Privacy policy
Last updated 3 September 2026
We cannot read your notes, photos, files, voice notes or location. They are encrypted on your phone before they are sent, using keys that exist only on your device and on the devices of people you have explicitly chosen. This is not a policy we could change without rebuilding the app.
Who operates Breeze
Breeze is operated by Zovia Studio LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, on behalf of the organisation that holds the account for the service. Zovia Studio LLC operates the domain, the web hosting and the text messaging account used by Breeze.
Contact: privacy@breezecircles.com
What we cannot see
The following are encrypted on your device before they leave it. We hold only the locked version and no key that opens it:
- Notes, and any text you write
- Photos and files you add
- Voice notes
- Your location, including any location shared during an alert
- Calendar entries you create in the app
- The names or labels you give to the people you add
Neither Zovia Studio LLC nor the organisation holding the account can decrypt any of it. Nor can anyone who obtains a copy of our database.
What we do hold, and can see
Some information has to remain readable so the service can function at all, principally so that a text message can be addressed to the right phone:
- Mobile numbers of the contacts you add, so messages can be sent to them
- Your email address, used only to sign you in
- Who is connected to whom, so messages reach the right people
- Timestamps of events, such as when a check-in was set or a message sent
- Basic technical records needed to deliver messages and operate the service
We do not know what any of those events contained, only that they happened and when.
Text messages and your mobile information
No mobile information is shared with or sold to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent are not shared with any third party.
Mobile numbers are passed to our messaging provider for the sole purpose of delivering the messages you ask Breeze to send. They are not used for marketing, are not sold, and are not shared with anyone else.
Message frequency
Message frequency varies and is determined entirely by the person using the app. Breeze sends a message only when a user asks it to, and sends no scheduled, recurring or automated marketing messages of any kind. Most recipients receive very few messages.
Costs
Message and data rates may apply. Breeze does not charge for receiving messages; your mobile carrier's normal rates apply.
Stopping messages
Reply STOP to any message to stop receiving them, or HELP for help. See Text messages for the full detail of what Breeze sends and how to stop it.
What we never collect
- We do not use analytics or advertising software in the app
- We do not track you across other apps or websites
- We do not request access to your contacts
- We do not sell any information about you to anyone, for any purpose
Service providers
Breeze runs on infrastructure operated by others. These providers hold only the encrypted form of your content, and no key to it:
- Google Firebase, for storage and account sign-in
- Twilio, for sending text messages
- Cloudflare, for web hosting
How long we keep things
- Your history is kept for a period you choose in the app. The default is 90 days.
- Location shared during an alert stops being recorded when the alert period ends, and the recorded points are deleted.
- If you do not open the app for 60 days, your history is deleted. A reminder is sent at 50 days.
Deleting everything
You can delete your account from inside the app, in one step, with no questions asked. Deletion destroys the keys first, which makes your content permanently unreadable immediately, before any data is erased. The data is then erased.
Full instructions are on the Delete your account page.
Your rights
You can export your own records from your phone at any time. Because your content is encrypted with keys we do not hold, an export can only be produced on your own device, and no request to us could produce a readable copy.
For anything else, write to privacy@breezecircles.com.
Legal requests
If we receive a legal demand for data, we will respond as the law requires. What we are able to produce is limited to what we hold, which does not include any key capable of decrypting your content. We will not volunteer data absent a valid legal demand.
Children
Breeze is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it.