Otium stores your readings, journal entries, and history in your browser's local storage. To generate a reading, your question — or the conversation you submit to Vox Illius — is sent to our server and to our AI provider, Anthropic, which processes it and returns the reading. Otium does not keep it. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics. If you clear your browser, it's gone.
You can opt in to share anonymous system data — which voice combinations were selected, whether the council was frustrated, which reading tone you used, and a numeric topic profile of the question (for example, how strongly it concerns grief or choice). Never the question text itself, no personal data, no user identity. This helps calibrate how the system selects voices and detects productive tension.
You can go further and let Otium read the pattern across your questions. Your deliberation data is stored with a random ID — no name, no email, no account. In return, Otium can show you how your questions have shifted over time, and your council remembers what it has learned about how you think.
You can see exactly what is stored, download it as JSON, or delete everything permanently — one button, immediate, irreversible.
No email. No name. No IP addresses. No browser fingerprinting. No third-party analytics. No advertising. No data is sold or shared for advertising. The only outside service that receives your text is our AI provider, Anthropic, which processes it to generate your reading. Your identity to us is a random string of characters, and only if you chose that.
Vox Illius reads conversations you provide, and those usually include other people's words. Only share conversations you have the right to share.
Recording. If you record a conversation — in person, by phone, or online — consent laws depend on where you and the other participants are. Some U.S. states allow recording when one participant consents; others require every participant's consent, including California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington. Rules can differ between phone calls and in-person conversations, and other countries have their own laws. This list is not complete, and laws change. Check the laws that apply to you before recording, and when in doubt, ask everyone's permission first.
Private messages. Messages and screenshots from private conversations may carry privacy expectations for the other people in them. Consider removing names or identifying details before submitting.
What Otium keeps. Otium does not store the text of conversations you submit to Vox Illius. The conversation is sent to our AI provider to generate the reading, then discarded.
This section is general information, not legal advice.
Settings → Data & Research. You can step up, step down, or delete everything at any time.
If you opt in to Anonymous Telemetry, Otium collects non-identifiable system data only: domain vectors, voice selections, frustration scores, and reading tone. No personal information is attached. If you opt in to Research Participant, Otium additionally collects your question text, terminal-question responses, and voice selections, all tied to a randomly generated identifier rather than your name or account.
Otium does not sell personal information and does not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. You have the right to know what personal information is collected, the right to delete it, and the right to opt out at any time. To exercise any of these rights, use "Delete all my data" in Settings → Data & Research, or email us at the address below.
The lawful basis for processing Tier 1 (Anonymous Telemetry) and Tier 2 (Research Participant) data is your explicit consent, given when you opt in through Settings → Data & Research. You may withdraw consent at any time, which deletes your Tier 2 data immediately and stops any further collection.
You have the right to access, rectify, erase, and receive a copy of your data (data portability). Otium uses two third-party data processors: Railway, which hosts the application and its PostgreSQL database, and Anthropic, which processes your question text via its Claude API to generate readings. Neither processor uses your data for any purpose beyond providing their service to Otium.
Tier 1 telemetry is aggregated and non-identifiable, and is retained indefinitely for system calibration. Tier 2 data is retained until you revoke your participation, or automatically after 2 years of inactivity, whichever comes first.
Otium is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.
Albert F. Jackson Jr. / Deliberate / Tucson, Arizona
albert@albertjacksoninterior.com
September 27, 2026