Effective date: September 2025
1. Overview
Omniscient is a private check-in app that helps trusted connections share live awareness with one another. Depending on your settings and permissions, the app may process location, motion activity, selected wellness data, profile information, and connection information so the people you've connected with can see your current status.
Important: Not a Safety, Medical, or Emergency Service
Why we built Omniscient. How many times have you called someone you love, gotten no answer, and felt your mind start to wander? You text them, you call back, and maybe you pull up a location-sharing app you might already be using to see where their phone is sitting. But those apps don’t tell you whether that phone has been still for two minutes or two hours — they show you a dot on a map, not a sign of life. We built Omniscient to close that gap. If you can see that your daughter’s phone moved seconds ago, or that your dad’s Apple Watch is showing a normal heart rate, that’s a quiet, meaningful signal that the person you’re worried about is more than likely just busy and will call you back. It doesn’t replace reaching out to them. It just helps keep you from spiraling while you wait.
That said — and this is important —
Omniscient is a peace-of-mind app. It is not a safety, medical, or emergency service, and it is not a substitute for one.
Omniscient shows you signals about people you’ve connected with — when their phone last moved, their general activity, their approximate location, and (optionally) heart rate and step count from Apple Watch or iPhone HealthKit. These signals come from third-party hardware and software that can be inaccurate, delayed, interrupted, missing, or wrong for many reasons — including dead batteries, no cell coverage, Do Not Disturb mode, revoked app permissions, iOS putting the app to sleep, software updates, and Apple Watch not being worn.
Specifically, Omniscient cannot tell you:
- Whether a person is safe, healthy, conscious, or unhurt. A green “Active” indicator does not mean the person is well. They may have set the phone down and walked away.
- Whether a person is in distress or experiencing an emergency. A “hasn’t moved in 4 hours” indicator does not mean something is wrong. They may be asleep, in a meeting, on a flight, or charging the phone in another room.
- An accurate medical reading. Heart rate and step count come from Apple HealthKit. They are consumer-grade signals, not medical-grade measurements, and are not intended for diagnosis, monitoring, or treatment of any condition.
- An exact location. GPS and address data is approximate and can be off by tens or hundreds of meters, especially indoors.
Always reach out directly when it matters. Omniscient is designed to complement how you stay in touch with the people you love — not replace it. If you are worried about someone, contact them. If you cannot reach them and the situation feels urgent, call 911 or your local emergency number. Don’t wait for an app to tell you what a phone call can.
By using Omniscient, you acknowledge that Omniscient, its developer, and its operators have no liability for any decision you make — or any decision you do not make — based on what the app shows you.
2. Information We Collect
Account Information
When you sign in, Omniscient may collect account identifiers and profile information associated with your authentication provider, Sign in with Apple.
Location Data
If you grant permission, Omniscient collects your device location so it can be shared with your approved connections. This can include background location updates when live sharing is enabled.
Motion Data
If you grant motion permission, Omniscient uses motion data to detect general activity states such as walking, running, cycling, automotive, or stationary.
Health Data
If you opt in, Omniscient may access selected HealthKit data, including steps and heart rate, to share activity status with your connections.
Profile Image Data
If you choose to import your contact photo or upload an avatar, Omniscient processes that image so it can appear in your account profile.
Connection Data
Omniscient stores connection relationships, invite usage, and the connection data needed to show who is connected to whom.
3. How We Use Information
- To authenticate you and maintain your Omniscient account.
- To share your live status with the people you approve.
- To enable invite flows and connection management.
- To provide optional wellness context if you choose to share it.
- To operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the app.
4. How Sharing Works
Omniscient is designed around consent and user control. You can manage whether your location is shared and may choose between sharing modes such as full sharing, receive-only, or hidden mode.
5. Background Location
If you enable live sharing and grant the necessary permissions, Omniscient may access your location in the background to keep your approved connections updated even when the app is not actively open. You can disable this through the app’s settings or your device settings.
6. Health Information
Health data is only accessed if you explicitly grant HealthKit permissions. You can revoke those permissions at any time in your device settings. Health data is never sold and is only shared with your approved connections according to your in-app settings.
7. Data Storage and Providers
Omniscient uses third-party infrastructure providers, including Supabase for account management, data storage, and real-time synchronization, to operate core app features. Those providers process information on our behalf in accordance with their own service commitments and applicable law.
Crash and Diagnostic Reporting
Omniscient relies on Apple's built-in crash reporting to receive anonymous crash reports that help us identify and fix stability issues. Crash reports contain device and app state information needed to diagnose the crash — such as iOS version, device model, app version, and a stack trace — but do not include your name, email, location, contacts, health data, or any content from your connections.
Location and Movement Data Retention
Omniscient is designed to minimize the data we store and the time we keep it. We do not maintain a permanent history of where you have been or what you have done.
What we keep, and for how long:
- Your most recent location, activity, heart rate, and step count. These overwrite themselves on every update. We don’t keep a trail. When you publish a new location, the old one is replaced — there is no “history” record stored on our servers.
- Connection relationships (who is connected to whom). Kept until you delete a connection or your account.
- Saved place labels (your private “Home,” “Work,” or custom place tags). Kept until you delete them or your account.
- Account metadata (your Sign in with Apple identifier, your display name, your invite code). Kept until you delete your account.
What we don’t keep:
- Historical location traces, breadcrumb trails, or movement timelines.
- Heart rate or step count history beyond the most recent value.
- Backups of your data once you have deleted your account, subject to a brief operational window for system backups (no more than 30 days).
Certain limited account, connection, diagnostic, security, or system integrity records may be retained for a reasonable period as required to operate, protect, and troubleshoot the service.
What We Never Do
- We do not sell, rent, license, or trade your personal data, location, or movement information to anyone, for any purpose, ever.
- We do not use your data for advertising.
- We do not use your data to train AI or machine learning models.
8. Account Deletion
You can request deletion directly in the Omniscient app through the Delete Account option or through the account deletion page on this site. Deleting your account permanently removes your Omniscient account, connections, saved places, and associated app data from active systems, subject to limited retention required for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, or system backup processes.
9. Your Choices
- Control location, motion, contacts, and health permissions through your device settings.
- Change your sharing mode inside the app.
- Delete your account at any time from within the app.
10. Children’s Privacy
Omniscient is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we may update the effective date and publish the revised version here.
12. Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, visit the support page on this site.