Privacy Policy
Marriage Drift Privacy Policy
Effective Date: April 28th, 2026
Website: https://marriagedrift.com, https://www.marriagedrift.com
Operator: Marriage Drift
Contact Email: support@marriagedrift.com
Marriage Drift respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, and protect information when you use our website, digital tools, reflection prompts, journaling features, paid features, supporter memberships, and related services.
By using Marriage Drift, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information you provide directly, information created through your use of the website, and information collected automatically through technology providers.
This may include:
Name
Email address
Login information
Account preferences
Relationship status or partner connection settings, if provided
Reflection responses
Journal entries
Shared notes
Private notes
Selected “sky” states or other relationship check-in responses
Supporter membership or subscription status
Payment-related information
Messages or support requests you send to us
Technical information about your device, browser, and usage
We do not intentionally collect more personal information than is reasonably necessary to operate Marriage Drift.
2. Account Information
If you create an account, we may collect and store information needed to identify your account, authenticate your login, maintain your preferences, save your progress, and provide access to features.
This may include your name, email address, login provider, account ID, saved settings, and related technical data.
3. Reflections, Journal Entries, and Personal Content
Marriage Drift may allow you to write and save personal reflections, private notes, shared notes, journal entries, or responses to prompts.
We treat this content with care. We do not sell your private journal entries or personal reflections.
Your private content may be stored and processed so that we can provide the features you request, such as saving your reflections, showing prior entries, allowing shared notes, or syncing content across your account.
If you choose to share content with a partner or another user through Marriage Drift, that content may become visible to the person you shared it with.
You are responsible for deciding what to write, save, or share.
4. Payment Information
Marriage Drift may offer paid features, supporter memberships, subscriptions, donations, or other paid options.
Payments are processed by Stripe. Marriage Drift does not store your full credit card number on its own servers.
We may receive limited payment-related information from Stripe, such as:
Your name
Email address
Customer ID
Payment status
Subscription status
Purchase history
Last four digits of a card, if provided by Stripe
Billing details needed for receipts, taxes, account access, or customer support
Stripe’s collection and processing of payment information is governed by Stripe’s own terms and privacy policies.
5. Firebase and Website Infrastructure
Marriage Drift may use Firebase and related Google services for hosting, authentication, database storage, security, analytics, and related platform functions.
Information stored through Firebase may include account data, saved reflections, user preferences, usage data, technical logs, and other information needed to operate the website.
Firebase and Google may process information according to their own privacy, security, and data processing practices.
6. Automatically Collected Information
When you use Marriage Drift, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
IP address
Device type
Browser type
Operating system
Pages viewed
Features used
Dates and times of access
Referring website or link
Approximate location based on technical data
Error logs
Performance data
Security logs
This information helps us maintain the website, improve performance, understand usage, prevent misuse, and protect the platform.
7. How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
Create and manage user accounts
Provide website features
Save reflections, journal entries, preferences, and progress
Process payments and subscriptions
Send receipts, account notices, updates, or support messages
Respond to questions or support requests
Improve the website and user experience
Monitor website performance
Protect against abuse, fraud, unauthorized access, or security threats
Enforce our Terms and Conditions
Comply with legal obligations
Respond to safety concerns
We do not use private reflections or journal entries for public marketing without your permission.
8. Shared Features and Partner Visibility
Marriage Drift may allow users to connect with a spouse, partner, or another person through shared features.
If you use shared features, some content may become visible to the person you choose to connect with.
This may include selected responses, shared notes, shared reflections, progress indicators, or other content depending on the feature.
Private notes and shared notes may work differently. You are responsible for reviewing what is private and what is shared before submitting content.
Marriage Drift is not responsible for how another user uses, saves, interprets, reacts to, or shares content that you choose to make visible to them.
9. Safety-Related Disclosures
We respect user privacy, but privacy has limits when safety is at risk.
We may review, preserve, or disclose limited personal information, account information, communications, user content, journal entries, technical data, or related information if we believe in good faith that doing so is necessary to:
Protect the safety of a user or another person
Respond to suspected child abuse
Respond to suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult
Respond to threats of violence
Respond to self-harm or imminent risk of serious harm
Respond to domestic violence, coercion, exploitation, or serious safety concerns
Comply with applicable law
Respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, or government requests
Investigate misuse of Marriage Drift
Enforce our Terms and Conditions
Protect the rights, property, safety, and security of Marriage Drift, our users, or the public
Any such disclosure will be limited to what we reasonably believe is necessary under the circumstances.
