Dear Optimist

Marketing & Advertising

This page explains how Dear Optimist uses data for advertising and marketing, and the choices you have. It supplements our Privacy Policy.

Your journal is never used for advertising

Your journal entries, voice memos, weather ratings, and custom affirmations are private to you. We never sell them or use them to target ads. Dear Optimist is a well-being app and is not a HIPAA-covered service.

Marketing and advertising data we use

Ads in the app (Google AdMob)

For free users, ads are served through Google AdMob (the Google Mobile Ads SDK). To show and measure ads, Google and its partners may process your advertising identifier, IP address, and app interaction and diagnostic data. See Google's Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. This website itself does not show ads.

Premium removes ads

A premium subscription removes ads. Purchases are processed by RevenueCat and the app stores; we do not receive your full payment-card details, and your subscription data is not used for third-party ad targeting. See the Terms of Service for subscription details.

Personalized ads and your controls

Personalized ads use prior activity to infer interests; non-personalized ads use only contextual and coarse signals. You can control this at any time:

Email and the beta signup

When you join our beta on this website, we collect your email address and phone platform to contact you about the beta and launch — for example, to send a TestFlight or Google Play invitation. We do not sell or rent your email, and we use it only for these updates. To be removed from the list, email hello@dearoptimist.app and we'll remove you promptly.

We do not sell your personal information

We do not sell your personal information. Sharing data with the ad services above to show ads to free users may qualify as a “sale” or “share” under some US state laws; you can opt out with the in-app toggle above or by emailing hello@dearoptimist.app.

Children

Dear Optimist is rated 13+. We do not knowingly serve personalized ads to anyone under 13.

Contact

hello@dearoptimist.app

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