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Last updated October 3, 2026. This page describes how Lore (“we”) handles information in the Lore website and iOS app at writeyourlore.com. It is written for product clarity, not as formal legal advice.
Lore is a media library and recommendation product. You can track movies, TV shows, books, and games; follow friends; send recommendations; and see personalized “For You” suggestions shaped by your library and preferences.
When you create an account we store authentication details through Supabase Auth (email and/or OAuth providers you choose). Profile fields you set—such as username, display name, bio, avatar, privacy settings, streaming/gaming preferences, and connected account links (for example Steam)—are stored so the product can work for you and, where you allow it, appear on your public profile.
Entries you log (titles, ratings, notes, statuses, lists, favorites, and related experience details) are stored in our database so we can show your library, feed activity, recommendations, and stats. Social features may also store follows, reactions, comments, group membership, and recommendations you send or receive. If you follow a creator or actor, we store that privately and check public catalogs daily for their new titles. Visibility follows your privacy and sharing choices in the app.
Lore does not read your device location. If you add where you watched, played, or read something, the place name you type is sent to OpenStreetMap Nominatim and Open-Meteo geocoding to find it, and the resulting map coordinates are sent to OpenStreetMap Overpass to find nearby theaters. Places you save, including their city, region, country, and map coordinates, are visible only to you. The place name you attach to an entry is shown to people who can see that entry.
Lore recommends titles based on what other members enjoyed, like “People who enjoyed this also enjoyed”. This uses public library entries for titles you finished or are watching, reading or playing, and have left unrated or rated Liked or Loved. It never uses titles you rated Neutral or Didn’t like, or want-to or dropped titles. A pairing is only used when at least three people back it, and recommendations never show who contributed. Private accounts and private entries are never used, and blocked members never contribute to each other’s recommendations. No data leaves Lore for this and no AI is involved. You can turn it off in Settings → Privacy with “Use my ratings to recommend titles to others”.
AI sharing is optional and off until you explicitly allow it in Settings → Recommendations. When enabled, Lore sends Anthropic library titles, ratings, genres, preferences, and previous picks to produce personalized recommendations and taste summaries. Group recommendations also use included members’ names and library signals, and require permission from every included person and the requester.
This permission also covers sending vibe descriptions and book-search queries for optional spelling help, sending draft reviews, notes, or dictation transcripts when you use Shape or finish dictating, sending what you tell the onboarding helper about titles you’ve loved so it can find them in the catalog, and sending feedback you submit (with the page it came from) so it can be sorted for the team. Plain text editing, library tracking, ordinary catalog search, catalog recommendations, group overlap, and group queues remain available without AI sharing. Dictation asks for microphone access (and speech recognition on iOS). Your browser or device converts speech to text using its own speech service. Lore does not upload or store dictation audio, only the resulting text you choose to keep or send.
You can revoke permission immediately in Settings. Lore then stops new Anthropic requests, invalidates recommendation caches, and prevents older queued or in-flight generations from saving results under that permission. A request already sent cannot be recalled. Previously saved taste summaries and text remain until you change or delete them; revocation does not delete your library or withdraw content you have already shared publicly.
One exception: when someone reports content, Lore may send the reported text, the report reason, the reporter’s note, and how many other open reports the author has to Anthropic, so an automated reviewer can help prioritize the report and, for clear violations of our Terms, hide the content until a person reviews it. This safety review happens whether or not AI sharing is on for the author or the reporter. It never includes your email or account details, and it is never used for recommendations.
Anthropic handles data already received under its commercial API retention policy, including its stated exceptions. Lore does not promise immediate deletion from Anthropic when you turn off sharing. Catalog metadata comes from the media cache and providers listed below.
Lore may record product usage events (for example page paths, search queries, recommendation interactions, feature timing, and similar UAT/product analytics) together with your account and an app-session identifier to improve reliability, recommendations, and product quality. Signed-in users can submit feedback through the in-app feedback form. We do not use that data to build third-party advertising profiles. Reports about abusive users or content are retained for moderation and safety review; blocks are stored so blocked accounts stop appearing to one another in feeds and discovery.
If you enable push notifications, we store a device push subscription so we can deliver alerts you opted into. In the iOS app this is a device token delivered through the Apple Push Notification service; it is removed when you turn notifications off or sign out on that device. Optional email notifications and invites are sent through Resend when configured. You can change notification preferences in Settings.
Paid features (Lore+) are processed by Stripe. We store subscription-related identifiers needed to manage access; card details are handled by Stripe, not stored by Lore as full card numbers.
Search, discover, covers, and metadata rely on external catalog APIs. Depending on the medium, that can include TMDB (movies/TV), Open Library and Google Books (books), and IGDB / Steam / RAWG (games). Queries and identifiers needed to fetch titles are sent to those providers; their own privacy policies apply to their services. See About & Sources for provider credits and current-use details.
The app is hosted on Vercel with data primarily in Supabase. Standard operational logs and Sentry diagnostics (for example request errors, crashes, and performance signals) may be retained to keep the service running. When session replay is enabled, Lore masks text and blocks media before replay data is sent.
We use session cookies for authentication. The browser may also store local preferences (theme, caches, analytics session ids) to keep the app fast and consistent across visits.
We keep account and library data while your account is active. You can permanently delete your account from Settings → Account. That action removes your profile and account-owned database records, deletes uploaded avatars and covers, and cancels active Stripe billing. Personal background jobs, including queued and running jobs, are removed when account deletion succeeds. Completed and failed personal background jobs have their request data and free-form results removed immediately. Their remaining account-linked status and timing records become eligible for deletion after 30 days, with daily cleanup in bounded batches. You can also contact us below with a privacy or export question.
Lore is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
We may update this policy as the product changes. The “Last updated” date at the top will change when we do. Continued use of Lore after an update means you have seen the revised policy.
Questions about privacy: hello@writeyourlore.com. For general help, see Support.