Privacy Policy

This Privacy Notice for Icarian Systems LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your personal information when you use our services (“Services”), including when you:

• Visit our website at www.reconnect-app.net, or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
• Use Reconnect, our iOS and macOS apps. Reconnect blocks explicit content and holds app time limits on your device, and walks you through a short practice, a breath, a check-in, scripture, and a one-tap way to reach someone you trust, when you reach for it. An optional account carries your settings between your devices and connects you with an accountability partner if you invite one.
• Engage with us in other related ways, including any marketing or events

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at icariansystems@gmail.com.

Summary of key points

Table of contents

• 1. What information do we collect?
• 2. How do we process your information?
• 3. When and with whom do we share your personal information?
• 4. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
• 5. How long do we keep your information?
• 6. How do we keep your information safe?
• 7. Do we collect information from minors?
• 8. What are your privacy rights?
• 9. Controls for do-not-track features
• 10. Do United States residents have specific privacy rights?
• 11. Do we make updates to this notice?
• 12. How can you contact us about this notice?
• 13. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you?

1. What information do we collect?

What stays on your device, always

In Short: The sensitive parts of Reconnect are never transmitted to us at all.

Detection of explicit content in Safari runs entirely on your device using an on-device classifier. System-wide site blocking runs on-device through a content filter, and on iOS 26 Reconnect additionally uses Apple’s built-in content filter as a second check. App time limits use Apple’s Screen Time framework, which is designed so the app never learns what you did inside those apps.

Your journal, your trigger map, your lockout state, and your Settings passcode are stored only on your device and are excluded from everything we sync. Reconnect takes no screenshots and records no screen activity.

The comprehensive filter list available with Reconnect Plus is served to your device as salted, truncated hashes of the site names, never a readable list, and your device checks sites against it locally. We never learn which site you were about to open, because the check never leaves your phone.

Personal information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information we collect may include the following:

• names
• email addresses
• passwords (stored only as a secure hash)

Settings you choose to sync. If you have an active Reconnect Plus subscription and sign in, the preferences you chose are stored on our servers so they can follow you between your devices. These are: your cooldown length, your app time limit, your practice timings and mode, the words you entered for what you are fighting and when you are most vulnerable, the name and description of a group you entered, the sites you added to your own block list, and the name and phone number of the person you chose to reach out to. That last one is information about another person, so please only enter it for someone who would be comfortable with it. We never contact them ourselves.

Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you choose to make purchases. All payment data is handled and stored by Stripe (for purchases on this website) or by Apple (for purchases inside the iOS app). We never receive or store your card number. You may find Stripe’s privacy notice here: https://stripe.com/privacy. What we store is the subscription record itself: which store it came from, the product, its status, when it renews or expires, and the transaction reference the store gives us.

Sensitive Information. Reconnect is a tool for people recovering from pornography use, and it is built on a Christian framing. Simply having an account can therefore imply something personal about you. We treat your account as sensitive for that reason, we minimize what we hold, and we do not use it for anything beyond running the Services described here. We do not collect racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, precise geolocation, biometric data, or health records.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information about your devices

In Short: So the app and this site can show you which devices are signed in, we store one row per device.

For each device signed in to your account we store an identifier the app generates, the platform (iPhone, iPad, Mac), the name your device reports, and when it last checked in. If you have an accountability partner and notifications are enabled, we also store the push token Apple issues for that device, so we can deliver their alerts.

Information about your accountability partnership

In Short: A log of events, not of activity. There is no content in it of any kind.

If you invite an accountability partner, we store the partnership itself (who is partnered with whom, and which disclosures you turned on) and an append-only event log. Each event is a kind, a source, and a timestamp, and nothing else. There is no URL, no app name, no journal text, and no content. The kinds are: you completed the practice, your protection turned off, your protection came back on, your app stopped checking in for over 24 hours, and a periodic heartbeat.

If you choose to let your partner hold your Settings passcode, we store only a salted hash of it, computed on their device. The passcode itself never reaches our servers. It is deleted when the passcode is released or the partnership ends.

Information automatically collected

In Short: Some information, such as your IP address and browser characteristics, is collected automatically when you visit our website.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

The information we collect includes log and usage data: service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access our website and which we record in log files. None of this applies to what you do inside the apps. The apps send us no analytics and no usage feed.

Finding a community

The recovery communities directory is a list we vet and publish. When you type a ZIP code to find groups near you, the filtering happens on your device. Reconnect asks for no location permission, and your ZIP code is not sent to us.

