Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 2, 2026
1. Who we are
Synapse is a personal social-memory app for iOS and Android, made by Mina Logic (“we,” “us”), that helps you remember the people you meet and reconnect with them. This policy explains what the app accesses, how that information is used, and the choices you have. If you have questions, contact us at info@minalogicgh.com.
2. Our approach: on-device first
Synapse is designed to keep your data on your device. The app builds a local “memory” of the people you meet by fusing context that is already on your phone. This processing happens locally. We do not require you to sign in, and by default your encounters and people are stored only on your device.
3. Information the app accesses
Synapse only accesses the following with your explicit, in-context permission, and only to provide the feature you’re using:
Location — foreground only
- Used only while the app is open to anchor an encounter to a place you’ll remember (e.g. “the rooftop in Bushwick”).
- Synapse does not request or use background location, and does not track your movements.
Photos & media
- Around the time you capture an encounter, Synapse looks at photos taken in that window to match those moments to the people you met, and to group faces on-device.
- Your photos stay on your device. They are not uploaded to us.
Contacts — picker-first
- Synapse adds only the specific people you choose via the system contact picker. It never reads or uploads your entire address book.
Camera — business-card scanning
- If you scan a business card, the camera image is processed by on-device text recognition to read the card. Neither the image nor the recognized text is uploaded; you review the result before a person is saved.
Calendar — one event at a time
- If you capture from a calendar event, Synapse reads only the event you pick (its time, location, and attendees) to create that encounter. It does not scan or monitor your calendar.
Shared links & clipboard
- If you share a LinkedIn or Instagram profile into Synapse, or tap “Paste link” during capture, the app parses only that link, on-device, to extract the handle and a name guess. The clipboard is read only when you tap the paste button, never automatically.
Notifications — local
- The weekly recap and reconnect reminders are local notifications scheduled on your device. There is no push-notification server, and you can turn them off in Settings.
Information you create
- Encounters, people, notes, tags, and the signals you save. This is stored locally on your device.
4. How information is used
- To create and organize your encounters and the people in them.
- To let you search and browse by where and when, and on a map.
- To suggest likely-same people and who else was present (you confirm or dismiss every suggestion).
- To surface “things to know” and help you reconnect.
We do not use your information for advertising, and we do not sell or rent it.
5. “Things to know” enrichment
Some facts shown on a person’s profile are derived from your own data (such as a handle you saved or how often you’ve crossed paths) and are computed on your device.
Synapse+ additionally offers web lookups, which are off by default and enabled only if you turn them on in Settings → Privacy. When you run a lookup, the identifying details you have already saved about that person (their name, and where available a company, social handle, LinkedIn profile slug, or email domain) are sent to Google’s Gemini API with web-search grounding to find publicly available facts. Each returned fact links to its source, passes a confidence check against the details you saved, and is shown as a suggestion — nothing is added to a profile until you confirm it. You can turn lookups off at any time, and they are never used to profile people for advertising. See Google’s privacy policy for how Google processes API requests.
6. Purchases (Synapse+)
If you choose to subscribe to Synapse+, the purchase is processed by Apple App Store or Google Play, and we use RevenueCat to validate and manage your subscription status. These providers may process limited purchase and device identifiers to complete and restore your purchase. We do not receive your full payment-card details. See RevenueCat’s privacy policy, Apple’s, and Google’s.
7. Sharing & disclosure
We do not sell your personal information. We only share information where strictly necessary to operate the features above — the opt-in web lookups in Section 5 and the purchase providers in Section 6 — or where required by law.
8. Data storage & retention
Your encounters and people are stored locally on your device. They remain until you delete them — individually, or all at once via Settings → Delete all data — or uninstall the app, which removes the local data it stored.
9. Your choices & rights
- Permissions: grant or revoke Location, Photos, Contacts, Camera, and Calendar access at any time in your device Settings. Denying a permission simply turns off that feature; the app still works.
- Access & export: export everything the app stores from Settings inside the app.
- Deletion: delete individual people or encounters in-app, delete everything via Settings → Delete all data, or remove all local data by uninstalling the app.
10. Children
Synapse is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your region), and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the app evolves. We’ll revise the “Last updated” date above and, for material changes, provide a more prominent notice.
12. Contact
Questions, requests, or concerns? Email info@minalogicgh.com.