Privacy Policy

How Your Story Is Held and Protected

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Last updated: 25 October, 02025

This page outlines how your information, reflections, and recorded materials are gathered and safeguarded with care, transparency, and sacred responsibility. Whether you are preparing, journeying, or integrating, everything here is guided by mutual trust, trauma-informed ethics, and clear consent.

Purpose and Philosophy

Recording and reflection are instruments of awareness. By safely capturing what unfolds in session, we can trace the deeper arc of your transformation and witness the patterns, aspirations, and relationships that shape your life.

The Journey Home Project was born from this philosophy. It is a long-term reflection framework designed to help you see yourself with greater clarity through the language, emotions, and insights that arise across months or years of inner work. The more real, honest, and consistent our work becomes, the more depth we can reveal together.

Participation in the Journey Home Project is entirely consensual and only for those who choose to opt in through a signed consent disclosure agreement. It is highly encouraged because this framework allows a more complete and compassionate understanding of your journey, often illuminating dimensions of self-awareness that would not be visible otherwise. It is a profound gift to yourself, and participation is never a condition for receiving support.

Technology is never used to replace human connection; it exists only to help us see what the heart already knows.

Why Record

All sessions and ceremonies may be recorded or transcribed, not for formality but in service of your healing and integration. Recording helps anchor insights, track growth, and reveal recurring patterns that evolve over time.

Many clients find that knowing their experience is safely recorded allows them to relax more deeply, trusting that the wisdom of the moment will be preserved. Recordings also create a shared record that supports accuracy, continuity, and transparency.

All recordings, transcripts, and reflections are made only with your explicit, informed consent. Consent may be given, withheld, or withdrawn at any time.

Recordings and notes are accessible only to:

  • You, upon request

  • Me (your guide)

  • A designated mental health researcher, only if you are a Journey Home Project participant

  • Your healthcare team or a trusted co-facilitator or admin, only with your permission

No identifiable data is ever shared, sold, or used beyond your healing and integration without your explicit consent.

Journey Home Project (Optional Participation)

The Journey Home Project is an interactive reflection and research initiative that helps participants see the deeper patterns, values, and transformations within their own lives over time. Each participant receives a private, evolving profile or showcase that mirrors their journey across preparation, ceremony, and integration, allowing them to witness their own growth with greater clarity and continuity.

Participation is entirely optional and based on explicit consent through the Client Consent Disclosure. All data used for this purpose is carefully de-identified, stored securely, and reviewed only by authorized members of the Journey Home research team. This process honors both personal sovereignty and collective insight, creating benefit for the individual while contributing to the wider field of healing and transformation.

To learn more, visit aboutyeshua.com/journey-home

Secure Technologies and Privacy Standards

I voluntarily adhere to HIPAA-aligned standards, even though I am not legally required to, because the privacy and security of your information are essential to this work. I use enterprise-grade, paid premium services to ensure top-of-class security for every platform. To the best of my knowledge, these represent some of the most secure technologies currently available.

All systems are configured to meet industry-leading security standards. These include encryption of data at rest and in transit, strong password protection, and multi-factor authentication when enabled by the software vendor. Many tools I employ, such as Fathom and Plaud, offer HIPAA-aligned or SOC 2 certified environments and provide Business Associate Agreements. Only I hold the master credentials for each platform.

Homecoming: our primary HIPAA-compliant, encrypted platform for scheduling, documentation, transcripts, and secure messaging. Developed by a Canadian company specializing in psychedelic care, it reflects that country’s progressive stance toward psychedelic research and strong data-protection standards. Homecoming serves as the main channel for all private communication between you, me, and, when relevant, the Journey Home research team.

Signal: an end-to-end encrypted messaging app used for group coordination, such as within Seekers Circle cohorts, allowing members to connect without sharing personal contact information. Recognized as an industry standard for secure communication, Signal uses open-source encryption trusted by privacy experts worldwide. While not a HIPAA-covered platform, it remains one of the most secure options commercially available for logistical and non-clinical coordination.

Zoom and Fathom: virtual sessions are conducted through Zoom with a HIPAA-compliant plug-in for encrypted calls. Fathom, a SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA-aligned transcription platform, integrates directly into Zoom to securely record and transcribe sessions. Recordings are encrypted, stored on U.S. servers, and then transferred into Homecoming for long-term protected storage.

Plaud Voice Recorder: a secure hardware device used for in-person ceremonies to capture insights for integration. Recordings are encrypted, stored on AWS SOC 2 Type II certified servers, transcribed, and deleted after upload to Homecoming.

Google Workspace: operated under an executed and configured Business Associate Agreement (BAA) ensuring HIPAA compliance and used for developing a Journey Home profile, with all files encrypted and stored securely.

Large Language Model (LLM) Tools: enterprise-grade AI tools with enhanced encryption and private data environments. No data is shared or used for external training, and additional safeguards ensure confidentiality.

All technologies are used to support your personal and collective growth, including research, reflection, and anonymized participation in the Journey Home Project for those who choose to opt in.

