Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2026-02-21
Introduction
Voyage ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application and related services (the "Service"). Our Service provides an AI-powered pet care companion that helps you manage your pet's health, diary entries, and care routines.
Our Service relies on multiple third-party artificial intelligence providers to deliver its core features. This policy describes exactly what data is collected, how it is used, which third-party services receive your data, and the choices available to you.
Information We Collect
Personal Information
- Account information (email address, username)
- Authentication data (through Supabase Auth)
- Device information and identifiers
- Push notification tokens (for app notifications)
- Subscription and purchase history
Pet-Related Information
- Pet profiles (name, breed, age, weight, medical information)
- Photos and videos of your pets
- Diary entries and health observations
- Chat conversations with our AI assistant
- Medical records and veterinary documents
- Health assessments and triage results
- Nutrition analysis data
Voice and Audio Data
- Voice recordings during AI voice calls
- Transcriptions of voice conversations
Usage Information
- App usage patterns and interactions
- Feature usage analytics
- Error logs and performance data
- Feedback and support communications
How We Collect Your Information
Information You Provide Directly
- Account registration: You provide your email address and create login credentials when signing up.
- Pet profiles: You enter your pet's name, breed, age, weight, and medical history when creating a pet profile.
- Photo and video uploads: You choose to upload photos and videos of your pets from your device's camera or photo library for diary entries, health assessments, and nutrition analysis.
- Chat messages: You type text messages and optionally attach images or documents when chatting with the AI assistant.
- Medical records: You upload veterinary documents, vaccination records, and other medical files.
- Voice recordings: When you initiate an AI voice call, your microphone captures your voice for real-time conversation.
- Diary notes: You optionally provide text notes and observations about your pet during diary creation.
Information Collected Automatically
- Device information: We automatically collect your device type, operating system version, and app version when you use the app.
- Push notification tokens: Your device's push notification identifier is collected when you enable notifications.
- Usage analytics: We collect data about which features you use, how often, and general interaction patterns.
- Error and performance logs: Technical logs are collected automatically to diagnose issues and maintain service quality.
Information Generated Through AI Processing
- Health assessments: AI models analyze your pet's photos and information to generate health reports and triage assessments.
- Diary content: AI generates diary text based on photos and notes you provide.
- Nutrition analysis: AI analyzes food photos to generate nutritional assessments.
- Chat responses: AI generates responses based on your messages and pet context.
- Search embeddings: Numerical representations of your content are generated by AI to enable semantic search within the app.
Information From Third-Party Services
- Authentication data: We receive authentication tokens and session data from Supabase Auth when you log in.
- Subscription status: We receive your subscription tier and purchase history from RevenueCat (Apple In-App Purchases).
How We Use Your Information
- Pet Photos and Videos: Sent to AI providers (Google Gemini, OpenAI, xAI/Grok) for health analysis, diary illustration, nutrition assessment, and triage evaluation. Also processed by Google Vertex AI to create search embeddings.
- Chat Messages: Sent to AI providers (Google Gemini, OpenAI, xAI/Grok, Moonshot/Kimi) to generate contextual AI responses, provide pet care advice, and maintain conversation history.
- Voice Audio: Streamed to LiveKit Cloud for real-time voice conversation and to OpenAI for speech-to-text transcription. AI-generated text responses are sent to MiniMax for text-to-speech conversion.
- Health Data and Medical Records: Sent to AI providers (Google Gemini, OpenAI, xAI/Grok) to generate health assessments, track health trends, and provide veterinary care recommendations.
- Pet Profile Information: Used to personalize AI responses and sent to LiveKit Cloud during voice calls to provide context for the AI assistant.
- Diary Entries and Notes: Processed by Google Gemini to generate diary content and by Google Vertex AI to create search embeddings for finding related entries.
- Nutrition Data: Food photos and information sent to Google Gemini and xAI/Grok to generate nutritional quality assessments and feeding recommendations.
- Communication: Push notification tokens used to send you app notifications, updates, and reminders via Expo notification service.
- Analytics: Usage data collected to understand app usage patterns and improve our services.
- Safety: Account and device data used to ensure app security and prevent misuse.
- Legal Compliance: Data retained and disclosed as needed to meet legal obligations and protect our rights.
AI Services and Data Processing
Our Service uses multiple artificial intelligence providers to power its features. When you use AI-powered features, your data is sent to the following third-party services for processing. Each AI service provider listed below is accessed through enterprise API agreements. Under these agreements, your data is processed solely to provide responses to your requests and is not used to train or improve general-purpose AI models.
