Privacy
ShouldI is a party toy: you photograph something — a willing friend, a latte, a questionable lamp — and get a playful “read”. This page is the long form behind the in-app consent sheet: what leaves your phone, what doesn’t, and what we keep (very little).
The short version
· Photos stay on your phone by default.
· A live read sends an altered, shrunken copy of the photo — never the original — and only after you tap yes.
· What we send is processed, answered, and gone. We don’t store your photos on our servers, and we don’t train anything on them.
· Delete means delete — removing a scan removes its photo.
· It’s entertainment, never a real judgment of anyone.
Scanning
Out of the box, scans are generated on your phone and nothing is uploaded. When you use a live read, the app first shows a consent sheet; nothing leaves until you accept it.
A live read sends, over an encrypted connection: an altered, shrunken copy of the photo (the untouched original never leaves your phone), your question and any context you add, and your report settings (cheekiness, language, accent). If you’re signed in and have set them, the profile mood and “about” you chose to share ride along to personalise the read. If you link earlier saved reads to a scan, a one-line summary of each goes too — their photos don’t.
Our server passes the scan to an AI model, returns the report, and keeps none of it: no photo, no question, no report is stored server-side. Every read is stamped with which prompt version and provider produced it, so we can account for what was generated and how.
If you speak your question instead of typing it, transcription happens on your phone where it can; on phones without on-device recognition, your phone’s own speech service transcribes it — that’s between you and your operating system. The audio never comes to us: only the text you approve rides the scan, exactly like a typed question.
On your phone
Your scans, photos, questions, calls and outcomes are stored privately inside the app’s own storage. Deleting a scan deletes its photo; uninstalling the app removes them all.
Accounts & friends (optional)
You can use ShouldI without an account. If you sign in (e-mail code or Google), we store your e-mail, username and the profile you create, plus your friendships and chats, with our infrastructure providers. Sharing a scan to a friend sends that scan — including its photo — to them, after an explicit confirmation, and it stays in the chat until deleted. Share links carry the report inside the link itself: the photo never rides a link, and scans of people can only be shared to friends’ chats, never as links or posts.
Notifications
A push notification says who sent something and a generic line — the content of chats and scans never travels through the push service.
Purchases & the reads balance
Purchases are handled by Google Play; we receive a receipt to credit your reads, never your payment details. Your balance is keyed to an anonymous install id — or to your account once you sign in, so it follows you across phones.
What we don’t do
- No ads, no selling or renting your data, no third-party analytics or trackers.
- No training AI models on your photos or chats.
- Operational counters are aggregate only (how many scans ran — never whose).
Deleting your account
Account deletion lives in the app’s settings. It removes your profile, friendships, chats and shared photos from our systems. The scans on your phone are yours and stay with you.
The point of it all
ShouldI is a joke between friends — the roast aims at choices (the pose, the plating, the lamp), never at bodies, health, or who someone is. No report is a real assessment of a person, a business, or a motor oil with identity issues.
Contact
Hyperioniq Technologies Inc.
[email protected]
Effective 2026-10-23. If this page changes in ways that matter, the app will ask for your consent again before the next live read.