Your private log is for you. We cannot access or read your private log. 

Optional answers are stored separately from your private log and are not designed to be linked back to it. Optional demographic, barrier, and timing answers may be combined with other responses and used without identifying you. 

Optional feedback and “Other” write-ins may be reviewed as written only after there are enough submissions to display them safely.

To help protect your privacy, we cannot recover lost codes. Please save your code if you want to return to your private log later. 

You can choose to start a new log anytime.

Privacy and Security Policy 

For the Log Now web app

Last Updated: May 2026

No Accounts / No Notifications 

You can use the Log Now web app without creating an account, username, or sharing contact information. We will not contact you through the Log Now web app because this form does not collect contact information.

Data Security 

By design, the application stores as little identifying information as possible:

• No IP addresses are stored or logged

• No cookies or browser tracking

• No user accounts or email addresses

• No session data that could identify a visitor

What is stored:

• The encrypted private text (unreadable without the user's access code). Private logs are not readable by Log Now Decide Later or partner organizations.

• A hashed version of the access code (cannot be reversed)

• Optional demographic, barrier, timing, feedback, and “Other” write-in responses, stored separately from private logs.

• A date stamp (date only, no time) on each log entry 

Data submitted through the Log Now web app is transmitted using HTTPS encryption. 

Data We Collect 

Total number of logs submitted. This data is designed to be anonymous and not linked to individual logs.

Optional Data We Collect With Your Consent 

Optional demographic, barrier, and timing questions may be compiled and viewed in anonymous, aggregated form. Optional feedback and “Other” write-in responses may be reviewed by Log Now Decide Later and, where applicable, by the partner organization connected to the community link used, to improve the Log Now web app, understand community needs, and identify whether additional response categories should be added. These optional responses are stored separately from your private log and are not designed to be linked back to it.

Use of Data 

Optional survey responses may be used to understand how different survivor identities affect reporting and seeking medical, counseling, and/or legal services. Optional feedback and “Other” write-in responses may be used to improve the Log Now web app, understand community needs, and identify whether additional response categories should be added. We do not share individual private logs.

Aggregate Data Safety Rule 

We do not display or disclose partner-level, community-level, subgroup-level, or public aggregate data, optional feedback, or “Other” write-in responses unless at least 10 submissions are included in the displayed result. Suppressed results will display as “Not enough data to display safely.”

Data Retention and Deletion Policy 

When a log is deleted, the private text is deleted. Optional survey, demographic, barrier, timing, feedback, and “Other” write-in responses may remain because they are stored separately from individual private logs and are not designed to be linked back to them.

Breach Notice

Because the Log Now web app is designed not to collect names, accounts, emails, or contact information from Log Now web app users, direct notice may not be possible. If notice is legally required and we do not have sufficient contact information, we will provide substitute notice as permitted by applicable law, which may include conspicuous website notice, partner communications, or other legally permitted notice methods.

Availability and Changes

The Log Now web app may be changed, paused, updated, or discontinued. Features may be modified as the MVP evolves.

Disclaimer of Guarantees

We work to protect privacy and security, but no online system can be guaranteed to be completely secure or continuously available.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy as the Log Now web app evolves. The “Last updated” date will show when changes were made.

Contact Information

Contact us at contact@lognowdecidelater.org.