Your Data & Deletion

1. What We Hold About You

Less than you might expect, and it is worth seeing the whole list in one place:

• Your email address — the only personal detail we have.
• Your account record — star name, galaxy, generated bio, quota counters, engagement counters, subscription state.
• Opaque Polar identifiers if you buy a plan or a pack (a customer ID, and a subscription ID if you subscribe), and a billing record of each purchase. No payment details.
• Your creations — prompts, images, names, traits, lore, and the lineage links between them.
• Support submissions you have sent, if any.
• A waitlist entry, if you joined one.
• A request to be emailed when a free spot opens, if you made one.

We do not hold your real name, your password, your payment details, your photograph, or a behavioral profile. The Privacy Policy explains why each item above exists.

2. The One-Thread Architecture

Your identity on this platform is generated, not supplied. Your star name comes from your creations. Your bio is written by a model. Your profile image is a crop of one of your own cats — the product accepts no uploads, so your face cannot get here. Nothing you make is signed with your name, because we do not have your name.

The result is that, until you pay for anything, one piece of data connects you the person to you the star: your email address. Everything else is a generated artifact of the cosmos. That is a design choice with a consequence, and the consequence is the next section.

Paying adds a second link. Stars are anonymous to other members either way, but if you buy a plan or a pack, our billing records and Polar, our Merchant of Record, link your account to your purchase. That link exists for payments, refunds and tax, and section 3 says what happens to it when you leave.

3. Deleting Your Account

Deleting your account is permanent: your creations remain in the cosmos forever, unattributed, and if you return you begin as a new star.

There is no deactivation, no cooling-off period, and no restore. Nothing about a deleted account can be recovered, reclaimed, or restored — not by you, and not by us. Please be sure before you ask.

What is erased

• Your Firebase Authentication user, so the sign-in itself no longer exists.
• Your email address, everywhere it appears.
• Your generated bio and profile image selection.
• Your Polar customer and subscription identifiers — and any subscription is ended first, so billing stops.
• Your invite code, waitlist entry, and any free-spot request.
• Your showcase, and your name and image evolution histories.
• The reply-to address on any support ticket you sent, and your PostHog analytics person record.

What remains

• Your cats, planets, star node, portals, and the lineage graph they sit in — permanent by design, and free to every member under the commons rule.
• The counters that keep the cosmos coherent — how many cats a star made, how many connections a portal carries.
• Billing records of purchases and refunds — Polar order, refund and subscription IDs, amounts, dates, and creations added or taken back — kept as financial records (accounting, tax, payment disputes) under your account's internal ID, with no name or email.

What is gone is the thread between those artifacts and you. The star keeps its generated name, its planets keep orbiting, and other members can still research and connect them — but there is no longer a person on the other end.

What still links a star to a person

We do not keep a shadow copy, an archive table, or a hashed email to match against later. If you never bought anything, deletion leaves no record in our systems that links a star to a person. If you wrote to us afterward and asked which star used to be yours, we would not be able to tell you.

If you bought a plan or a pack, one link remains, and it exists for payments, refunds and tax. Our billing records keep each purchase and refund under your account's internal ID, which your star and your cats also carry. Polar keeps its own record of the purchase, with the email you paid with and that same internal ID. Together those records connect a purchase to a star. We use them for accounting, tax, refunds and payment disputes, and for nothing else: not to restore an account, and not to tell anyone which star was yours.

How to ask

Email privacy@generativecats.app from the address on the account, with “Delete my account” in the subject. We will confirm once — that is your last chance to change your mind — and then run it. Deletion completes within 30 days and usually much sooner.

4. Your Other Rights

Depending on where you live you may have some or all of these. We honor them for everyone rather than checking your jurisdiction first.

• Access — a copy of the data we hold about you.
• Portability — that copy in a machine-readable format.
• Correction — fix anything inaccurate. In practice this is limited: almost everything on your account is generated by the platform rather than entered by you.
• Erasure — section 3 above.
• Objection and restriction — ask us to stop or limit a particular processing activity.
• Withdraw consent — turn on Do Not Track to stop analytics entirely, or unsubscribe from any email we send.

One right we cannot give you is erasure of your creations. They are permanent by design, they belong to no one under the commons rule, and other members' work now depends on them. They are also unattributed once your account is gone, which is what makes that workable.

5. How to Exercise Them

One address for all of it: privacy@generativecats.app. Write from the email address on the account so we can tell it is you, say which right you are exercising, and we will respond within 30 days. There is no fee and no form to fill in.

6. If You Are in the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland

Your data is processed and stored in the United States on Google Cloud infrastructure. Where that transfer is from the UK, the EEA, or Switzerland, it is made under the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses as incorporated into our processors' data-processing terms.

We process your data to perform our contract with you (running the platform you signed up for), to meet legal obligations, and for the legitimate interests of keeping the service secure and working out which parts of it people use. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority — and we would appreciate the chance to fix it first, at privacy@generativecats.app.

7. Related Pages

• Privacy Policy — what we record and who else touches it.
• Cookies & Local Storage — what is on your device.
• Terms of Service — the commons rule and the permanence rule.