Privacy Policy
inbetween exists to hold what you say in confidence. Your messages are read by inbetween so it can help you, and by nobody else — not the person you are talking about, not us. We sell nothing, show no ads, and no model is ever trained on your conversations.
What inbetween is
inbetween is a chat app for two or more people who need to work something out. Each person has their own private thread with the same AI — inbetween. It sees every thread; the people in them see only their own. It runs on the web at inbetweenyou.com, including when installed to a phone’s home screen.
This policy explains what it collects, why, where it is kept, who else handles it, and how to remove it.
Who runs inbetween
Levan Bakhia (ლევან ბახია), an individual entrepreneur registered in Georgia, Akhmeteli st 10a, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Email levan@sarke.ge · Phone +995 599 789 229
We are the controller of the personal data described here. For anything in this policy, write to levan@sarke.ge and a person answers within 30 days, usually much sooner.
What inbetween holds
- Your account: the email address you sign in with, the name you choose to show other people, your time zone, and the text size you picked.
- What you write: every message in your own threads — typed or dictated — and inbetween’s replies to you. Voice notes are turned into text; the audio is not kept.
- What inbetween remembers: nothing beyond the conversation itself. A very long thread is folded, once, into a short summary of its older part, kept with the thread and deleted with it.
- What crossed: rounds, games, and every message inbetween sent on your behalf, with the exact words and when — shown in your thread and in theirs.
- Your devices: the sessions you are signed in with and, if you allow notifications, each browser’s or phone’s notification address.
- Your plan: if you have one, which plan it is, when it renews or ends, and how many messages you have written today and this month. For a plan bought in the iOS app, Apple’s identifier for that subscription — never your card, your Apple ID or your billing address, which Apple keeps to itself.
- Running records: for each turn, which model answered, how many tokens it cost and how long it took, so we can keep the app affordable and find faults. Server logs for a short period hold the address your request came from and what it asked for — never the text of a message.
inbetween does not collect your location, contacts, calendar or browsing, uses no advertising identifiers, and has no analytics that follow what you do.
Why it holds it
To give you the service you asked for — that is the legal basis for everything above (performance of a contract), except the running records and server logs, which we keep because we have a legitimate interest in the app working and not being abused. We ask separately before sending notifications, and you can withdraw that at any time in your browser or in the app.
The part that is different: AI
inbetween — the AI you talk to — is a large language model. To answer you, your thread is sent to a model provider. This is the core of how inbetween works, so it is worth being exact about it:
- Requests go through OpenRouter, which routes them to a model provider. We send every request with a filter that admits only providers that do not retain and do not train on what is sent (OpenRouter’s
data_collection: denyand zero-data-retention settings). This is fixed in the code, not a dashboard setting that could be changed by accident. A model with no compliant provider simply fails rather than falling back to one that keeps your words. - One model does everything: it writes the replies, the rare summary of a long thread, and the questions a game needs. Nothing else reads your conversation.
- Voice notes go to OpenAI for transcription, and OpenAI does not train on data sent through its API. The audio is not stored by us; the text lands in your composer for you to check before you send it.
- Nothing you write is used to train any model, by us or by anyone we send it to.
What the other person can see
Nothing, unless you allow it. This is a product promise, but it is also a data one, so here is the whole list of ways your words can reach another person:
- Your switch and your locks. Each topic has a setting that is yours alone — Ask me (your messages start locked: inbetween on their side is not shown them, and anything it writes for them waits for your tap) or Open (your messages start unlocked: inbetween on their side may see them when it talks with them; they never read your thread). The lock beside any message flips it. Nobody can move your switch or your locks but you, and nothing moves them by itself.
- A message inbetween sends: exactly its words, shown in your thread and in theirs the moment it goes.
- A round: it asks everyone the same question and reveals the answers only once everyone has answered.
- A game: you chose to play; the result is shared by design.
Every reply inbetween writes is checked against the other people’s private material before it is delivered. inbetween’s “about me” profile of you is never shared with anyone, at any setting.
Who else handles it
| Who | What they receive |
|---|---|
| OpenRouter, and the model provider it routes to | The conversation needed to answer a turn — under a no-retention, no-training filter. |
| OpenAI | The audio of a voice note, to turn it into text. Not used for training. |
| Apple | If you buy a plan in the iOS app: Apple takes the payment and tells us that the subscription exists, which plan it is, and when it renews, is cancelled or is refunded. We send Apple your inbetween account’s identifier with the purchase, so that it is attached to the right account. |
| Hetzner Online GmbH | Hosting and encrypted nightly backups, in Nuremberg, Germany. |
| Cloudflare | DNS and the connection to the site; and your email address with the six-digit sign-in code or an invitation, to deliver it. |
| Your browser’s or phone’s push service (Apple, Google or Mozilla) | If you turn notifications on: the notification address and the short text of each notification, in order to deliver it. |
We do not sell personal data and do not share it for advertising. There is nothing to opt out of.
Where it is kept, and for how long
On servers in Nuremberg, Germany, in a database that is not reachable from the internet, with encrypted backups kept 14 days. Connections use HTTPS. Sign-in codes are short-lived and stored only as one-way hashes.
We keep what you write for as long as you have an account, and not after. Deleting your account deletes your messages at once, and they leave the backups within 14 days. Where a topic is shared, the other person’s own thread is theirs and stays with them; what you had already allowed to cross stays in their thread, because it is now part of their conversation — anything that had not crossed is gone.
Deleting your account
Open Me in the app and choose Delete my account. It happens immediately and needs no email to us. You can also write to levan@sarke.ge and we will do it for you.
Your rights
You can ask to see the personal data we hold about you, to correct it, to receive a copy in a portable format, to delete it, or to object to or restrict how it is used. Much of this you can do yourself in the app — every message is in your thread, and the lock beside it is yours. For the rest, write to levan@sarke.ge. You can also complain to the Personal Data Protection Service of Georgia, or to the data protection authority where you live.
Children
inbetween is not for children. You must be 16, or older if that is the age of digital consent where you live. If we learn that an account belongs to a child, we delete it.
Security
If you believe you have found a security problem, write to levan@sarke.ge with “inbetween security” in the subject. A person answers within two working days, and nobody who reports a problem in good faith will be pursued for it. There is also a security.txt. If we ever learn that someone reached your data without permission, you will be told what happened, what was affected and what was done about it, without undue delay.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so in the app before it takes effect. The date at the top is always the date of the current version.
Contact
Levan Bakhia, Akhmeteli st 10a, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Email levan@sarke.ge · Phone +995 599 789 229