2. How do we process your information?

In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

• To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.
• To sync the settings you chose between your devices. We store the preferences listed above so that signing in on another device restores them.
• To deliver the accountability partnership you set up. We process the event log to notify the partner you invited, according to the disclosures you turned on, and to build their weekly count.
• To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.
• To respond to user inquiries and offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
• To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.
• To fulfill and manage your orders. We may process your information to fulfill and manage your subscription, payments, and cancellations made through the Services.
• To request feedback. We may process your information when necessary to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Services.
• To evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing, and your experience. We may process your information when we believe it is necessary to identify usage trends and to evaluate and improve our Services.

We do not use your information to build advertising profiles, and we run no advertising in the apps or on this site.

3. When and with whom do we share your personal information?

In Short: With the accountability partner you chose, with the service providers that run our infrastructure, and in the specific situations described below.

The accountability partner you invited. This is the only person we share anything with, and only because you set it up. They receive the events described in section 1, according to the disclosures you turned on, plus your name or email so they know who they are supporting. They never receive your journal, what you type, which sites you visited, or which apps you used. You can end the partnership at any time, which stops all of it.

Service providers. We share information with the vendors that run our infrastructure, under written contract, only so they can perform that work: Neon (database hosting), Vercel (website and API hosting, plus aggregate analytics), Stripe (web payments), and Apple (App Store payments and push notification delivery).

We may also need to share your personal information in the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• Legal obligations. We may disclose information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for targeted advertising.

4. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?

In Short: Only what is needed to keep you signed in and to count visits in aggregate.

When you sign in on this website, we set a session cookie so that you stay signed in. That is a functional cookie, not a tracking one.

To understand how many people visit and which pages are useful, this website uses Vercel Web Analytics. It is cookieless: it sets no analytics cookies, does not fingerprint you, and does not track you across other websites. It collects only aggregate measurements such as page views, referring sites, approximate country, and general device and browser type.

We do not use advertising cookies, advertising pixels, or third-party tracking technologies, on this site or in the apps. The apps contain no analytics or advertising SDKs of any kind.

5. How long do we keep your information?

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which you have an account with us.

When you end a partnership, we stop sending anything to that partner and delete any passcode hash they held. We keep the record that the partnership existed and ended, so that fact stays visible to both people.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

6. How do we keep your information safe?

In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. The most important one is architectural: the sensitive material simply never reaches us, so there is nothing to breach. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

7. Do we collect information from minors?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at icariansystems@gmail.com.

8. What are your privacy rights?

In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time, depending on your country, province, or state of residence.

Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” below.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Ending an accountability partnership: You can end a partnership at any time, from inside the app, without your partner’s permission and without needing a passcode. Ending it stops every notification and every report immediately.

Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us using the details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you, for example to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.

Account information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:

• Delete your account in the app, under Settings › Account
• Delete your account on your account page on this website
• Contact us using the contact information provided

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at icariansystems@gmail.com.

9. Controls for do-not-track features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.

California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.

10. Do United States residents have specific privacy rights?

In Short: If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.

Categories of personal information we collect

The table below shows the categories of personal information we have collected in the past twelve (12) months.

We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of receiving help through our customer support channels, participation in customer surveys, and facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.

We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed to provide the Services, or for as long as you have an account with us.

How we use and share personal information

Learn more about how we use your personal information in the section “HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?” and about who we share it with in “WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?”

We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be “selling” of your personal information.

We have not sold or shared any personal information to third parties for targeted advertising or any other commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months, and we will not do so in the future. Disclosures to the accountability partner you invited, and to the service providers listed in section 3, are made at your direction or to run the Services, and are not sales.

Your rights

You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. These rights include:

• Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data
• Right to access your personal data
• Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
• Right to request the deletion of your personal data
• Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
• Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
• Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. We do none of these.
• Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including the privacy law in California)

How to exercise your rights

To exercise these rights, you can contact us by submitting a data subject access request, by emailing us at icariansystems@gmail.com, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. The fastest route for deletion is the in-app control at Settings › Account, which runs immediately.

Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with applicable laws.

Request verification

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.

If you submit the request through an authorized agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request and the agent will need to provide a written and signed permission from you to submit such request on your behalf.

Appeals

Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at icariansystems@gmail.com. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.

California “Shine The Light” law

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?”

11. Do we make updates to this notice?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

12. How can you contact us about this notice?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at icariansystems@gmail.com or contact us by post at:

Icarian Systems LLC
24252 Bellerive Cir
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
United States

13. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you?

Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.

The fastest way to delete everything is in the app, under Settings › Account › Delete account, or on your account page. You can also fill out and submit a data subject access request.

See also our terms of use.