Effective date: 2026-07-04 · Last updated: 2026-07-04
Signal is a personal awareness, accountability and safety app,
built so that by default nothing about you leaves your phone. Sharing is
off by default for every feature. When you do turn sharing on, the
most specific thing that ever leaves your device is a place name and
a coarse area no tighter than 500 metres — never your precise location.
Who we are
Signal is built by Elliot Kelly, trading as Unleashed.
For any privacy question or data request, contact
privacy@unleashed.vision. As a UK-based developer's app, we act as
the data controller under UK GDPR for the processing described below.
What Signal does on your device
Recognises the places and routines that matter to you (home, gym, work) using
your device's location and motion sensors. This processing happens
on your phone.
Keeps a private history of your check-ins, place arrivals/departures,
commitments and safety events so you can see your own patterns.
Can detect a possible hard fall or crash using your phone's motion sensors, and
asks if you're OK before anyone is alerted.
What leaves your phone — only if you choose
Sharing is OFF by default for every feature. If you turn sharing on
(which requires confirming you are 18 or older and giving explicit consent):
We send a derived state label — for example "home · safe" or
"arrived · Gym" — to the people or crew you pick.
We never send your precise location. There is no
latitude/longitude anywhere in what we transmit. The most location-specific thing
we ever send is the name you gave a place ("Gym") plus a coarse
area no tighter than 500 metres.
Everything we relay is end-to-end encrypted. Our relay server
stores only ciphertext it cannot read, for a limited time, and hands it to your
chosen recipient.
Legal basis (UK GDPR): your explicit consent, given through the
in-app age-gate and consent screen, which you can withdraw at any time (see
Your controls). Processing is on-device by default and limited to the
features above (data minimisation).
Emergency / SOS
Signal never automatically dials emergency services. Calling 999
(or your local emergency number) only happens when you tap the call button
yourself — there is exactly one place in the app that can place that call, and it never
fires on its own. If you raise an SOS, the people you've chosen are alerted with your
derived status and, if you allow it, a coarse area name — never a
precise location.
Third parties
Signal contains no advertising, attribution, or cross-app tracking SDKs. Our relay
runs on infrastructure we operate; it stores only end-to-end-encrypted ciphertext it
cannot read, purely as transport, for the short retention windows below.
Tracking
Signal does not track you across other companies' apps or websites
and does not use the advertising identifier (IDFA).
How long we keep things
Presence / place states: kept for minutes, then deleted.
Safety events (check-ins, commitments, SOS): kept for up to
60 days, then deleted.
All of this is viewable in the app and you can delete any of it at any time.
Your data rights (GDPR / UK GDPR)
Export: "Export my data" in Settings produces a JSON file of
your history, commitments and sharing settings.
Delete: "Delete everything" wipes all on-device Signal data and
sends a tombstone to the relay so any in-flight shares are purged.
To make a UK GDPR request directly (access, erasure, objection), email us at the
address above and we will action it within the statutory window.
Your controls
Revoke location or motion access any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security.
Turn sharing off for any single feature, or use the one-tap "stop all sharing" control, at any time.
Use the in-app "Delete everything" button to wipe all on-device Signal data immediately.
Age
Signal is for adults. You must be 18 or older to use it. A
family/minor tier may come later; for now, under-18 use is not permitted, and there is
no override path for the age-gate.
Children
Signal is not directed at children and is not intended for use by anyone under 18.
Changes
We will update this policy as Signal evolves and revise the effective date above.
Material changes will be surfaced in the app.