AbideText LLC — Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 24, 2026

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how AbideText LLC ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards information when you use Abide (the "Service"), a text-message-based Christian companion delivered over iMessage, RCS, and SMS, and any associated website. By using the Service, you agree to the practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the Service.

1.Definitions

• Account: the profile associated with your phone number when you text Abide.
• Affiliate: an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party.
• Church Content: the sermon titles, Scripture references, sermon summaries, and any other material a Church User submits through the Church Portal.
• Church Portal: the website at churches.abidetext.com through which authorized representatives of a church submit weekly sermon information to AbideText LLC.
• Church Portal account: the account a Church User creates by signing in to the Church Portal, associated with the church they have claimed.
• Church User: an individual who creates or accesses a Church Portal account on behalf of a church.
• Device: any device that can access the Service, such as a phone, computer, or tablet.
• Jurisdiction: United States; primary governing state: California.
• Personal Data: any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service: Abide, including the text-messaging experience, our website at abidetext.com, the Church Portal at churches.abidetext.com, and any related tools or features we may offer.
• Service Provider: a third party that processes data on our behalf to help us operate the Service, including our AI infrastructure providers.
• Spiritual Content: information you share related to your faith, prayer life, struggles, or personal circumstances, including prayer requests, journal entries, and anything shared in conversation with Abide.
• Usage Data: data collected automatically through use of the Service or its underlying infrastructure, such as message timestamps and delivery status.
• You: the individual using the Service.

2.Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

• Your phone number, required to use the Service since Abide operates over text messaging.
• Your name and any personal context you choose to share in conversation (life stage, family, career, church, gender, and similar details), which Abide may remember to make your experience more personal.
• Prayer requests, reading plan activity, memory verses, journal entries, translation preferences, and anything else you tell Abide as part of normal conversation.
• The specific church you tell Abide you attend, matched from your own words to a church that has claimed itself on the Church Portal, so Abide can reference that church's own posted weekly content in messages to you. This is a subscriber feature and is separate from the Church Portal itself, described in Section 2.3.
• People you mention by name and relation (such as "my mom" or "my pastor Dave") and, in your own words, what they are going through, if this feature is available to you and you use it.
• Work or school context (your role, place, season, and what is pressing) if you turn this feature on. It is off by default and stores nothing until you turn it on in words.
• Relationship context (your status, how long, and what is heavy between you and a partner) if you share it and this feature is available to you.
• A city, state, or zip code, only when you tell Abide directly or answer its question about where you are, so you do not have to repeat it, for example when asking about churches near you. See Section 2.4.
• Voice memos, if you send them. These are automatically transcribed to text so Abide can respond; see Section 7.
• Payment information, if and when you subscribe to a paid tier. This is processed directly by our payment provider, Stripe; we do not directly store your full card details.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

• Basic message metadata needed to operate the Service, such as timestamps, delivery status, and which conversation a message belongs to.
• General technical information passed through our messaging provider, such as whether you are messaging over iMessage, RCS, or SMS.
• If you came to Abide from one of our ads, a short ad code at the end of your first message. It is made of a code for the ad and a random string, and says nothing about you on its own. Abide removes it before reading your message, and it is used only as described in Section 3.

We do not collect device-level location data or browsing history through the messaging product itself. We have no advertising of any kind and do not use advertising trackers within the messaging experience. We do estimate a rough time zone from your phone number's area code, so messages and reminders land at a reasonable hour before you have confirmed one in conversation; this is a guess, not a location, is treated as unconfirmed until you say otherwise, and is never used for anything beyond timing your messages. Separately, if you tell Abide a city or zip code in your own words, we may store it so you do not have to repeat it; see Section 2.1 and Section 2.4.

2.3 Information We Collect From Church Portal Users

If you use the Church Portal, we collect the following categories of information.

