Privacy Policy
Resilience Labs PTY LTD is founded on a commitment to trust, transparency, and the protection of your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, manage and safeguard your personal information when you use our Breakup Resilience App, our website at https://www.resilienceofman.com, or our other services.
1. Introduction
Resilience Labs PTY LTD ("Resilience", "we," "our," or "us") is founded on a commitment to trust, transparency, and the protection of your privacy. For the purpose of data protection law, Resilience is the data controller of your personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, manage and safeguard your personal information when you use our "Breakup Resilience App" (the "App"), our website at https://www.resilienceofman.com (the "Website"), or our other services (collectively, the "Services").
Our goal is to provide you with clear, accessible information about your data and your rights, empowering you to make informed choices. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, you should not use our Services.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Information You Provide to Us Directly
This is information that you knowingly and actively provide to us when using our Services.
- Account and Profile Information: When you sign up for an account with the App, we collect your first name, last name, email, country, and time zone.
- Sensitive User Content: Our App is designed to help you navigate relationship breakups. To do this, we collect the information you voluntarily provide in your journal entries, your answers to prompts and quizzes, and other content you generate within the App. We understand this information is deeply personal and sensitive, and we treat it with the highest level of care and confidentiality. If you withdraw your explicit consent for this processing, the App will no longer function. You may withdraw consent only by deleting your account, at which point all related sensitive User Content will be permanently deleted within the timelines set out in Section 6.2.
- Newsletter and Communications: We collect your email address when you sign up for our newsletter. We also collect any information you provide when you contact us for customer support, send us feedback, or communicate with us in any other way.
- Payment Information: We use the third-party service Payhip to process payments for our Services. When you make a purchase, you will be directed to Payhip's secure platform to provide your payment details (such as credit card number, name, and billing address). This information is provided directly to Payhip and is subject to their privacy policy. We do not collect, store, or have access to your full credit card information. We do, however, receive transactional information from Payhip, which may include your name, email address, the date of the transaction, and what you purchased, to confirm your payment and grant you access to the Services.
2.2 Information We Collect Automatically
When you access our Services, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and your usage.
- Usage Data: We use services such as Google Analytics to better understand how you interact with our Website and App. This may include details about the features you use, the pages you visit, the dates and times of your visits, and how long you spend on each page. We rely on pseudonymous identifiers, which are classified as personal data under the GDPR. We process this information based on your consent, which you can manage at any time through our website’s cookie banner or within the App settings.
- Device and Technical Information: We collect information from your device, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, and device identifiers.
- Crash and Performance Data: We use Sentry to help us identify and fix bugs, crashes, and other performance issues in the App. To do this, Sentry may collect logs and technical data from your device. While we strive to prevent this, it is possible that some personal information from your User Content may be inadvertently included in these logs. We process this information based on our legitimate interest in maintaining a secure, stable, and reliable App.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies on our Website to operate and analyse our Services. You can learn more about how to manage cookies in your browser's settings.
2.3 Information Processed for Specific Purposes
- AI Analysis for App Improvement: With your explicit and separate consent, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse your User Content to identify patterns and insights that help us improve the App’s features and overall effectiveness.
Before analysis, we apply technical measures to remove or replace direct identifiers (such as names, contact details, or locations). The AI then paraphrases and summarises your entries to highlight common themes rather than individual details. Our internal experts only review these summaries, never your raw journal entries.
While these safeguards significantly reduce the risk of your information being linked back to you, complete anonymisation cannot be guaranteed, and there remains a small possibility of re-identification. Participation in this analysis is entirely optional, and you can withdraw your consent at any time without affecting your use of the App.
We have conducted a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) to assess and mitigate the risks associated with this AI processing.
3. Our Purposes and Lawful Bases for Processing Information
We only collect and use your personal information when we have a lawful reason to do so. Our purposes for processing your information and the legal bases we rely on are detailed below.
3.1 To Provide Our Core Services (Based on Contract and Explicit Consent)
Our primary purpose is to provide you with the journaling, educational, and wellness features of the App.
- Lawful Basis (General Information): We process your Account Information (name, country, etc.) to fulfill our contract with you, as outlined in our Terms of Service. This is necessary to create your account and deliver the basic features of the App.
- Lawful Basis (Sensitive Information): Our App's core service is to provide you with a private platform for personal reflection through journaling and guided exercises. To deliver this service, it is necessary for you to provide User Content, such as journal entries and quiz answers. As this information is sensitive by nature, we process it on the legal basis of your explicit consent. This consent is essential for the App to function, and for us to lawfully store and provide you with access to your personal content. Without it, the App cannot operate, and you must delete your account.
3.2 For Security and Performance (Based on Legitimate Interest)
We have a legitimate interest in ensuring our Services are stable, secure, and functioning correctly.
- Purpose: We use Sentry to monitor the App for bugs, crashes, and performance issues. This helps us diagnose and fix technical problems to provide you with a reliable service.
- Lawful Basis: We process the necessary technical and diagnostic data based on our legitimate interest in maintaining and securing a high-quality, functional application for our users.
3.3 For Service Improvement (Based on Your Optional Consent)
We are always looking for ways to make our App more effective. This type of processing is entirely optional and is not required to use the core features of the App.
- Purpose: The AI model generates pseudonymised and paraphrased versions of your entries to produce theme-based summaries. These summaries may be reviewed by internal experts to identify patterns that help us refine the App’s content and features.
- Safeguards: Direct identifiers are filtered before analysis. Experts only review paraphrased summaries, not raw entries. Access is restricted and logged, and all processing occurs on secure, controlled systems.
- Transparency: Although we take strong precautions, AI processing of sensitive text always carries a residual risk of re-identification. We disclose this risk openly so that you can make an informed choice.
