This policy explains how Azorean Studios LLC (“we”, “us”) handles information in the SoMi iPhone app and on azorean.io. It applies to the app and this website, and to nothing else.
The short version: SoMi stores the account information needed to sign you in and the check-ins, notes, tags and practice history you choose to save. Limited product analytics and crash diagnostics help us improve the app. SoMi has no ads or advertising trackers, and we do not sell your data. You can permanently delete your account and practice history from the app.
1. What we collect
Account information
When you create an account we store an account identifier and either the email address you registered with, or the identifier Apple provides when you use Sign in with Apple. If you choose Apple’s Hide My Email option, we only ever receive Apple’s relay address — not your real one.
Sign in with Apple also offers to share your name. If you let it, we store that name and use it to greet you on the home screen. Editing it to something else at the Apple prompt, or leaving it blank, is fine — the app works the same either way.
Passwords for email accounts are handled by our authentication provider and stored only as salted hashes. We never see or store your password in readable form.
Practice information you enter
This is the data SoMi exists to hold. It is stored against your account so that the app can show you your own history:
- Check-ins. The energy and safety values you set on the state map, recorded as two numbers from 0 to 100, before and after a session.
- Somatic tags. Any experience tags you select at check-out, such as sighing, shaking, warmth or laughter.
- Journal notes. Free text you choose to write. This is optional and always initiated by you.
- Session records. Which exercises played, in what order, for how many seconds, and when the session happened. These drive your calendar, minutes and completion stats. Your check-in history drives your attendance streak; completed Daily Flows remain recorded separately.
Some of this describes your body and your state, so we treat it as health-related information you have given us. SoMi never reads from Apple Health, and none of it goes to any advertiser.
Usage and diagnostic information
- Product analytics. Usage events are linked to an account identifier and analyzed to understand patterns such as completion and drop-off. They do not contain your email, journal text or actual tags.
- Crash and error reports. These may include the device model, operating system version and app version, along with your account identifier and email address, so we can tell who hit the problem and follow up. Passwords, tokens and journal entries are stripped before a report is sent.
- Performance timings. On a small share of sessions we record how long the app took to start, render a screen or finish a request, so we can find what is slow.
What we do not collect
- SoMi does not request access to your device’s GPS location. Service providers may process an IP address when delivering the app and its services.
- No contacts, photos, calendar or health-app data. SoMi does not read from Apple Health.
- No microphone or camera access. The app plays audio and video; it does not record any.
- No advertising identifiers, and no third-party advertising SDKs.
- No payment information. SoMi is free and has no in-app purchases.
2. How we use it
| Information | Why we have it |
|---|---|
| Account identifier and email | To sign you in and keep your practice history attached to you |
| Check-ins, tags and journal notes | To show you your own history and to shape the flow the app composes for you; check-ins also calculate your attendance streak |
| Session records | To show your calendar, minutes, completed Daily Flows and completion stats |
| Analytics events | To understand completion and drop-off patterns so we can improve the app |
| Crash reports | To find and fix bugs |
We do not use your information to build advertising profiles, and we do not run automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
3. Legal bases (UK and EEA users)
Where the UK GDPR or EU GDPR applies, we rely on: contract for account and practice data, because without it the app cannot function; and legitimate interests for analytics and crash reporting, to keep the app working and improve it. For the health-related parts of a check-in we rely on your explicit consent, which you give by entering it and can withdraw by deleting your account. You can object to processing based on legitimate interests at any time by writing to connect@azorean.io.
4. Who else processes your data
We use service providers for hosting, authentication, data storage, product analytics, crash reporting, app distribution and Sign in with Apple. They process information for us to operate and improve SoMi and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.
We may also disclose information if we are legally required to, or to protect the rights and safety of our users or ourselves.
5. International transfers
We are based in Los Angeles, California, and our providers process data in the United States. If you use SoMi from outside the United States, your information will be transferred there. Where required, our providers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent safeguards for these transfers.
6. How long we keep it
Account and practice data is kept for as long as your account exists, because its whole purpose is to be your history. When you delete your account we delete it — see the next section. Analytics and crash reports are kept by our service providers on rolling retention windows. You can contact us if you want those records included in a deletion request.
7. Your rights and your controls
You can, at any time:
- Delete your account and practice history from inside the app, in two taps from the Profile tab. This is a permanent deletion, not a deactivation. Step-by-step instructions are on our account deletion page.
- Ask for a copy of your data, or ask us to correct something, by emailing connect@azorean.io.
- Object to or restrict analytics processing by emailing us.
- Withdraw consent where we relied on it, without affecting processing that already happened.
We answer requests within 30 days. If you are in the UK or EEA you also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. If you are a California resident, you have the rights described in the CCPA/CPRA to know, delete, and correct your personal information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising them. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under California law.
8. Children
SoMi’s practices may be used by people of all ages. Account creation is for people age 13 and older, or older where local law requires a higher minimum age. Parents and guardians may guide younger children through SoMi using the adult’s own account. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe a child under 13, or under a higher applicable age where they live, has given us personal information, write to connect@azorean.io and we will delete it.
9. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect your information, including encryption in transit and access controls. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page. For material changes we will also notify you in the app before the change takes effect.
11. Contact
Azorean Studios LLC
Los Angeles, CA 90012, United States
connect@azorean.io