• (a) Information received from Google. When you sign in using Google, Google provides us with your name, email address, profile picture URL, and a unique account identifier. We do not receive or store your Google password. Signing in to the Church Portal does not grant access to Google Calendar or any other Google service; if you use the text-messaging service's optional calendar connection, that is a separate integration with its own Google authorization, described in Section 2.4.
• (b) Information you provide about your church. The church's name, street address, city and state, campus name if it has more than one location, and a time zone we detect from your browser so that weekly dates display correctly.
• (c) Church Content you submit.
• (d) Account security and session information. The IP address and browser user-agent associated with each sign-in, and the date and time of each sign-in. We use this information to maintain your signed-in session, protect accounts against unauthorized access, and enforce rate limits against abuse.
• (e) Notifications about your claim. When you claim a church, we send ourselves an email notification containing the church's name, campus name if any, street address, city, state, and time zone; your name and the email address associated with your Google sign-in; the date and time of your claim; and the name, address, and status of any church already in the Church Portal that may be the same church. We use this notification to contact you to verify your claim. Until we approve or decline your claim, we send ourselves a daily reminder containing the same information. These notifications are delivered by our email provider, Resend.
• (f) Verification records. When we verify your claim, we record what we checked and what we found: the church's website and staff page, and whether your name and role appear there; the date and time of our video call with you, the role you told us you hold, and the name of anyone at the church you told us knows about your claim; whether your email address is on the church's own domain; and, if we contact the church through its published phone number or email address, how we contacted it, the role of the person who answered, and whether they confirmed that you may act for the church. We do not record the video call itself. We keep this record, with our decision to approve or decline your claim, for as long as we keep the church's Church Portal account.

2.4 Google Calendar, Google Places, and YouTube

The text-messaging service can optionally look things up on your behalf. Each is described here together because none of them is stored beyond what this section says.

• (a) Google Calendar, read-only, and only when you ask. If you ask Abide to connect your Google Calendar, your authorization is held and refreshed by our service provider, Composio (see Section 8) — Abide itself never holds your Google access or refresh token. Composio also holds a record linking your phone number to the Google account you connected, so it knows whose calendar to read. Abide's own access is read-only, a single scope (calendar.events.readonly), and is used only live, at the moment you ask about your day — never on a schedule, and never to send you a message you did not ask for. We do not store the events, titles, times, attendees, or locations we read; they exist only for that one reply and are discarded immediately after. What we do keep is a small amount of technical information about the connection itself: identifiers for the connection, when it was made, its status, a daily count of how many times it has been read, and a one-time code that lets a disconnect link be used once. Text /forget me removes the connection at Composio as part of erasing everything else, the same way it cancels a live subscription first; text "disconnect my calendar" to remove just the connection at any time, or use the one-tap page a status check sends you. Either way, we cannot revoke the authorization on Google's side for you: it will still be listed under your Google account's own Security settings until you remove it there yourself — we have confirmed this ourselves, on our own account, after disconnecting. Abide's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
• (b) Google Places, to find churches near you. If you ask about churches near a place, the city, zip code, or "near me" wording you use is sent to Google's Places API to search for real, nearby churches, and the results (name, short address, and a Google Maps link) are shown to you. The search text itself is not stored beyond your conversation history, which expires as described in Section 13, unless you separately tell Abide to remember where you are (see Section 2.1). We do not cache this data beyond the reply, as Google's terms require. This is search only: a result is never automatically attached as your church; you would have to tell Abide separately that it is your church. Your use of this feature is also subject to the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy; see our Terms of Service.
• (c) YouTube, to find a video. Videos Abide recommends from a named channel are verified as real, currently available, and on that channel before they are mentioned. A link found through a web search is checked against the search results but is not independently verified. We do not receive or store anything from your own YouTube or Google account for this; every route is a public lookup, using no account of yours.

3.Cookies and Our Website

Our marketing and informational website (separate from the texting product itself) may use a small number of cookies and similar technologies to operate correctly and understand basic usage.

• Necessary/Essential cookies: required for the website to function correctly, such as remembering basic session information. These cannot be disabled without affecting how the site works.
• Basic analytics cookies: help us understand, in aggregate, how many people visit our site and which pages they view, so we can improve it. We do not use these to build advertising profiles, and we do not share this data with advertising networks.
• Advertising pixels: we use third-party tracking technologies, including the Meta Pixel (provided by Meta Platforms, Inc.) and the TikTok Pixel (provided by TikTok), to analyze website traffic, measure ad performance, and optimize our promotional campaigns across Meta and TikTok platforms. These pixels may collect information about your visits to and interactions with our website, such as pages viewed, and this information may be shared with Meta and TikTok for advertising measurement and attribution. These pixels load only if you choose Accept in our cookie banner, and never if your browser sends Global Privacy Control. You can change your choice at any time with Cookie choices at the bottom of any page.

