Chapter 2

The Promise & The Machine

The Privacy & Security Policy

1. End-to-end encrypted journal: what it actually meansWill your journal stay private? What "end-to-end encrypted" really means in Awaken Journal, what stays sealed, and the few things that don't.
2. What data does a journal app collect? Ours, field by fieldEvery field Awaken Journal's server holds about you, read straight from our database: what's sealed, what's plain, why it's there, and what deletion removes.
3. Does a journal app share your data? Who sees what, named one by oneAnalytics, cookies, advertisers, AI training: who Awaken Journal shares your data with, the three services that touch your traffic, and what each can see.
4. Can the people who built your journal app read it? What a court order or a breach would getWhat the builders of Awaken Journal can see with full server access, what a court order or a hacker would get, and the one honest limit of all of it.
5. What happens if you forget your journal app password? Why we can't reset it for youWhy Awaken Journal has no "forgot password" button, what happens to your writing if you lose your password, and what you can do before and after.
6. How to check a journal app's privacy claims yourself, in five minutesFive checks you can run on Awaken Journal in your own browser, with no technical background: what leaves your device, where it can go, and what we hold.
7. Is my journal app actually secure? The honest answer, and the methods we choseNo app is perfectly secure, and we won't say ours is. What Awaken Journal protects, the methods we chose and why, how we check them, and what isn't done yet.
8. Does our journal app know your password? Argon2id, the pepper, and where your key livesYour password never reaches our server. How Argon2id splits it into a login proof and a lock key, what the pepper protects, and where your key lives.
9. Where your journal is encrypted: on your device, on the way to us, and on a second deviceFollow one journal line from your keyboard to our server and onto your second device: where it's sealed, who sees it on the way, and the honest gaps.
10. Sessions, a lost phone, and how to make your journal account saferWhat a session is, why you're signed in on one device at a time, what to do if you lose your phone, and the short list that makes your journal account safer.
11. What happens if something goes wrong? How Awaken Journal is kept honestHow a problem with Awaken Journal gets noticed, the five steps we follow if one happens, what a break-in could and couldn't reach, and what we'd tell you.