VIBE Privacy Policy

What stays on your phone (never sent to us)

• "Hey Zero" listening: the wake phrase is recognized on the phone by an offline engine. Nothing is sent while Zero is only waiting for his name. "Hey Zero" is off until you turn it on.
• Contacts: when you ask Zero to call or text someone, the name is matched to a number on the phone. Your contact list is never uploaded.
• App safety scan: your installed apps are checked on the phone against a public list of known stalkerware. Your app list is not sent anywhere.
• Network filtering: VIBE's ad and tracker filter runs on the phone using Android's VPN interface and checks website names against block lists locally. We do not receive your browsing history.
• Call screening and notification filtering: decisions are made on the phone from your rules. We do not receive your calls, messages or notifications.
• Radio likes, AI DJ mixes, app choices and settings: stored only on the phone.
• Private Tor browser: history, cookies and cache are kept only for the session and cleared when you end it.

What we process on our servers (only if you use these features)

• Account: your email address and a user ID (Firebase Authentication) when you sign in.
• Subscription: Google Play purchase tokens to confirm VIBE Pro. Google Play handles payment; we never see card details.
• Zero's hearing: when you talk to Zero (after "Hey Zero", a tap, or the phone's assistant button), the audio of what you say is streamed to Deepgram to turn it into words. VIBE does not keep the audio. Deepgram processes it under its own privacy terms.
• Zero AI: when Zero can't handle a request on the phone, the words of that request are sent to our server and to Anthropic (Claude) to produce a reply, together with your phone's time zone and country so answers fit where you are. For live questions (for example weather or news) Claude may run a web search for that request. A random ID for your install is used to keep a daily usage counter; we keep the counter, not the words.
• Community (optional): your display name, messages you post, progress you choose to share, and reports or blocks you make.
• App integrity: Firebase App Check / Google Play Integrity confirms requests come from the genuine app.

Other services your phone connects to directly

• Radio stations you play (their servers see your IP address unless Hide my IP is on).
• The Tor network, through VIBE's built-in Tor, when you use Hide my IP or the private browser.
• check.torproject.org and api.country.is, to show whether you are on Tor and its country.
• A public DNS-over-HTTPS resolver for encrypted DNS lookups while the filter is on.
• Your phone's speech service (for example Speech Services by Google), only if Zero's hearing service is unavailable, to understand what you say.
• GitHub (raw.githubusercontent.com), weekly, to download the public stalkerware list for the app safety scan.
• FCC public complaint data, downloaded for spam-call lists.
• Google Play, if you tap "Private calls & texts" to get the Signal app.

No ads, no selling

VIBE has no advertising and does not sell or share personal data for advertising.

Permissions

Each permission is explained in the app and is only used for its feature: microphone (talking to Zero), contacts and phone calls (only when you ask Zero to call or text someone), notifications, call screening, notification access (quiet alerts), music files (AI DJ, matched on the phone), and VPN (local filter and Hide my IP). You can decline any of them and keep using the rest of VIBE.

Retention and account deletion

Delete your account any time in VIBE (Settings → Subscription → Delete my account), or email adzerotechnologies@gmail.com from your account email. Deleting removes your account, profile, community posts and shared progress within 30 days. Purchase records may be kept as required for tax and fraud prevention. Cancel a subscription in Google Play; deleting the account does not cancel it.

Children

VIBE is not directed to children under 13.

Security

Data sent to our servers travels over TLS. Server access requires a verified copy of the app.

Contact

AdZero Technologies · adzerotechnologies@gmail.com