Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 10, 2026

Verso is a private journal. You choose one word for your year, reflect on it month by month, and at the end of the year your reflections become the story of your year. That only works if you can trust the app with honest writing, so our approach is simple: your reflections are private by default, we collect only what the app needs to work, and we never sell your data, show you ads, or track you across other apps and websites.

This policy explains what Verso collects, why, where it lives, and how to delete it. Verso is made by Verso Co, LLC, an Ohio limited liability company. It applies to the Verso mobile app and this website. The app is free. There are no purchases, so we never collect payment information.

What Verso collects

Everything Verso collects exists to run the app for you. Nothing else. It falls into a few categories:

• Account information. Your name, your email address, and how you signed in (email and password, Apple, or Google). Sign-in is handled by Clerk, our authentication provider.
• Account identifiers. A user ID that connects your account to your data, so your reflections sync across sessions and can be fully deleted on request.
• Your content. Your word for the year, your onboarding reflections, your monthly check-in notes, your year-end reflections, optional reflection photos, and, if you share your story, the recipient names and personal notes you write for your trusted readers.
• Device information. If you turn notifications on, a push notification token used to send reminders to your device. We also store your device's timezone so reminders are scheduled for the local time you chose.
• Your settings. Your notification preferences (which reminders, what day and time) and your privacy preferences (whether your word is counted in the anonymous community totals, and whether your first name is printed on your word graphic).

That's the whole list. Verso does not collect your location, your contacts, your browsing history, or advertising identifiers, and the app contains no advertising or data-broker SDKs.

How we use your information

We use your information only to provide the app's features: keeping your account working, syncing and backing up your reflections, sending the reminders you asked for, rendering the stories you choose to share, counting words in the anonymous community totals, and answering your support requests. We do not use your information for advertising, we do not sell it or rent it to anyone, and we do not use it to track you across other companies' apps or websites.

Where your data lives

Verso uses a small number of service providers, each doing one job:

• Supabase hosts our database and file storage, on servers in the United States. Your reflections, settings, and photos live here, protected by per-account access rules so your data is only readable by you.
• Clerk handles sign-in and holds your authentication credentials. Verso never sees your password; Apple and Google sign-in are handled through Clerk as well.
• Expo's push notification service, together with Apple's and Google's notification systems, is used to send reminders to your device. Notification content is limited to short reminder text, never your reflections.
• Railway runs our small notification server, in the United States. It reads which reminders are due and your device's notification token from our database and hands each reminder to Expo's push service. It does not keep a copy of your reflections.
• Vercel hosts this website. When you share your story with a trusted reader, the short link you send points here, and Vercel passes the read-only story page from Supabase to your reader. It relays the page without keeping a copy of your reflections.

Verso does not use any AI service to process your writing.

All data travels over encrypted connections. The app also keeps a local copy of your recent reflections on your device so you can write offline, and syncs it when you're back online. A year-end reflection you haven't finished yet is saved as a draft on your device only, until you close the chapter. If you turn on the app's biometric lock, Face ID or fingerprint checks happen entirely on your device through your phone's operating system. Verso never receives or stores biometric data.

Your word and the community

Verso can show how many people have chosen each word across all years. These community counts are aggregate numbers (a word and a count), not a list of people, and the community wall never shows names. You control how you take part in Settings: by default your word is counted anonymously. Choosing Private (Keep Private when you first share your word), or turning off Show in Community Word Count, means your word is not counted at all. Choosing to share with your first name only adds your first name to the word graphic you save or share yourself; it is still counted anonymously.

Trusted readers and shared stories

Sharing in Verso is always something you initiate. If you invite a trusted reader, Verso creates a private link secured by a long random token. The link is the only way to view the story, and it is never listed publicly anywhere. You can revoke a trusted reader at any time in the app, which stops the link from working. Group codes are also something you choose to use. If you create a group code and hand it out, people who enter it in the Verso app can open the read-only page of your story, shown with your name, and you can revoke any reader at any time. Revoking the code ends access for everyone who joined with it, and a code ends on December 31 unless you choose to keep it active into the next year. If you join someone else's group, the person who created it sees your name and whether you've opened their story. They can revoke your access at any time, and you can leave the group yourself from the Community tab.

Reflection photos

If you add a photo to a reflection, Verso stores the image in Supabase Storage and stores a reference to it on the related note. Reflection photos are optional and are limited to one photo per note in the app. Photos are used only to show your own reflections to you. They are not included in the story page that trusted readers or group members see.

Reflection photos are stored in a private storage bucket and are served to you through short-lived signed URLs.

Echoes

Echoes is a planned December feature that would resurface a few sentences you previously wrote in Verso. It is not active in the current version of the app: there is no Echoes setting, and Verso does not send your reflections, or any other content you write, to an AI service. Before Echoes is ever turned on, we will update this policy to say exactly what is processed and by which provider, and Echoes will stay off unless you affirmatively turn it on in the app.

Notifications

Verso's reminders are push notifications you control: a monthly check-in reminder on the day and time you pick, optional encouragement, year-end reflection reminders, and a new-year invitation. You can turn any of these off in Settings or in your device's notification settings at any time. Verso does not send reminder or marketing emails. If email reminders are ever added, they will be opt-in and every email will include a one-click unsubscribe link.

Deleting your account and data

You can delete your account at any time, right in the app: Settings, then Delete My Account. Deletion is permanent and complete: it removes your sign-in account from our authentication provider, your reflections, words, settings, trusted-reader links, and photos from our database and storage. This is a hard delete, not a deactivation; we cannot restore your reflections afterward. Step-by-step instructions are on our Delete Account page, and if you ever can't reach the app, email us at versoappllc@gmail.com and we'll delete your account for you.

While your account is active, we keep your data so the app can do its job. Your reflections are yours to keep for as long as you want them. We don't keep your content after your account is deleted.

Children

Verso 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 created an account, contact us at versoappllc@gmail.com and we will delete it.

Security

Your data is encrypted in transit, database access is restricted per account, reflection photos live in a private bucket behind short-lived signed URLs, and shared-story links use long random tokens that can be revoked. No system is perfectly secure, but Verso is built so that the only people who can read your reflections are you and the people you share your story with.

Your choices and rights

You can read and edit your reflections in the app at any time, change your community and notification preferences in Settings, revoke trusted readers, and delete your account entirely. Depending on where you live, you may also have legal rights to access, correct, or delete your personal information. Email us and we'll honor them. We respond to every request at versoappllc@gmail.com.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update this page and the date at the top. If a change meaningfully affects how your reflections are handled (like the Echoes feature described above), we'll ask for your consent in the app rather than assume it.

Contact

Verso Co, LLC, Ohio, United States. Questions, requests, or concerns about privacy: versoappllc@gmail.com.