Privacy

The short version: exhale doesn't know who you are, and nothing you write ever leaves your device.

What exhale never collects

• Your name, email, phone number, or any account. There are no accounts.
• Anything you type. Your mind jar thoughts, unsent letters, and journal entries are never sent anywhere. Not to us, not to anyone.
• Your exact location, contacts, photos, camera, or microphone.

What stays on your device

A few things are saved only in your own browser, so they're there when you come back. No one else can see them:

• Your journal draft, so you don't lose it if the tab closes. You can turn this off with the "Save my draft on this device" switch, or delete it any time with "Clear my draft."
• Your study timer settings (like 25 minutes focus, 5 minutes break).
• A saved copy of the site's pages, so exhale works offline. This is just the website itself, never anything you wrote.

The mind jar and unsent letter save nothing at all. When they're gone, they're gone.

Anonymous visit counts

To know whether exhale is helping anyone, we count visits with GoatCounter, a privacy-friendly counter. It sees things like:

• which page was opened (for example, "box breathing"),
• how a visitor got here (for example, from Google or a link),
• screen size, browser type, and approximate country.

It does not use cookies, does not store IP addresses, can't tell who you are, and doesn't follow you to other websites. We only ever see totals, like "40 visits this week."

Where the site lives

exhale is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like every website host, GitHub's servers briefly see visitors' IP addresses to deliver the pages and keep them secure. You can read GitHub's privacy statement.

What we'll never do

• No ads. No cookies. No selling or sharing data. There's no data to sell.
• No chat, comments, or messages, so no one can contact you through exhale.

For younger visitors and parents

exhale was made by a high school student for other students. Because it doesn't collect personal information from anyone, it's safe for younger visitors too. Parents and guardians are welcome to look around. Everything exhale does is on this page.

Other websites

Some links, like the crisis lines on our Need to talk to someone? page, open other websites. Those sites have their own privacy policies.

Changes

If anything about privacy ever changes, this page will be updated first.

Last updated: November 13, 2026.