Vendor Agreements and Configurations

I execute Business Associate Agreements and configure covered services appropriately when handling protected health information. Examples include Google Workspace under a BAA and Zoom for Healthcare.

For meeting transcription, Fathom provides HIPAA-aligned options and makes a BAA available. For in-person recordings, Plaud offers a workflow compatible with HIPAA-like standards and promotes HIPAA-compliant sharing.

Important note on Signal: Signal is used only for simple group logistics and community coordination, not for sharing protected health information, because Signal does not provide a HIPAA BAA.

Retention and Deletion

Records are kept only as long as they are meaningfully useful for your care and as required by professional record-keeping standards. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, I retain recordings, transcripts, notes, and reflections for up to seven years after our last session, then delete them securely. You may request earlier deletion at any time; where legal or ethical standards require minimal retention, I will retain only what is necessary and remove everything else.

Your Rights and Data Sovereignty

You retain full sovereignty over your story, your data, and your participation at every stage of our work together. Your privacy is treated as sacred, and your involvement in any form of recording, transcription, or reflection is always by choice and clearly defined through the Client Consent Disclosure.

You have the right to:

  • Decide what is recorded or transcribed and for what purpose

  • Choose which materials are stored and for how long

  • Access, review, or request deletion of your recordings, transcripts, and reflections at any time

  • Specify who may access your information, including members of the Journey Home research team or mental health collaborators

  • Choose whether offline review, synthesis, and reflection of your journey is undertaken, and opt out if you prefer

  • Opt in or out of AI assisted reflection or participation in the Journey Home Project at any point

Withdrawal of consent prevents any future use of your materials and, to the extent possible, results in the deletion of existing identifiable content. All materials, including recordings, transcripts, and AI generated summaries, are securely stored within HIPAA compliant systems. Only I, and when relevant an authorized member of the Journey Home Project team or a designated mental health researcher, may access de-identified data to support reflection, integration, or anonymized research.

In addition to our live sessions and integration calls, I often engage in in-depth offline review, thematic reflection, and synthesis of our work together, including transcripts, notes, action plans, and emerging themes. This reflective process is not merely record keeping; it is a conscious practice of holding the full arc of your journey so that you may receive not only immediate feedback but also a polished and coherent reflection of where you have been, where you are now, and what is unfolding.

My intention is to deepen your clarity and embodiment of the work we do together while exploring new methodologies, including dynamic synthesis tools and meaningful visualization, to enhance this process. If you prefer that this additional layer of review and synthesis not occur, you may simply opt out. Doing so will not limit your access to live sessions or integration, only this optional layer of reflective support.

Legal, Ethical, and Safety Disclosures

Confidentiality is central to this work, and your information is held in strict confidence except where disclosure is required by law. In rare cases, I may need to share limited information if there is an imminent risk of serious harm, suspected abuse as defined by law, or a valid court order. If a legal request for records arises, I will notify you when permitted, disclose the minimum necessary, and assert all appropriate protections on your behalf.

I do not hold ceremony for individuals under 21 years of age. However, I offer consultations to parents or guardians who are considering how to responsibly support their minor in this work. These conversations remain separate from direct ceremony participation and follow legal and ethical best practices.

If a security incident creates a risk of harm, I will investigate, mitigate, and notify you without undue delay, consistent with applicable law.

For clients outside the United States, your information may be processed in the U.S. Upon request, I will honor GDPR-style rights where feasible, including access, correction, deletion, and withdrawal of consent.

Website Use, Cookies, and Digital Privacy

This website is designed for connection and education, not for tracking or advertising. However, as it is hosted on Squarespace, the site uses essential cookies for security and basic functionality and may use optional analytics cookies that you can manage or decline via the cookie banner.

No third-party tracking pixels or behavioral advertising tools are used. I do not sell, trade, or share your information for marketing. Any analytics or cookies used are limited to Squarespace’s built-in tools and remain within their privacy and data protection policies. You may manage or disable cookies in your browser settings at any time. This will not affect your ability to access the site or contact me.

Your private session data, consent forms, and Journey Home materials are never connected to your browsing activity.

Policy Updates & Contact

This Privacy Policy evolves alongside the work itself and remains guided by transparency, ethics, and current best practices in data protection and sacred stewardship.

The effective date at the top of this page reflects the most recent update. If significant changes occur in how your information is stored or shared, you will be notified before any new policy takes effect.

For questions or concerns about your privacy, consent, or participation in the Journey Home Project, you are welcome to reach out at any time.

Email: email@aboutyeshua.com
Contact Form: available on aboutyeshua.com/contact

This work is built on trust. Your privacy is not only protected, it is honored. Every recording and reflection exists to support your growth and illuminate your path toward wholeness. This is not about watching you but witnessing you, not about collecting your story but honoring it.

Each system is chosen for both its security and its alignment with deeper values of consent, sovereignty, and care. Your story remains yours, always.

It is an honor to walk with you.