A Little More Sky · Privacy
Your lights are yours.
Effective November 11, 2026
The short version: we keep what you write private, we use it only to keep your sky safe and working, and we never sell it, show it to advertisers or use it to train AI.
A Little More Sky is a small gratitude app made by Shauna VanBogart and run by Resonance House, LLC, based in Charleston, South Carolina (“we,” “us”). This page explains what the app collects, why, who helps us run it, and the choices you have. If anything here is unclear, write to us at hello@shaunavanbogart.com.
What stays on your phone
Everything you make in the app is saved on your own phone first: your lights (the words you write, the feeling you pick, how long you held, and when), any lights you let go, your children’s first names if you add them, and settings like sound and your reminder time. This stays in your phone’s storage for this app. We can’t see it until you claim your sky, below.
Your first light stays only on your phone. To keep it and add more, you claim your sky with your email. Until then, if you delete the app or lose your phone, we have no copy and can’t bring your lights back.
What we count
To learn whether our website (alittlemoresky.com) and the app are working, we count simple steps: a visit, which button was tapped, whether the demo was tried, how far down the page someone scrolled and which questions they opened, and in the app, steps like opening it, keeping a light, claiming a sky or opening your plan. Each count is the step, the time, the kind of device (phone, tablet or computer), the website that sent you (like instagram.com) or a campaign tag in the link, and a random number your browser makes up so we can tell one visitor’s counts from another’s.
That number lives in your browser’s storage. It isn’t linked to your email or your account, and it goes away if you clear your browser data or delete the app. We never send your words or your feelings with a count, we don’t use cookies for it, and we don’t collect your IP address with it. If your browser is set to “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control, we don’t count you at all.
The demo on our website
If you try the demo on alittlemoresky.com, what you type stays in your browser. If you tap the button to take your light to the app, your words and the feeling you picked travel in that link to the app, where they become your first light on your phone. Like any web address, the link passes through our hosting provider’s standard request records.
When you claim your sky
Claiming your sky creates a simple account so your lights stay safe and can come back on any phone. When you claim it, we collect:
- Your email address, to send you sign-in codes and to know which sky is yours. There’s no password.
- Your lights: the words you write, the feeling, when you kept it, how long you held it, how many times you’ve held it again, whether you let it go, and, for moments added “with the kids,” the child’s first name if you typed one.
- Updates and best-practice emails: if you check “Important updates & bite-sized best practices” when you claim your sky, we keep the date and time and the internet address you used, as a record of your choice. You can unsubscribe anytime and still keep your sky.
- Basic technical records our providers keep automatically, such as the time you signed in and your IP address, for security and to keep the service running.
We use this only to save, sync and restore your sky, to sign you in, to keep the service secure, to answer you if you write to us, and, if you chose them, to send you important updates and best-practice emails, which you can stop anytime.
Plans and paying it forward
A saved sky is free for 14 days, then A Little More Sky is $49 a year or $6.99 a month to keep adding lights (Founding Members: $39 a year if you join by December 31, 2026, kept for as long as your plan stays active). When your free days or your plan end, only adding new lights pauses. Every light you already have stays yours to visit, download or delete, whether or not you ever pay.
- Paying: Stripe handles every payment on its own secure page. We never see or store your card number. Stripe tells us which plan you picked and when it renews or ends, and we keep that, plus the customer and subscription numbers Stripe gives us, so the app knows you can keep adding lights.
- Cancelling: tap your profile icon, then “Your plan,” then “Manage or cancel.” You keep adding lights until the end of the time you paid for, and nothing more is charged.
- Paying it forward: anyone can gift a year-long pass to someone who can’t swing it right now, with or without an account. We keep the gift, when it was given, and whether it’s been used. The person who gives and the person who receives never see each other’s names or emails. If you give without an account, we send one thank-you email to the address you used at checkout and don’t keep it; Stripe sends your receipt. Gifts aren’t charitable donations and aren’t tax-deductible. We may show the total number of gift years given and in use. Those are totals only, never names.
- Gifting a year to someone you know: after you pay, we make a private link for you to send, and we email you a copy. We keep the link, when it was made, who bought it, and whether and when it was claimed. If the link includes your first name, the person who opens it sees it.
- Asking for a pass: if you join the pay-it-forward waiting list, we keep your place in line and, if you write one, your short story. We’ll only share a story if you said yes and we’ve approved it, and never with your name or email.
- Thank-you notes: someone who receives a gift can send back one of five ready-made notes (never their own words). If the giver has an account, we email them the note and show it under “Pay it forward” in their profile.
Sharing a sky with one person
Our Sky lets you share with one other adult, like your partner, your husband or a close friend. It’s off unless you start it or accept an invite.
- Every light is private unless you choose to add it, one at a time. Joining or inviting never opens anything else. Only you can add or take out your own lights.
- What the other person sees: the lights you add (the words, the feeling and the day), the first name the app shows for you, and your email address. You see the same from them. You both see when you started sharing and how many lights have been shared between you.
- Names: when you invite someone, you type their first name and, if you like, your own. We keep these with your Our Sky so the app can show them, and they’re deleted when that person leaves or Our Sky ends.
