WiredType runs a research program so we can study DISC, team dynamics, and how people communicate, and publish what we learn. Participation is optional and off unless you turn it on. This page explains what we record when you opt in, how we keep it apart from your identity, and how you withdraw or delete it.
1. What you are consenting to
If you opt in, we record research events. Each event is tied to a random research ID instead of your email or name. We record one kind of event:
- When you finish an assessment: your DISC type and blend, your scores and how confident the scoring is, the scoring method, and whether it was a retake.
Each event also records the time, the consent version you agreed to, and that it came from the website. Research events do not include your answers to individual questions, demographics, your IP address, your location, or your browser details. No study has published any data yet.
Before September 23, 2026, the site could also record when you started an assessment and the two DISC types in each team pair report you generated. When we checked on September 23, 2026, there were no such records, and the site no longer makes them.
2. How your identity stays separate
The link between your account and your research ID sits in its own database table. Only our server functions and the staff who run our database can read it; the website and other signed-in users cannot. When you delete your research data, we delete your research events, erase your account ID from that link, and turn research off. When you delete your account, we erase the link, and any research events that remain are no longer linked to your account, and we never try to match them to you.
3. What we do not do
- We do not sell research data.
- We do not share anything that could identify you.
- We do not include text from your emails or messages in research data.
- We do not contact you about research unless you agree to that separately.
4. What we would publish
If a study reaches a large enough sample, we plan to pre-register it on the Open Science Framework, publish a preprint, submit it for peer review, and release an anonymized dataset. A published dataset would contain research IDs and the event details listed above. Your email, name, and payment details would never appear.
5. Your rights
- Withdraw consent. Under "Add my scores to DISC research under a random ID" in the Research group of Settings, choose "No, keep them out". No new events are recorded after that. Events recorded earlier stay under the consent you gave at the time.
- Delete research data. Choose "Delete my research data" in the same group. We turn research off, delete the entries you added, and erase your account ID from the link to your research ID.
- Export. Download my data, in Settings under Your data and account, includes your research participation record and every research event still linked to you.
- Delete your account. Delete my account, in Settings under Your data and account, deletes your account and erases the link to your research ID in the same step. Research events already recorded stay, with no link to you or your account. To delete them too, choose Delete my research data before you delete your account. After your account is deleted, we cannot find these events, so a later request cannot remove them. If you have already deleted your account, write to privacy@wiredtype.com and we will tell you what we can and cannot do.
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
Only account holders can join, and accounts are for people 18 and older.
8. Changes to this policy
If we change the research privacy policy materially, we write a new version and ask you to review it. Your existing consent carries over to the new version only after you do.