Your words.
Your choice.

The diary has two parts: demonstration pages anyone can try without an account, and a private diary you can keep once you sign in. This note explains what each one keeps, where it is kept, and what you can do about it.

Who is behind the diary

This diary is a product of Digital Rush AI. For privacy questions, access, correction or deletion requests, contact contact@digitalrushai.com.

The demonstration pages

On the demonstration diary, the writing, drawings, photographs and recordings you add are kept in this tab’s memory only. Refreshing or closing the page clears them. They are not sent to us and are not included in a waitlist submission.

Your private diary

Signing in. You sign in with your email address, either by opening a link we email you or with a password you choose once you are in. Asking for your first link creates your account; opening it confirms your email. This device remembers the last email address used to sign in here, so you don’t have to type it again, until you sign out or delete your account here, or choose “Not you?” on the sign-in page; clearing this site’s data in your browser removes it too. It also keeps, on this device only, what you tell your diary when you start (the name it should call you, how you like to write, and your writing time) and which tips you’ve already seen. These are never sent to us; clearing this site’s data removes them. Your email is used to sign you in and, if you joined the waitlist, for the launch updates you agreed to. The private diary is for adults (18+), and we ask you to confirm that before anything is kept.

What is kept. Only what you choose to keep: the entries you save (their words, drawings and page layout, paper, mood, date and time zone) and a copy of each saved version; the photographs, voice notes and videos you add to them (up to 50 MB each); your settings (time zone, when your day starts, your 18+ confirmation and the version of this note you agreed to, and your check-in choices); and a record of which days you wrote and how much, which grows your world. That record holds dates and counts, never your words. For a child’s diary we keep the name and birth date you enter; for a shared diary, the email address you invite.

Where and how. Your diary is stored with our hosting provider in South Korea, outside Australia. It is encrypted at rest and reachable only through your sign-in, and access rules stop other people from reading it. It is not end-to-end encrypted: our systems can read your entries to run the features you use. Photographs and recordings live in private storage under your account and open through links that expire after an hour. Nobody at Digital Rush AI reads your entries as part of running the diary; we would only look at a specific record if you ask us to help with it or the law requires it. We do not sell your diary, show you advertising, or use your entries to train AI models.

A diary for a child, or for two. A child’s diary belongs to the adult who keeps it; the child does not sign in. A shared diary is for two adults: the person you invite can read the entries in that diary only after they sign in with the invited address and accept. Each person’s own entries stay theirs: either of you can leave, and whoever leaves, or is removed, takes what they wrote with them. We do not email the invitation; tell them yourself.

Exporting and deleting. Deleting an entry removes it, and the growth it added, from your diary. From your account page you can export your pages as a file (photographs and recordings are listed by name) and delete your account, which permanently removes your entries, keepsakes, growth, settings and sign-in. Copies can remain in our hosting provider’s backups for a limited time before they are overwritten.

Microphone, dictation and read-aloud

Recording starts only when you choose it and give your browser microphone permission, and it stops after one minute. On the demonstration pages a recording or attachment is used for that visit only; in your private diary, a voice note or photograph you keep is stored as described above.

Dictation uses your browser’s own speech service, and only after you tick the box to allow it. We do not receive the audio, but some browsers send it to their maker to turn speech into text, under that company’s terms. Read-aloud uses your device’s own voice; nothing is sent.

AI conversations and memory

Live AI replies were switched on on 12 September 2026. If you use “Talk to my diary”, the words you send in that conversation are sent to an AI service that writes the reply. Nothing else is, unless you put a page into the conversation yourself with “Answer this page”: then that page’s words go as one of your messages, after you tick the box again. Your drawings, photographs and recordings are never sent by this feature.

The reply is written by an AI service we use, which may handle your words outside Australia. What leaves your device is only the messages of that one conversation, together with the diary’s own instructions for how to reply. We do not send your name or your email with it. We do not keep a copy of the conversation: it lives in that browser tab and is gone when you close it. What that service keeps is governed by its terms, not ours, and we cannot promise on its behalf.

Every message you send in that conversation is also checked for signs that you, or someone else, may be in danger. Our own rules read it first, and a second AI service reads it too, only to decide which kind of answer you get. Every message goes to it with a request that nothing it is sent be collected. The check sees only the words you wrote in that conversation, and never your account: if you write your name or your email in a message, it sees them as part of your words. What that service keeps is governed by its terms, not ours.

There are limits, so this stays small and answerable: up to 10 replies a day each, and on a busy day the diary may stop replying sooner. To count them, a small cookie gives your browser a random number that lasts a day, and the diary keeps a short note of each reply: that number, an id for the request, when you asked, and a scrambled fingerprint of the conversation that can't be turned back into your words. Notes expire within two days and are cleared as later replies arrive. If a message shows someone in immediate danger, or asks how to cause harm, the diary answers with a short, human-reviewed message pointing to real help. That answer is written by us, not by the AI. If you keep talking on that page, your earlier messages, that one included, go with the next one as usual, and the AI that writes replies is told only that support was shown, not what it said. A message that sounds heavy without showing immediate danger is still answered by the AI, with an added instruction to respond gently and to mention that talking to someone you trust, or a support line, can help.

The memory features in the private diary are switched on as a capability, but they act on nothing until you mark a particular entry to be read, one at a time. Keeping a diary, signing in or joining the waitlist is not consent to process your entries with AI. If you never mark an entry, nothing you have written is ever sent. A marked entry is sent to the same outside AI service as the conversation, which may handle it outside Australia. When you ask for a letter or for “Remind me who I am”, the memories you accepted are sent again to write it. Switching an entry off stops it being read again; memories you already accepted from it stay until you forget them.

You can stop all of it: don’t open “Talk to my diary”, and leave your entries unmarked. Deleting your account removes your entries, your keepsakes and the memories made from them.

Check-ins

If you turn them on, the diary may offer a weekly letter or a small promise when you open it. It does not send emails, texts or notifications.

The waitlist

The form explains whether signups are being accepted. When enabled, it asks for your email, preferred device, diary preference and permission to send diary launch updates. It is separate from the diary. It does not ask for a diagnosis, your relationships, beliefs or diary entries.

No purchase or subscription is created by joining. We will not describe a signup as successful until the server confirms it. Launch emails must include a way to unsubscribe.

Waitlist details are stored with our hosting provider in South Korea, outside Australia. We use your email and preferences for this diary’s launch updates, not to analyse your journal. Contact contact@digitalrushai.com to withdraw consent or request removal. Repeating a signup does not reverse an earlier opt-out.

To limit spam, we keep a daily, one-way code made from your network address, never the address itself. These counts expire, and are cleared as later signups arrive; our hosting provider’s own logs may be kept for longer. There are no automated launch emails in this release.

Hosting

This website runs on our hosting provider’s servers. Like any website, that involves technical information such as IP addresses, browser details and request logs, whether or not you sign in, which the provider keeps under its own terms.

Your choices and questions

You can see, export, correct and delete your own diary yourself at any time. For anything else, or if you are concerned about how we handled your information, contact contact@digitalrushai.com. If you are not satisfied with our reply, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

A supportive space, not emergency care

This website is not therapy, diagnosis or a crisis service. Nobody is monitoring your entries or dispatching help. If you need urgent help, contact your local emergency or crisis service directly; in Australia, call 000 in an emergency or Lifeline on 13 11 14.