Privacy, limitations & your data
Updated September 20, 2026. Mirror is a small, experimental service.
For adults (18+)
Mirror is for people 18 and older. This is our product policy, not a statement that every law sets the same age. Before using Mirror you confirm that you are an adult. We do not collect a birth date or verify identity documents. If a conversation indicates you may be younger, Mirror may ask again. If you confirm you are under 18, it stops that session and requests deletion of its session data, subject to the limits below. It is nothing you did wrong.
AI, not professional care
Mirror generates reflections with AI. It is not a person, therapist, diagnostic tool or emergency service. Its interpretations can be inaccurate or misleading; they are possibilities to consider, not facts about you or advice to rely on for medical or other high-stakes decisions. Safety precautions can miss things.
Conversations are not monitored for emergencies. In the US or Canada, call or text 988 for suicide-crisis support (US, Canada). For immediate danger, contact your local emergency number. Outside these countries, use local crisis or emergency services.
What is stored
- Your answers, choices, media picks and conversations, including saved chat transcripts.
- The working notes and portrait generated from them, plus corrections you provide.
- Sign-in information and the link to your sessions. Email/password accounts store an email address and a salted password hash, not the password itself.
- Technical events such as timings, taps, coarse location and diagnostic records. First-party cookies support sign-in, adult confirmation and returning visits. Visitor analytics use a hashed IP identifier, but application/security and hosting logs can contain IP addresses and request details.
The developer may read conversations, working notes and diagnostic logs to investigate problems and improve the experiment. Do not share information you would not want processed this way. A saved return link can grant access to your portrait; treat it as private and do not post it publicly.
Who processes information
Mirror sends conversation context to Anthropic to generate replies, notes and readings, and uses Google Cloud to host and store data. Mirror does not sell your answers, share them with advertisers, or itself use them to train models. Providers' own processing and retention policies also apply; deleting a Mirror session does not retract requests already processed by a provider.
Media lookups send search terms to the relevant catalog provider: TMDB for films/TV, Google Books or Open Library for books, and Apple/iTunes for music. Avoid private details in search terms. Loading fonts, covers or embedded players can also connect your browser to their providers, including Google, TMDB, Open Library, Apple or Spotify, exposing ordinary connection information such as your IP address. Following an external link takes you to that service's own policies.
Retention and deletion
Signed-in sessions are retained for return visits until you delete them or the service is discontinued. The cleanup policy for unsigned sessions, including abandoned start-page entries made before signing in, is 90 days after your last activity. Diagnostic records have separate retention and are not all removed by the session-deletion button.
The portrait's “Delete my data” control requests removal of that session's answers, notes, portrait, chats and sign-in mapping. It requires access to the session's data controls and reports whether the operation succeeded. It is not complete account deletion: other sessions, separate email-account credentials and diagnostic or provider records can remain. An error or interruption may leave some data undeleted; do not assume erasure unless the operation reports success, and do not interpret that success as provider-wide erasure.
Optional feedback
You can send feedback by email to Mirror's developer. The link opens your email app; nothing from your conversation or account is attached automatically. If you send it, your email address and message are processed by the email providers and received by the developer. Do not include sensitive details or private session links. Feedback email is separate from your Mirror session and is not erased by the session-deletion button. The inbox is not monitored for emergencies, and a reply is not guaranteed.
Free experiment; optional support
Mirror is free to use within its session limits. If an optional tip link is shown, it opens a Stripe-hosted checkout for a one-time tip. Tipping buys no extra sessions, priority, subscription or promised future feature, and is not a charitable donation. Your conversation and Mirror account identifier are not attached to the link. Mirror does not collect your full card number; Stripe processes the payment and makes payment records, such as an amount and any checkout contact details, available to the recipient. Those records are separate from session deletion.
Features may change, break or be discontinued. There is no promise of continued availability. This notice explains the experiment; it does not guarantee safety or override your legal rights.