Privacy Policy

Health Data (Auric app)

This section applies to the Auric app. When you connect the app to Health Connect on Android or Apple Health on iPhone, we read health data only with your permission.

What we read

• Sleep sessions and sleep stages, on Android and iPhone. We never read activity data, and the Android app reads no other health data.
• When you start setting up a Sleep Goal, or the app connects or reconnects to your health data while a goal is active, we read and upload up to the last 28 days of sleep. While your Sleep Goal is active, we also read and upload the last two days, at most once a day when you open the app. When your goal ends, uploads stop. The Wellness tab also reads your last 28 days directly on your phone to show your Sleep insights; that read is not uploaded.
• On iPhone, version 1.5.0 of the app also reads heart rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability and breathing (respiratory) rate, and uploads daily while Apple Health stays connected, whether or not you have a Sleep Goal. That heart and breathing data is stored and summarised on our servers but is not shown in the app, not used to choose or time rituals, and not sent to Anthropic. The next iPhone update reads sleep only and stops uploads when you have no active goal. Data already uploaded is kept with your account and deleted with it.

How we use it

We use your sleep data only to:

• Choose and time your Sleep Goal rituals: a wind-down ritual on your Auric diffuser before your usual bedtime, and a wake ritual at your usual wake time
• Keep those ritual times in step as your sleep patterns change
• Show your Sleep insights in the app (worked out on your phone)

Where it goes

• Your health data is sent over an encrypted connection to Auric’s servers, hosted by Amazon Web Services, where it is stored and summarised per night.
• We do not sell health data or share it with third parties, except service providers that process it for us: Amazon Web Services (hosting and storage) and Anthropic (an AI model that helps choose and time your Sleep Goal rituals). Of your health data, Anthropic receives only a summary of your typical bedtime, wake time and sleep length (and sleep efficiency, if available), how many nights it is based on and how recent they are, never your raw sleep records. To choose a ritual it also receives your goals, oil preferences, sensitivities and allergies, recent rituals and how you rated them, and questionnaire answers.
• We never use health data for advertising, marketing or third-party analytics, or to decide credit, insurance, employment or eligibility.
• Auric staff see your health data only to fix a problem you report, for security, or when the law requires it.

Keeping and deleting it

We keep your health data while your account is open. When you delete your account in the app (Settings → Delete My Account), we delete your health data from our servers. You can also ask us to delete it at any time by emailing info@auricnow.com.

Revoking access in the Health Connect app on Android, or in the Health app’s privacy settings on iPhone, stops new reads but does not remove data already uploaded.