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    Privacy Policy

    This policy explains what information Specthrive collects, how we use it, and the controls you have. We've tried to write it the way we'd want a service holding our family's information to write it: in plain language, with the actual mechanics, and with honest limits.

    Effective May 9, 2026v1.0Read our Terms of Service

    Information we collect

    We collect what you give us — and only what you give us. There are no third-party trackers running on our app surfaces, and we do not buy data about you from data brokers.

    • Account information: name, email, password (hashed), authentication method (email, Google, Microsoft, Apple, or passkey), and the role you signed up under.
    • Profile content: profile name, age (if you provide it), pronouns, diagnoses, support needs, accommodation notes — whatever you choose to enter into the profiles you create or manage.
    • Plan content: plans, goals, milestones, tasks, tracker entries, calendar items, timeline events, activity feed posts, message threads, and files you upload.
    • Navi conversations: messages you send to Navi (our AI assistant) and Navi's responses, saved to your account so you can return to them and so Navi can use prior context within the same conversation.
    • Sharing graph: who you've invited, what they can see, and the audit trail of grants and revocations.
    • Operational data: request logs, error reports, performance metrics. These logs do not include the content of plans, goals, notes, messages, or other fields you fill in. A CI drift-guard test blocks the common log patterns that would interpolate user content; a handful of multi-line cases are audited manually until the guard is upgraded.

    Any of the content above may include health-related, behavioral, educational, or developmental information if that's what you're organizing. We treat that content as sensitive in the sections that follow.

    How we use it

    Your information is used to provide and improve the service you signed up for: organize your plans, surface the right resources, keep your team coordinated, send service-critical notifications, and run the platform safely.

    We do not sell your information. We do not rent your information. We do not use it to train AI models — neither ours nor any vendor's. We do not run advertising and we do not share data with advertising networks.

    AI features (Navi)

    Navi is Specthrive's AI assistant. It drafts goals, helps you interpret evaluations, and answers questions about your plans. Navi runs on Google Cloud's Vertex AI, using the Gemini family of models, in the United States (us-central1).

    Data flow

    You

    Send a message in Navi

    Plus the relevant open context (a plan, a document).

    Specthrive

    Server-side consent check

    If consent isn't granted, the call never goes out.

    Vertex AI · Gemini

    Generates the response

    Not used to train Google's models. Not shared further.

    When you use a Navi feature, the relevant context (your message, the open plan, the open document) is sent to Vertex AI as our processing subprocessor to generate the response. Vertex AI does not use your data to train Google's or anyone else's models. Any caching or short-term retention within Vertex AI is governed by Google Cloud's published data-handling policies. Your data is not sold or shared with parties beyond Google Cloud's processing infrastructure.

    You control which AI features see your data. Each AI capability has its own consent record that you can grant or revoke at any time from Settings → Privacy → AI features. When consent is not granted, the feature is unavailable — there's no degraded fallback that tries to slip through. The consent check fires server-side at every Vertex AI call site; there is no client-only path.

    Navi suggests; you choose what to act on. Navi never sends a message, edits a plan, or contacts a third party on your behalf without your explicit confirmation.

    Sharing with people you choose

    You decide who sees what. Sharing is per-profile and per-domain — you can give a coach access to plans and trackers, give a babysitter access only to the calendar, and keep documents and messages off-limits to everyone except yourself. Documents are never shared by default.

    When you share, we record what was granted, who granted it, and when. You can revoke access at any time; the revocation is also logged. People you share with see only what their grant allows; they don't see audit logs or the rest of your team. See Privacy & sharing: who sees what for the full breakdown.

    Service providers we rely on

    Specthrive runs on a small set of trusted infrastructure providers. We don't share your information beyond what these providers need to deliver the service.

    Subprocessors

    Google Cloud Platform

    BAA in place
    Hosts our application servers, databases, and AI workloads (Vertex AI / Gemini). We have a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) in place with Google for the infrastructure portion of our stack. United States region.