Marriage Drift does not monitor user activity in real time and is not an emergency service. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, contact emergency services directly.
10. Legal Compliance and Required Disclosures
We may disclose information when required to do so by law or when we believe disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal obligations.
This may include responding to:
Court orders
Subpoenas
Law enforcement requests
Government requests
Legal claims
Regulatory requirements
Mandatory reporting obligations
Safety-related reporting obligations
We may also preserve information if we believe it may be relevant to legal compliance, safety concerns, misuse of the platform, or enforcement of our Terms.
11. Service Providers
We may share information with trusted service providers who help us operate Marriage Drift.
These providers may include:
Hosting providers
Database providers
Payment processors
Authentication providers
Email providers
Analytics providers
Security providers
Customer support tools
Website performance tools
These providers may access information only as needed to perform services for us, subject to their own legal obligations, contracts, terms, and privacy practices.
12. Analytics and Usage Data
Marriage Drift may use analytics tools to understand how the website is used, improve features, identify errors, and maintain performance.
Analytics data may include pages visited, features used, session activity, device type, browser type, approximate location, and technical information.
We do not intend to use private journal entries or personal reflections as public analytics content.
13. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Marriage Drift may use cookies, local storage, session storage, pixels, or similar technologies to:
Keep you logged in
Remember preferences
Improve website performance
Understand website usage
Support security features
Process payments
Provide core website functionality
You may be able to adjust cookie settings through your browser. Some features may not work properly if cookies or local storage are disabled.
14. Email Communications
We may use your email address to send:
Account-related messages
Login or verification emails
Payment receipts
Subscription notices
Support responses
Important updates
Policy notices
Optional newsletters or content updates, if offered
You may unsubscribe from optional marketing emails, but you may still receive important account, payment, legal, or security-related messages.
15. Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information.
However, no website, database, payment processor, cloud provider, or internet-based service can guarantee absolute security.
You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for using a strong password where applicable.
If you believe your account has been accessed without permission, contact us promptly at:
support@marriagedrift.com
16. Data Retention
We may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
Provide the website and services
Maintain your account
Save your content and preferences
Process payments
Resolve disputes
Comply with legal obligations
Enforce our Terms
Maintain security
Respond to safety concerns
If you delete your account or request deletion, some information may remain in backups, logs, legal records, payment records, or safety-related records for a limited time or as required by law.
17. Account Deletion and Data Requests
You may request access, correction, or deletion of certain personal information by contacting us at:
support@marriagedrift.com
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.
We may deny or limit requests where necessary to comply with law, protect safety, prevent fraud, preserve legal rights, complete transactions, maintain security, or retain information required for legitimate business purposes.
18. Children’s Privacy
Marriage Drift is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
Users under 18 should use Marriage Drift only with appropriate parent or guardian involvement, unless otherwise allowed by applicable law.
19. Sensitive Personal Information
Marriage Drift may involve personal reflections about relationships, emotions, conflict, communication, family life, and personal struggles.
You should be thoughtful about what you choose to write, save, or share.
Marriage Drift is not intended to store emergency information, legal evidence, medical records, therapy records, abuse reports, or crisis disclosures that require immediate action.
If you are in danger or need help, contact emergency services, a crisis hotline, law enforcement, a licensed professional, or a trusted local resource directly.
20. Third-Party Links
Marriage Drift may include links to third-party websites, services, resources, payment pages, or support organizations.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites or services.
You should review the privacy policies and terms of any third-party services you use.
21. Business Transfers
If Marriage Drift is sold, transferred, merged, reorganized, or involved in a business transaction, user information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
If that happens, we will take reasonable steps to ensure information remains subject to appropriate privacy protections.
22. International Users
Marriage Drift is operated from the United States.
If you access Marriage Drift from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.
23. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
When changes are made, the updated Privacy Policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
Your continued use of Marriage Drift after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
24. Contact Information
For questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact:
Marriage Drift
Email: support@marriagedrift.com
Website: https://marriagedrift.com