A tool to help you hear your own voice.
Cabana's Guided Journal uses AI to help you reflect more meaningfully — offering personalized prompts, surfacing gentle insights, and encouraging thoughtful self-awareness. Our goal is to support how you already think, not to think for you.
This page explains what the AI does, what it never does, and how we protect what you write.
How it works
How we use your words
- Personalized prompts: Cabana learns from your previous entries to suggest reflective prompts tailored to recurring themes in your journaling.
- AI-generated insights: As you write, the journal may offer observations or summaries intended to help you notice patterns or deepen your reflection.
- Private by default: Your entries and the insights drawn from them are private to you and not shared with anyone else inside Cabana.
Your data
Privacy and data practices
We follow stringent practices to keep what you write secure.
- Data storage: Entries from the past 12 months are stored in full. Older entries may be summarized to preserve themes while reducing what we keep.
- Infrastructure: Data is stored securely in Cabana's private cloud infrastructure with encryption at rest and in transit.
- Privacy commitment: We do not use your data for marketing and do not sell it. Your journal entries are not shared with third parties and are handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
The Guided Journal isn't classified as a HIPAA-covered service, but we apply HIPAA-aligned safeguards — encryption, access controls, and secure storage practices.
Safety
Looking out for you
- Crisis detection: If your entry contains potential signs of acute distress, Cabana may surface national crisis resources, including the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
- Safety oversight: We monitor for harmful or inappropriate AI-generated responses. In some cases we use human-in-the-loop review to improve prompt safety and system performance.
- Your control: All of your entries and insights remain visible in your journal history. We're working toward letting you directly manage the themes and memories Cabana has stored about you.
Our commitments
Responsible AI use
We're building AI tools that support mental wellness in ethical, trustworthy ways. Concretely:
- We do not use your journal content to train third-party models.
- Your personalization draws only on your own content — never from other members.
Common questions
FAQs
Is any data shared with my employer or the organization that sponsors my access to Cabana?
No. Sponsors receive only aggregate usage statistics with no access to journal content or individual entries.
Does the journal diagnose or treat mental health conditions?
No. It's a reflective aid — not a clinical diagnostic or therapeutic tool.
Can I control what's stored about me?
Yes. You can view your journal history now, and you'll soon be able to manage stored themes and memories from your profile.
Is this feature HIPAA-compliant?
The journal isn't governed directly under HIPAA, but we apply HIPAA-aligned practices for data protection and confidentiality.