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Sobrium Privacy Policy
Last updated: 23 October 2026
Sobrium is a place to stay sober: a counter of your sober days, a private diary, and a feed of people who track the same addiction as you. This policy explains what we keep, why, who else handles it, and what you can ask us to do with it.
Who we are
Sobrium. For anything about your data, write to info@sobrium.cloud.
What we keep, and why
Your account
- Your email address. It is how you sign in: we send a six-digit code to it. It is used only to tell accounts apart and to send those codes. Other people never see it: it never becomes your name in the app and never appears on anything you write. You see it only in your own settings, partly hidden.
- If you sign in with Google, Google shares your email address and the basic profile details of your Google account with us. We use only the email address.
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Your name in the app. You start with a random one (
user_and twelve characters) and can change it. Choose anything; it does not need to be your real name. - A profile picture and a short bio, if you add them, the language of the app, and whether posts written in other languages are translated for you.
- How the app addresses you: male, female, or not given. It is used so that the app's words, and the translations of your posts and replies, take the right grammatical form in languages that have one, such as Russian and Spanish. It is not shown on your profile, but a translation written in that form shows it to whoever reads it.
- What you agreed to: that you agreed to us keeping information about your health and accepted the terms of use, when, and which version of each text.
- If you have Sobrium+: that you have it, where it came from (granted by us, Google Play or the App Store), and until when it lasts.
What you track
For each counter: what it is for (the addiction, in your own words), the day you started, your time zone, and (only if you enter them) what it used to cost you and how much. If you record a relapse, we keep the day it happened, the day you started counting again, the day count it ended, and anything you wrote about it.
Other people see a counter of yours only if they keep a counter for the same addiction.
Your diary
What you write in your diary is visible to you only. Nobody else in the app can open it: not the people you follow, not the people who follow you.
The same goes for what you write down as your reasons («Why I'm doing this») and as what pulls you back. They are kept the way the diary is: you only see them, and nothing on our side reads them.
What you publish
Your posts and comments are shown in the feed to people who track the same addiction. They are not private: any signed-in member of Sobrium may be able to see them, along with hearts and «me too» reactions. Your posts carry your app name, your picture if you have one, your day count on the day you wrote them, and your longest stretch.
We also keep who you follow, who you have blocked, and private thanks you send or receive. Nobody can see the list of people who follow you.
Translation
Posts and comments are translated automatically, so that members who use the app in another language can read them. When you publish or edit a post or a comment, its text (and nothing else: not your name, not your email address, not your counters) is sent to Anthropic, whose AI model Claude identifies the language it is written in and translates it into the other languages of the app: English, Spanish and Russian. We keep the translations with the post or comment and show them to readers of those languages, marked as translated, with the original one tap away. A translation is deleted when its post or comment is deleted, and made again when it is edited. If you mark a translation as inaccurate, we keep that you marked it, which translation it was, and when, until that translation is deleted.
Anthropic deletes the texts it receives within 30 days. If its automated safety systems flag one, it may keep it for up to two years. Anthropic does not use them to train its models.
Photos
Photos in posts and profile pictures are stored privately. They are shown through links that stop working after one hour.
Every photo is checked automatically for alcohol and drug imagery by Amazon Rekognition, which processes it in Ireland. A post photo with such imagery is covered for people who chose not to see it; a profile picture with such imagery is refused. Amazon may keep these images to improve its own services, and may store them outside Ireland while doing so.
Safety and moderation
If you report something, we keep the report and the reason. Moderators review reports; their decisions and any appeal are kept. If an account is deleted, reports about that person are deleted with it.
Sign-in emails
Sign-in codes are sent through Resend, from Ireland. Resend keeps the emails it sends, including your address and the code, for 30 days.
Purchases in the app
Sobrium+ and donations in the app are paid for through Google Play or the App Store. Google or Apple handles the payment itself: your card details go to them, not to us or to RevenueCat.
RevenueCat connects the app with the stores. It receives the id of your Sobrium account (a random string of characters, not your email address), the purchase and subscription details the store reports (which product, its price and currency, the dates, the store and the country), and basic details of your phone, such as its type and operating system. It uses them to tell us who has Sobrium+ and to process donations made in the app. From this, we keep that you have Sobrium+, from which store, and until when (see Your account above).
Why we are allowed to
- To run the service you asked for (your account, sign-in, what you publish): performance of our agreement with you (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)).
- Information about your health (your addiction, counters, relapses, diary, your reasons and what pulls you back, and posts with their translations): your explicit consent (GDPR Art. 9(2)(a)), which the app asks for before anything else. You can withdraw it at any time by deleting your account: in the app, or by writing to info@sobrium.cloud.
- Keeping the community safe (photo checks, reports, blocks, moderation): our legitimate interest in a safe service, and our obligations under the EU Digital Services Act.
What we never do
- We do not sell your data, and we do not show ads.
- There is no analytics or tracking software in the app.
- Nothing you write is used for advertising.
Who else handles your data
These companies process data on our behalf, only to run Sobrium:
| Company | What for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Database, sign-in, photo storage | United States (Oregon) |
| Amazon Web Services | Automatic photo check (Rekognition) | Ireland |
| Anthropic | Translating posts and comments (Claude) | United States; may also be processed in Europe, Asia and Australia |
| Resend | Sending sign-in emails | Ireland |
| RevenueCat | Knowing who has Sobrium+, processing donations in the app | United States |
| Cloudflare | Hosting this website | Worldwide (Cloudflare's network) |
| Only if you sign in with Google | Google's own terms apply |
Donations on this website are processed by Stripe. Sobrium never receives your card number.
Data that leaves the European Union for Supabase, Anthropic and RevenueCat is covered by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (Decision (EU) 2021/914), which are part of each company's data processing agreement.
Supabase keeps technical logs of requests to the service, including the IP address a request came from, for one day.
On your phone, the app keeps your sign-in session so you do not have to sign in every time.
How long we keep it
As long as your account exists. You can delete it at any time in the app (You → Settings → Delete my account), and everything tied to it goes at once: your profile, counters, diary, reasons, posts, comments, photos, and the replies other people left under your posts. Or write to info@sobrium.cloud from the address you sign in with, and we will delete it within one month. More on deleting your account.
Three things outlive an account for a short time: Supabase's technical logs, for one day; the sign-in emails Resend sent you, for 30 days; and the texts Anthropic received for translation, for up to 30 days from when they were sent (up to two years if its safety systems flagged one).
If you paid for Sobrium+ or donated in the app, what RevenueCat received about those purchases (see Purchases in the app) stays with it after your account is deleted, under the id of the deleted account: a random string of characters that no longer leads to you in Sobrium. We keep it so that our record of payments stays complete. If you want it deleted too, write to info@sobrium.cloud. Google and Apple keep their own records of your payments.
Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription, to Sobrium+ or a monthly donation: the store keeps charging until you cancel it in Google Play or in your iPhone's settings. Cancel it before you delete your account.
Your rights
You can download a copy of your data yourself, in the app: You → Settings → Download my data. You can also ask us to show you your data, correct it, delete it, give it to you in a portable form, restrict or object to how we use it, and you can withdraw your consent. Write to info@sobrium.cloud; we answer within one month.
If you think we have handled your data wrongly, you can complain to the Spanish data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (aepd.es).
Age
Sobrium is for adults. Do not use it if you are under 18.
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Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use your data, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.