How we measure our own ads. When you arrive from one of our ads, the link carries tags naming the campaign and the ad. Your browser keeps these in its own storage on our site, together with a random identifier for that browser and, if Meta added one to the link, Meta’s click identifier. We never send that click identifier to our servers. If you tap a button to text Abide, we record on our own servers the campaign, the ad and where the visit came from; which button you tapped; whether you were on a phone, tablet, or computer; the time; and a one-way fingerprint of the browser identifier. The message that opens in your texting app includes a short ad code, so we can tell which ad someone came from even if that record never reached us, and Abide removes the code before reading your message. When you send that message, we link the record to your Abide account, and later note whether you started a free trial or a subscription, so we can see which ads actually help people rather than only which ones get tapped.

We use these records only to measure our own ads. We do not share them with Meta, TikTok, or anyone else, we do not use them to build advertising profiles, and we do not sell them. Because this is our own measurement and the records never leave our systems, it does not depend on your answer to the cookie banner, which covers the Meta and TikTok pixels only. Section 13 says how long the records are kept.

Apart from the Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel as described above, which load only if you accept them, we do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. We do not sell data collected via our website, and the only way it is shared for cross-context behavioral advertising is through those two pixels, with your acceptance. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings; doing so may affect how well the website functions, though it will not affect your use of Abide over text message.

The Church Portal uses only cookies strictly necessary for its operation: a session cookie that keeps you signed in, and a short-lived cookie that secures the Google sign-in exchange against cross-site request forgery. The Church Portal does not use the Meta Pixel, the TikTok Pixel, advertising cookies, or analytics cookies.

4.Some Information Is More Sensitive, and We Treat It That Way

Abide is built to hold spiritual and personal conversations, including things you might not tell many other people, such as struggles with temptation, doubt, grief, or personal confession. We take this seriously:

• Information you share in confidence is flagged internally as sensitive and is never shown to other participants in a group text, even if you are also in a group conversation with Abide.
• If a conversation suggests you may be in crisis, for example expressing thoughts of self-harm or describing abuse, Abide is designed to respond with care and, where appropriate, share crisis resources. This is a safety feature, not a surveillance one; we do not monitor conversations for any purpose other than responding helpfully and safely in the moment.
• The church you tell Abide you attend is religious affiliation, one of the categories some privacy laws treat as sensitive. We use it only to reference that church's own posted content in messages to you, we never show it to anyone else, and you can have Abide forget it at any time by asking.
• Anything you share about a relationship, and what someone else is going through in your own words, is treated as sensitive by default and handled with the same care as the rest of this section.
• You can ask Abide at any time what it remembers about you (text /memory), and ask it to forget everything (text /forget me). See Section 10.

5.We Do Not Sell Your Data, and There Are No Ads in Abide

Abide has no advertising of any kind within the product, no ad tracking pixels in the messaging experience, and no third-party ad networks integrated into the text-messaging service. We do not sell your Personal Data. The text-messaging service and our own records, including the ad measurement records described in Section 3, are never shared for cross-context behavioral advertising.

The one exception is our website. If you choose Accept in our cookie banner, the Meta Pixel and the TikTok Pixel share information about your visits, such as the pages you view, with Meta and TikTok so we can measure our ads (see Section 3). If you choose Decline, or never choose, or your browser sends Global Privacy Control, they do not load. Our business model is a direct subscription, not advertising, so apart from those pixels, which load only if you accept them, your data does not leave our systems for marketing purposes.

