Last updated: November 3, 2026
Aura is a small, audio-only meeting service operated by Joe Green (contact: joe.derrick.green@gmail.com). This page explains, in plain language, what information Aura handles and why.
Joining a room as a guest needs no account — just a name you choose for that meeting. Creating an account stores your email address and display name so Aura can recognize your rooms and give you host controls. If you sign in with Google or Apple, that service tells Aura only your name and email address; Aura never sees your Google or Apple password. Passwords for email accounts are stored only as a one-way scrambled hash.
While a meeting is running, Aura's server knows the display names of the people in the room and whether their microphones are muted, so it can show the participant list and let hosts and co-hosts moderate. Nothing about who said what is stored after a meeting ends, except recordings and notes described below.
A meeting is recorded only when the host or a co-host deliberately starts a recording. Everyone in the room is told when recording starts and stops, including anyone who joins while it is on. Recordings are kept on Aura's server for at most 30 days and are then deleted automatically; a copy is emailed to the people the host chose (the host, the co-hosts, or everyone with an account). If meeting notes are enabled, the recording may also be transcribed and summarized, and the resulting notes are shared with the same people the host chose for the recording.
When someone schedules a meeting, Aura emails the invitation and, if the meeting is cancelled, a cancellation notice, using the email addresses the host provides. Those addresses are used only for that meeting's messages.
If you join a meeting by phone, our telephone provider (Telnyx) carries your call and your phone number is visible to Aura's server the way it is on any phone call.
Aura runs on a DigitalOcean server. Email is delivered by Resend. Signing in with Google or Apple uses that company's sign-in service. Phone dial-in uses Telnyx. Aura does not use advertising, analytics, or tracking cookies, and it does not sell anyone's information.
You can use Aura as a guest without an account. You can delete your account and its information yourself in Aura's settings, or by following the steps on the Delete your Aura account page.