All third-party AI providers operate under terms of service and data protection policies that provide protections for your data consistent with this Privacy Policy. All data is transmitted over encrypted (TLS/HTTPS) connections.
AI Model Providers
- Google Gemini (Google LLC) — Receives: pet photos, health data, diary text, chat messages, medical records, nutrition data. Used for: health analysis, diary generation, nutrition analysis, triage assessments, chat responses, and text/image embeddings.
- OpenAI / GPT (OpenAI, L.L.C.) — Receives: pet photos, chat messages, voice audio, medical documents. Used for: chat responses, health analysis, audio transcription (speech-to-text), and document analysis.
- xAI / Grok (xAI Corp.) — Receives: pet photos, health data, chat messages, medical records. Used for: health analysis, triage assessments, nutrition analysis, chat responses, memory generation, and voice AI language processing.
- Moonshot / Kimi (Beijing Moonshot Technology Co.) — Receives: chat messages. Used for: chat responses and language processing.
AI Infrastructure and Gateways
- Portkey.ai (Portkey) — AI gateway that routes requests to Google Gemini, OpenAI, and xAI. All data sent to those providers passes through Portkey.
- Vercel AI Gateway (Vercel Inc.) — Routes requests to Moonshot/Kimi. Chat data passes through this gateway.
- Google Vertex AI (Google LLC) — Provides text and image embedding services. Receives diary text, health content, and pet photos for semantic search indexing.
Voice Call Services
- LiveKit Cloud (LiveKit Inc.) — Hosts the voice agent. Receives voice audio, pet profile context, and session information.
- MiniMax (MiniMax Technology Co.) — Provides text-to-speech. Receives AI-generated text responses to convert to audio.
- OpenAI (OpenAI, L.L.C.) — Provides speech-to-text. Receives your voice audio recordings for transcription.
Data Sent to AI Services
- Pet photos and images: Google Gemini, OpenAI, xAI/Grok, Google Vertex AI
- Chat messages and text: Google Gemini, OpenAI, xAI/Grok, Moonshot/Kimi
- Health data and observations: Google Gemini, OpenAI, xAI/Grok
- Diary entries and text: Google Gemini, Google Vertex AI
- Medical records and documents: Google Gemini, OpenAI, xAI/Grok
- Nutrition data: Google Gemini, xAI/Grok
- Voice audio recordings: LiveKit Cloud, OpenAI (speech-to-text)
- AI-generated text (for audio output): MiniMax (text-to-speech)
- Pet profile context: LiveKit Cloud (for voice call personalization)
All data sent to AI model providers passes through our AI gateway infrastructure (Portkey.ai or Vercel AI Gateway) before reaching the model providers.
Data Protection by Third Parties
We require that all third-party service providers who receive your personal data provide the same or equivalent level of data protection as described in this Privacy Policy. Specifically:
- Enterprise API Access: We access AI services through enterprise or API-level agreements, not consumer-facing products. These agreements include data handling obligations that restrict how providers may use your data.
- No Model Training: Under our enterprise API agreements, your data is not used by AI providers to train, improve, or fine-tune their general-purpose AI models.
- Encryption in Transit: All data sent to third-party providers is encrypted using industry-standard TLS/HTTPS protocols during transmission.
- Purpose Limitation: Third-party providers process your data only for the purpose of generating responses and results for your specific requests. They do not use your data for their own independent purposes.
- Data Minimization: We send only the data necessary for each specific feature. For example, voice call features only receive voice audio and pet context — not your full chat history or medical records.
Third-Party Service Providers and Data Sharing
Data Storage and Infrastructure
- Supabase (Supabase Inc.) — Primary database and file storage. Stores all user data, pet profiles, pet photos, medical images, and authentication data.
- Zilliz Cloud (Zilliz Inc.) — Vector database for semantic search. Stores numerical embeddings derived from diary entries, chat content, and health data.
- Temporal Cloud (Temporal Technologies Inc.) — Workflow orchestration. Processes task metadata, user IDs, and session IDs to coordinate background tasks.
Analytics, Notifications, and Other Services
- Axiom (Axiom Inc.) — Logging and observability platform. Receives logs containing user IDs, feature usage events, and timestamps.
- Expo (Expo Inc.) — Push notification service. Receives device push notification tokens to deliver app notifications.
- Browserless (Browserless Inc.) — Server-side browser rendering. Receives diary HTML content to generate shareable images.
- RevenueCat (RevenueCat Inc.) — Subscription management. Receives user IDs and subscription status for in-app purchase management.
