LAST UPDATED: OCTOBER 2026

Privacy Policy

Love Beetle is a calm, thoughtful relationship-reflection and conversation-practice companion. Your feelings, reflections, and personal stories are deeply personal—so we built Love Beetle to keep you in control of your data at every step.

1. Information you choose to share

When you use Love Beetle, you may choose to enter details about your story so the app can give you thoughtful, relevant guidance. Depending on how you use the app, this can include:

• Story & profile context: First names or nicknames (yours and your crush’s or partner’s), how often you see each other, and general relationship stage or vibe.
• Daily check-ins & reflections: Mood check-ins, journal notes, saved highlights, and progress in your 7-day Beetle’s Playbook.
• Practice conversations & notes: Messages you send to your fictional AI Practice Partner, private coaching chats with Coach Beetle, and optional practice memory notes.

2. On-device storage & local encryption

By default, your story, reflections, practice history, and app preferences (such as your chosen theme and language) are stored locally on your phone. On Android and iOS devices, Love Beetle protects your local database using AES-256 encryption backed by your device’s secure hardware keystore.

You can export a readable copy of your story anytime from Settings → Cloud backup, or reset your local data using Start Fresh in Settings. Uninstalling the app removes data stored only on your phone.

3. How AI features work (Today Guide, Practice Partner & Coach Beetle)

Love Beetle uses artificial intelligence to create personalized daily steps (Today Guide), multi-day plans (Beetle’s Playbook), fictional roleplay replies (Practice Partner), and supportive feedback (Coach Beetle).

• When you request AI guidance or send a practice message, the app securely sends the necessary prompt, recent conversation turns, and relevant story context to our secure AI gateway (powered by Cloudflare Workers and our AI model provider) solely to generate your response.
• Your Practice Partner is a fictional AI simulation inspired by the context you provide—it is never the real person, and nothing you write in Love Beetle is ever sent to your real-life crush or partner.
• AI Safety & Reporting: If an AI response ever feels inaccurate, disrespectful, or out of place, you can press and hold any Practice Partner message and tap Report. Reports include the selected AI message and reason so we can improve safety, without attaching your Google account details.

4. Optional Google Sign-In & Cloud Backup

You can use Love Beetle without signing in. If you choose to connect your Google account in Settings:

• We receive basic profile details from Google (your display name, email address, unique account ID, and profile photo) via Firebase Authentication so you can see which account is connected.
• If you turn on Cloud backup, an encrypted copy of your story data is synced to Google Firebase Cloud Firestore so you can restore your story if you switch phones or reinstall the app.
• You can turn off automatic backup or permanently delete your cloud backup at any time right inside the app.

5. Notifications & gentle reminders

If you enable reminders in Settings → Reminders & Notifications, Love Beetle schedules gentle local notifications on your device (such as your daily guide, practice check-in, or Daily Spark). Notification preferences stay under your control and can be turned off anytime in the app or your phone’s system settings.

6. Subscriptions & optional ads

• Love Beetle Premium: Optional Premium subscriptions and purchases are processed securely through Google Play Billing. We do not receive or store your credit card or payment details.
• Optional Rewarded & Interstitial Ads: Free users may see occasional ads or choose to watch a short rewarded video ad (via Google AdMob) to unlock bonus features. AdMob may process device identifiers, coarse location (from IP address), and ad performance data to serve and measure ads, subject to Google’s privacy policies. Love Beetle requests non-personalized ads by default and respects applicable regional consent requirements.

7. How we share information

We never sell your personal data or story content. Information is shared only with trusted infrastructure providers strictly as needed to run the features you use:

• Google Firebase (optional Google Sign-In authentication and encrypted cloud backup storage)
• Cloudflare & AI Inference Providers (securely processing AI prompts and returning responses)
• Google Play & Google AdMob (in-app subscriptions and optional ad delivery)

8. Deleting your data & your choices

You are always in charge of your story:

• Delete Cloud Backup & Account Connection in the app: Open Settings → Google Account → Delete Account & Cloud Data (or Settings → Cloud backup → Delete backup) for immediate deletion.
• Delete on the web: If you no longer have the app installed, visit love-beetle-app.web.app/delete-account for step-by-step instructions or to request deletion by email. Verified email requests are completed within 30 days.
• Delete Local Data: Use Start Fresh in Settings or uninstall the app from your device.

9. Age requirement

Love Beetle is designed for adults and teens navigating dating and relationships and is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your country). If you believe a child has provided personal information, please contact us so we can promptly remove it.

10. Updates to this policy & contact

As Love Beetle grows, we may update this Privacy Policy and will post the latest revision date at the top of this page. If you ever have questions, feedback, or privacy requests, reach out to us anytime at brightstepmobile@gmail.com.