1. Who is responsible
Dotish Philosopher is responsible for the information described here. Questions and privacy requests can be sent to privacy@dotishphilosopher.com.
2. What stays local
Journal entries, Journal prompts, local Sage history, and most self-directed practice state are stored in your browser. They remain there until you delete them or clear browser storage. Dotish cannot recover local-only data after it is cleared.
The Journal has no account or cloud synchronization. Legacy growth reflections may be imported locally into the Journal; computed legacy mood labels and scores are not imported.
3. What the Sage processes
When you submit a Sage message, the message and up to ten recent conversation messages are sent over HTTPS to the Dotish backend on AWS. The backend sends that context to Anthropic as the primary language-model provider, or to OpenAI if the primary provider is unavailable.
- Purpose: generating the reply and applying safety controls.
- Dotish storage: Sage conversation history is not stored server-side in the current production deployment.
- Optional training logging: disabled in the current production deployment.
- Provider retention: standard API policies may retain inputs and outputs for up to 30 days, subject to each provider's legal, safety, and abuse-monitoring exceptions.
- Provider training: Anthropic and OpenAI state that API inputs and outputs are not used to train their models by default.
Dotish does not claim a zero-data-retention agreement with either provider. Do not submit information you would not want processed under these terms.
See the current Anthropic retention policy and OpenAI API data controls.
4. Other information we process
- Feedback: the text you submit and any contact details you choose to include.
- Security and delivery records: request time, URL, status, browser headers, and hashed IP-derived identifiers used for rate limiting and abuse prevention.
- Analytics: none. This site runs no analytics, no tracking pixels, and no third-party measurement.
- Cookies: none. Site preferences and your own writing are kept in this browser's local storage, which is never transmitted.
Because nothing optional is collected, there is nothing to consent to and no cookie banner to dismiss. Dotish does not sell personal information or use cross-site advertising trackers.
5. Services that receive data
AWS
Amazon Web Services hosts and delivers the site and backend in the us-east-1 region. It processes Sage requests, feedback, delivery logs, and security metadata as needed to operate the service.
Anthropic and OpenAI
These providers receive Sage message content and recent conversation context only when you submit to the Sage, as described above.
Fonts
Typefaces are served from this site's own domain. No font request reaches Google or any other third party.
Visitor-initiated services
Nothing else loads unless you ask for it. There is no newsletter and no email signup, so no address is ever collected. If you follow a donation or outside-resource link, the destination receives the ordinary connection information associated with that visit. Its own policy then applies.
6. Retention
| Record | Current retention |
|---|---|
| Journal and local Sage history | Until you delete it or clear browser storage |
| Anthropic or OpenAI API inputs and outputs | Up to 30 days under standard provider policies, subject to exceptions |
| Hashed rate-limit identifiers | 7 days |
| Production server logs | 30 days |
| Feedback | 90 days, unless needed longer to resolve the request or meet a legal obligation |
7. Why we process it
Depending on the context and applicable law, Dotish relies on your consent, the need to provide a feature you request, legitimate interests in securing and maintaining the service, or a legal obligation. You can avoid remote message processing by using the writings, Journal, practices, and atmospheric rooms instead of the Sage.
8. Your choices and rights
Use Privacy & Local Data to export Journal data, export or delete legacy mood data, and clear local Sage history. You may also ask to access, correct, delete, restrict, or receive personal data that Dotish controls, where applicable law grants that right.
Email privacy@dotishphilosopher.com with “Privacy Request” in the subject. Identity verification may be required. You may also complain to your local data-protection authority.
9. Security and transfers
Data is encrypted in transit. AWS access controls, encryption at rest, rate limiting, and monitoring protect the service. No internet service can promise absolute security. Information may be processed in the United States or other places where the named providers operate, under the transfer mechanisms those providers make available.
10. Children
Dotish Philosopher is not directed to children under 18. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact the privacy address so it can be reviewed and deleted where appropriate.
11. Changes
Material changes will be described on this page with a new date. A prominent site notice will be used when a change meaningfully alters how sensitive reflections are handled.
12. Contact
Privacy: privacy@dotishphilosopher.com
General: contact@dotishphilosopher.com