Last updated 30 September 2026
The short version: Etch is a private place to write down your days, your health notes, what you’re looking forward to and the big moments of your life. It’s a record, not advice, and not a medical record. The rest of this page spells that out properly.
Etch is a journal you can zoom from a single day out to your whole life. It stores what you write and shows it back to you by day, week, month, year and across your life. It doesn’t connect to other accounts or services on your behalf, and it doesn’t do anything with your writing beyond storing it and showing it to you. See the Privacy page for how it’s handled.
You need an account to use Etch, signed in with an email link or your Google account (there’s no password). You’re responsible for keeping access to that email or Google account secure. Use Etch for your own journal, or for someone who has asked you to keep theirs.
Everything you write belongs to you. Using Etch doesn’t give us any rights to it beyond what’s needed to store it and show it back to you. You can download all of it at any time from your Account page.
Etch records what you tell it and nothing more. It doesn’t tell you what your entries mean, what to do, or how you’re doing, and nothing in it is medical, financial or legal advice. The Health section is your own notes, not a medical record, and it doesn’t replace your doctor or any other professional. Decisions you make based on what you see in Etch are yours.
If you’re unwell or worried about your health, please contact a doctor or emergency services.
Etch is run by one person and provided “as is”, free to use for as long as it’s affordable to keep running. It isn’t guaranteed to be available every minute of every day, and features may change as it grows. If free access ever has to change, you’ll hear about it first.
Etch is provided without warranties of any kind. To the extent the law allows, we’re not liable for losses from using it, including a gap in what it recorded or time lost to an outage or a bug. That isn’t meant to wave away real problems: if something’s broken, tell us and we’ll look at it.
You can stop using Etch at any time, and delete your account and everything in it yourself from the Account page. We may suspend or close an account used to abuse the service or break these terms. Either way, the commitments on the Privacy page still apply to whatever was recorded.
These terms may be updated as Etch changes. Material changes will be announced, not slipped in quietly: on this page with a new date, and in the app as well once it can show notices. Continuing to use Etch after a change means you accept the updated terms.
Etch is part of the Tracema family of products. For any question about these terms, get in touch at hello@tracema.com.