Privacy

What we hold about you

Your email address and a password, so you can sign in, and so we can tell you when your account is let in. The name you give yourself, if you give one. What you write in the product, and the files you put into it, which are yours and are shown to nobody else — unless you share a project, in which case everyone who accepts your invitation into it sees every file in it and each other’s names and email addresses, and never anyone’s conversations with the associate. An address you invite is kept with the invitation, whether or not it is taken up, so you can be offered it again; we send nothing to it — you post the link yourself — and if the address already has an account here, you are shown the name on it. Whoever opens that link is shown the project’s name and your name, and nothing else, before they have an account. We hold an invited address on the basis of legitimate interests: an invitation is nothing without one, and it is used for nothing else. Someone taken out of a project keeps the conversations they had in it, which may quote its files as they were. Each account is let in by hand, one at a time; until then yours holds only your email. A record of what each turn cost: when it was, what it cost us, which of our skills it read and what kind of file it produced — never what you wrote or what was in it. We keep it to bill and to see what the service costs to run, we hold it on the basis of legitimate interests, and it goes when your account does. A meeting you record or drop in as a file is transcribed for you by Speechmatics, in the EU, and the words are kept as your own record in your project, whole and unedited; the recording is deleted the moment the transcript exists, and Speechmatics keeps its copy for seven days and then deletes it. If you choose to enrol your voice, a short clip of you talking, we keep only what the provider hands back to name you in transcripts of meetings you are in, in the projects you are a member of and nowhere else; you can forget it at any time from Settings, nobody can enrol anyone else’s voice, and it goes when your account does. Snippets you keep, sentences from other people that caught you, with who said them and why, are yours alone, shown to nobody else, and go when your account does. Signing in keeps a token in your own browser so you stay signed in; nothing else is stored there, and there are no analytics and no tracking scripts in your browser. The front page's typefaces load from Google Fonts, which sees your IP address the way any web font host does; the app itself carries its own.

What the giants are

Each giant is the published thinking of the person named: their books, letters, talks and interviews, read by a model that infers what they might say. Nothing here is written, endorsed or reviewed by them or their estates, and no private information about any of them is kept. What a giant says is an inference from public work, shown to you as such.

How we gather it: we buy the books; talks, interviews and articles come from the publishers' and programmes' own pages; nothing comes from behind a login. We keep the full text privately, as the reference the model reads, and never show it; you see only what a giant says in answer to you. We hold it on the basis of legitimate interests. The professional thinking of public figures, put to work by people building things, is in the public interest, and telling each person individually would be out of proportion for a record that is public and professional through and through. That is why this notice is published, and why the route below is open to anyone named.

How to object, or ask

If you are one of the people whose published thinking is drawn on and would rather not be, if you want your account and everything in it removed, or if someone invited your address and you want it forgotten, write to benedict.summers@sumplexity.com and it will be done. Sumplexity Ltd, United Kingdom.