Privacy Policy

Own Mantra: Sleep Hypnosis · Last updated 17 August 2026

Own Mantra creates personalized sleep hypnosis audio. This policy explains exactly what the app collects, where it goes, and how to delete it. It is written to be read, not to be skimmed past.

The short version

• Own Mantra has no accounts, no logins, and no advertising.
• Your answers and finished audio are stored on your device.
• To create audio, the text of your session is sent to a text-to-speech provider: ElevenLabs for the built-in voices, or fal.ai when you use your own voice.
• No lasting copy of your voice is stored. While a session is being made, your recording is held on our own relay so it need not be re-sent for every line, and it is deleted when the session finishes.
• Deleting the app deletes your data.

What the app stores on your device

• Your interview answers. If you use a program that asks questions, your written answers are saved on your phone so you never have to answer them twice.
• Your voice recordings. If you set up your own voice, the passages you read are saved on your phone.
• Your finished sessions. Generated audio is saved on your phone so it plays offline.
• Your settings. First name, chosen voice, session length.

None of this is uploaded to us for storage. We do not operate a user database, and we cannot see your answers or your library.

What is sent off your device, and to whom

Creating audio requires a text-to-speech service. Everything goes by way of our own relay server, so no service credential is ever inside the app.

If you use one of the built-in voices, the text of your session is sent to ElevenLabs, Inc. (elevenlabs.io/privacy). For personalized programs that text includes the answers you wrote, because those answers are part of the words being spoken aloud. No voice recording is sent, because you are not using your own voice.

If you use your own voice, the text of your session and one of your recorded passages are sent to fal.ai (fal.ai/privacy), which runs the Chatterbox speech model. The recording accompanies the request purely so the model can match your voice for that one line, and nothing is stored afterwards.

The app asks for your explicit permission before any of this is sent for the first time. You can decline and still use every program with the built-in voices.

Your voice, specifically

A voice recording is sensitive, so it gets its own rules:

• Your recordings stay on your phone and are only transmitted when you generate a session in your own voice.
• No voice model is created anywhere. The model that speaks in your voice works from the recording supplied with the request, so no clone of you exists at fal.ai or anywhere else. Our own relay holds the recording for the few minutes a session takes to build, purely so it is not uploaded again for every line, and the app deletes it as soon as the session is done. Anything left behind by an interrupted session is removed automatically within a day.
• We never use your voice to train models, and we never share or sell it.
• Only record your own voice. Do not record anyone else without their permission.
• You can delete your recordings at any time from within the app.

Pre-recorded audio downloads

Most of what you hear is identical for everyone, so those parts are recorded in advance and simply downloaded rather than generated for you. Your app fetches them from GitHub Pages, GitHub's static file hosting, at dylantrussell.github.io.

These are plain audio file downloads. No answers, no recordings, and no account information are sent when they happen. GitHub receives what any web server receives when a file is requested, including your IP address. Once a file has been downloaded it is stored on your phone and is not requested again.

Our relay server

The app talks to our server rather than to ElevenLabs directly, so that service credentials are never shipped inside the app. The server passes your request through and returns the audio. It keeps a per-device counter of usage volume, identified by a random identifier generated on your device, purely to prevent abuse and runaway cost. That identifier is not linked to your name, your email, or your answers, and the content of your requests is not logged or stored.

What we do not do

• No advertising, ad networks, or ad identifiers.
• No analytics or behavioral tracking SDKs.
• No selling or sharing of personal data with data brokers.
• No account creation, so no email list.

Deleting your data

Everything the app holds is on your device. To erase it:

• Delete individual sessions from the Library tab.
• Delete your voice recordings from the Settings tab.
• Delete the app to remove everything at once.

To ask a question about data we may hold on the relay server, write to the address below and we will respond within 30 days.

Children

Own Mantra is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Health

Own Mantra is a relaxation and sleep aid. It is not medical treatment, it does not diagnose or treat any condition, and it is not a substitute for professional care. If sleep problems persist, talk to a doctor.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top will change and the updated policy will appear at this address before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or requests to access or delete data: dylan@culpritgroup.com