Your reflection belongs to you.

Reflection content

Text, selections and summaries created anywhere on this site are processed only in your browser. They are not submitted to The Inner Map, stored in a database, or attached to an account. There is no account system, and there is no server that could receive them. The copy, download and print controls act on your own device.

Because anything visible on a screen can be seen by someone with access to that screen, avoid entering names, identifying information, or details you would not want another person nearby to read. If you use the download control, a plain-text file is created on your device and it is then yours to keep or delete.

The First Signal Map

The five-minute map and the 30-second version hold everything in memory. Nothing is written to cookies, local storage or session storage, and closing or reloading the tab clears it. This has not changed.

My day, and saving on your device

My day works the same way by default: in memory, cleared when the tab closes. It also offers a control called Keep this on this device. Until you switch that on, nothing is written to your browser’s storage at all.

If you switch it on, your draft is written to this browser’s local storage, under keys beginning innermap.v3.. That storage sits on your own device. It is not synchronised, not backed up, not readable by this site’s host, and not visible to anyone else—except anyone who can use your device and browser profile. On a shared or borrowed device, leaving saving switched off is the safer choice.

You can remove it at any time with Clear this device’s maps at the bottom of My day, which asks you to confirm first. Switching saving off does the same thing: it deletes what was saved as well as stopping future saving. Clearing your browser’s site data removes it too.

Installing the site, and offline use

The site can be added to a home screen and opened like an app. Doing that stores a copy of the pages, stylesheet, scripts and icons in your browser’s cache so they open without a connection. That cache holds the site’s own files only. It never contains anything you have written, and it is removed when you uninstall the site or clear the browser’s site data.

Continuing with ChatGPT

At the end of a map or a day, there is an optional control that assembles a prompt from what you entered. It is built in your browser and shown on screen. This site does not send it anywhere and has no connection to OpenAI or any other AI provider.

If you choose to copy that text into ChatGPT or a similar assistant, you are giving it to a different company, under their terms and their privacy policy, not this one. Read the prompt first and delete anything you would rather not share. An AI assistant is not a therapist, a clinician or a crisis service, and it can be confidently wrong.

Accounts, analytics and marketing

This version has no user accounts, advertising trackers, email capture, marketing pixels, embedded video, social widgets or behavioural analytics. It does not set cookies of any kind, essential or otherwise. The local storage described above is not used for tracking: it holds one draft you wrote, and nothing that identifies you or follows you between sites.

Technical information

Like most websites, the hosting service may process limited technical information needed to deliver and protect the site, such as an IP address, browser type, requested page, timestamp and security logs. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, so those logs are handled by GitHub. Reflection content typed into the mapping tool is never part of those requests, because it is never transmitted.

External links

The evidence and support pages link to external organisations such as NICE, the NHS, Samaritans, the National Autistic Society and academic publishers. Their own privacy practices apply once you follow a link to their site.

Your rights

Because no personal data is collected by this site, there is no personal record here to access, correct or delete. Anything saved by My day is held on your device and is under your control: you can read it, change it, export it or delete it yourself at any time, without asking anyone. If you have a question about the site or about how it is hosted, or you believe something here is inaccurate, you can raise it and it will be looked at.

Changes

This notice will be revised before adding analytics, forms, accounts, email services, or any other feature that changes how personal information is handled. The review date at the top of this page will change when it does.