BRB2K Privacy Policy
BRB2K is a nostalgic instant-messaging app where users chat with AI personas. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how AI processing works, and the choices and rights available to you.
Please do not share highly sensitive personal information, health information, financial information, government ID numbers, passwords, or other secrets in chats. BRB2K AI buddies are for entertainment and companionship, not professional advice or emergency support.
1. Who We Are
BRB2K is operated by Better Things Better. For privacy questions, data requests, or deletion requests, contact privacy@betterthingsbetter.com.
2. Information We Collect
- Account and profile information. We collect your screen name, display name if provided, account identifiers, recovery email address if you link one, email verification status, and account creation metadata.
- Conversation content. We store messages you send to AI personas and the AI responses you receive so your conversations can persist across sessions.
- AI memory and persona state. For features that support continuity, we may store compact summaries, facts, relationship state, open threads, persona presence, away messages, trivia progress, and usage counters.
- Device and app information. We may collect crash logs, diagnostics, app version, platform, and similar technical data through Firebase Crashlytics and related app infrastructure.
- Timezone. We may store your device timezone so AI persona schedules and presence can behave correctly.
- Purchase information. If you subscribe or restore purchases, we receive subscription entitlement and transaction-status information from RevenueCat and the app store provider. We do not receive your full payment card details.
- Support, safety, and abuse reports. If you contact us or report a problem, we collect the information you provide and related account details needed to respond.
3. How We Use Information
- To create and maintain your account and screen name.
- To provide chat history, AI persona responses, memory, trivia, presence, and subscription features.
- To send recent conversation context to our AI provider so the AI can generate a response.
- To operate, secure, debug, and improve BRB2K.
- To process subscriptions, restore purchases, and enforce free-tier limits.
- To respond to support requests, legal requests, and safety or abuse reports.
- To enforce our Terms and prevent spam, harassment, fraud, misuse, or attempts to bypass safety systems.
4. AI Processing and AI Answers
When you send a chat message, recent conversation context, persona instructions, and related feature data may be sent through our Cloudflare Worker to Anthropic's AI API to generate a response. AI responses are probabilistic and may be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, unexpected, or unsuitable for your situation. You should not rely on BRB2K for medical, legal, financial, mental-health, safety, or other professional advice.
We may use automated systems, provider safety tools, and manual review of reported content to detect abuse, troubleshoot issues, enforce our Terms, and improve safety. We do not sell your conversation content to advertisers.
5. User-to-User Communications
BRB2K is currently focused on AI persona chats. If BRB2K offers user-to-user messaging, profiles, friend requests, groups, shared content areas, or similar social features in the future, we may collect and store the messages, profile details, screen names, reports, blocks, moderation actions, and related metadata needed to provide and protect those features.
User-to-user content may be visible to the recipients or groups you choose. Recipients may save, copy, screenshot, report, or share that content outside BRB2K, so you should not share sensitive personal information, passwords, financial information, private images, or anything you would not want another person to keep.
User-to-user messages will not be guaranteed to be private or end-to-end encrypted unless we expressly say so in the app. We may use automated tools, provider tools, and human review to detect spam, harassment, exploitation, threats, illegal content, policy violations, or safety risks. We may review reported messages and related account information, take enforcement action, and retain limited records where needed for safety, legal compliance, dispute handling, or abuse prevention.
6. Legal Bases for EEA/UK Users
If you are in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, our legal bases may include: performance of a contract to provide BRB2K; legitimate interests such as security, fraud prevention, support, and product improvement; consent where required; and compliance with legal obligations.
7. How We Share Information
We share information with service providers that help us operate BRB2K, including:
- Google Firebase for authentication, Firestore database services, Cloud Functions, and crash reporting.
- Cloudflare for Worker proxy and network services.
- Anthropic for AI model processing.
- RevenueCat and app store providers for subscription entitlement and purchase status.
We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect rights and safety, to investigate misuse, or as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, subject to appropriate protections.
8. International Transfers
We and our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Where required, we rely on appropriate transfer mechanisms, such as standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards.
9. Retention
We retain account data, conversation history, AI memory, and related feature data while your account is active or as needed to provide BRB2K. We delete or de-identify data after a verified deletion request unless we need to retain limited information for legal, security, fraud-prevention, payment, dispute, or abuse-prevention purposes. Backup, logging, and security systems may retain residual copies for a limited period before automatic deletion.
10. Your Choices and Rights
You may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or objection to processing by contacting privacy@betterthingsbetter.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Depending on your location, you may also have the right to withdraw consent or complain to a data protection authority.
California residents may request to know, access, correct, or delete personal information and may opt out of sale or sharing where applicable. BRB2K does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are commonly used under California privacy law.
11. Deletion Requests
To request deletion, email privacy@betterthingsbetter.com from the recovery email associated with your account, or include enough account details for us to verify ownership. Deletion may remove your screen name, profile data, chat history, AI memory, usage counters, and account records, except for limited records we must keep for legal, payment, tax, safety, or abuse-prevention reasons.
12. Security
We use technical and organizational measures designed to protect information, including authentication, access controls, server-side API keys, and database rules. No online service can guarantee perfect security. You are responsible for keeping your device and account credentials secure.
13. Children
BRB2K is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.
14. Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy as BRB2K changes. If changes are material, we will provide notice as appropriate, such as by updating the effective date, posting notice, or asking for renewed consent where required.
15. Contact
Questions, requests, and complaints: privacy@betterthingsbetter.com.