Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 10, 2026

Your journal is deeply personal. This policy explains exactly what Fable Journal (fablejournal.com) collects, how it's used, and who can see it.

1. What we collect

• Account data — your name and email address. If you sign up with an email and password, we store the password as a secure hash. If you sign up with Google instead, Google tells us your name, email address, and profile picture, and there is no password for us to store. We ask Google for nothing else, and we never get access to your Gmail, contacts, or any other Google service.
• Journal content — your voice-note transcriptions and the journal entries generated from them, plus their moods and dates. We never receive or store the audio itself, only the text it becomes. On the website, your browser's own speech recognition does the transcribing; most browsers (including Chrome and Safari) do that on their servers rather than on your device, so the audio is handled under your browser maker's privacy policy. In the iOS app, Apple's speech recognition does it, and Apple may likewise process the audio on its servers depending on your device, language, and settings — there it is handled under Apple's privacy policy. Either way the audio never reaches us.
• Billing data — handled by Stripe on the website and by Apple for purchases made inside the iOS app. We never see or store your card number. When you subscribe in the app, Apple tells us only that a purchase was made and which plan it was for.

2. How your journal is used

Your entries are used for one thing: showing them back to you and powering the features you use (weekly letters, memory search, year in review). To generate those, your notes are sent to Anthropic, our AI provider, which processes them to produce your text. We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use your journal to train AI models.

3. Who can see your entries

You. Entries are protected by per-account database rules — each account can only read and write its own journal. Our operators do not read your entries except if required to investigate abuse or comply with law.

4. Where data lives

Data is stored with Supabase (database and authentication) and processed by Vercel (hosting and cookieless page-view analytics), Stripe (payments on the website), Apple (payments made inside the iOS app, and the speech recognition described in section 1), Anthropic (AI generation), Resend (sending the emails we send you, such as your welcome email — it receives your email address and the message itself), Sentry (error reporting; it records where an error happened and, for a small sample of sessions, a screen recording in which all text is masked out, so your entries are never captured), and Meta (advertising measurement on the website only, described in section 5). Each processes only what they need to provide their service.

One page on the website — the guest-post form at /write — is delivered by FormSubmit, which receives the name, email address, and text you type into that form and emails it to us. It is used for nothing else, and it is not part of the app or your journal.

If you choose “Continue with Google,” Google also acts as your sign-in provider. You log in on Google's own site, so Google knows you have a Fable Journal account and when you sign in — you can see and revoke this any time under the connected-apps settings of your Google account. Google runs no code on fablejournal.com, sets no cookie here, and is never told anything about your entries or how you use Fable Journal.

5. Cookies and tracking

Fable Journal uses the storage needed to keep you logged in, plus two measurement tools:

• Meta Pixel — on the website only. It never runs in the iOS app: the app does not track you across other apps or websites, which is why it never asks for permission to. On the website, we run Meta's advertising pixel so we can tell which ads bring people to Fable Journal. It sets Meta's _fbp cookie and reports the page addresses you visit on fablejournal.com, including while you are signed in. Those addresses say nothing about your journal: Fable Journal runs as a single page, so the address is the same whether you are reading the home page or writing an entry. Meta never receives your entries, transcriptions, or moods.
• Vercel Analytics — page-view counts, and a short list of named events for things we need to know are working: that onboarding was finished, that a purchase or a redeemed code went through, that the paywall was closed, that speech recognition is available on your device. Some carry the choice you made — the writing style you picked, whether you set a reminder, which plan was bought — never your entries, your transcriptions, your moods, or your email address. It sets no cookies, does not follow you to other apps or websites, and does not build an advertising profile.

The only screen recordings we make are the masked Sentry error replays described in section 4, and we never send your entries, transcriptions, or moods to any advertising or analytics service. If you'd rather not be measured at all, your browser's tracking protection or an ad blocker will stop both tools, and Fable Journal will work exactly the same.

6. Your rights

You can export your journal (paid plans include one-click export), correct your account details in Settings, and request deletion of your account and all its data by emailing us. Deletion is permanent.

7. Children

Fable Journal is not intended for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

8. Changes

If this policy changes materially, we'll note it here with a new date and, for significant changes, notify you by email.

9. Contact

Privacy questions or deletion requests: fablejournalingsupport@gmail.com