Your dreams are private by default.

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies when you visit Sleepmills websites, create an account, write in the private Dream Journal, request or purchase a service, join supporter membership, receive a delivery, contact support, or otherwise interact with Sleepmills.

2. Information Sleepmills collects

Account information

This includes your email address, an optional display name, account-verification status, and security records. Passwords are stored as password hashes rather than readable passwords.

Journal and production content

This may include dream titles and writing, dates, feelings, symbols, tags, request instructions, sharing preferences, service drafts, delivered text, images, audio, video, documents, external media links, and messages you send to support.

Order and payment records

For physical purchases, including guest orders, we store your contact email, shipping address, selected product and size, quantity, and order totals. Guest checkout stores a private order-access key in your browser session; do not share it. Guest orders do not create an account or subscribe you to marketing.

Sleepmills records the service, quoted amount, currency, PayPal order, capture, plan or subscription identifiers, the monthly amount you choose, and payment or membership status. PayPal processes payment credentials; Sleepmills does not intentionally collect or store your complete card number or PayPal password.

Technical information

Hosting and security systems may process information such as IP address, browser or device type, request time, pages requested, and error or security logs. Sleepmills uses a secure account-session cookie and stores your theme choice in your browser.

3. How information is used

• Create, secure, verify, and recover your account.
• Save your private journal and connect a chosen entry to a service request.
• Review feasibility, prepare a scope and quote, produce work, conduct human review, and place the finished result in your private library.
• Process and reconcile payments, refunds, cancellations, and disputes.
• Send necessary account, quote, payment, delivery, and support communications.
• Prevent abuse, diagnose errors, maintain backups, and improve platform reliability and usability.
• Comply with legal, tax, accounting, and recordkeeping obligations.

Sleepmills does not currently use private journal content for targeted advertising.

4. Service providers and production tools

Sleepmills relies on providers that process information to perform specific operational tasks. These may include Vercel for the website and private media storage, Render for the application server, Neon for the database, Resend for transactional email, PayPal for payment processing, and Google Workspace for controlled internal production and review.

For physical orders, Sleepmills records your shipping details and shares the order information needed for production and delivery with Apliiq for apparel or Prodigi for prints. A personal print may require sharing the selected finished image with Prodigi, and a custom garment may require sharing that image with Apliiq to prepare its design. Your private journal is not part of the supplier order.

Depending on the requested service, Sleepmills may also use modern AI or media-production tools to help draft, analyze, narrate, illustrate, or assemble work. Only information reasonably needed for production should be provided to a tool. Human review determines what is delivered. Providers operate under their own terms and privacy practices.

Sleepmills may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect customers or the service, investigate fraud or abuse, or complete a business reorganization. If the business is transferred, customer information may transfer subject to this policy and applicable law.

5. Private work and publication choices

Journal entries, requests, production drafts, deliveries, and library works are private to the customer account and authorized Sleepmills production personnel by default.

You may keep the work private or choose to allow Sleepmills to share the finished work from that request anonymously or with your chosen public credit on Sleepmills' website and social channels, including Instagram and YouTube. This choice gives permission for that online sharing without another approval step; it does not publish the work automatically or make the journal, account details, or production drafts public. It does not authorize sales of merchandise such as shirts or prints. Contact support to stop future sharing. Posts already published or copied by others may remain accessible.

The Archive is a separate public feed. To submit a saved journal entry or delivered work, you review and explicitly submit a copy of its title and text, any chosen credit, and optionally one selected image from the delivered work. Sleepmills reviews the copy before publishing it. The underlying private entry, account email, request details, and unselected media are not published. You can withdraw an Archive post from Sleepmills, although copies made by others may persist. Signed-in, email-verified customers may submit comments; these are reviewed before publication. Sleepmills stores the account associated with a comment for moderation but does not display its email in The Archive.

You should avoid including unnecessary identifying, medical, financial, or third-party information in dream entries and requests. If your submission describes another person, submit only what you have the right to provide.

6. Retention and security

Sleepmills keeps account and customer content while needed to operate your account and provide the requested service. Transaction, fraud-prevention, tax, audit, backup, and legal records may be retained longer. Backup copies may take additional time to expire after active records are deleted.

Sleepmills uses measures such as HTTPS, access controls, hashed passwords and one-time account tokens, private storage, role checks, and verified payment events. No online service can guarantee absolute security. Contact Sleepmills promptly if you suspect unauthorized access.

7. Your choices and requests

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information by emailing info@sleepmills.com from your account email when possible. Sleepmills may need to verify your identity before acting.

Some information may be retained where reasonably necessary for completed transactions, security, disputes, legal obligations, or the establishment or defense of legal claims. Deleting content may also remove access to associated private work. Sleepmills will explain material limitations when responding.

You can change the site theme from the interface. You can control cookies through your browser, but blocking the account-session cookie will prevent login. Account, payment, and delivery notices are separate from optional email updates. Anyone may sign up for Sleepmills updates by email, with a confirmation link, and unsubscribe from those updates at any time. Active members may separately opt in to member notes on the membership page, including news about member-only content and invitations to consider experimental services. You can change that choice on the membership page or use the unsubscribe link in a member email, without cancelling your membership.

8. Children

Sleepmills is a general-audience service and is not directed to children under 13. Sleepmills does not knowingly permit children under 13 to create accounts or submit personal information. If you believe a child under 13 has provided information, contact Sleepmills so it can be reviewed and deleted as appropriate.

Purchases and service agreements must be made by an adult who can enter a binding contract. An adult requesting work intended for a family should avoid submitting unnecessary personal information about a child.

9. Policy changes and contact

Sleepmills may update this policy as the platform, providers, or legal requirements change. The effective date will be updated, and material changes may be communicated through the website or account email when appropriate.

Questions or privacy requests can be sent to info@sleepmills.com. See Contact & Support for account and service help.