Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 8, 2026

Accountability Quest helps you set private lines around money, health, and life goals, then lets chosen Crew check in only when you leave something unresolved. This policy explains what we collect and how we use it. It is provided for transparency and is not legal advice.

The Short Version

Crew never sees your raw numbers or source records. We do not sell your data, and we do not use advertising trackers. Bank credentials stay with Plaid. HealthKit readings stay on your device in the current app. You can export or delete the app data Accountability Quest stores for your profile from Settings.

What We Collect

Waitlist. If you join the waitlist, we collect your email address, optional interest area, signup date, confirmation status, and unsubscribe state.

Account and session data. If you sign in with Apple, the app sends your Apple identity token to our backend only to verify the sign-in and create a short-lived Accountability Quest session. We store the Apple user identifier or app-generated user identifier needed to keep your account working. We do not store your Apple password.

Money data through Plaid. If you connect a financial institution, Plaid handles the bank login. Accountability Quest receives and stores the Plaid access token, account metadata, balances when provided by Plaid, and transaction records needed to run Money quests, budget pressure, rules, alerts, and privacy exports. Plaid access tokens are encrypted server-side and are never returned in app exports.

Crew and check-ins. We store Crew invite records, accepted relationships, per-Crew and per-quest scope, alert preferences, quiet/mute state, notification inbox records, and alert audit history. If you add a note before sending a check-in, we store and deliver that note.

Push notifications. If you allow notifications, the app registers an Apple Push Notification service device token, platform, environment, and update time so Crew check-ins can be mirrored as push notifications. Privacy exports summarize device registrations but do not return device tokens.

Health data. If you opt in from the Health tab, the app reads today’s step count and active energy from HealthKit on your device. In the current app, raw HealthKit samples and health metrics are not sent to our backend or to Crew.

Diagnostics and performance. We use Sentry to understand crashes and performance issues. We configure diagnostics to avoid sensitive context and to scrub tokens, account details, transactions, merchants, balances, HealthKit values, and notes.

Coach setup. When setup assistance is enabled, Accountability Quest may send a privacy-minimized prompt to an AI provider to draft goal suggestions. We do not send raw Plaid transactions, access tokens, account masks, balances, merchant names, HealthKit records, proof media, or private notes for this setup prompt.

What Your Crew Sees

Crew may see that a consented goal is on track, off track, recovered, or needs a check-in, plus any note you choose to share. Crew never sees amounts, balances, account names, account masks, merchants, transactions, weights, calories, step counts, workout titles, app names, proof media, raw records, source data, or provider tokens.

How We Use Data

We use data to run the app, create sessions, connect Plaid accounts, evaluate quests and lines, send privacy-limited Crew check-ins, deliver push notifications, provide export/delete controls, troubleshoot crashes, improve reliability, send waitlist email, and comply with legal or platform obligations.

Service Providers

We use trusted providers only to operate Accountability Quest: Apple for Sign in with Apple, StoreKit, HealthKit, and push notifications; Plaid for bank connections; Sentry for diagnostics; hosting and database providers for app infrastructure; email providers for waitlist messages; and an AI provider for privacy-minimized setup assistance when enabled. These providers process data for the services they provide and are not permitted to sell your data through us.

App Store Subscriptions

In-app subscriptions are purchased and managed through Apple’s App Store. Apple processes payment information under its own terms and privacy policy. Accountability Quest receives subscription entitlement status, not your full payment card details.

Your Choices

You can skip Plaid and use local sample or manual flows where available. You can decline HealthKit access or revoke it in iOS Settings. You can mute, pause, disconnect, or scope Crew check-ins. You can turn off notifications in iOS Settings. You can export or delete your stored app profile data from Accountability Quest Settings. Waitlist emails include an unsubscribe link.

Retention and Deletion

We keep app data while your profile is active and for as long as needed to provide the service, comply with legal obligations, prevent abuse, and maintain backups. When you delete your app profile from Settings, we delete the stored account, transaction, Crew, alert, notification preference, and device registration data for that profile from the active backend store. We keep waitlist data until it is no longer needed for launch communication or until you unsubscribe or request deletion.

Security

We use HTTPS, server-side secret storage, signed sessions, encrypted backend storage for sensitive provider records, and secret redaction in diagnostics. No system can be guaranteed perfectly secure, but we design Accountability Quest to minimize what Crew and diagnostics can see.

No Sale or Tracking

We do not sell or rent personal information. We do not use cross-site advertising trackers. We do not share data with advertisers or data brokers.

Changes

If we update this policy, we will change the date above. For meaningful changes, we may also notify waitlist members or app users by email, in-app notice, or another reasonable method.

Contact

Questions about your data? Email hello@accountabilityquest.com.