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The free tool below runs entirely in this browser — no account, nothing stored or transmitted. Redact anything you would not want kept before you type it.
Open the companion tool →Why a personal record is worth keeping
Requests to delete data, withdraw consent, or dispute a decision all begin with what you agreed to and when. Without a record, the answer is reconstructed from a vendor's own pages — which may have changed.
The record also changes behavior: writing down 'I agreed to X for Y purpose on this date' makes vague consent concrete, and concreteness is what makes a person check a box deliberately instead of clicking through.
The protocol
- Start with the services that hold the most: your main AI assistant, your phone's assistant, photo and cloud services, and anything with your payment details.
- Write one line per service: what you agreed to, the date you agreed, and the version of the terms if you have it.
- Record what you declined or turned off, since that is the part a later dispute usually turns on.
- Note the review date — a term, a birthday, or after a notice of a change in terms.
- Keep the page with your other documents and update it when you accept a new notice. One page per service is enough.
What the tool does
Build a consent receipt for the services that hold the most of your data: what you agreed to, when, what you declined, and when you will review it. It stores nothing and sends nothing.
Limit first: This is a personal record-keeping aid, not legal advice. It does not create any legal right or replace the notices sent by the services themselves.
Open the companion tool →One human next step
When you file a deletion request or a complaint, attach the receipt — the date and the terms version turn a general request into a specific one. Review the book twice a year and update anything that changed.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not applicable — the artifact is the reader's own dated record; a generated summary would not be the record any process accepts. §6.10: not a frontier-pace topic.
§0.5 protection result: category is informed-consent-literacy; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.