Privacy

Who is responsible

Parallels is made by Julian Fleischer. For anything on this page, write to hello@intoparallels.com.

Postal address: [your postal address].

The short version

• There is no advertising, no tracking, and no analytics SDK in the app.
• Nothing is sold or shared with data brokers.
• Your account is held in the European Union.
• Writing a reality sends the scene you wrote to two companies in the United States, because that is what writes and narrates it.
• Your narration audio never leaves your device.
• You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app.

An account you did not ask for

The app opens an anonymous account on your device the first time you launch it. It holds a random identifier and nothing else — no email, no name, nothing that identifies you. It exists because the app writes your first reality before it ever offers to take an email, and that reality needs somewhere to belong.

If you later add an email address or sign in with Apple, that identity is attached to the same account. Nothing moves and nothing is created twice.

What is stored

Your identity	Your email address, if you add one. Your first name, and optionally your age, where you live and what you do — all of which you type, and all of which are used to write scripts that sound like you.
Your people	The names and relationships of anyone you add to your inner circle, so the scenes can name them.
Your realities	The name of each one, the scene you described, the scripts written from it, and the record of every crossing.
Your practice	Signals you have embodied or set aside, pendulum check-ins, your streak, and your voice and soundscape preferences.
Your subscription	Which plan, when it expires, and the identifier of the original transaction. No payment details ever reach us — Apple handles the payment and tells us only whether it is current.
Generation counts	A timestamped record of each script, narration and soundscape generated, so a daily ceiling can be enforced. It records that a generation happened, not what was in it.
Crashes and hangs	If the app crashes or freezes, iOS collects a report — a call stack, your iOS version and your device model — and hands it over in a daily batch. There is no analytics SDK in the app; this comes from the system, and only if you have left diagnostics sharing on in iOS Settings.

What leaves your device, and to whom

Writing a reality means sending text to two companies. This is the part worth reading closely.

Fireworks AI — writing the script

Receives the scene you described, your chosen purpose, your first name, the first names of anyone in your inner circle, and your never-mention list. It returns the script. It does not receive your email address.

Fireworks holds nothing. Their terms commit to zero data retention for the kind of request the app makes — your scene exists in memory for as long as it takes to answer, is not written to storage, and is not used to train anything.

ElevenLabs — narrating it

Receives the finished script text and the voice you chose, and returns the audio. It does not receive your name separately from the script, your email address, or anything about your realities beyond the words being spoken.

ElevenLabs keeps a copy of what it is asked to say by default, text and audio both. We delete it immediately after each narration rather than leaving it there. Their own debugging and moderation logs may hold something for a while afterwards, which is theirs and not something we can reach.

Supabase — the account itself

Provides the database, the sign-in, and the server functions that hold our API keys. Everything listed under "What is stored" lives there, protected so that only your own account can read it.

Apple

Handles payment and, if you use it, Sign in with Apple. We never see your card details.

Where it goes

Your account — everything under "What is stored" — is held in the European Union. The Supabase project is in Ireland, and nothing about your realities is copied anywhere else to be kept.

Writing a reality is the exception, and it is worth being exact about. The moment you ask for a script, the text of your scene goes to Fireworks AI in the United States, and the finished script goes to ElevenLabs, also in the United States. Both return their answer and neither is asked to keep it. That is a transfer outside the EEA, and it happens every time you open a reality or write a slide.

Those transfers are made under the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. If you would rather your scenes never left the EEA, the honest answer is that the app cannot write one without sending them — there is no version of this that works locally.

Why we are allowed to hold it

Under the GDPR the lawful basis is performance of a contract — Article 6(1)(b). You asked the app to write, narrate and remember these things, and it cannot do that without holding them. There is no processing for legitimate interests beyond keeping the service working and not being defrauded.

The scene you write is a free text field

We never ask you for anything about your health, your beliefs, your sex life or your politics, and no field in the app requests them. But the scene is yours to write, and describing five seconds of already having something can easily involve a diagnosis, a relationship, a faith, or a body. Some of that is special category data under Article 9, which needs more than a contract behind it.

So where you choose to include it, we rely on your explicit consent — Article 9(2)(a) — given by writing it into the scene and asking us to make something from it. You can withdraw that at any time by editing the scene or closing the reality, and nothing obliges you to put it there in the first place. A scene works just as well written around the feeling as around the fact.

How it is kept safe

Encrypted in transit and at rest. Beyond that, three things are worth knowing because they are structural rather than promises:

• Your rows are unreachable from another account. Every table enforces it in the database itself, not in application code that could forget — a request carrying somebody else's account is refused by Postgres.
• Your sign-in is in the Keychain, marked to this device only, so it is not carried into a backup restored onto hardware you no longer have.
• Your narration never leaves your phone, so there is no library of recordings of your scenes to breach.

None of that makes anything impossible. No service can promise that, and one claiming otherwise is telling you something it cannot know.

How long

Until you delete it. There is no separate retention period: your realities stay until you close them or close your account.

Anonymous accounts that were never given an identity and have not been used for thirty days are removed, along with anything in them.

What you can do

• See it. Everything held about you is visible in the app — that is what the app is.
• Correct it. Every field is editable in your profile.
• Delete it. Profile, then Delete account. It removes the account and everything attached to it, on the device and on the server, and it is not reversible.
• Take it with you. Ask at hello@intoparallels.com and you will get a machine-readable copy.
• Complain. You can lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

If you are in the United States

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia give you rights to know what is held, to get a copy, to correct it, and to have it deleted. The list above is how you exercise all of them, and it is the same list for everyone — there is no shorter version of it for people outside the EU.

Two of those rights have nothing to attach to here: we have never sold or shared personal information, and we do not use it for targeted advertising or profiling. Asking us to stop is a request we can only answer by saying we never started.

What the models do and do not decide

Two models are involved in writing a reality, and neither makes a decision about you. They write and narrate text; they do not judge, score, or rank you, and nothing in the app produces a legal or similarly significant effect. Neither provider trains on what we send it.

This website

Everything above is about the app. This site — the page you are reading — collects nothing at all.

• No cookies. Not analytics ones, not "essential" ones. Nothing is stored in your browser, so there is nothing to ask you to accept and no banner to dismiss.
• No JavaScript. The site ships none, and its content security policy forbids it outright. There is nothing here that could measure you even if it wanted to.
• No third parties. The typeface is served from this domain rather than from Google, so reading this page does not tell anyone else that you did.

Our host keeps ordinary web server logs, including IP addresses, for a short period to serve the site and absorb attacks. That is the whole of it.

Children

Parallels is not for people under 16, and it is not knowingly offered to them.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that affects what is held or who receives it, the app will say so before the change takes effect rather than quietly updating the date at the top.