- Your Rights: You are not required to consent to this processing. If you do not opt in, you can still use all core features of the App. You may also withdraw your consent at any time without affecting your ability to use the App.
- Lawful Basis: We will only perform this analysis with your explicit, specific, and optional opt-in consent. To be clear: This is separate from the consent required for the core journaling service. The App remains fully functional if you choose not to consent. Our internal expert will only ever see the paraphrased AI-generated summaries, never your raw, original journal entry. You can withdraw this specific consent at any time without affecting your use of the App.
3.4 For Communications and Legal Obligations
- Communications: We may use your contact information to respond to your inquiries or send important service updates, based on our legitimate interest in providing good customer service and keeping you informed.
- Legal Compliance: We may process any of your information where necessary to comply with a legal obligation, such as responding to a court order or lawful request from a government authority.
5. International Data Transfers
Our Services are global, and your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries other than your own, including the United States, where our service providers' servers may be located. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country.
However, we take steps to ensure your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it. When we transfer personal information from the European Economic Area (EEA), UK, or Switzerland to countries that have not been deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection, we rely on legally-provided transfer mechanisms, such as the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), to ensure your data is protected.
We use the following mechanisms for international data transfers:
- Payhip: SCCs
- Sentry: SCCs
- Heroku/AWS: SCCs
- Cloudflare: SCCs
By using our Services, you acknowledge that your personal information may be transferred to our facilities and to those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.
6. Data Security
We have implemented a range of security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. These measures include:
- Encryption: Your personal information is encrypted when in transit between your device and our servers (using TLS/SSL). We use a multi-layered approach to protect your data when it is at rest. In addition to standard platform-level encryption, your sensitive User Content is protected using application-level envelope encryption with the AES-256 standard. This advanced method provides a robust, additional layer of security designed to protect your private entries against unauthorised access.
- Access Controls: We limit access to your personal information to those employees and third-party service providers who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
- Secure Development: We build our Services with privacy and security principles in mind from the start.
While we are committed to securing your data, it is important to remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
6.2 Data Retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
- Account Information and User Content: We retain your account information and all User Content (such as journal entries and quiz answers) for as long as your account is active. This is necessary to provide you with the core functionality of the App. If you choose to delete your account, we will permanently delete this information within 30 days of account deletion.
- Other Information: We may retain other information, such as anonymised analytics data and crash logs, for a limited period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy (for example, 90 days for crash logs).
- Legal Requirements: We may be required to retain certain information for longer periods to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements. For example, records related to payments may be kept for several years as required by financial laws.
Once we no longer have a legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it.
7. Your Data Rights and Choices
We believe you should have control over your personal information. Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your data. We extend these rights to all our users globally.
Please note that our App's core functionality relies on our ability to process your personal information and User Content. As a result, exercising certain rights may affect or prevent your ability to use our Services.
- The Right to Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- The Right to Rectification: If you believe any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to request that we correct it.
- The Right to Erasure (The "Right to be Forgotten"): You have the right to request that we delete your personal information. The easiest way to do this is by deleting your account within the App's settings. Exercising this right will permanently erase your account and all associated content, and you will no longer be able to use the App.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we temporarily or permanently stop processing all or some of your personal information. Please be aware that if you request to restrict the processing of data essential to the App's function (such as your User Content), you will be unable to use our Services while the restriction is in place.
- The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request a copy of your personal information in an electronic, machine-readable format so you can transmit it to another service provider.
- The Right to Object: You have the right to object to us processing your personal information based on our legitimate interests (such as for security and performance monitoring). For processing that is based on your consent (like the core journaling feature), this right is best exercised by withdrawing your consent. If you object to or withdraw consent for the processing of data that is necessary for the App to function, you will no longer be able to use the Services.
- The Right to Withdraw Consent: With your explicit and separate consent, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze your User Content. This analysis is performed on data that has been pseudonymised, meaning direct identifiers like your name and email are removed, and your entries are paraphrased by a private AI to focus on themes rather than specific personal details. The purpose of this analysis is to identify patterns and insights that help us improve the App's content, features, and overall effectiveness for all users. You can withdraw your consent for this at any time.
How to Exercise Your Rights
You can exercise some of these rights directly through the settings in your account. For any requests you cannot fulfill yourself, or for any questions about your rights, please contact us using the details in the "How to Contact Us" section below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Right to Lodge a Complaint
If you have a concern about how we handle your personal information, we hope you will contact us first to allow us to resolve it. However, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a relevant data protection supervisory authority in your country of residence.
8. Children's Privacy
Our Services are not intended for or directed at individuals under the age of 18 ("Minors"). We do not knowingly collect personal information from Minors, and we require users to be at least 18 years of age to create an account.
If you are a parent or guardian and you believe your child has created an account and provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately using the details in the "How to Contact Us" section below.
To protect the privacy of our users and prevent false reports, we will require you to provide sufficient information for us to verify your identity and your parental relationship to the child. You will also need to provide the specific account information (such as the email address used for registration) so we can locate the account.
Upon receiving a verifiable request, we will send a notification to the email address associated with the account in question to inform the user of the pending deletion. If the request is not contested by the account holder within a specified grace period, we will then proceed with the permanent deletion of the account and all associated information. This verification process will not require or involve our staff reading the private, encrypted content within the account.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you either by sending an email to the address associated with your account, through an in-app notification, or by posting the updated policy on this page with a new "Last Updated" date.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed. Your continued use of our Services after any changes come into effect will constitute your acceptance of the revised policy.
10. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, your data rights, or our privacy practices, please do not hesitate to contact us.
You can reach us by email at: [email protected]
For legal notices, our registered company is: Resilience Labs PTY LTD Australia