Privacy Policy

Last updated 6 October 2026

Along is a private AI assistant for iPhone. It keeps a notebook of your days so it can answer questions about your life and help with things, with your OK. Your information is yours: it isn't sold, it isn't used for ads, and you can see, export or have any of it forgotten.

This policy covers the Along iPhone app, the Along service behind it, and the website getalong.day. Along is currently an invite-only beta.

What Along keeps

• Your account. Your name and email address from Sign in with Apple or Google, and a sign-in token for your phone.
• Your conversation. What you write or say to Along and its replies, including photos and files you share with it. Voice notes are turned into text on Along's own server; the audio isn't sent to any other company.
• Your notebook. Things you tell Along or that it learns from your conversation (people, places, preferences), your collections, reminders and plans.
• From your iPhone, only what you turn on (each is optional and can be turned off in Settings):
  • Calendar: your events, past and the next five weeks, from the calendars you choose.
  • Contacts: names, numbers, emails, addresses and birthdays.
  • Reminders: your lists, so Along can see, add and tick them off with your approval.
  • Health: a daily summary of sleep, steps and workouts.
  • Photos: only when and roughly where each photo was taken, so Along can find them. Your photos themselves stay on your iPhone.
  • Location: places you stay a while, and your rough position, so Along knows where you are and what's near. Rough positions are kept for 90 days; places you stayed are kept until you remove them.
• Google Calendar, only if you connect it: your events, to plan your week.

How Along uses it

Only to be your assistant: to answer you, remember your days, keep your notebook, and do what you ask, such as making a call or a booking. Along always asks before it spends, sends or books anything on your behalf. It never uses your information for advertising, never sells it, and never uses it to train AI models.

Along is quiet: it sends no notifications. What it has to tell you waits until you open the app.

Who else handles it

Along uses a few services to work. Each gets only what it needs for that job:

• Anthropic (Claude) writes Along's replies. The parts of your conversation and notebook needed to answer are sent to it each time. Anthropic does not train its models on data sent through its commercial API.
• Google Maps Platform looks up places, opening hours and travel times, which can include your location and the places you ask about.
• Retell places phone calls to businesses when you ask Along to call and approve it, with the brief you approved.
• Apple and Google sign you in. Along receives your name and email from them, and nothing else from your Apple or Google account unless you connect Google Calendar.
• Tailscale provides the encrypted private network your iPhone uses to reach Along.
• Cloudflare hosts this website and keeps the waitlist.

Along may share information if the law requires it. Otherwise it is never shared with anyone else.

Google user data

Along's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google sign-in gives Along your name and email to identify your account. If you connect Google Calendar, Along reads your events only to show your days and plan around them; they aren't used for ads, sold, or used to train AI models, and people don't read them except where you ask for help, for security, or as the law requires.

Where it's kept, and who can see it

Your information is kept on Along's own server, reached only over an encrypted connection, with each person's information kept apart. During the beta, the person who runs Along can technically access the server, and does so only to keep it running, fix problems you report, or as the law requires. Backups, where they're made, are deleted after 14 days.

Your choices

• See it: your notebook in the app shows everything Along keeps about you and where each part came from.
• Take it: export your notebook any time as plain notes.
• Correct or forget it: tap anything in your notebook and tell Along, or just ask in the conversation.
• Stop sharing: turn off calendar, contacts, reminders, Health, photos or location in Along's settings or your iPhone's settings.
• Delete your account: email [email protected]. Your account and everything Along keeps about you are deleted within 30 days.

The website

getalong.day sets no cookies. It counts visits with a one-way code made from your network address and browser that changes daily, so visitors can't be followed from day to day. If you join the waitlist, your email (and any note you add) is kept to invite you, and for nothing else. Ask and it's removed.

Children

Along isn't meant for children under 13 and doesn't knowingly keep information about them as users.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it; anything that matters is also said in the app before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions or requests: [email protected].