    Resend

    No PHI in email
    Sends our transactional and product email. Because we don't have a BAA with Resend, our email content is intentionally generic — we never put profile names, plan content, message bodies, or health information into emails. Notifications use placeholder copy plus a secure deep link back to the platform.

    Stripe (via Autumn)

    Payments
    Processes subscription and credit-pack payments. Stripe sees your payment method and email; we never see your full card number.

    PostHog

    Server-side only
    Captures a small set of de-identified product events from the backend (e.g. an authenticated user used a Navi AI feature, a plan-edit guard fired) so we can monitor regressions and usability. Events carry only internal UUIDs, counts, and event categories — never PHI, never message bodies, never document contents. Client-side analytics, autocapture, and session recording are not enabled today. We'll add explicit opt-out controls if we ever turn on client-side tracking.

    Security

    Data in transit is protected with TLS. Within our infrastructure, messages and uploaded documents are encrypted at rest using Fernet symmetric encryption with per-environment keys held in Google Cloud Secret Manager. Database backups inherit the same key boundary.

    Sensitive operations are audit-logged with the actor, action, target, IP address, and timestamp. Operational logs do not include user-entered content or authentication tokens. A CI drift-guard test fails on the common log patterns that would interpolate a request body, query params, or an auth header; remaining edge cases (multi-line log calls) are audited manually until the guard handles them. Multi-factor authentication is available on every account.

    HIPAA posture

    Specthrive is not a HIPAA-covered entity today and does not claim HIPAA compliance. We are not a clinical service, we do not bill insurance, and we do not act as a business associate to a covered entity through the consumer product. We process information that families choose to enter — including health-related notes — and we treat it carefully: encryption, access scoping, audit logging, no PHI in logs, no AI model training on user data, and a BAA in place for our cloud infrastructure.

    We are building toward clinical-grade compliance as the product grows into clinic workspaces, and we will surface that posture transparently as it ships rather than asserting compliance we haven't earned.

    Children’s data

    Specthrive is intended for use by adults coordinating care — including for children, dependents, and others they support. Children should not create their own accounts. When you create or manage a profile for a child, you are the controlling party for that profile's data and we record your guardian attestation accordingly.

    We do not knowingly collect information directly from children under 13. If you believe we have, contact privacy@specthrive.com and we'll delete it promptly.

    Your rights and choices

    You can:

    Five rights

    Access

    Your data directly through the app. Plans, goals, tracker entries, conversations, and team grants are all visible to you on the surfaces where they live.

    Export

    A copy of a profile's data as a downloadable archive from Settings → Privacy → Data rights.

    Correct

    Any information by editing it in the app. Corrections are tracked in the activity feed for the relevant domain.

    Delete

    A profile, conversation, plan, document, or your entire account by contacting privacy@specthrive.com. A self-serve deletion flow is in development. We'll respond within 30 days and confirm what was removed and what we retained for legal or security reasons (for example, audit records of consent decisions).

    Opt out of categories

    Of email and AI features any time from Settings → Privacy. These changes are honored immediately.

    State privacy laws (CCPA / CPRA, others)

    Residents of California and other US states with comprehensive privacy laws have additional rights to know, access, correct, delete, opt out of profiling, and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We do not sell or share your information for cross-context behavioral advertising. To exercise the other rights, the controls listed in Section 10 are the fastest path; you can also email privacy@specthrive.com.

    Not an emergency service

    Changes to this policy

    When we publish a materially updated version of this policy, the app will surface a re-acknowledgment prompt the next time you sign in. Non-material updates (typo fixes, clarifications without behavior change) update the version number but don't prompt for re-acknowledgment. The current version and effective date are at the top of this page.

    Contact

    Privacy

    Questions or requests: privacy@specthrive.com

    Security

    Support

    General questions: support@specthrive.com