6.How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

• Operate the core Service: hold conversations with you, remember relevant context, and respond helpfully.
• Send you messages you have asked for, including replies to your questions, reminders you have set, and, if you have engaged with this feature, occasional messages Abide initiates on its own (see Section 6.1).
• Process subscription payments through Stripe, if you choose to subscribe.
• Transcribe voice memos you send, so Abide can understand and respond to them.
• Maintain the security and reliability of the Service, including preventing abuse.
• Improve the Service in limited, privacy-conscious ways; for example, our AI providers do not use your conversations to train their general-purpose models (see Section 9).
• Operate the Church Portal, including authenticating Church Users, verifying that a Church User is authorized to represent the church they have claimed (which may include contacting them by email to arrange a video call, and contacting the church through its published phone number or email address to confirm their authority), and enabling them to submit and manage Church Content.
• Use Church Content to inform the messages Abide sends to users of the text-messaging service, including by referring to, summarizing, or quoting a church's weekly sermon information.
• Look up your upcoming calendar events, live and only when you ask about your day; find real churches or a real, verified video when you ask; and remember people, work or school, and relationship context you share, so Abide can hold a more personal conversation with you over time. See Section 2.4 and Section 4.
• Comply with legal obligations.

6.1 Proactive Messages

Part of what makes Abide different from a typical app is that it may occasionally text you first, for example to follow up on a prayer request, remind you of a reminder you set, or check in based on something you have shared. We only do this in ways designed to be genuinely relevant to you, not generic broadcasts, and we do not send unprompted messages until we have a reasonable basis for knowing your general time zone, so we can avoid contacting you at an inconvenient hour. You can ask Abide to reduce or stop these messages at any time in conversation.

6.2 Google API Services User Data Policy

Abide's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. For the Church Portal, we use information received from Google solely to authenticate Church Users, identify their accounts, and communicate with them about their Church Portal account, and we do not use it for advertising, sell it, or transfer it to third parties except as necessary to provide the Church Portal, to comply with applicable law, to protect safety or security as described in Section 8, or as part of a merger or acquisition as described in Section 8. For the text-messaging service's optional Google Calendar connection, described in Section 2.4, information received from Google is used solely to read your upcoming events, live and only when you ask about your day, and the same restrictions apply: no advertising, no sale, and no transfer to third parties beyond what Section 2.4 and Section 8 describe.

7.Voice Memos and Transcription

If you send Abide a voice memo, it is automatically transcribed to text, using a third-party AI transcription provider, so Abide can understand and respond to it. We do not use voice data for any purpose beyond generating that transcription and responding to your message, and we do not retain raw audio longer than necessary to process it.

8.How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your Personal Data. We share information only in these circumstances:

• Service Providers: companies that help us operate Abide. This currently includes Anthropic (which provides the primary AI model powering Abide's conversations) and OpenAI (which may be used for certain functions such as voice transcription); Linq, which provides the messaging infrastructure connecting Abide to iMessage, RCS, and SMS; Amazon Web Services, which hosts and stores data for the text-messaging service, including the ad measurement records described in Section 3; Stripe, which processes payments if you subscribe; Google LLC, which provides authentication for the Church Portal and, through the Google Places API and YouTube, powers the church and video lookups described in Section 2.4; Sampark Inc., doing business as Composio, which holds and refreshes your Google Calendar authorization if you connect it, so that Abide itself never does; Vercel Inc., which hosts our website and the Church Portal, provides security services including rate limiting and traffic filtering, and runs Vercel Web Analytics on our website, which counts visits and records which button a visitor taps and which of our ads they came from; Neon Inc., which hosts the Church Portal's database; and Resend, operated by Plus Five Five, Inc., which delivers transactional email relating to the Church Portal, including notifications to us when a church claims an account. Stripe receives your payment details directly; we do not store your full card number.
• Legal Requirements: if required by law or a valid legal request from a court, regulator, or government authority.
• Safety: if we believe it is reasonably necessary to protect the safety of you or others, prevent fraud, or address a security incident.
• Business Transfers: if Abide is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, in which case we will provide notice before your data is transferred.
• With Your Consent: for any other purpose you specifically authorize.

We do not share your conversations, prayer requests, or personal context with any third party for their own marketing or data-mining purposes.

9.AI Processing of Your Information

Your conversations are processed by third-party artificial intelligence models, including models provided by Anthropic and, for certain functions, OpenAI, in order to generate Abide's responses and power features like voice transcription. Consistent with our providers' own data handling commitments at the time of this Policy, your conversations are not used by these providers to train their general-purpose, non-Abide-specific AI models. If this changes, or if we adopt additional AI providers with different practices, we will update this Policy and, where required by law, notify you.

