Open Meadow

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 14, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Open Meadow collects, uses, and protects your personal information. We are committed to transparency and protecting your privacy.

1. Information We Collect

Account Information

  • Email address
  • Account preferences and settings
  • For anonymous demo visitors, a browser fingerprint used to limit repeated demo access

Content You Create

  • Meditation scripts you write or generate
  • Chat conversations with the meditation companion
  • Practice logs and meditation history

Usage Information

  • Basic analytics and event data for debugging and improving the service
  • Website traffic data such as page views, referrers, device type, and coarse location through Plausible Analytics
  • Error logs and performance data
  • Plausible does not use cookies or persistent identifiers. IP addresses and user agents are processed transiently but are not stored

Information We Don't Collect

  • Stored IP addresses
  • Precise location data
  • Audio recordings (voice input is transcribed and immediately discarded)

2. Privacy Mode

Open Meadow offers an optional Privacy Mode for users who want enhanced privacy protection:

  • When enabled, your chat conversations and meditation content are encrypted in the database
  • We (the administrators) cannot access your encrypted content
  • This ensures maximum privacy for sensitive personal reflections

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information solely to provide and improve Open Meadow:

  • To create and maintain your account
  • To generate personalized meditations based on your requests
  • To store your meditation library and practice history
  • To debug issues and improve app performance
  • To understand how visitors use the website and anonymous demo
  • To enforce anonymous demo limits using a browser fingerprint
  • To communicate with you about your account or the service

We do not:

  • Sell your data or share it for advertising
  • Use your content to train AI models
  • Use your data for advertising or marketing
  • Share your data with anyone except as described in this policy

4. Third-Party Services

Open Meadow uses the following third-party services to provide functionality:

AI Services

  • AI Models (via Vercel AI Gateway): We use various AI models (primarily Google Gemini 3.0 Flash and OpenAI GPT-4.1) to generate and refine meditation content. These providers have no data retention policies—your prompts and generated content are not stored by them.
  • OpenAI Whisper: We use OpenAI's transcription service for voice input. Audio is transcribed and immediately discarded—it is never stored.
  • Fal.ai: We use this service to generate generic cover images for meditations. These images contain no personal information.

Optional Services

  • ElevenLabs: If you choose to use ElevenLabs text-to-speech, you provide your own API key. We do not have access to or control over ElevenLabs' data handling. Please review their privacy policy separately.

Infrastructure

  • Digital Ocean (London): Our database and file storage are hosted on Digital Ocean's UK infrastructure
  • Plausible Analytics (European Union): We use privacy-friendly, cookie-free analytics to understand aggregate website traffic and referral sources

5. Data Storage and Security

  • All data is stored on secure servers in London, United Kingdom
  • Privacy Mode content is encrypted in the database
  • We implement industry-standard security practices to protect your data

6. Your Rights and Choices

You have the following rights regarding your data:

Access and Export

  • You can export all your data at any time through the app

Deletion

  • You can delete your account at any time through account settings
  • Upon deletion, the registered account and its associated meditations, chat history, and other content are permanently removed from our systems

Privacy Mode

  • You can enable or disable Privacy Mode at any time
  • This encrypts your chat and meditation content in the database

7. Data Retention

  • We retain registered account data and its associated content while the account is active
  • When you delete your account, the account and its associated application content are permanently deleted
  • Anonymous demo accounts, their browser fingerprints, and their meditations may be retained after the 24-hour demo expires until they are manually deleted
  • We do not retain backups of deleted user data beyond standard backup retention periods (typically 30 days)

8. Children's Privacy

Open Meadow is not intended for users under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

9. International Users

Open Meadow is operated from the United Kingdom. If you access the service from outside the UK, your information will be transferred to and stored in the UK.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you through the app or via email. The "Last Updated" date at the top indicates when changes were last made.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact us at:

[email protected]

For general inquiries: [email protected]

This policy is effective as of the date listed above and applies to all users of Open Meadow.