How we hold your data

Encrypted at rest

Everything you write — your entries, the people you hold in view, your notes, and the AI's reflections — is encrypted at rest with a key unique to your account. If our database were copied, the contents would be unreadable without that key.

Who can read it

You can, of course. Dualist's systems also decrypt your data on our servers to show it back to you and to power your reflections — search, syntheses, and your constellation. This is not end-to-end encryption: to write a reflection, our servers read the relevant entries in the clear for the moment it takes to produce it.

AI and your data

To write reflections we send the relevant parts of your entries to a third-party AI provider (Anthropic today). Under our commercial API terms that provider does not use your data to train its models, and we are moving to a per-request zero-retention guarantee. We never use your data to train our own models, and we never sell it.

Feelings stay yours

Entries you mark as a private feeling are treated as your internal state. They are annotated as internal everywhere the AI reads them, and are never presented as a fact about another person.

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