Privacy — how Me After You handles your data

Beta draft. Care, not fear, applies here too.

Me After You exists so the people you love are never left guessing. That only works if you trust us with what you share. This page explains, honestly and in plain language, what we collect today, why, and what you can do about it.

What we store

Your household's Life Map — the accounts, bills, policies, assets, contacts, and instructions you and your household add — is stored as structured data in our database (hosted on Supabase, in the UK). It is protected by row-level security, so it's only ever visible to the people your household has invited in.

We also store, as part of running the service:

• Your account details — name, email, and how you signed in (we never see or store your password itself in readable form).
• Household membership — who's in your household, and in what role.
• Your Continuity Score and its components, so you can see your progress over time.
• A permanent activity record (an audit log) of sensitive actions — especially anything to do with Emergency Mode — so trust in the system is always verifiable.

Documents are encrypted before they ever leave your device

Any document you upload — a policy, a deed, a certificate — is encrypted on your own device (AES-256-GCM) before it is sent anywhere. It's stored as encrypted data, and only decrypted, in memory, when you (or someone with approved Emergency Mode access) open it.

We want to be honest about the limits of this, rather than overstate them: Me After You is not a fully "zero-knowledge" system in this beta. Our infrastructure is technically capable of accessing document contents — to help you if something goes wrong, or if we are legally required to. We are telling you this plainly rather than implying a stronger guarantee than we can prove.

We never store passwords — ever

Me After You never stores passwords, PINs, banking logins, or other credentials — not encrypted, not temporarily, not "just this once." If you try to save something that looks like a password or login, we refuse the save automatically and ask you to note instead where it lives (for example, "in my password manager"). This is enforced in the product itself, not just promised here.

AI-assisted document import

If you choose to photograph or upload a letter or document to have it turned into draft Life Map entries, that file is sent briefly to our AI provider (Anthropic's Claude) to read it and suggest entries. Nothing is added to your Life Map automatically — you review, edit, or skip every suggestion before it's saved. Anything that looks like a password or credential is stripped out before it's ever shown to you.

Named People and Emergency Mode

People you invite as Named People see nothing about your household's Life Map before Emergency Mode is activated — not even that it exists in detail. Emergency Mode is a manual, consent-based process: every request notifies your household, there's a waiting period before it can activate, and every view or download during Emergency Mode is permanently recorded in the audit log your household can see.

Who can see your data

Your household's members and Named People, according to their role — and nobody else, other than the small number of people who run Me After You, and only as needed to operate, secure, and support the service. We do not sell your data. We do not use your household's data for advertising. We do not use it to train third-party AI models.

Your rights

You can, at any time, from within the app:

• Edit or delete any Life Map item, document, or note.
• Export your data — your own profile information, or, if you're a household Owner, the full household's data.
• Remove yourself from a household, or delete your account entirely.
• Delete a household you own, which removes its data.

For anything our in-app tools don't yet cover, email [email protected] and we'll help directly — this is a beta, and we'd rather solve it by hand than leave you stuck.

Where your data lives

Application data is hosted with Supabase, in the UK. Document encryption and decryption happen on your own device. Some processing — like AI document import — briefly involves third-party providers (Anthropic for AI extraction, and email/push providers for notifications) strictly to run the feature you asked for.

Questions

This is a beta draft, written to be honest rather than complete. The finished, lawyer-reviewed policy will replace this page before public launch. Until then, questions, concerns, or requests go to [email protected].