Privacy

Last updated 24 August 2026

Love Pinch sends a gesture — a kiss, a hug, a pinch — from you to one other person. There is no message to read, and we designed it that way on purpose. This page explains exactly what we hold, and why.

What there isn’t

We never read your messages, because there are none. A gesture is a choice from a small set plus a timestamp. There is no text field, no photo, no voice note, no location. Nothing you send can be read by us, because there is nothing in it to read.

We do not track you across other apps or websites, we run no advertising, and we sell nothing to anybody. There are no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs in the app.

What we hold

Your account: your name, your email address, a one-way hash of your password, your time zone and your language. The time zone is not incidental — it is how your partner is told it is 2:30am for you before they send.
Your pairing: which account you are paired with, and when it started.
Your gestures: which gesture, who sent it, who received it, and the times it was sent, arrived and was felt. That is the whole record.
Your devices: platform, OS version, model, whether notifications are allowed, what kind of vibration the device can produce, and a push token from Apple or Google. This is what lets us tell your partner honestly what their gesture will actually do on your phone.
Your settings: silent mode, do not disturb, and the private name you have chosen for your partner. That name is yours alone — your partner never sees it.
A little usage data: a fixed, published list of product events — that the app was installed, that a sign-up finished, that an invite was sent or accepted, that a first gesture was felt. Names outside that list are rejected by the server rather than stored.

What an invite does not collect

When you invite your partner, the app creates a link and hands it to your phone’s own share sheet. You choose where it goes; we never see the recipient. We do not ask for, receive or store your partner’s phone number, email address or contacts, and the app never reads your address book.

Who else touches it

A small number of companies process data on our behalf, and only to make the product work:

Apple and Google deliver notifications to phones. They receive a device token and the gesture’s name so your phone can show it.
Microsoft Azure hosts the servers and the database, in the European Union.
Resend sends account emails, such as a password reset.

Nobody else. We do not sell or share your data, and there is no advertising relationship of any kind.

How long we keep it

Your account and your gesture history stay while your account exists. If you unpair, the couple and its history survive for 30 days before being deleted — unpairing at 2am is a thing people regret at 9am, and the record of the times someone reached for you cannot be recreated.

Closing your account

You can delete your account inside the app, under You. It erases your name, your email, your password, your devices and every sign-in on every phone, and it ends your pairing immediately.

One thing survives, deliberately: the gestures you sent stay with the person you sent them to, with your name removed. That record is theirs as much as it was yours, and erasing your data should not quietly erase their memories.

If you have uninstalled the app and cannot sign in, email hello@lovepinch.app and we will delete the account for you.

Your rights

If you are in the EU or UK, the GDPR gives you the right to see what we hold, correct it, take it with you, restrict how it is used, or have it erased. Email hello@lovepinch.app and we will answer within 30 days. You may also complain to your local data protection authority.

We process your data to provide the product you asked for (contract), and to keep it secure and working (legitimate interests). We do not rely on advertising consent, because we do not advertise.

Children

Love Pinch is not for people under 16, and we do not knowingly hold data about them.

Security

Everything travels over TLS. Passwords are hashed and never stored in a readable form. Access to production data is limited to the people who run the service.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects you, we will say so in the app rather than quietly editing this page.

Who is responsible. Love Pinch is operated by Octany Labs (trading as Love Pinch), registered in the Netherlands. Postal address on request, and on the store listing. For anything about your data, write to hello@lovepinch.app.