Your family’s story.

Who can see a journal

Only the people who have joined that journal. No one else can find it, browse it, or search it—there is no public or discoverable version of any journal.

Answer privately, reveal together

Some questions go to everyone in a journal on the same day. In the app, an answer stays hidden from the others until they’ve written their own. Journal downloads include answers that haven’t been revealed yet. Samira doesn’t make a journal public. People in it can share copies they download.

Photos

Photos are kept in private storage, not on the open web. The app requests a short-lived link only after someone is signed in as a journal member. Anyone who has that link can use it until it expires, so it should be treated as private. Original photos upload separately and may remain pending. Once stored, Samira keeps the original file unedited, including any location it recorded. Journal members can request a temporary link to the stored original, too.

Notifications

A reminder never includes anything from a journal—not the question, not an answer, and not a baby’s name. It may show a family member’s first name, and it only tells someone that something is waiting.

What Samira counts

Samira counts what happens in the app, like finishing setup or adding a photo, to learn what to improve. It never records what you write or your photos.

Your answer to “What would you like from Samira?” is kept privately, to help us decide what to build next.

Your country is kept privately and used only to show prices in your own currency.

If something in Samira breaks, a technical report goes to a service that helps us find and fix errors. The report does not include your words, photos, names or email address.

Sending feedback

When you send feedback, we receive your message, the app version and the screen you were on. Nothing from your journal is added. If you attach a screenshot, it shows whatever was on your screen, so check it first.

Alpha test questions

During the alpha test, Samira may ask you a short question. We keep your choice and any note you add, with the app version and the time. Jesse sees it with your family’s label. It isn’t added to your journal or your book, and the person you write with can’t see it. You can skip a question.

If you talk with Jesse during the test, he keeps his notes from those conversations, even if you delete your account. To have them removed, write to privacy@samirajournal.com.

What’s deleted, and when

When someone removes a memory or a photo, it disappears from the journal immediately. Samira retries file removals in the background if they don’t finish. Account deletion removes stored photos before deleting the account’s journal records. Check the result shown on screen; storage cleanup may need another attempt. This can’t be undone. Copies in our backups are removed within 60 days and are only used to recover lost data.

Keep your own copy

Anyone in a journal can download their journal text, dates, and photo references as a data file at any time, from that journal’s privacy page.

How to reach us

Questions or concerns about privacy? Ask the person who invited them to a journal.

If you joined the waitlist on our landing page, we use your email, and any answers you chose to give, only to plan and send your invite. You can ask us to remove them any time at privacy@samirajournal.com.

If someone invites you to their journal, we use your email address to send the invitation and two reminders. You can stop the reminders using the link in the invitation email. We delete your address once you join or the invitation ends. A copy may remain in our nightly backups for up to 60 days.