- Invites are a private link that works once, for 7 days. A reminder sends the same link. Making a new link or canceling the invite turns the old one off.
- New lights: when the other person shares a light, it shows in your sky as a star and is marked new until you open it. While the app is open, it checks for new shared lights now and then. We don’t send push notifications.
- Handing Our Sky over: the person who pays can ask the other person to take over the plan. If they do, the shared sky keeps going on the new plan, and nothing moves between accounts. The first person cancels their own plan. We don’t cancel it for them.
- Leaving: either of you can leave anytime. Your shared lights go back to private, and each person keeps everything they made.
- Deleting your account takes all of your lights with you, including any you shared.
- If the plan that holds Our Sky ends, what’s shared stays readable, and nothing new can be added until one of you keeps it going. Nothing ever moves from one person’s account to the other’s.
Who can see your words
Other people who use the app can never see your lights, unless you add one to a sky you share. The database is set up so each person can only reach their own, plus what was shared with them.
The people who run the app could technically access the database, the way any service provider can. We don’t read your lights. We would only look at your account if you ask us to help with a problem, or if the law requires it, and we’d tell you unless the law forbids it.
What we never do
- We never sell or rent your information.
- We never show you ads or share your information with advertisers.
- We never use your lights to train AI models.
- We don’t use tracking pixels, ad networks or analytics companies that follow you around the web. Our simple counts (above) stay with us, and our fonts are served from our own site, so your browser doesn’t contact a font company.
The companies that help us
A few service providers handle data for us, only to provide their service, under their own privacy and security commitments:
| Provider | What they do | What they handle |
|---|---|---|
| Netlify | Hosts the app’s pages | Standard web request records, such as IP address and browser type |
| Supabase | Stores saved skies and handles sign-in, in the United States | Your email, your saved lights, sign-in records, plan and gift records, and the counts |
| Resend | Delivers your sign-in codes and account emails, such as plan and gift notices | Your email address |
| Flodesk | Sends important updates and best-practice emails | Your email address, and when and from what internet address you said yes |
| Stripe | Takes payments for plans and pay-it-forward gifts | Your email, your payment details, and what you paid for |
The “say it” button uses your phone’s own speech-to-text. Your phone’s maker (such as Apple or Google) may process that audio under its own privacy policy. The app never receives or stores your audio, only the words that end up in the box.
If you share your week, the picture is made on your phone and goes only where you send it. It shows the colors of your lights, never your words.
How long we keep things
- Your saved lights stay until you erase them or delete your saved sky.
- The counts (first light, claim, came back) are kept for up to two years, then deleted.
- Plan and gift records stay while your account exists. Stripe keeps payment records as tax and financial laws require.
- When you erase a light, its words are removed from our database right away. A small marker with no words in it stays, so your other phones know to remove that light too.
- When you delete your saved sky, your account and every light we hold for you are deleted right away.
- Backups: to protect against accidents, our database keeps daily backups for up to 7 days, and we keep a separate safety copy for up to 30 days. Deleted information disappears from backups as they roll over, within 30 days.
- If you stop using the app, your saved sky stays safe. We won’t delete an account for being quiet without emailing you first.
Your choices
- See or download your lights: tap your profile icon at the top, then “Download a copy.”
- Correct something: write to us and we’ll fix it.
- Cancel a plan: tap your profile icon, then “Your plan,” then “Manage or cancel.” If you have a plan that renews, please cancel it before deleting your sky so you aren’t charged again.
- Delete everything: tap your profile icon, then “Delete my sky.” This deletes your account and every light we keep, and takes you off the A Little More Sky email list. The lights on your phone stay there until you erase them in the app or delete the app.
- Stop the emails: use the unsubscribe link in any email, or write to us.
- Ask us anything: write to hello@shaunavanbogart.com. We answer within 30 days.
These choices are yours wherever you live. If you’re in a place with specific privacy laws, such as California, the European Union or the United Kingdom, you also have the rights those laws give you, including to access, correct, delete and move your information, and to complain to your local data protection authority. Where those laws ask for a legal basis: we keep your saved sky because you asked us to, we send important updates and best-practice emails only if you chose them, and you can stop them anytime, we keep basic security records because protecting the service is a legitimate need, and we keep the simple counts because knowing whether the website and app help people is a legitimate need too. Your information is stored in the United States.
Children
A Little More Sky is made for adults. It isn’t directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them. Parents can record moments “with the kids,” including a child’s first name. Those lights belong to the parent’s account, and the parent can erase them at any time. If you think a child has given us information directly, write to us and we’ll delete it.
Keeping it safe
Your lights travel over encrypted connections (HTTPS) and are stored encrypted by our database provider. Database rules keep each account’s lights separate. Sign-in uses one-time codes, not passwords that could be reused or leaked. No system is perfect, but we work to protect your sky, and we’ll tell you promptly if something ever goes wrong that affects your information.
Changes
If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change matters, such as a new kind of information or a new use for it, we’ll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.
Contact
Resonance House, LLC
Charleston, South Carolina
hello@shaunavanbogart.com