Delete Account page for step-by-step instructions.

7) International Transfers

Your information may be processed in countries other than where you live, with appropriate safeguards in place.

8) Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect information, including encryption in transit and per-user access controls on the cloud backup. No method is 100% secure.

9) Your Rights

Depending on your region, you may access, correct, delete, or port your data; object to or restrict certain processing; withdraw consent; or lodge a complaint with a regulator. Most of these you can do directly in the App — edit or delete any entry, change preferences, withdraw AI-processing consent in Preferences, or delete your account entirely. For anything else, contact us.

10) Children’s Privacy

Byrde is not directed to children under 16. If we learn we collected data from a child, we will delete it.

11) Our Website

This website is a static site: it sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Fonts are served by Google Fonts, which receives standard request data (such as your IP address) when the pages load.

Android waitlist: if you join the Android waitlist on this website, we collect the email address you enter, the time you signed up, and basic technical details sent by your browser (the site address you signed up from and your browser’s user-agent string). We use this only to invite you to test Byrde on Google Play — which means adding your email to the app’s tester list in the Google Play Console — and to tell you when the Android app launches. The list is stored in a Google Sheet on Google’s servers. We keep it until the Android app is publicly available, or until you ask us to remove you at info@byrde.app, whichever comes first.

12) Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. Material changes will be notified in-app or via email. Continued use means you accept the updated Policy.

13) Contact

Email: info@byrde.app

Address: 1, Alazeez close, BCGA, Kontagora, Niger State, NG. 923101