Privacy Policy

Who this applies to

This policy covers the FosteringAI app for iPhone and iPad (“the app”, “we”, “us”). It explains what the app stores, what leaves your device, and where it goes. In the app, You › What this app knows about you shows the same information, live, for your device.

What we collect

We do not operate an account system and we do not collect personal information into any database. The one place your device contacts a server we run is the AI Pulse digest (see Network activity below): like any web request, our web server sees the request and your IP address. It carries no name or identifier, and the server’s logs are used only to run and secure the website.

We never collect:

• an account, email address, phone number or sign-in;
• contacts, photos, location or camera access;
• analytics, telemetry or crash reports;
• advertising data or the Advertising Identifier (IDFA);
• anything that tracks you across other companies’ apps or websites.

What is stored on your device

To work, the app keeps the following in its private storage on your device:

• your name and role, if you enter them (your name appears on certificates you create), and what you do for a living, if you add it;
• your progress: completed lessons, streaks, XP, quiz results and which quiz questions you got wrong (so the tutor can come back to them), bookmarks, achievements and flashcard review schedule;
• work you save from Apply to my work, and text you type into the sandbox or teach-back;
• your preferences, such as your daily goal, subtitle language and reminders;
• your OpenAI or Anthropic API key, if you add one, kept in the iOS Keychain on this device only.

You can clear your progress at any time in Settings › Your data › Reset progress, and remove your OpenAI or Anthropic key in Settings › AI Tutor. Deleting the app deletes everything stored on the device.

Syncing through your iCloud (optional, off by default)

If you turn on Settings › Your data › Progress on all my devices, your lessons, streak, XP, review schedule and missed quiz questions are stored in your own iCloud account using Apple’s iCloud key-value storage, so your other devices can read them. This is Apple’s service, covered by Apple’s privacy policy; we cannot see it. You can turn syncing off and remove the copy in iCloud from the same screen.

AI features

On your device (the default). The AI tutor, teach-back, the sandbox, Apply to my work and the progress coach use Apple’s on-device foundation models where your device supports them. What you type into them is processed on your device and is not sent to us or to Apple. The on-device tutor can also see which quiz questions you recently got wrong, so it can revisit them; that list is never sent to OpenAI or to us.

If you add your own OpenAI API key (optional). The tutor and Apply to my work then answer with OpenAI’s models instead. Each request is sent directly from your device to OpenAI, under your OpenAI account, and contains your question, the recent conversation, a short excerpt of the lesson you are on and, if you entered it, what you do for a living; for Apply to my work, it contains the outcome and situation you write. We do not receive these requests or the answers. OpenAI handles them under its own privacy policy and terms, and usage is billed to your OpenAI account. The app explains this and asks you to agree before it saves a key. Remove the key and this stops.

If you add your own Anthropic API key (optional). The tutor and Apply to my work then answer with Anthropic’s Claude models instead (if you have added both keys, the one you choose in Settings answers). Each request is sent directly from your device to Anthropic, under your Anthropic account, and contains the same things as above: your question, the recent conversation, a short excerpt of the lesson you are on and, if you entered it, what you do for a living; for Apply to my work, the outcome and situation you write. We do not receive these requests or the answers. Anthropic handles them under its own privacy policy and terms, and usage is billed to your Anthropic account. The app explains this and asks you to agree before it saves a key. Remove the key and this stops.

Ask ChatGPT, Ask Claude and Go deeper. When you tap one of these buttons, or choose ChatGPT or Claude from Go deeper, the app opens chatgpt.com (ChatGPT) or claude.ai (Claude) in your browser with your question and a short lesson excerpt already filled in; from Apply to my work, which uses ChatGPT, it also includes what you wrote and, if you entered it, what you do for a living. Nothing is sent until you tap, and the app asks you to agree the first time you use each of them. ChatGPT answers without an account; Claude needs a Claude account and asks you to sign in first if you are not signed in. What happens on those sites is governed by OpenAI’s or Anthropic’s own terms and privacy policy.

Voice questions

The app asks for microphone and speech-recognition permission only when you first ask the tutor something out loud. Your speech is recognised on your device where your language supports it; where it does not, the audio is sent to Apple’s speech-recognition service under Apple’s privacy policy. We never receive or store recordings.

Notifications

If you turn on reminders, they are scheduled and delivered locally by iOS. We do not run a push server and cannot send you messages.

Purchases

FosteringAI Pro is sold through Apple’s In-App Purchase. Apple handles payment under its own terms and privacy policy. We never see your payment details or your Apple Account; the app only learns whether Pro is active so it can unlock content.

Network activity

Lessons, quizzes, flashcards and subtitles work offline. The app connects to the internet only for these:

• Apple: purchases and restores; downloading a Pro lesson video or audio piece the first time you play it; iCloud sync if you turn it on; speech recognition where it is not available on your device.
• fosteringai.com: downloading the AI Pulse news digest, and the certificate verification page if you open it.
• OpenAI: only if you add an API key or choose ChatGPT (Ask ChatGPT or Go deeper), as described above.
• Anthropic: only if you add an API key or choose Claude (Ask Claude or Go deeper), as described above.
• Websites you choose to open, such as the original article behind an AI Pulse story, which are governed by their own policies.

Children

The app is an educational product for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. The optional ChatGPT, OpenAI and Claude features are subject to the age requirements of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Your choices and rights

Everything the app holds about you is on your device or in your own iCloud, and you can change or delete it there at any time, as described above. Because we hold no account or profile about you, there is nothing on our side to access, export or delete beyond ordinary web-server logs. If you have a question or a request under the privacy law that applies where you live, email us and we will help.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the date above and post the new version at this address. Material changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@fosteringai.com. See also our Support page and Terms of Use.