WiredType runs a research program to publish open science about DISC, team dynamics, and how people communicate. Participation is optional. This page explains exactly what happens when you opt in, what we store, how we keep your data separate from your identity, and how you withdraw or delete.
1. What you are consenting to
If you opt in, we store anonymized records of your interactions with the assessment platform. Each record is linked to a random anonymous identifier, not to your email or name. The record may include:
- Your item-level assessment responses and timestamps
- Computed DISC scores, confidence, and instrument version
- Pair-report ratings and free-text feedback when you provide them
- Optional demographics you fill in (age range, industry, country, language)
- Device class (web, mobile, tablet) and coarse browser/OS family
We do not store raw IP addresses, precise geolocation, full user-agent strings, or other fingerprintable details.
2. How your identity stays separate
The mapping between your account and your anonymous research identifier lives in a separate, service-role-only table. Regular product code cannot read that mapping. Only the research pipeline can join them, and only under service-role credentials. When you delete your research data, the mapping row is removed. After that, nothing can link prior anonymized events back to you.
3. What we never do
- We never sell your data. Academic collaborations are non-commercial.
- We never share anything that could identify you.
- We never include raw text from your emails or messages without explicit opt-in on a per-sample basis (not in scope for this version).
- We never contact you about research without your separate agreement.
4. What we do publish
When a study reaches publishable sample size, we pre-register on the Open Science Framework, publish a preprint, submit to peer review, and release an anonymized dataset. Published datasets contain anonymous identifiers and consented demographics. Your email, name, and payment details never appear.
5. Your rights
- Withdraw consent. Toggle off in Account settings. No new events are captured. Prior events stay under the consent you gave at the time.
- Delete research data. Use "Delete my research data" in Account settings. The mapping between your account and the research identifier is destroyed. Event rows that remain are now unlinked.
- Export. Email privacy@wiredtype.com for a JSONL dump of events tied to you.
- Ask questions. Same email. We reply within a reasonable time.
6. GDPR and CCPA
We honor the GDPR right to access (Art. 15), erasure (Art. 17), portability (Art. 20), and objection (Art. 21). We honor the CCPA right to delete (1798.105) and the right to know (1798.115). We do not sell or share data under the CCPA definition.
7. Children
Research participation is not available to users under 16 in the EU or under 13 in the US.
8. Changes to this policy
If we change the research privacy policy materially, we write a new version and ask you to review it before your existing consent carries over. Silent re-consent does not happen here.