What you say stays yours.

Who is responsible for your data

Élan is published by [À COMPLÉTER : raison sociale de l'éditeur], based in Switzerland at [À COMPLÉTER : adresse postale]. This entity is the data controller — the party that decides why and how your data is processed.

Because we serve users in the EU from Switzerland, an EU representative may be required. [À COMPLÉTER : représentant UE au sens de l'art. 27 RGPD, ou confirmation qu'il n'est pas requis]

What we collect, and why

We keep this list short on purpose. We only collect what the app needs to work.

• Your email address — to create your account and sign you in. Nothing else.
• Your first name — optional. Only so Élan can address you. You can leave it blank.
• Your interview answers (transcripts) — what you type during the conversation. They exist for one reason: to produce your portrait.
• Your personality portrait — the result of the interview. Because it describes your character, we treat it as sensitive data and protect it accordingly.
• Your purchase record — that you unlocked the full portrait. The payment itself is handled by Apple; we never see your card details.
• Minimal usage analytics — basic, aggregate signals about how the app performs (for example, that an interview was completed, or that a screen failed to load). No advertising identifiers, no third-party ad networks, no cross-app tracking. [À COMPLÉTER : outil d'analytics utilisé et s'il est lié à votre identité ou anonyme]

“No human ever reads your answers” — what that really means

Your conversation is handled by software, end to end. When you send a message, an automated server relays it to the AI that conducts the interview, and streams the reply back to you. There is no person in that loop — not to check, not to moderate, not out of curiosity.

We want to be honest about the limit of that promise, because you deserve the whole picture:

To run any online service, the publisher necessarily holds the technical keys to the database where your data lives. In plain terms: we could technically open the database. We do not read your transcripts as part of running Élan, and nothing in the product surfaces them to us. But “no human reads them” is a commitment about how we operate — not a claim that access is physically impossible.

Access outside normal operation would only happen in narrow, exceptional cases. [À COMPLÉTER : circonstances exactes où un accès humain pourrait avoir lieu (obligation légale, incident de sécurité, demande de l'utilisateur) et les garde-fous internes qui l'encadrent]

Where your data lives, and how the AI sees it

Storage — in the EU

Your account, transcripts and portrait are stored on Supabase, on servers located in the European Union ([À COMPLÉTER : région/pays exact, ex. Francfort]).

AI processing — sent to Anthropic to write your portrait

To conduct the interview and write your portrait, the content of your conversation is sent to Anthropic’s API for processing. Under our commercial agreement with Anthropic, your data is not used to train any AI model — theirs or anyone else’s.

This processing may take place outside the EU. [À COMPLÉTER : lieu de traitement d'Anthropic et, s'il est hors UE, le mécanisme de transfert légal — clauses contractuelles types (SCC) / EU–US Data Privacy Framework — et la durée de conservation d'Anthropic]

How long we keep it

While your account exists, we keep your data so the app can show you your portrait and let you continue where you left off. [À COMPLÉTER : durée de conservation par défaut tant que le compte est actif, et durée après la dernière activité]

You can delete everything yourself, from inside the app, at any time — immediately and for good (see your rights below). After deletion, residual copies may briefly persist in encrypted backups before being overwritten. [À COMPLÉTER : fenêtre de conservation des sauvegardes Supabase avant purge]

Who else touches your data (subprocessors)

We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers. The only third parties involved are the services we need to run Élan:

If we ever add or change a subprocessor, we will update this page.

Our legal basis for processing

Under the EU GDPR and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP / nLPD), we rely on the following bases. These are proposed and must be confirmed by legal review:

• To provide the service (account, interview, portrait): performance of our contract with you.
• Your interview content and portrait, which may be sensitive: [À COMPLÉTER : base légale — probablement votre consentement explicite ; à confirmer si ces données relèvent de l'art. 9 RGPD / des données sensibles au sens de la nLPD]
• Minimal analytics: our legitimate interest in keeping the app reliable, balanced against your privacy.

Your rights, and how to use them

You control your data. You can:

• Delete everything — the fastest route is right in the app: Profile → Delete account, in two taps. It erases your account, transcripts and portrait, permanently and without delay. You don’t need to write to us.
• Access a copy of the data we hold about you.
• Correct anything inaccurate (for example, your first name).
• Take your data with you (portability) in a common, machine-readable format.
• Object to or restrict certain processing, and withdraw consent where processing relies on it.
• Complain to a supervisory authority — in Switzerland, the FDPIC; in the EU, your local data protection authority.

To exercise any right other than in-app deletion, email us at [email protected]. We’ll respond within the timeframe the law requires.

Children

Élan is not intended for children. [À COMPLÉTER : âge minimum requis pour utiliser l'app]

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle your data, we’ll update this page and change the “last updated” date above. Significant changes will be signalled in the app.