The Committee Privacy Policy

The Committee is run by Crow Rock Group Inc., a Canadian company ("we", "us", "our"). This policy covers the iOS and Android apps and the services behind them.

Our Privacy Officer is responsible for how we handle your information and for answering your questions and requests. You can reach them at hello@getthecommittee.com.

Account details. The phone number or email you sign in with. If you use Apple or Google sign-in, the identifier and name they share with us. We also keep a Sign in with Apple token, so we can revoke it when you delete your account.

Your profile. A display name and, if you add one, a profile photo.

Your chats. When you import a chat, we collect the message text with who sent it and when. We also collect the first names you type at import. If you import screenshots or screen recordings, the images and recording frames are sent to be read. We do not store them.

What you do in the app. Your questions and the answers, recaps, polls, and the friends on your committee with the slider settings you pick for each one. In rooms, we collect the highlights you share, room comments, reactions, and check-ins. We also collect reports and blocks.

Consent records. We record that you confirmed you are 18 or older. We do not ask for or keep a birth date. We also record your AI consent.

Device and purchases. A push token and a random install id, if you allow notifications. Purchase records that Apple or Google report, such as transaction ids and subscription status. We never see your card or bank details.

Usage events. Event names, ids and counts that tell us which features get used. They never hold message text or your questions. We do not use advertising identifiers.

To run the app. We use it to answer your questions about your chat, tag sensitive messages so your sliders can filter them, write recaps, run rooms, send the notifications you allowed, and apply your plan.

To keep it working. We use it to fix problems, handle reports, and decide what to build next.

To meet our legal duties, and to protect people's rights and safety.

We do not sell your data. We do not show ads. We do not share it with data brokers. If we want to use your information for a new purpose, we will ask you first.

We collect and use your information with your consent. You give it when you create an account, and again before your first import or question, when you agree to AI processing. Chats can hold sensitive things, so we ask for that agreement on its own screen.

You can withdraw consent any time. Some things can't work without it. For example, without AI consent we can't read new chats or answer questions.

If you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, we rely on these legal bases. Running the app you signed up for is a contract with you. AI processing of your chats is based on your consent. Keeping the app safe and working is our legitimate interest. Keeping purchase records is a legal duty.

Our AI partner reads what you import and what you ask. That means chat text, screenshots, screen-recording frames, and questions you and your committee ask, with the parts of the chat that answer them. It also reads room comments, so we can check them before they are shown.

Our AI partner doesn't train its models on it. It deletes it within 30 days, unless it's flagged for breaking its usage policy.

You agree to this before your first import or question. You can review or withdraw that choice any time in Settings.

AI can get things wrong. It may misread a chat, or let through or hold back something it shouldn't.

Friends never read the chat itself. When a friend asks, your sliders filter messages in our database before the AI writes the answer. Every answer to a friend is checked before it is shown.

Friends see lines from highlights you share. That includes lines past a slider when you choose to show that friend anyway.

Friends see short word-for-word quotes in answers and recaps only when you set that friend's depth to quotes. The default is the gist. The other person's texts have their own setting: off, gist or quotes.

Some things are never shown to a committee, whatever the sliders say. That covers disclosures of abuse, assault, self-harm or trauma. It also covers identifying details such as home addresses or phone numbers.

Friends seated in the same room see each other's name and photo.

A block hides a pair of people from each other.

You can remove a friend or change their sliders at any time.

A chat you import includes the other person's messages. Only you and the friends you invite, within your sliders, can ask about them. We never contact the other person. Only import chats you have the right to share.

If you think a chat with you in it was imported and you want to ask about it, write to us at hello@getthecommittee.com.

Your committee and your room, as described above.

Our service providers, listed below.

The law. We share information when the law requires it, such as a court order, or to investigate fraud or abuse of the app.

Safety. We may share information with emergency services if someone's life, health or safety may be at risk.

A new owner. If The Committee or our company is sold or reorganized, your information may move to the new owner. They must protect it as this policy says.

Supabase runs our database, sign-in, functions and file storage. It is hosted in the United States, in us-east-1.

Anthropic provides the AI models described above.

Telnyx sends sign-in codes by text message.

Resend sends sign-in code emails. It also sends report emails to our team.

Apple and Google provide sign-in, purchases and push notifications.

Expo relays push notifications to Apple and Google.

Each provider handles data only to provide its service to us.

Your information is stored and handled mainly in the United States. While it is there, courts, police or government agencies in the United States may be able to get it under their own laws.

Chats, questions, recaps and polls. Until you delete the chat or your account.

Your profile, photo, committee, room activity and usage events. Until you delete your account.

Screenshots and screen recordings. We do not store them. They are read and then dropped.

What our AI partner receives. It deletes it within 30 days, unless it is flagged for breaking its usage policy.

Purchase records. As long as tax and accounting law requires, usually 6 years. After you delete your account, they are no longer linked to you.

Reports. A report keeps a text snapshot of what was reported. We keep reports as long as we need them to keep rooms safe and handle any appeal.

You can delete any chat in the app. That removes its messages, questions, recaps and polls.

You can delete your account in Settings, Delete account. It happens right away. It removes your chats, your committee, your seats on other people's committees, your profile and photo. It also revokes your Apple sign-in token.

Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription. Cancel it in the App Store or Google Play first.

We keep purchase records for accounting. After you delete your account, they are no longer linked to you.

Reports keep a text snapshot of what was reported. It can include a display name or the names in a quote. After deletion, the report is no longer linked to either account. A copy of each report is also emailed to hello@getthecommittee.com.

See your information. Write to hello@getthecommittee.com for a copy of the information we hold about you. We answer within 30 days, free of charge. If we need more time, we will tell you why. If we refuse any part of a request, we will explain why. We may need to confirm it's you first. If a record also holds someone else's information, we may need to remove their part.

Correct it. You can change your display name and photo in Settings. For anything else, write to us.

Withdraw consent. You can withdraw AI consent in Settings. You can turn off notifications in your phone's settings. You can remove a friend or change their sliders at any time.

Delete it. Delete a chat or your account in the app, as described above.

Depending on where you live, you may have other rights too, such as moving your data or objecting to some uses. Write to us and we will help.

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Access is enforced in the database itself, so a friend's account cannot read what your sliders keep closed.

No system is perfectly secure. We work to protect your information and to fix problems quickly.

If a privacy breach creates a real risk of significant harm to you, we will tell you and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada as soon as we can. We will explain what happened and what you can do to protect yourself. We keep a record of every breach for at least 24 months.

The Committee is for adults. You must be 18 or older to use it. If we learn that someone under 18 has an account, we will close it and delete their information.

This policy is governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. If you live somewhere with privacy laws that give you more protection, those still apply to you.

We will post any change here with a new date. If a change matters, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.

Write to our Privacy Officer at hello@getthecommittee.com.

If you're not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at priv.gc.ca or 1-800-282-1376. If you live somewhere else, you can contact your local privacy authority.