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Privacy policy
Obsession is built so that your collection stays yours. This policy covers the Obsession apps for iPhone and Android, and this website, published by Big Helpers Software and Solutions Private Limited ("Big Helpers", "we").
The short version
We don't receive your collection data. There's no account, no advertising and no tracking, and we run no analytics of our own. Your photos, stickers, notes, prices and dates are stored only on your device. We can't see them.
The only exceptions are two optional features, Bragging rights and Your nickname. They send nothing until you agree. After that, they send a few names to our server and to AI services each time they look something up. Here's exactly what they send.
On Android, the sticker cut-out uses Google's ML Kit, which sends Google a small amount of diagnostic information. It never includes your photos, notes or prices.
What the app stores on your device
- Photos you take or pick, and the stickers made from them
- The names, descriptions, reasons, prices and dates you enter, and why you love each thing
- Your loves: how many times you've loved each thing. Since version 1.1 the love heart replaces the 1 to 5 rating, and old ratings became loves.
- Your duel results and your settings, such as whether flashbacks and sounds are on
- Bragging rights write-ups and videos, nickname suggestions you asked for, and the nickname you wear
All of this stays in the app's private storage on your phone. Deleting the app removes its local storage; copies in device backups or exported files are managed separately.
Camera, photos and motion
The app asks for the camera so you can photograph your things. It asks to add to your photo library only when you save a share card, collage or reel. To capture a spin, it reads the phone's motion sensors while you walk around an object. Photos you choose from your library are copied into the app; the app does not read the rest of your library.
Cutting out the background
Turning a photo into a sticker happens on your device. On iPhone this uses Apple's built-in Vision framework. On Android it uses Google's ML Kit subject segmentation, whose model is delivered and run by Google Play services on your phone; the photo is not uploaded.
Diagnostics sent by Google ML Kit (Android only)
ML Kit sends Google a small amount of diagnostic information so Google can keep the feature working: device and app details, an installation identifier, performance figures, the feature version and error codes. It never includes your photos, notes or prices. Google encrypts it in transit, uses it only for diagnostics and analytics, and doesn't pass it to third parties. See Google's ML Kit data disclosure and Google's privacy policy. We don't receive this information.
Fonts on Android
The Android app asks Google Play services for its two typefaces, Bricolage Grotesque and Figtree, through Android's downloadable fonts. Google Play services fetches them from Google if your phone doesn't have them yet. The request names only the fonts, nothing from your collection. Until they arrive, the app uses your phone's own fonts. The iPhone app uses the system fonts.
Sharing
When you share a card, collage or reel, the app hands that image or video to the app you choose (for example Messages, WhatsApp or Instagram) through your phone's share sheet. What happens next is governed by that app's own policy. Nothing is shared unless you tap share.
Bragging rights and Your nickname (optional)
Neither feature sends anything until you agree: the first time you use each one, the app shows exactly what will be sent and asks for your permission. You can turn Bragging rights off at any time in Settings › Bragging rights. Your nickname sends something only when you ask it for names.
Bragging rights finds the best things the web says about one of your possessions, with their sources and a few YouTube videos. When you ask, the app sends our server the possession's name and description, the name of its obsession, the exact product if you picked or typed one, and the app's language.
Automatic look-ups. Once you've agreed, the setting Look up new ones automatically is on. Each new possession you shelve is then looked up once, as soon as it has a name, and sends the same things. You can turn this off in Settings › Bragging rights.
Your nickname suggests five flattering nicknames. When you ask, the app sends our server the names of your obsessions, how many things are in each, the year each began, up to eight possession names for each obsession, your collector type and the app's language.
Never sent: your photos or stickers, prices, dates (other than the year an obsession began), why you bought or love something, your journal, places, or your loves. Your nickname never sends descriptions. Each request also carries a random install ID that the app makes up. We use it only to apply daily limits; it isn't linked to you, to an account or to your device's identifiers.
Who processes it:
- Our server (Big Helpers, bighelpers.in) receives the request, passes it to the AI services below and sends the answer back to your phone. It doesn't keep what you sent or what came back. To apply the daily limits it keeps a count per day for each install ID and internet address, stored under one-way hashed names and deleted automatically after a few days. Its own logs record only counts and outcomes, never names, descriptions or your install ID, and are deleted after about 30 days. As with any website, the web server's standard access log records the internet address and time of each request, but not what was sent.
- Google Gemini with Google Search (Google) searches the web, writes the Bragging rights note from what it finds and finds the videos. It receives the product's name, the obsession's name and your name for the possession. When DeepSeek is unavailable, Gemini also does DeepSeek's two jobs below and receives what DeepSeek would have. Google handles this under the Gemini API terms and Google's privacy policy. With each note the app shows Google's search suggestions; tapping one opens Google Search in your browser.
- DeepSeek, an AI company, works out the exact product from the name and description you look up, and suggests the nicknames from the names you send. DeepSeek processes and stores data on servers in the People's Republic of China. See DeepSeek's privacy policy.
- YouTube: our server asks YouTube for each video's title and channel, which sends nothing about you. When the app shows a video, your phone loads its thumbnail picture straight from YouTube's image servers (ytimg.com), which see your internet address, as with any picture on the web. When you play a video, it plays from YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com) and YouTube's privacy policy applies.
Where the results are kept: write-ups, videos and nicknames come back to your phone and are stored only there, like the rest of your collection. Our server keeps no copy. You can clear saved write-ups in Settings, and take a nickname off at any time. The AI features page explains both features in more detail.
Reminders
If you turn on flashbacks, the app schedules local notifications on your phone. No notification server is involved.
Backups
Your phone's own backup (iCloud Backup or Google's Android backup) may include the app's data if you have backups turned on. Those backups belong to your Apple or Google account and are covered by their policies. We can't access them.
How to delete your data
Everything Obsession keeps is on your phone, so you're in control of it.
- Delete the app. This removes everything it stored on your phone: photos, stickers, notes, prices, dates, loves, write-ups and nicknames.
- Clear saved write-ups. In Settings › Bragging rights, tap Clear saved write-ups to remove every Bragging rights write-up from your phone. Turning off Look things up hides Bragging rights everywhere.
- Take your nickname off. Tap the profile button at the top of Home, open your nickname and tap Take it off.
- Device backups. Delete Obsession's data from your iCloud or Google account's backup settings. Files you saved or shared, such as share cards, collages and reels, stay wherever you put them until you delete them there.
On our side there's nothing about you to delete. Our server keeps no copy of what you sent or what came back; its daily counts are deleted automatically after a few days and its logs after about 30 days, and none of them hold your names or descriptions.
Children
Obsession is intended for adults and is not directed at children. The Android SDK diagnostics and the optional Bragging rights and nickname features described above still apply.
This website
This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics or ads. It loads nothing from other sites: every page, picture, font and video comes from obsession.bighelpers.in itself. Like any website, the server that hosts it keeps standard access logs (internet address, time, page requested and browser) to keep it running and secure. If you email us, we use your message and address only to reply.
Changes
If a future version adds a feature that sends data off your device, such as optional AI-made videos, we'll update this policy before that version is released and describe exactly what is sent and why. The date at the top shows when this policy last changed.
Contact
Questions about privacy: admin@bighelpers.in
Big Helpers Software and Solutions Private Limited