- Tavily (Tavily Inc.) — Web search API. Receives search queries derived from chat context to provide real-time information.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
Other Sharing Circumstances
- Legal Requirements: When required by law, regulation, or court order
- Safety: To protect the rights, property, or safety of our users or others
- Business Transfers: In connection with mergers, acquisitions, or asset sales
Your Consent and Permission for AI Data Processing
Before your data is sent to any third-party AI service, the app will clearly inform you and request your permission. When you first use an AI-powered feature (such as AI chat, health analysis, diary generation, voice calls, triage assessment, or nutrition analysis), the app will disclose that your data will be processed by third-party AI service providers and ask for your explicit consent before proceeding.
By granting consent and using Voyage's AI-powered features, you agree to have your data processed by the third-party AI service providers listed in this Privacy Policy. This processing is necessary to provide the core AI functionality of our app.
What Happens When You Use AI Features
- AI Chat: Your messages, attached images, and pet context are sent to Google Gemini, OpenAI, xAI/Grok, or Moonshot/Kimi (depending on the model selected) via Portkey.ai or Vercel AI Gateway.
- Health Analysis: Your pet's photos and health observations are sent to Google Gemini, OpenAI, and/or xAI/Grok via Portkey.ai to generate a health assessment.
- Diary Generation: Your pet's photos and notes are sent to Google Gemini via Portkey.ai to generate diary content.
- Voice Calls: Your voice audio is streamed to LiveKit Cloud and transcribed by OpenAI. AI responses are converted to speech by MiniMax.
- Triage Assessment: Your pet's symptoms and photos are sent to Google Gemini and/or xAI/Grok via Portkey.ai to assess severity.
- Nutrition Analysis: Food photos are sent to Google Gemini and/or xAI/Grok via Portkey.ai for nutritional evaluation.
How to Limit or Withdraw Consent
- Choosing not to use specific AI features (e.g., voice calls, health analysis, AI chat)
- Not uploading photos or medical records to the app
- Using only non-AI features such as manual diary entries and pet profile management
- Deleting your account, which removes all your data from our systems
You may withdraw your consent at any time by discontinuing use of AI features. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing performed before the withdrawal.
If you wish to have your data deleted from our systems and our third-party providers, you may delete your account through the app settings or contact us at connect@thevoyage.ai. Please note that some AI providers may retain previously processed data according to their own data retention policies, as described in the "Data Protection by Third Parties" section above.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information, including:
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- Secure authentication systems
- Regular security assessments
- Access controls and monitoring
However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. Data sent to third-party AI providers is transmitted over encrypted connections, but is processed on their infrastructure according to their respective security practices.
Data Retention
- Account data: Until you delete your account
- Pet profiles and diary entries: Until you delete them or your account
- Chat conversations: Stored for service improvement, can be deleted upon request
- Voice call recordings: Processed in real-time and not stored after the call ends
- Vector embeddings: Deleted when the source content is deleted or your account is removed
- Usage analytics: Aggregated data may be retained indefinitely
Third-party AI providers may retain data according to their own retention policies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the AI providers listed above.
Your Rights and Choices
- Access: Request copies of your personal information
- Correction: Update or correct inaccurate information
- Deletion: Request deletion of your personal information
- Portability: Receive your data in a structured format
- Withdrawal: Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Opt Out of AI Processing: Stop using AI features to prevent data from being sent to AI providers
Account Deletion
You can delete your account and all associated data through the app settings or by contacting us. Upon deletion:
- All personal information will be permanently deleted from our systems
- Pet profiles, photos, and diary entries will be removed
- Chat conversations and health assessments will be deleted
- Vector embeddings will be removed from our vector database
- Some aggregated, anonymized data may be retained for analytics
- Data previously sent to third-party AI providers is subject to their retention policies
Children's Privacy
Our Service is not directed to children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will delete such information promptly.
International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your country of residence. Our third-party AI and infrastructure providers operate servers in multiple countries, including the United States and China (Moonshot/Kimi). We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place for such transfers, including:
- Standard contractual clauses
- Adequacy decisions
- Certification schemes
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by:
- Posting the updated policy in the app
- Sending a push notification
- Updating the "Last updated" date
Your continued use of the Service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or the third-party services we use, please contact us:
- Email: connect@thevoyage.ai
- Through the app's support feature
Regulatory Compliance
This Privacy Policy is designed to comply with applicable privacy laws, including:
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
- Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
- Apple App Store Guidelines (5.1.1, 5.1.2)
- Other applicable local privacy laws