Because AI-generated content can occasionally be inaccurate, incomplete, or unexpected, please also review our Terms of Service, which describe the nature of AI-generated content and the limits of what Abide can be relied upon for.

10.Your Rights: Access and Deletion

Unlike most services, you do not need to visit a website or fill out a form to exercise your privacy rights with Abide's text-messaging service. You can just ask, in conversation:

• Text /memory at any time to see a summary of what Abide currently remembers about you.
• Text /forget me to permanently erase everything Abide remembers about you. We will ask you to confirm before this happens, since it cannot be undone. When you use /forget me, we keep a one-way fingerprint of your phone number, with no readable number and no content, for about three days. The fingerprint cannot be turned back into your phone number, although someone who already had your number could match it. It is used only to stop billing or system messages already in progress from recreating what you erased, and it is then deleted automatically. Section 13 describes what our service providers keep under their own retention policies.
• You can also reach us directly at legal@abidetext.com for any request our in-conversation commands do not cover, including questions about data we are required to retain for legal or security reasons.

Depending on your location, you may have additional rights under applicable law, such as the right to correct inaccurate data, restrict certain processing, or lodge a complaint with a regulator. Contact us to exercise any of these rights.

Church Portal accounts. The /memory and /forget me commands apply only to the text-messaging service. To access, correct, export, or delete your Church Portal account or your church's Church Content, email legal@abidetext.com. We will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law. We do not currently offer self-service deletion within the Church Portal.

10.1 California Residents

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), gives you the following rights:

• Right to Know: what Personal Data we collect about you, the categories of sources, and how it is used and disclosed.
• Right to Access: a copy of the specific pieces of Personal Data we hold about you.
• Right to Correct: inaccurate Personal Data we maintain about you.
• Right to Delete: your Personal Data, as described above via /forget me or by contacting us.
• Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: California law defines "sensitive personal information" to include religious or philosophical beliefs. Because Abide's core purpose involves you sharing faith-related and spiritual content, including which church you tell Abide you attend, we want to be direct about this: we use this information only to provide the Service to you, specifically to hold conversation, remember context, and respond helpfully, never to infer characteristics about you for advertising or to sell or share it, and you may ask us to further limit its use at any time by contacting us.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: for exercising any of these rights.
• Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing: we do not sell Personal Data. The only sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising is by the Meta and TikTok pixels on our website, which load only if you choose Accept in our cookie banner. You can opt out at any time by choosing Decline under Cookie choices at the bottom of any page, after which they no longer load. We also honour Global Privacy Control: if your browser sends it, we treat it as Decline, so the pixels never load and we do not ask.

You may exercise these rights by texting /memory or /forget me directly to Abide, or by emailing legal@abidetext.com. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We will respond to verifiable requests within the time required by law.

11.GDPR and UK GDPR Rights

Abide is currently intended for use in the United States. If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, and you nonetheless use the Service, the following applies to you.

11.1 Legal Bases for Processing

We process your Personal Data on the following legal bases:

• Performance of a contract: to provide the Service you have asked us for.
• Legitimate interests: for example, to keep the Service secure, prevent abuse, improve reliability, and understand which of our ads bring people to Abide, balanced against your rights and interests.
• Consent: where required, such as for certain proactive messages or optional features, which you may withdraw at any time.
• Legal obligation: where we are required to process or retain data to comply with the law.

We do not knowingly direct the Service to, or serve, users located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom. If the GDPR or UK GDPR nonetheless applies to you, our legal basis for processing special category data under Article 9 — which includes the faith-related and spiritual content described throughout this Policy, including which church you tell Abide you attend — would be your explicit consent under Article 9(2)(a). You may withdraw that consent, or have anything Abide holds about you forgotten, at any time by asking.

11.2 Your Rights

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to: access the Personal Data we hold about you; correct inaccurate data; request erasure of your data; restrict or object to certain processing; receive a portable copy of your data in a structured, machine-readable format; and lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.

11.3 International Transfers

Because our Service Providers, including our AI, messaging, hosting, and payment providers, operate in the United States, your Personal Data will be transferred to and processed in the United States. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses, for such transfers.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at legal@abidetext.com.

