When you join the waitlist or sign up, we ask for your email address and your mobile phone number. When you use Oyster, we also keep the journal entries you text to us — that's the whole point, so we can turn them into your journal.
We use your phone number to send you one gratitude prompt each day and to receive your replies. We use your email to talk to you about your account. We use your entries to build your journal. That's it.
We never sell your information. We never share your entries with advertisers or data brokers. Your journal is not used to train AI models. Your entries are never shown to anyone but you.
Oyster sends one text per day. Message and data rates from your phone carrier may apply. You can stop anytime by replying STOP, and you can reply HELP if you need assistance. We will never text you marketing from other companies.
Your information is stored with established cloud providers that we access through protected accounts. Only Oyster can access your entries. We are a small service and we keep our setup simple on purpose: less machinery means fewer places for things to go wrong.
If you want your entries, your number, or your whole account deleted, just ask — reply STOP to end the texts, or email us and we'll erase everything we have about you. Deleted means deleted.
Oyster is for adults. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
If this policy ever changes in a way that matters, we'll tell you by text or email before the change takes effect — not after.