Afterglow
Privacy Policy
Effective July 6, 2026
The short version
Afterglow has no accounts and no tracking. Your photos, symptom logs, notes, and reports live on your phone.
What stays on your phone
Everything, by default: your recovery photos, your symptom check-ins, your notes, your provider's contact details if you saved them, and every report you generate. There is no account, no cloud copy made by us, and no analytics or advertising software in the app.
What can leave your phone
Exactly three kinds of network requests, two of which carry no personal data:
- A photo you choose to send for an AI Photo Note. Only when you tap the consent button, only that one photo, with location metadata removed first. It travels through our relay (which stores nothing) to OpenRouter, which routes it to OpenAI's API to write the note. We do not store your photo on any server. OpenRouter processes the request with prompt logging disabled for our account; OpenAI's API may retain inputs briefly for abuse monitoring under its API data-usage policy and does not train on API data. If you never tap the consent button, no photo ever leaves your phone.
- Your email address, only if you ask for daily cards by email. Optional and used solely to send what you asked for. This feature is not yet live.
- A feature-availability check. The app fetches one small public configuration file so we can switch the AI feature off remotely. The request carries no personal data.
Purchases are processed by Apple; we never see your payment details.
Deleting your data
Settings → "Delete all my data" permanently removes everything from your phone. There is no server copy for us to delete. Anything you already exported or shared — a report, photos saved to your camera roll — is outside the app and cannot be recalled by us.
Not medical advice
Afterglow is a personal documentation tool. AI Photo Notes describe what a photo appears to show; they are not a diagnosis or medical assessment. Your provider's instructions always come first.
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Changes
If this policy changes, the effective date above changes with it.