Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

A short, video-guided reflective experience. A film plays, stops, and asks you a question. At some stops a guide — text written by an AI model in response to what you wrote — reflects it back and invites you further in.

If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, please contact a local emergency number or a crisis line — in the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, call 116 123; elsewhere, findahelpline.com lists a service for your country. Nothing here is monitored in real time.

You need to be at least 16. There is no password: partway through, you give a first name and an email, and your browser gets a signed cookie that names your save file for thirty days. Anyone using that browser can continue your journey, so take the usual care on a shared computer.

Please use it lawfully, and don't write in someone else's personal details, harass anyone, attack or scrape the service, or try to reach another person's journey or the admin pages. I can suspend access and delete a save file where that has happened. The guide is capped and is a companion inside this experience, not a general-purpose assistant.

Only what you give me or what is measured as you go. There is no advertising technology and no third-party tracking anywhere in this product.

Because of what the journey asks, what you write may include things the law treats as sensitive — about your health, your beliefs or your relationships. You decide what to write; where that happens I rely on your explicit consent, and you can withdraw it by asking me to delete your journey.

Your answers, your summary, your name and your email are deliberately kept out of every log line in this application.

If you are in the UK or the European Economic Area, these are the lawful bases under the GDPR:

• Performance of a contract — storing your answers, running the guide, resuming your journey, and sending you the emails that are part of the experience.
• Consent — speaking an answer instead of typing it, the optional Google sign-in, sharing an entry publicly, and anything you write that turns out to be sensitive. Each is separate and each can be withdrawn.
• Legitimate interests — keeping the service secure and working, understanding in aggregate where people stop, and staying in touch about the journey. You can object at any time.
• Legal obligation — where I have to keep or produce something by law.

I use it to run the journey for you and to stay in touch about it. In practice that means your save file and the guidance, reflections and summary that are part of the experience; a reminder if you stop partway through; and occasional notes from me about the journey and what I am building around it.

Every one of those carries a one-click unsubscribe, and stopping them is instant and unconditional. Unsubscribing stops the letters I choose to send; it does not stop a reply to something you pressed a button to ask for.

When you follow the link in one of these emails, it passes through this site on its way, which counts that it was followed. That is how I learn which letters are worth sending. Whether you opened an email is not measured.

If you join the waitlist, your address is used for that alone. I send one email asking you to confirm it, and you are not on the list until you click it; if you never do, nothing more is sent. Once you are on it, you hear when the game opens and get the occasional piece from me on playing life as a game, each with a one-click unsubscribe. The address is kept in Resend's contact list, under "Waitlist", so those letters can be sent.

A small number of companies do one named job each, under contracts that let them act only on my instructions. The categories are what matter; the examples are who does it today and may change.

The database is hosted in the European Union (Ireland), so what you write is stored in Europe. I am a US company and several of the providers above are US companies, so some processing happens in the United States. Where personal data leaves the UK or the EEA I rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum, or on a provider's Data Privacy Framework certification. Ask and I will tell you which applies to which.

Until you ask me to delete it. That is deliberate: the thing the journey gives you is a save file you can come back to, and quietly deleting it after a period would take that from people who never asked.

Ask, and it goes — your answers, your conversation with the guide, your summary, your timings and my notes about you, together, as one deletion. Write to legal@coliberate.ventures. Two things outlive it by necessity: the record that an address asked not to be written to again, which is what keeps the unsubscribe working, and anything I must keep by law. Emails already delivered cannot be recalled from an inbox.

Wherever you are, you can ask me to give you a copy of everything I hold about you (my private notes included), correct it, delete it, restrict or object to how it is used, send it somewhere else, or withdraw a consent you gave. There is no charge and I will answer within 30 days.

Write to legal@coliberate.ventures from the address you used. If you are in the UK or the EEA and my answer does not satisfy you, you can complain to your national data protection authority. If you live in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia or another US state with a comparable law, you have equivalent rights — and since I do not sell personal information, do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and do not profile anyone, there is nothing further to opt out of.

There is no advertising cookie, no tracking pixel and no third-party analytics service here, which is why you are not being asked to dismiss a consent banner.

• One cookie that matters: a signed token naming your save file, kept for thirty days. It is what keeps you logged in without a password, so blocking it means the journey cannot remember you or save what you write. A second is set only if you sign in with Google or a mailed link.
• Your own settings — the volumes you chose, where you were in the film — are kept by your browser on your device and never reach me.
• Visit counting runs on software I host myself, on this domain. It sets no cookie and stores no identifier: visitor, IP and browser are hashed with a salt that rotates daily, so there is nothing that follows you to another site and nothing that can be traced back to you.
• Google's sign-in code loads only if you press "Continue with Google". Until then Google is not contacted and learns nothing about your visit.

If I ever add something that does need your consent, you will be asked before it is set.

The film, writing, design, images, music and software of The Journey belong to coLiberate ventures, LLC and are protected by copyright. You may use the journey; you may not copy, republish, resell or build a derivative of it without written permission. What you write, and your own summary, are yours — you keep every right in them, and you give me only the permission needed to run the journey for you and do the things this document describes.

The journey is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied. It is a work in progress and offered in that spirit; it may change, be suspended or be withdrawn at any time, and I do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or that the guide's replies will be accurate or suitable for you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, coLiberate ventures, LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits or goodwill, arising from your use of the journey or from anything the guide writes. Where liability cannot be excluded it is limited to one hundred US dollars. These terms are governed by the laws of New Mexico, United States; if you are a consumer in the UK or the EU this does not deprive you of the mandatory protections, or the courts, of your own country.

I review this page as the product changes, and the date at the top is when it last changed. Where a change materially affects your rights I will say so on the journey itself, and where the law requires your consent I will ask rather than assume.

For anything in this document, for a copy of your data, or to have your journey deleted: legal@coliberate.ventures. For anything about the journey itself: hello@jantrautwein.com. coLiberate ventures, LLC is the data controller for the purposes of the UK and EU GDPR.