Your Data & GDPR

We're sharing something personal when we hand you a voice diary, so here's what "GDPR-first" actually means for BeeCrumbs, in plain English. For the full legal detail, see our Privacy Policy; for how using the app works, see our Terms of Service.

What GDPR-first means here

We ask before we assume. Because voice entries can touch on sensitive things — how you're feeling, your health, your relationships — we rely on your explicit consent to process that kind of content, not just a buried checkbox.
We collect only what the app needs to work: your account details, your entries, and the themes we derive from them to power reflection and matching.
We never sell your data. No advertisers, no data brokers, not now, not later.
Nothing is public by default. Your entries stay private unless you choose to share something in a conversation with a match.
You can leave, and take your data with you. Delete your account and your entries, transcripts and derived data are deleted too (after a short safety window to prevent accidental loss).

Who's responsible for your data

BeeCrumbs Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales, is the "data controller" — the organisation legally responsible for deciding how your data is used and protected. You can reach us at info@beecrumbs.com.

Your rights, in plain English

Right	What it means for you
See it	Ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Fix it	Ask us to correct anything that's wrong or out of date.
Delete it	Delete your account in-app, or ask us to, and we'll erase your data (short safety window aside).
Pause it	Ask us to temporarily stop processing your data in certain situations.
Take it with you	Get your data in a format you can move to another service.
Say no	Object to certain uses of your data, or withdraw consent at any time.
Not be a number	You won't be subject to purely automated decisions with serious effects on you — matching only ever suggests, you always decide.

To use any of these, just email info@beecrumbs.com. We'll get back to you within a month, as the law requires.

Where your data lives

Your data is stored and processed by us and by a small number of trusted service providers who help us run BeeCrumbs — for example, cloud hosting, and an AI provider that helps analyse themes in your entries. We're finalising exactly who these providers are before launch, and we'll keep our full Privacy Policy updated with the details, including any safeguards used if data is processed outside the UK.

How we keep it safe

Encryption in storage and in transit.
Face ID / passcode lock before your diary can be opened.
Access limited to what's needed to run the service.

If something's not right

Talk to us first — info@beecrumbs.com — and we'll do our best to sort it. You can also complain to the UK's independent regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office, at ico.org.uk or 0303 123 1113.

This page is a friendly summary and doesn't replace our full Privacy Policy, which is the legally binding version.

What GDPR-first means here

Who's responsible for your data

Your rights, in plain English

Where your data lives

How we keep it safe

If something's not right