What the app reads, what it keeps, where it lives, and how to delete it. Plain words.
A personal social-calendar app for New York City, in private beta, run by one person (Frank Ambrosino, Brooklyn). This page says what the app reads, what it keeps, where, and how to get rid of it.
Your calendar. The app reads every calendar you allow to find free time, and writes only to calendars it creates. Other events' titles and times never leave the phone; the backend sees only which of the app's own slots are booked, proposed or empty.
Your location, only while the app is open and only when you ask for "near me". It is never tracked or stored.
Contacts, for birthdays and (later) invites. Names and birthdays stay on the phone. If a future version matches contacts to app users, it sends only one-way hashes of phone numbers, never the address book.
Your picks, passes, ratings, settings and Pepper's notes are kept in a file on the phone, one per account.
Your account: email or Apple ID relay address, display name, when you accepted the terms.
Your plans: which slots you booked, proposed or passed on, the events you created, invites and RSVPs, check-ins you chose to share, saved groups, your neighborhood presets and settings.
Your Spotify artists, if you connect Spotify: artist names and a taste score, refreshed daily. Tokens are stored server-side and never shown to the app. Disconnecting deletes them.
Push tokens, so the app can notify you. Nag history, so Pepper doesn't repeat herself.
A developer log of what the app and backend did (job names, counts, timings, errors). It never contains calendar titles, messages or contacts.
Claude (Anthropic) reads newsletters you forward, screenshots and links you share, and your messages to Pepper, to turn them into structured events and replies. Anthropic's API does not train on this data; Sooo Busy keeps the extracted events, not the originals.
Google Places supplies live hours, ratings and photos for places on your cards. Those are fetched live and shown with Google's attribution; Sooo Busy does not store them.
Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, Wikipedia, the venues' own websites, NYC Open Data and Overture Maps supply events, places and neighborhood boundaries. None of them receive anything about you.
Spotify, if you connect it, as above.
Apple, for Sign in with Apple, push notifications and Maps directions. Directions are computed on the phone.
It never sends a message, email or post on your behalf. Every invite and nudge is a draft you send yourself.
It never tracks your location in the background, never reads other people's locations, and never profiles the attendees of any event.
It never sells or shares your data with anyone for advertising. There are no ads.
An invite page shows the event, the host's first name and the first names of guests who said they're going. No phone numbers or emails are ever shown. Links are unguessable and can be revoked; check-in links expire after 24 hours by default.
Me → Account → Delete my account removes your account and every row tied to it on the backend (plans, events, invites, RSVPs, check-ins, Spotify link, push tokens, Pepper's notes) immediately. Delete the app to remove the file on your phone. Calendars the app created stay in your calendar app until you delete them there.
Questions or requests: sooobusyapp@gmail.com.