The Census · Privacy
Privacy Policy
This is the operative Article 13 layer referenced in the Terms of the Count: the full account of what Cognisentum collects, why, and what you can do about it. Controller for all personal data described here: Cognisentum ([email protected]), Romania.
What we collect
An account holds: your email address (for sign-in only), your language preference, your Handle and Seat number (your public pseudonymous identity), your tap responses and stated confidence on each session, your rating and session scores, and the record of which images you've been shown (so none repeats). If you join the commission waitlist, we hold the email address and language you submitted.
What we never collect
Your voice is never stored. Quick-mode sessions are tap-only — there is no audio input to record in the first place, so no recording of you exists anywhere, at any stage. We run no advertising trackers and no analytics beyond the ordinary server logs kept for operating the service.
Cookies & tokens
A signed session cookie keeps you signed in. Two preference cookies (cog_theme, NEXT_LOCALE) remember your display theme and language. One-time magic-link tokens authenticate sign-in emails and expire after use or after fifteen minutes. None of these are used to track you across other sites.
Why we process it
Email exists to sign you in and, only when you've asked for it, to notify you — for example, about commission-waitlist openings. We use Resend, a transactional-email provider, as a processor for that mail; it sees the address and the message, nothing else about your sessions.
What's shown publicly
Your Handle and Seat number are public — that's the point of a pseudonym. Your email address is never shown publicly, never included in a Handle, and never sent to anyone outside Cognisentum except the processor above.
Your rights
You can access, correct, or export your data, and you can request erasure, at any time, by writing to [email protected]. Erasure deletes your account and identifying information; the sealed record of your past sessions' scores stays in the aggregate audit trail, pseudonymized — never linked back to you once your account is gone.
Retention
Account data is kept for as long as your account is open. Session scores and their pseudonymized audit trail are kept indefinitely as the platform's record, in line with the Terms of the Count. Magic-link tokens are deleted or ignored once they expire.
No identity checks in the pilot
We do not run KYC or identity verification during the pilot. Age is a self-attestation, not a document check.
Contact
Questions, requests, or complaints about this policy: [email protected].