Treelore — by djEnterprises
Last Updated: June 18, 2026
djEnterprises ("we," "us," or "our") makes the Treelore mobile application (the "App"). Treelore turns a family tree you already have into a browsable wiki on your phone and a beautifully designed, printable family-history book. This Privacy Policy explains how Treelore handles your information. The short version: you import your own family-tree file, everything is parsed, stored, and rendered entirely on your device, there is no account to create, and Treelore has no analytics, no advertising, no third-party trackers, and no location, health, contacts, or camera access. We do not collect your data, and we never sell it.
Treelore works from a file you export yourself. You export a standard GEDCOM (.ged) file from Ancestry, MyHeritage, RootsMagic, Gramps, or most other genealogy software, then open it in Treelore using your device's standard file picker. Treelore never logs into Ancestry or any other service, never asks for your genealogy-service username or password, and does not sync with or scrape any online account. It only reads the file you choose to open.
The file you import can contain names, dates, places, family relationships, notes, source citations, and — if you include them — linked photos. All of this is stored only on your device, inside the App's private storage, along with a few small settings (for example, which person opens first, and whether you've unlocked the paid book features). We have no servers that hold your tree, and we cannot see, access, or recover it.
In this version of Treelore, your family data never leaves your device. The App makes no network connection to send your tree anywhere. The only information that goes off the device is handled by Apple, not by us:
There is no Sign in with Apple, no email collection, no push notifications, and no usage analytics of any kind.
Family trees often include living relatives. Treelore is built to respect that. When you export or share a book, a "Protect living people" option hides the personal details (such as dates and places, and a living couple's marriage details) of anyone who appears to still be living, showing only what you choose. This protection is applied in the actual rendered book, not just on screen. You remain in control of what any exported document contains.
A future, opt-in feature will be able to turn a person's recorded facts into written biography prose for the book. This feature is not active in the current version, and no data is sent for it today. If and when it is enabled, it will be off by default, and only when you turn it on and choose to narrate a person will the facts you select (such as names, dates, places, and relationships — never the details of someone marked as living) be sent securely to our writing service and to Anthropic's Claude API to generate the text. We will update this Privacy Policy and the App's privacy disclosures before that feature ships.
If you choose to use the optional AI biography feature once it is available, the selected facts are processed by Anthropic's Claude API, reached through our own processing server. Anthropic acts solely as our data processor. Under its commercial API terms, Anthropic does not train its models on data submitted through the API, and it automatically deletes API inputs and outputs within 30 days. Our API key lives only in secure server environment variables — never in the App. We have confirmed that each third party with whom the App would share user data provides the same or equal protection of user data as described in this policy. We never sell or rent any user data.
Treelore is a general-audience genealogy tool intended for adults building and sharing family histories. It is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from children.
Your tree is stored in the App's private, sandboxed storage on your device. Because your data stays on the device by default, the most important protection is simply that it never leaves. For the optional features that do use the network in the future, all communication will use HTTPS, and no service key is ever stored in the App.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes are posted here with an updated date, and material changes will be surfaced in the App.