Meridian Privacy Policy

Meridian is operated by Meridian Digital Labs, Inc. (“Meridian”, “we”, “us”).

If you have questions or want to exercise privacy rights, contact contact@journalmeridian.com.

This policy describes how we handle information for (1) the Meridian iOS app and (2) the Meridian marketing website (including the waitlist form).

• Provide core app functionality (for example, saving journal entries on your device and displaying your Night Sky).
• Operate your account (authentication, Stardust economy, subscription status, and feature limits).
• Deliver optional AI features when you use them (reflection prompts, theme extraction, constellation creation).
• Improve Meridian and resolve errors through product analytics and crash reports. We use anonymized usage data (such as anonymized session recordings and aggregate analytics) solely to make Meridian and the experience it provides better — for example, fixing bugs, refining flows, and understanding which features help people build a journaling habit. We do not use this data to sell or license it to advertisers, and we do notuse it to profile individual users' emotional state or vulnerability in order to influence pricing, upsells, or subscription offers.
• Operate the waitlist and send early access communications to people who opt in.
• Support and security (for example, responding to user requests and preventing abuse).

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only as needed to operate Meridian and deliver the services you request.

Meridian does not run third-party advertising in the app and does not use ad networks. We do not sell your personal information.

We collect product analytics events, session replay screen recordings, and crash reports using PostHog and Sentry to understand feature usage and improve the app. Analytics event properties and crash reports never include journal entry text or search queries; however, because session replay visually captures on-screen activity, it can include on-screen content from any screen open during a recording (sign-in and password fields are masked). Session recordings are anonymized — they are tagged with a separate identifier that is not linked to your account, name, or email address, so a recording cannot be traced back to a specific user. We do not use third-party advertising or cross-app tracking SDKs.

• Journal entries: stored locally on your device, and — when signed in — backed up as per-account-encrypted ciphertext on our servers. Deleting an entry removes it from both. Deleting your account permanently destroys your encryption key and everything stored under it.
• Account and economy data: kept while your account is active, or until you request deletion.
• Product analytics and error reports: retained as long as reasonably needed to operate and improve Meridian.
• Waitlist information: kept as long as we reasonably need it to manage early access and communications, or until you request deletion.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your personal information.

• Delete app data: you can delete journal entries within the app and/or delete the app to remove locally stored data.
• Delete your account: use the account deletion option in app settings, or email us to request deletion of your account and associated cloud data.
• Waitlist deletion request: email contact@journalmeridian.com and include the email address you used to sign up.

Meridian is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

We may update this policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the effective date above and, where appropriate, provide additional notice.