Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 6, 2026

I Dream Stuff ("we," "us," "the app"), operated by Crane & Archer, LLC, is a dream journal built to help you know yourself — you catch a dream, and the app helps you see it and read it. Your dreams are about as personal as data gets, and we've built the app around that fact. This policy explains, in plain language, what we collect, where it goes, and what you can turn off.

Age: I Dream Stuff is intended for adults 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

What we collect

Account information: your email address (to sign you in — you can sign in with email, or with Apple or Google) and your birth year (used only to confirm you are 18+ — we don't collect your full date of birth).
Your profile: a chosen handle (an alias — not your real name), an optional sun sign, and, if you enable notifications, a device push token.
Your dreams: the journal entries you write or speak — the dream text, places, people, objects, phrases and an optional scent you record, and whether you became lucid.
Your proof phrase: a private phrase you may choose for the lucid experiment. It is stored separately and is never shown to anyone, including other dreamers.
Dream Film description: if you make a Dream Film, the words you write to describe the character. The film builds a synthetic (made-up) person from that description — no photo or voice recording is involved, and a Dream Film does not capture your real face or voice.
Purchases: handled entirely by Apple or Google. We're told what you bought so we can unlock it. We never see your card number.
Usage & diagnostics: how the app is used — which screens and features, kept content-free (never your dream text) — and crash & error reports when something breaks. Crash reports carry device and error details to help us fix bugs; they never include your dream content, screenshots, or who you are.

Zero-access encryption — what it does and doesn't cover

Your written dreams are protected by zero-access encryption. Here is exactly what that does, mechanically:

A key is generated on your phone and kept in your device's secure keychain. It is never uploaded, and we never hold a copy of it.
Your dream words are encrypted on the device before they are sent. What sits in our database is ciphertext — scrambled text that needs your key to turn back into words.
You get a recovery key to save when you start. That key is how you recover your dreams on a new phone.

The trade, stated plainly: because the key lives on your device and not on our servers, if you lose your phone and your recovery key, your encrypted dreams cannot be recovered. That is the point of it, and it is also the cost of it.

Encryption covers your dream words and what the app writes back to you about them: the dream narrative; the places, people and objects you record; the reply you heard in the experiment; the short summary; and every reading. A few things stay readable on our server so the app can find resonances with other dreamers: the keywords and glyphs the app derives from a dream, and — worth stating plainly, because it is the most literal part — the exact spoken phrases you record ("anything anyone said"), which feed the matching directly. If you'd rather sit out the matching entirely, you can turn off community sharing in Settings, and then none of it — keywords, phrases, or your proof phrase — is compared against anyone.

Sharing is the one deliberate exception. When you choose to show a dream to your Dream Friends — its summary, its card, its film, your words, or particular readings — you are taking that piece out of the encrypted vault and handing it to the people you picked. That never happens on its own: it is always your choice, one piece at a time (see below).

Dream cards and Dream Films are pictures and video, not words, so they aren't encrypted the same way. Instead they live in private storage reachable only through short-lived, signed links — never a public address — and, like everything else, only ever leave your account when you choose to share them.

Where your dreams go, and who reads them

The app can't interpret or illustrate a dream without a machine reading it. So here is every trip your words take:

What	Goes to	What's sent
Your dream readings and summaries	Anthropic (Claude)	The dream text only. Not your name, email or handle.
Meditations, bedtime & daytime stories, the Almanac	Anthropic (Claude)	Nothing personal — these are the same for everyone and carry none of your dream content.
Voice capture (if you speak a dream)	Groq (US-based; runs OpenAI's Whisper speech model) to turn the audio into text, then Anthropic (Claude) to sort that text into the capture fields	The audio, only to transcribe it — then the resulting text, only to split it into fields. Not your name, email or handle. The audio is never stored on our servers, and Groq is set to zero data retention — it keeps nothing once the text is returned. If a transcription can't finish (for example your connection drops), the recording is kept only on your own phone so you don't lose the dream, and it's deleted as soon as it's transcribed or you discard it (and automatically after 3 days if it's left unfinished).
Dream cards (the artwork)	Google (Gemini)	A scene description drawn from the dream.
Dream Films	Replicate and fal.ai (US-based video-AI platforms), which host and run ByteDance's Seedance model on their own infrastructure	Scene descriptions only — the words you wrote. No photo, no voice recording: the character is synthetic.

Anthropic and Groq do not use your content to train their models. Anthropic retains it only briefly for safety purposes; Groq is set to zero data retention and keeps nothing after the task is done. We send dream content to these providers to perform the task you asked for — not to build profiles of you.

