Amice

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 25, 2026

Overview

Amice is a place to save the recommendations you love and share them with people you trust. This policy describes what we collect, why, and the choices you have.

If you have questions about anything below, email amice.app.support@gmail.com.

Information we collect

Information you provide

About the birthday field. Sharing a birthday is optional. The field starts empty, you can clear it at any point during signup, and you can create and use an Amice account without ever entering one. When you do share it, we record only the month and year — never the day — and the picker offers only dates consistent with Amice's minimum age of 13, set out in our Terms. The value is stored privately on your account. It is never shown to other users, never sold or shared with advertisers, and never used for advertising, ad targeting, or profiling.

Information we collect automatically

Information from links you save

When you choose to save a link, Amice sends the URL and the page content needed to classify it through our backend and Google Vertex AI (Gemini). We store the URL and resulting metadata (such as title, image, description, recipe ingredients, or catalog identifiers) to create your saved item and, where applicable, a shared catalog record. We do not store a separate full copy of the source page as part of the normal save flow.

Images you choose to scan or upload

Scanning (optional, on by default). When you choose to scan an image, it is downscaled and sent through our backend to Google Vertex AI (Gemini) to identify its contents. This only ever happens for an image you have specifically asked Amice to identify — we do not scan your photo library, and we do not scan images in the background. Image processing is enabled by default; you can turn it off at any time under Settings → Preferences → AI Image Processing, after which scanning stops working and nothing else in Amice is affected. Turning it off is remembered and is never re-enabled for you. The scanned image is not promoted into Amice's public image catalog.

Safety screening (always applied). Images you upload — including profile, folder, saved-item, place, recipe, circle, and response photos — are first placed in owner-only moderation storage and screened for objectionable content by Google Vertex AI (Gemini) before they can be published at their final location. This screening is a condition of posting content that other people can see, so it is not optional and is not covered by the scanning permission above. It is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping Amice safe and meeting our platform obligations. An approved staging copy is deleted after publication; a held image remains private for moderation and is removed by account deletion.

How we use information

Privacy of folders and lists

Amice has both public and private folders. The privacy setting controls who can see what:

You can change a folder's privacy at any time.

Sharing with third parties

We do not sell your personal information. We share data with vendors who run the infrastructure Amice depends on, only to the extent each vendor needs to provide its service:

When you save a link, the link and the content of that page are processed by Google Vertex AI (Gemini) to classify it. With your image-processing permission, selected scans are sent to Gemini for visual identification and selected uploads are sent for safety screening before publication. Results may be enriched with public catalog data from TMDb, Google Books, Google Places / Maps, and a product-image search provider. These services receive the content needed to fulfill the requested scan, screening, or lookup, not your identity beyond that request.

We may also disclose information when required by law, to enforce our Terms, or to protect the safety of our users.

Data retention

We keep your account data for as long as your account exists. When Amice accepts a deletion request from Settings → Delete Account, the app confirms acceptance and signs you out. Active-system cleanup usually completes within a few minutes; automatic retries may take up to about 3 hours. We remove your profile, folders, lists, and saved items from our active systems. Some records (for example abuse logs, subscription lineage needed to prevent purchase fraud, crash diagnostics, backups, or legally required records) may persist for a limited period before being purged on their normal retention cycle. Previously processed aggregate analytics reports may not be reversible to an individual account.

Your rights and choices

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region with comparable laws, you also have the right to object to or restrict certain processing, and to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. Our legal bases for processing are performance of our contract with you, your consent (where applicable), and our legitimate interests in operating and improving Amice.

Children

Amice is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has created an account, email us and we will remove it.

International transfers

Amice runs on Google Cloud and Firebase infrastructure. Your data may be processed in countries other than the one you live in, including the United States. Where required, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent safeguards.

Security

Connections to Amice use TLS. Firestore and Cloud Storage access is gated by per-user security rules. No system is perfectly secure — if you believe your account has been compromised, contact us immediately.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the app evolves. When we make material changes we will update the date at the top and, where appropriate, notify you in the app.

Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints: amice.app.support@gmail.com.

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