Privacy

Last updated July 15, 2026

The short version: what you write in Inlet is yours, and nobody else sees it unless you deliberately choose to share it. Here is exactly how that works, in plain terms.

What we're protecting

Your journal — from everyone. Strangers on the internet, people shown a demo, and the people in your own group. Privacy inside your group isn't a footnote; it's a core rule. Being in a group with someone gives them no way to read your entries, or you theirs. The one thing that ever crosses is an entry you tag someone in and choose to share.

What stays private unless you share it

There is exactly one way anything you write reaches another person: you tag them in an entry and leave the share switch on. That shares that one entry with those named people — never your day, never your other entries, never your summaries. You can stop sharing it at any time, and deleting the entry ends it outright.

• Your entries. Everything you write or say — except an entry you deliberately shared, which the people you tagged can read. Unsharing it or deleting it is yours to do, any time.
• Your photos. Served only to you, behind an owner check, over links that expire quickly — and to anyone you shared that photo's entry with, behind the same check.
• Your aims and where they landed. The intentions you set, and their outcomes, are yours — visible only to you.
• Your day summaries and your throughline. Generated from your own content, visible only to you.

None of this is shared as a side effect of anything. There is no setting you could leave on by accident that exposes an entry. Sharing requires a deliberate act by you.

What a group does — and doesn't — share

A group is a set of your connections who cheer each other on. Joining one is the single explicit action that shares something, and that something is narrow:

• That you're active. The people in it can see you're showing up — streaks and the like. Presence, not content.
• Shared prompt context. A prompt can carry whether your group engaged with it, so you often land on the same questions and can talk about them in real life.
• A themed signal. An anonymized, aggregate read of what the group is broadly feeling — themes and moods only. Never events, never anyone's raw or paraphrased words. By construction it can't reveal who said what.

A group by itself grants no access to anything you wrote. Joining one shares that you're active, and nothing else.

Where your data lives

Inlet runs on trusted infrastructure — the same kind of hosting any modern app uses. Your data sits in an encrypted database, your photos in secure object storage, and app secrets in a store separate from both. We extend trust to these providers the way every hosted service does. We don't hand your content to anyone else, and we don't sell it.

When AI touches your content

Inlet uses AI to write your day summaries, keep your throughline current, and shape prompts. It works on your content to serve you. The throughline is held to a hard rule: it never invents and never flatters — everything it surfaces traces back to something you actually wrote or said.

What we don't defend against

We're honest about the edges. Inlet can't protect you from a device that's already compromised — if someone has your unlocked phone or laptop, they can see what you can see. And like any service, we rely on our infrastructure providers not being breached. Those are the normal limits of any app, and we'd rather name them than pretend they don't exist.

Your account

You can sign in with Google or with an emailed code — asked for at your first save, not before. Your journal is protected by that secure login, not a password you have to remember. You can delete your account yourself anytime — in the app under Profile → Account, or at theinlet.app/delete-accountif you've already uninstalled it. Deletion is immediate: you're signed out everywhere and your journal disappears. If it was a mistake, sign back in within 15 days and your account is restored; after 15 days the data is erased permanently.

Questions

Ask us directly and a person will answer: jsa7cornell@gmail.com.