Altr Ego terms of service

The service.

Altr Ego assembles a personality profile about you from your friends' answers, and never names who gave them. It is also a place where you and the people you have shared a round with read each other's pages. By creating an account you agree to these terms.

Age.

You must be 18 or older to create an account or answer questions. We enforce this at signup and through the app stores' age systems.

Your consent to the mechanism.

By creating an account and starting a round, you are asking your friends to answer questions about you and consenting to a profile assembled from their answers, processed as the privacy policy describes, including AI synthesis by Anthropic. That consent is the product working as designed.

Witness terms.

If you answer questions about a friend through an invite link, these terms apply to you for that act. You confirm you are 18 or older. Your answers are given anonymously to the subject and permanently: the subject is never shown who said what. You agree your answers become part of the subject's profile data, processed as the privacy policy describes. You can ask us to delete your answers at any time. Accepting these terms happens on the consent screen before your first answer.

What you may not do.

Do not answer about a person without knowing them. Do not attempt to identify who said what about anyone. Do not use the service to harass, threaten, or demean anyone. Do not misrepresent your age. Do not probe, scrape, or reverse the service.

Content rules.

The product is built so that answers describe what a person does, never what they are. Where friends contribute content to a profile, every contribution is offered to the subject and lands only with their acceptance. Acceptance is consent, not review; review still happens; both have to pass. Accepting a contribution puts it on your page, where your mutual circle reads it: everyone who has held a seat in a round you started, and everyone whose round you have held a seat in. You can take it off your page later. A verdict you accepted is read by the group that tried you, not by your whole circle.

Trials.

Your group can put you on trial. Each member picks one charge from a list we write and review; nobody types a charge. The group votes, and if enough of them take part, the charge with the most votes is the verdict. A verdict is offered to you and goes on your page only if you say yes, and it stays in the app: it is never shared out. If either of you has blocked the other, that member cannot take part in your trials from then on. The app never shows who picked which charge, or who voted for what. In a very small group, people may be able to work it out.

Child safety.

Altr Ego is an 18+ service. We have zero tolerance for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). No one under 18 may create an account, answer questions, or appear as the subject of a profile. We prohibit any content or conduct that sexualizes, exploits, or endangers minors. If the service ever accepts images, every uploaded image is screened before any person sees it, and apparent CSAM is removed immediately, preserved as law requires, and reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) or the appropriate authority. To report a child safety concern, contact safety@altr-ego.app. We review child safety reports before all others and act on them without delay.

Reporting and moderation.

Anything on the service can be reported in the app with a stated reason. Reported profile content is hidden while we review it. Our moderation process and its response commitments are described in the privacy policy's companion process document, and we hold ourselves to it.

The paid tier.

Part of Altr Ego is paid. The paid tier is a monthly subscription billed by Apple through your App Store account, at the price shown before you buy. It renews automatically each month until you cancel. Cancel any time from your Apple subscriptions; your access runs to the end of the period you paid for, and nothing else about your account changes. Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple under Apple's terms. Answering questions about a friend never costs anything, and no round ever requires a witness to pay.

Termination.

We can suspend or close accounts that break these terms. You can delete your account at any time; deletion works as the privacy policy describes.

The service is provided as is.

We do not warrant that a profile is accurate, flattering, or complete; it is your friends' honest answers, synthesized. To the extent the law allows, our liability is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Governing law.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA.

Changes.

Material changes are dated and told to you in the app before they take effect.