Privacy

Last changed 1 October 2026

Astera keeps the journal you design and the reason you made it. This page lists everything it stores, where it sits, and how to take it back.

What the website holds

• Your email address, used to sign you in. There is no password to store.
• The journal you build, which is the layout, the words on your pages and any photographs you place into them.
• An order, if you buy a book: what you ordered and what the printer needs to post it. Payment is taken by Stripe, and card numbers reach Stripe rather than us.
• Your email address and your eight scores, if you ask for your wheel of life to be sent to you from the front page. That is one email, sent because you asked for it. You are not put on a list, nothing follows it, and the address is kept only so a message that failed to arrive can be sent again. Ask us and it is deleted.
• Where you came from, when you make an account: the website that sent you, the tag on the link you followed, the company that ran the ad if an ad brought you, and the first page you opened. It is kept with your account so we can see which posts bring people to Astera. A question you ask in the chat reaches us with it too.

When an assistant plans your journal

You can plan your journal with an assistant such as ChatGPT or Claude. If it uses Astera's connector, it sends us your answers to the twelve questions, a title and any lines for your vision board, and we keep them as a draft. Your conversation never reaches us, and neither does anything else the assistant holds.

The assistant gives you a link to the draft, and the link works for 30 days. Open it and sign in, and the answers go into your account. A draft nobody opens is deleted 30 days after its link runs out. If the assistant writes your answers straight into a link instead, the page takes them off the address before anything counts the visit.

We also keep the address the call came from, so one machine can't start drafts all day. The connect page lists what the connector does.

What the companion app holds

• Your email address, the same one.
• The lines you record or write, which are audio files and text.
• The times you chose for a reminder, and which quote packs you added.
• Where the app was installed from, as Google Play reports it, such as a search in the store or a link we posted. It is kept with your account.

Recordings sit in private storage. They are reachable through a link that expires, and only for the account that made them.

Where it sits

Everything is stored on Supabase in Ireland, on servers inside the European Union. Sign-in codes are sent through Resend, also in Ireland. Printing and postage are done by the printer, who receives your book file and your delivery address and nothing else.

What Astera does not do

• No ads on Astera, and nothing is sold or handed to an advertiser.
• No tracking across other websites, and no advertising pixel of any kind.
• Nobody reads your recordings or your pages to build a profile of you.
• Recordings are transcribed only if you ask for it, one recording at a time.

How visits are counted

Astera counts visits with PostHog, on their European servers. It runs cookieless, which means the visitor id is worked out at their end and nothing at all is written to your device. That is why this site has no cookie banner: there is no cookie to ask you about.

• What is counted on asterajournal.com: the first page you opened, where you came from, which journal you pressed, which question you opened, and whether you went through to the builder.
• What is counted in the builder at /app/: which screen you are on, whether the brief bar was used and whether it worked, and whether an order was started. Not what you write. Your pages, your answers and your photographs are never sent to PostHog.
• Screen recording is on for this brochure and off inside the builder, because the builder is where you write things that are yours.
• Your address is used to work out the town you are in and is then discarded rather than stored.

To keep your own visits out of it on this device, open asterajournal.com/?ph_optout=1 once. It holds until you clear site data, and it is per browser, so a phone needs its own tap.

Taking it back

Every account can download what it holds, and every account can be deleted along with its recordings. How to delete your account.

Asking a question

Write to hello@spremtlabs.com. Under the General Data Protection Regulation you can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, and complain to the Data Protection Commission in Ireland.