Paulora – Privacy Policy

Last updated: 21 September 2026

Paulora is a voice companion that helps you start tasks. This policy explains what data the app touches, where it goes, and what never leaves your phone. The short version: no account, no ads, no selling data, and your history stays on your device.

What stays on your phone

• Your task history ("Done pile"), paused tasks, parked thoughts, your name (if you gave one), and settings are stored only in the app's local storage on your device. We have no server copy. Uninstalling the app deletes them.
• Speech recognition (turning your voice into text) is performed on your device by Android's built-in speech recognizer. Paulora does not record or store audio.

What is sent off your phone, and why

• Task text and session messages are sent over an encrypted connection to our server proxy and passed to Anthropic (the AI provider) to generate step breakdowns and spoken replies. This text is processed to produce the response and is subject to Anthropic's privacy policy.
• Paulora's reply text is sent to ElevenLabs to generate her voice audio, subject to ElevenLabs' privacy policy.
• Feedback you choose to send from the "Tell me what you think" box in Settings is emailed to the developer, together with the app's build number, whether you are on Paulora Plus, and which platform you are using. Nothing else is attached: no name, no email address, and nothing from your tasks or history. This is the one thing you write that we do keep a copy of, because a message addressed to a person has to reach that person – it is read to fix the app and is not used for anything else. Sending it is entirely your choice; the app never sends feedback on its own.
• None of these transmissions includes your name in any account sense, your contacts, your location, or any advertising identifier. We do not build profiles.

What we don't do

• No user accounts, sign-ins, or passwords.
• No advertising, no ad SDKs, no trackers, no analytics SDKs in the app.
• No selling or sharing of personal data with third parties beyond the AI processing described above.

Permissions the app asks for

• Microphone – only when you tap the Talk/Speak button, to hear your task or reply. Processed on-device.
• Notifications – optional, to remind you of parked thoughts after you leave the app.
• Alarms & reminders – optional, so those reminders arrive on time rather than being delayed by Android's battery batching.

A note on wellbeing

Paulora is a small productivity tool, not a medical or mental-health service. If the app detects words suggesting you might be in crisis, it stops task planning and shows contact details for real human helplines. That detection happens in the app; those moments are treated with the same privacy as everything else.

Children

Paulora is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with an updated date. Questions or data requests: support@paulora.app.