The David

Privacy Policy

Last updated 22 August 2026

The short version. The David is an AI style and grooming coaching app. Your scan photos are stored privately, are visible only to you, and are sent to our AI provider solely to generate your feedback. They are never shown to other users, never posted to leaderboards, and never used to train AI models.

Leaderboards show usernames, improvement percentages and streak lengths only. The discipline module keeps its sensitive activity on your device and never sends it anywhere. You can ask us to delete your account and everything in it at any time.

1. Who we are

The David is developed and operated by Chin Yu Xuan, an individual developer based in Malaysia. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “the app” refer to The David.

If you have any question about this policy or about your data, email yuxuanchin95@gmail.com.

2. What the app is — and what it is not

The David provides general style, grooming, habit and fitness coaching. It analyses photographs you choose to take and returns feedback and a daily routine.

The app does not provide medical, dermatological, psychological or diagnostic services, and its output is not medical advice. Consult a qualified professional for any medical concern.

3. What we collect

DataWhy
Account identifier
an anonymous account ID created on your device
To hold your scans, routine and streak together. We do not ask for your email address, and there is no password.
Scan photographs
the front and side photos you take
To generate your scan results. See section 4.
Scan results
scores and recommendations derived from your photos
To show your results, build your routine, and measure your improvement over time.
Onboarding answers
your goals, and gender if you provide it
To choose which daily tasks and guidance you are given.
Routine activity
which daily tasks you mark complete, and streak counts
To keep your streak and, if you opt in, your leaderboard position.
Coach messages
what you type to the in-app AI coach
To generate a reply. See section 4.
Username and referral code To show you on leaderboards (if you have not opted out) and to credit invitations.
Subscription status To unlock paid features and restore purchases. We never see your card details.

We do not collect your contacts, your precise location, your health records, your email address, or your browsing activity in other apps or websites. The app contains no advertising or analytics SDK and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

4. How your photos and coach messages are handled

When you complete a scan, your photos are uploaded to a private storage area that is scoped to your account. Other users of the app cannot access them, and they are not readable without your account’s credentials.

Your photos are then sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, purely to generate your scan feedback. Your messages to the in-app coach are sent to Anthropic for the same purpose — to produce a reply.

5. What never leaves your device

6. Leaderboards

Leaderboards are opt-out and rank improvement and consistency only. Other users can see your username, your weekly improvement percentage, and your streak length in days.

They can never see your photos, your absolute scores, your goals, or anything about the discipline module. You can leave the leaderboards at any time in Settings; you will then no longer appear to anyone.

7. Who else processes your data

We use a small number of service providers, each only for the purpose listed. They process data on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.

ProviderPurpose
SupabaseAccount sign-in, database, and private photo storage.
AnthropicThe AI that generates scan feedback and coach replies.
RevenueCatManaging your subscription status.
AppleProcessing payments and delivering the app. Apple handles your payment details; we never receive them.

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers.

8. Tracking

The app does not track you. It carries no advertising or analytics SDK, and it never combines your data with data from other companies’ apps or websites. That is why you are never shown Apple’s tracking permission prompt.

9. Notifications and camera

The app asks for camera access so you can take scan photos and run the guided sessions, and for permission to send notifications so it can remind you about your routine. Both are optional and can be changed at any time in your device settings. If you save a progress photo, the app asks for permission to add it to your photo library.

10. How long we keep things

When you ask us to delete your account, we delete your photos, scan results, routine history, profile and leaderboard entries.

11. Your rights

You can ask us to:

Email yuxuanchin95@gmail.com from the address on your account and we will action the request within 30 days. There is no charge.

Depending on where you live you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR (Europe / UK), the CCPA (California), or Malaysia’s PDPA. This policy is written to honour those rights for everyone, wherever you are.

12. Security

Your photos are held in private storage that is scoped to your account. Traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted in transit. Our database is configured to deny access by default: the columns that control your paid access and your results can only be changed by our servers, never by an app on someone’s phone. No system is perfectly secure, but we treat scan photographs as sensitive and design accordingly.

13. Children

The David is rated 16+ and is not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has given us data, email us and we will delete it.

14. Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle your data we will update this page and change the date at the top. If a change is significant we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.

15. Contact

Chin Yu Xuan — Malaysia
yuxuanchin95@gmail.com