Help, privacy, and safety for Tether.

Contact

For app issues, feedback, privacy questions, or safety reports, email tetherjournalsupport@gmail.com.

Helpful details include your device model, iOS version, app version, and a short description of what happened. Do not include private journal content unless you intentionally choose to share it.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 12, 2026

Data Tether collects

Tether collects account information needed to sign in, including your name, email address, and account identifier. Tether also stores the journal content you create, including entry text, transcripts, audio, photos, videos, captions, timestamps, sharing relationships, private entry conversations, streak data, notification device tokens, and related sync metadata.

How the data is used

Data is used to provide the app's core features: private journaling, local-first sync, media storage, approved sharing, notifications, account support, safety handling, and diagnostics.

On-device transcription

Voice transcription runs on your device using Apple Speech or WhisperKit. Audio is not uploaded to a transcription service for processing.

Service providers

Tether uses Clerk for authentication, Convex for app data and sync, Cloudflare R2 for media storage, and Sentry for crash and diagnostic reporting. These providers are used only to operate, protect, and improve Tether.

Diagnostics

Crash and diagnostic reports may include technical identifiers, counts, byte sizes, and app state names. Tether is configured not to send journal text, transcripts, captions, photos, videos, screenshots, view hierarchy data, email addresses, or names to Sentry.

Tracking and advertising

Tether does not sell personal data, does not use third-party advertising, and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

Retention

Tether keeps account and journal data while your account is active so the app can sync and restore your entries. If you delete your account, Tether deletes your account data and associated journal content unless a legal requirement requires limited retention.

Community Terms

Tether sharing is private and approval-gated. A person must approve a follow request before their shared journal entries are visible, and sharing is view-only.

Do not share content that is abusive, harassing, hateful, sexually exploitative, threatening, illegal, or otherwise unsafe. Tether may remove content or restrict accounts that violate these terms.

If you see offensive content or abusive behavior, report it from inside the app when available or email tetherjournalsupport@gmail.com. Reports are reviewed by the Tether team. You can also block people in the app when block controls are available.

Account Deletion

You can delete your Tether account in the app from Settings -> Account -> Delete Account.

Account deletion permanently removes your Tether account record, journal entries, media, transcripts, profile data, sharing relationships, conversations, streak data, push notification records, and local files from the device where deletion is performed. Shared journal content is no longer visible to followers after deletion.

If you need help with account deletion, email tetherjournalsupport@gmail.com.