Last updated: April 27, 2026
The short version: We don't track you. We don't sell your data. We don't share anything with advertisers or third-party AI services. The app uses Apple's on-device intelligence to illustrate your stories — your story text never leaves your phone unless you tap Share.
If you do tap Share, we put your finished story (with its illustration and the name you chose for yourself) on a public web page so you can send the link to friends. You can ask us to take it down at any time.
Questions: support@goverbyourself.com.
Go [Verb] Yourself is developed and operated by Ken Laws, an individual developer. The app is published in Apple's App Store; the website at goverbyourself.com hosts story-share pages and this policy. For any privacy-related question, write to support@goverbyourself.com.
This data is sent only when you tap the Share button. The app never uploads in the background, never uploads stories you haven't shared, and never uploads anything else from your device. Once received, the data is rendered into a public web page at a URL of the form https://goverbyourself.com/story/<random-id>, which is the link you then share via Messages, email, or wherever else.
If you have iOS's "Share with App Developers" setting enabled (Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements → Share with App Developers), Apple may send us anonymized crash reports. These contain technical information about what the app was doing when it crashed — they do not contain your story content, your name, or any personal information. You can disable this at any time in iOS Settings.
Go [Verb] Yourself generates illustrations for your stories using Apple's on-device generative AI ("Apple Intelligence"). All AI processing happens on your iPhone; we do not send your story text to any third-party AI service like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google. Each illustration is visibly labeled "Crafted by AI" so it's never ambiguous that the image is machine-generated.
When you tap Share, the resulting page at https://goverbyourself.com/story/<random-id> is publicly accessible to anyone who has the link. The link contains a long random identifier that isn't published, indexed, or guessable in practice — but anyone you give the link to can view the page, and they can in turn share it with others. Treat shared stories as you would a publicly posted social-media post: only share what you're comfortable with strangers seeing.
We do not advertise, index, or otherwise publicize the existence of individual story pages. They sit at their unique URLs until you ask us to remove them.
To have a shared story page removed, email support@goverbyourself.com with the URL of the page. We'll take it down. We don't have an automated deletion tool today (the volume hasn't required one), so deletion is a manual process — typically completed within a few business days.
Shared story pages are kept indefinitely unless you ask for deletion or we proactively prune older content for housekeeping. We do not currently have a fixed deletion schedule.
You can ask us, at any time, to:
goverbyourself.com.Email support@goverbyourself.com with the relevant URL.
California residents have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act to request access to, deletion of, and correction of their personal information. To exercise these rights, contact support@goverbyourself.com.
We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration. There is no "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link on this site because there is no sale of personal information to opt out of.
Under Quebec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Law 25), Quebec residents have the right to access, correct, withdraw consent for, and delete their personal information. The person responsible for the protection of personal information at Go [Verb] Yourself is Ken Laws, reachable at support@goverbyourself.com.
If you're in the EU/EEA, the lawful bases on which we process the limited data described above are:
You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and to object to processing. To exercise any of these, email support@goverbyourself.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
Per the EU's Digital Services Act, the trader contact information for Go [Verb] Yourself is published on our App Store product page and corresponds to Ken Laws as the individual trader.
Go [Verb] Yourself is rated 9+ and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has shared a story to our server, contact support@goverbyourself.com and we will remove it promptly.
All connections between the app and our server are encrypted using HTTPS. The server itself is operated by Ken Laws on a small cloud-hosted virtual machine, with standard security practices. We don't store payment information, passwords, or any login credentials, because the app doesn't have any of those things.
If we change this policy in any material way, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top of the page. We don't currently maintain a separate changelog — given the small scope of data handling here, the policy itself is short enough to re-read.
For any privacy question or request, write to support@goverbyourself.com. We read every email; please bear with us on response time as we're a single-person team.