Privacy
last updated 2026-05-26
Book of Life (the app) is a personal life-logging notebook. It is maintained by Benjamin Lim, an independent developer, who can be reached at genstupiditystudios@gmail.com.
This page describes what the app stores about you, why, and the handful of services that help run it.
What the app collects
Account info
Email address via Clerk, plus name or avatar if you sign in with a provider that supplies them.
Journal entries
The text you write. Stored in the app's database and tied to your account.
Extracted entities
People, places, themes, and emotions that AI infers from each entry to build your knowledge graph.
Push token
If you turn on daily reminders, a device push token so notifications can reach you.
Request logs
Standard server logs from Vercel — IP address, user agent, timestamps — kept briefly for abuse prevention.
How the app uses it
Your entries and the entities drawn from them power everything you see inside the app: the timeline, the graph, insights, reflections, story chapters, and soul cards.
Push tokens are used only to deliver the notifications you opt into. Request logs are used to rate-limit abuse.
Third parties
A few service providers help the app run. They process data on the app's behalf, under their own privacy terms.
Clerk
Authentication. Stores your account credentials and session.
Vercel
Hosting and standard server logs.
Anthropic
AI extraction and reflections. Entries are sent to the Claude API for processing.
Firebase Cloud Messaging
Delivers push notifications to your device.
Security
All data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS everywhere) and at rest by the infrastructure providers that store it. Authentication is handled by Clerk; sessions are protected by industry-standard tokens.
What the app does not do
The app does not sell your data. It does not share your data for advertising. There are no third-party trackers or ad networks embedded in the app.
Keeping and deleting your data
Entries are kept until you delete them, or until you delete your account.
You can delete individual entries from inside the app at any time. To delete your account and everything attached to it, see bookoflifeapp.com/delete-account or email genstupiditystudios@gmail.com from the address tied to your account.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
If this policy changes in a meaningful way, the date at the top of this page will be updated. Material changes that affect existing users will be surfaced inside the app.
Contact
Questions, deletion requests, or anything else — genstupiditystudios@gmail.com.
thank you for trusting this with your notebook.