Dream Films

A Dream Film puts a character you describe in words into your dream — a synthetic, made-up person, not a real one. Because of that:

A Dream Film does not capture your real face or voice. There's no selfie and no recording — only the description you type, which is used to generate a synthetic character. So there is no biometric data (no faceprint or voiceprint) collected to make a film.
Where the video is made — plainly. Your film is rendered by the US-based platforms Replicate and fal.ai, which host and run ByteDance's Seedance model on their own infrastructure. To make it, a scene description is sent to that provider — a shot-by-shot account drawn from your dream, so it does describe what happens in the dream (its imagery, action, and any spoken lines). What it is not tied to is you: no face, no voice, no name, handle, or email travels with it, so the description can't be linked back to your identity or your account.
Describe your own look, or a clearly fictional one. Please don't describe a real or public figure in order to depict their likeness — the app refuses obvious cases, and impersonating a real person is your responsibility.
Your finished films are private to you — stored where no other account can reach them (enforced at the database level) and served only through short-lived, signed links. Nobody else sees a film unless you choose to share it.
Every film is clearly labelled AI-generated.

Other dreamers — what they can see

A friend is a connection, not a key. Becoming someone's Dream Friend gives them no access to anything — not your journal, not a single dream. It simply unlocks the ability for you to hand them one thing at a time. Nothing is ever shared automatically. Every dream starts fully private, and stays that way until you turn on a specific piece of a specific dream. If you never share, your friends never see a thing.

Dream Friends. Friendship is mutual and doesn't pass along to friends-of-friends. To show a dream, you turn it on and then choose each piece separately — the summary, the dream card, the film, your full dream text, and any readings you pick — each its own switch, all off to begin with. Because your dreams are encrypted: the moment you switch on your full text or a reading, a readable copy of just that piece is written to our server so your friends can see it, and it is erased the instant you switch it off (and in any case when the post expires). Nothing you leave switched off ever becomes readable. A gentle guide to comfort: the dream card tells the least — it's an image, open to interpretation; your full words, your readings, the summary, and a film reveal the most, so share those as sparingly as your comfort asks. Shared posts and their comments fade after 7 days; the entry always stays in your journal.
Resonance & the Commons. We compare dreams across the community to find overlaps. Only anonymised details surface — overlapping keywords, a shared scent or place, the date, and your handle. Your raw dream text, your readings and your proof phrase are never shared this way.
Reporting & blocking. If you report a post, we receive the reported content so a human can look at it.

Who we share it with

Service providers who run the app on our behalf: Supabase (database, authentication, file storage), Anthropic, Google, Replicate and fal.ai (Dream Film video — US-based platforms running ByteDance's Seedance model, as above), Fly.io (assembles films), Expo (push notifications), Cloudflare (this website), Resend (sign-in and product emails), ElevenLabs (voices the app's own meditations and stories — never your dreams), and Sentry (crash & error diagnostics — device and error details only, never your dream content). They process data only on our behalf.
Apple, Google and RevenueCat for purchases.
Other dreamers, only as described above.
Legal — if required by law, or to protect someone's safety.

How we make money

Memberships and made-to-order items (Dream Films, prints, the Dream Deck) are the business. That's it — that's how the app is paid for.
The Shop earns affiliate commissions. The scents, sleep and body items we recommend link out to real retailers, and we may earn a commission if you buy something. We only suggest things we'd use ourselves, those links open in your normal browser, and we don't hand any of your information to those retailers — they see a visitor, not a dreamer.
We don't run ads, and we don't sell your data or your dreams. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone.

How we protect it

Every account's data is isolated at the database level, so one dreamer cannot reach another's dreams, profile or messages. Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and at rest. Files like your dream cards and films are served through private, expiring links rather than public URLs. And your written dreams are encrypted with a key we never receive, as described above.

Keeping & deleting your data

We keep your data for as long as your account exists. You can delete your account at any time from Settings, which permanently and irreversibly erases your dreams, profile, proof phrase, films and matches. You can also take everything with you first — Settings will make you a PDF of your journal or a plain-text backup. You may also email us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your information.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example, the EU/EEA under GDPR, or California under CCPA), you may have rights to access, correct, delete or port your personal data, and to object to certain processing. To exercise any of these, contact us at the address below and we'll respond.

Where your data is processed

Our providers are based primarily in the United States and process data there — including Anthropic (readings), Groq (voice transcription), and the US-based platforms (Replicate and fal.ai) that render Dream Films. Some providers may process data in other countries whose privacy laws differ from your own; where the law requires, we use appropriate safeguards for those transfers. By using the app, you understand your information may be processed in these places.

Changes to this policy

If we make material changes, we'll update the date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app.

Contact

Questions, requests, or concerns: hello@idreamstuff.com.

The data controller is Crane & Archer, LLC, 2389 Main St., Suite 100, Glastonbury, CT 06033, USA.