12.Links to Other Websites

Our website or messaging conversations may occasionally contain links to third-party websites or services that are not operated by us, such as a payment page or a resource we reference. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that party's site, and we encourage you to review its privacy policy. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy practices, or policies of any third-party site or service.

13.Data Retention

• Active conversation history is retained for a limited window to allow natural back-and-forth conversation, after which it expires automatically.
• Long-term memory, such as your name, prayer requests, reading progress, and similar context, is retained until you ask Abide to forget it via /forget me, or until your account has been inactive for an extended period, at which point we may delete it in the ordinary course of data hygiene.
• After a /forget me, a one-way fingerprint of your phone number, and the times of the erase, are kept for about three days so that messages already in progress cannot recreate what was erased. They hold no content and no readable phone number, and they delete themselves automatically.
• Once someone uses /forget me, their referral link stops working.
• What /forget me does not reach. It erases what Abide holds and cancels an active subscription, but it cannot delete the records our service providers keep under their own retention policies. Linq, which delivers our messages, keeps its own copy of the messages it carried. Stripe keeps its payment and transaction records, including for subscriptions that have been cancelled, as it is required to do. Our AI providers may hold the text of a conversation for a limited period under their own terms (see Section 9). The Google Calendar connection is the one we do reach on your behalf: it is deleted at Composio as part of the erase, although Google keeps Abide listed in your Google account until you remove it there (see Section 2.4). To ask about data held by a provider, email legal@abidetext.com and we will tell you what we can and, where we are able, pass the request on.
• Ad measurement records (Section 3). A record of a tap on one of our buttons that never leads to a text message expires after 90 days. Once you text Abide, the record is linked to your account and kept for 400 days, or until you use /forget me, whichever comes first. Like other data in the text-messaging service, either kind may remain in our backups for up to 35 days after it is deleted, as described below. The campaign tags your browser keeps stay in your browser until you clear its storage for our site.
• Data erased from the text-messaging service, including anything erased with /forget me, may remain in our database's point-in-time recovery backups for up to 35 days, after which it can no longer be restored from them. Those backups exist so that we can recover from a failure or a mistake on our side; we do not use them to bring back data someone asked us to erase.
• We may retain limited information longer where required for legal, security, or fraud-prevention purposes.
• A Google Calendar connection is retained until you disconnect it or ask Abide to forget it; the calendar events themselves are never retained at all, in any form (see Section 2.4). A stored location, and anything remembered about people, work or school, or a relationship, is retained until you ask Abide to forget it, specifically or via /forget me, subject to the same inactivity and legal-retention rules as the rest of this section. Church attachment is retained until you leave that church or ask Abide to forget it.
• Church Portal accounts and Church Content are retained for as long as the church's account remains active, and are deleted within 30 days of a verified deletion request. Deleted Church Portal data may remain in our database provider's point-in-time recovery history for up to 7 days, after which it can no longer be restored from that history. Apart from that history, we do not keep snapshots or other copies of deleted Church Portal data. Sign-in sessions expire automatically. Messages already delivered to users of the text-messaging service cannot be recalled. We may retain limited records beyond these periods where necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or prevent fraud and abuse.

14.Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information, including encryption of stored data and access controls on who within our organization can view sensitive information. No method of electronic storage or transmission is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we become aware of a security incident affecting your Personal Data, we will investigate and notify you and/or regulators where required by law.

15.Age Requirement

Abide is intended solely for use by individuals 18 years of age or older. Abide is not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from, anyone under 18. If we become aware that we have collected data from someone under 18, we will delete it promptly. If you believe a minor has used Abide and shared personal information with us, please contact us at legal@abidetext.com.

16.International Users

Abide is currently intended for use in the United States. If we expand availability elsewhere, your information may be processed in the United States or other jurisdictions with different data protection laws than your home country, and we will update this Policy accordingly.

17.Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version here with a revised "Last updated" date. Continued use of Abide after changes take effect means you accept the updated Policy.

18.Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise a privacy right not covered by an in-conversation command, contact us at:

General questions: hello@abidetext.com

Privacy and legal requests: legal@abidetext.com