Privacy & How AI Works

Understanding data privacy and AI functionality in Affirmations Flow

Quick Summary

Affirmations Flow uses AI (Mira) as your transformation companion to help you stay consistent and make progress. Here's what you need to know:

  • Your journals and personal writing stay completely private - AI never reads them
  • AI tracks your behavior (like which pages you visit and tasks you complete) - not your content
  • AI helps you get started with optional content generation (1x per month)
  • AI provides daily guidance through check-ins, tips, and performance reports

On This Page

What AI Never Reads

These remain 100% private to your account:

Daily Journal Entries

Your thoughts, reflections, and experiences

Gratitude Journal Entries

What you're thankful for each day

Manually Written Content

Goals, affirmations, story, identity, manifesto you write yourself

Manual Edits

Changes you make to any materials

Important: The actual content of these materials is never analyzed by AI.

What AI Can Help Create (Optional)

Mira AI can generate initial drafts to help you get started quickly. This is completely optional - you can always write everything yourself.

What You Can Generate:

  • Dreams & Goals
  • Affirmations
  • Your Story (hero's journey)
  • Identity statement
  • Manifesto

How It Works:

  1. Click the magic wand icon in the navbar
  2. Answer 19-20 questions about your situation, dreams, and challenges
  3. Mira generates personalized initial drafts
  4. You review, edit, and customize as you wish
Usage Limits:
  • 1 credit per month for paid users
  • One content generation per billing cycle
  • Green dot on magic wand icon = credit available
  • No green dot = already used (resets next month)
  • You can manually edit anytime without using credits
Why the limit? These materials (goals, affirmations, identity) don't change frequently. Once you've defined your path, you'll refine manually as needed. The AI helps overcome the initial "blank page" inertia.

What AI Does Track (To Support Your Consistency)

This is how Mira acts as your transformation companion - by understanding your behavioral patterns and helping you stay on track.

Progress Tracker Behavior:

  • What activities you've added to your daily routine
  • Which tasks you complete each day:
    • Yes/No tasks (e.g., "Did you meditate?")
    • Measured tasks (e.g., "How many steps did you walk?")
  • Your completion patterns over time
Note: AI reads the task names and completion status - not any notes or details you add.

Page Visit Tracking:

AI tracks whether you visited these pages at least once per day:

  • Dreams & Goals
  • Affirmations
  • Vision Board
  • Story
  • Identity
  • Manifesto

How it works: Only the first visit per day is tracked. Whether you visit once or 100 times doesn't matter - the signal is simple: "You engaged with this material today."

Why? This is a proxy for you actually reading and reinforcing your mindset materials, which is key to transformation.

Journal Activity Tracking:

AI tracks whether you made an entry in:

  • Daily Journal
  • Gratitude Journal
What's tracked: That an entry was created (date/time)
What's NOT tracked: The content, length, or what you wrote

How AI Uses This Information

1. Daily Check-Ins (Morning & Evening)

When you open the app, Mira provides personalized check-ins based on your recent activity:

Morning Check-In
  • Motivational message to start your day
  • Reminder of what to focus on
  • Encouraging words based on your progress
Evening Check-In
  • Reflection on today's performance
  • Gentle accountability for incomplete tasks
  • Tips for improvement tomorrow
Interactive Element: You can share quick feedback, progress updates, or thoughts with Mira (one message at a time - not a chat, to avoid distraction).

2. Performance Email Reports

Mira sends you periodic summaries of your progress.

What's included:
  • Engagement summary (how often you're visiting your materials)
  • Routine progress (task completion rates)
  • Journal activity (consistency tracking)
  • AI-generated tips for improvement
  • Focus recommendations for the coming period
Frequency options:
  • Daily
  • Weekly (default: every Sunday)
  • Custom schedule
Customize in Settings: Choose what sections to include

3. Advanced Analytics Dashboard

A comprehensive view of your transformation journey with:

Activity Calendars

Visual heatmaps showing consistency

Performance Metrics

Scores, streaks, completion rates

AI Insights Section

Personalized recommendations

Note: The analytics page takes time to generate (it's calculating your insights).

4. Smart Nudges (Non-AI)

Throughout the day, you'll receive progress nudges like:

  • "You're 30% done! Write your journal to reach 50%."
  • "Great job! 2 more tasks to complete your routine."
Note: These are simple data-driven notifications (not AI-generated) to keep you motivated.

Other Features (No AI Involvement)

Accountability Partner

This is a pure human feature - no AI involved.

How it works:

  • Invite one person to be your accountability partner (they join for free)
  • They see your daily routine progress (today + last 6 days)
  • They can send you one-way motivational messages to encourage you
  • You receive messages as in-app notifications
  • You cannot reply (by design - to avoid distraction and keep focus on action)
Why one-way? To provide support without turning into a chat that pulls you away from your practice.

Vision Board

No AI is involved with your vision board.

What you do:

  1. Create your vision board image externally (we recommend Canva - see our How-To video)
  2. Upload the final image to Affirmations Flow
  3. View it daily as part of your morning routine

That's it - purely visual reinforcement of your goals.

Data Storage & Privacy

Where Your Data Lives

  • Stored securely on PythonAnywhere (powered by Amazon AWS infrastructure)
  • Standard cloud security protocols
  • Encrypted connections (HTTPS)

Data Export

Coming soon: Ability to export all your data. We're prioritizing this feature and will announce when available.

Account Deletion

  • You can request account deletion at any time
  • Full GDPR-compliant deletion - all your data is permanently wiped from our MySQL database
  • No backups, no traces
Note: Account deletion feature has a technical issue currently - if you request deletion, we'll process it manually within 24-48 hours.

Deactivate vs Delete (coming soon):

  • Deactivate: Pause your account, data preserved, can reactivate later
  • Delete: Complete permanent removal of all data

Think of Mira As...

Your transformation companion who:

Helps you get started when you're facing a blank page

Notices your patterns and consistency (or lack thereof)

Provides gentle accountability without judgment

Offers tips and guidance based on your behavior

Celebrates your progress and streaks

Nudges you back on track when you drift

But never:

Reads your personal journals or reflections

Judges the content of what you write

Shares your data with anyone

Creates distractions with constant pings

Frequently Asked Questions

You can opt out of performance emails in Settings. AI check-ins and insights are core to the product experience, but you can minimize interaction with them if you prefer.
No problem! You can write everything manually from scratch. The AI generation is 100% optional.
No. Your accountability partner only sees your daily routine progress (task completion). They don't see AI insights, analytics, or any other personal data.
No. We have no interest in or ability to read your personal journals. They're stored securely in your account and only you can access them.
Yes! Manual editing is always unlimited. The credit only applies to generating new content from scratch using AI.
It tracks your first visit to the affirmations page each day. That's considered "engagement" with your affirmations. Whether you spend 10 seconds or 10 minutes, the signal is: "You showed up today."

Bottom Line

Affirmations Flow is designed to be your private transformation space with AI as a helpful companion - not a surveillance system.

We believe:
  • Your deepest thoughts (journals) should stay private
  • Behavioral patterns (what you do, not what you think) help us guide you better
  • Accountability drives results, and AI can provide consistent support
  • You should always be in control of your data
If you have questions or concerns about privacy, please email us at support@affirmationsflow.com - we're happy to clarify anything.

Last updated: October 2025

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