NeuroCognica
What we ask, and why
Most sites bury this behind a banner engineered to be clicked away. You are being asked to contribute to research, so you should understand what you are contributing and what happens if you decline.
Start here: NeuroCognica is a research initiative
ChronoSophia pays the bills. The underlying work is research into how people understand themselves, and whether an AI system can reflect a person back to them honestly — with its evidence shown, its uncertainty admitted, and its reasoning open to challenge.
Mirrorborn is that research made usable. It reads what you write about yourself and organises it into an explainable five-station profile. The interesting question is not any single result. It is what changes across many people over time, and whether the patterns hold.
Answering that question needs data. We would rather explain why and let you choose than take it quietly and hope you never look.
Two separate permissions
They are genuinely separate. You can say yes to one and no to the other, or no to both, and change your mind afterwards.
1. Site analytics
What: which pages get visited, how people move through the site, whether something is broken.
Why: it is how a solo operation finds out that a page nobody reaches is confusing rather than unpopular.
What it is not: no third-party trackers, no advertising networks, no cross-site profiling. First-party only. Your IP address and browser are stored hashed, never in the clear, and deleted after 90 days.
2. Research participation
What: whether your Mirrorborn answers may inform the archetype research and improve the instrument.
Why: a taxonomy is only as good as the range of people it has met. Every honest answer makes the next person's reflection better.
What it is not: not required to use Mirrorborn, not required to get your own profile, and never sold or shared with advertisers.
What happens if you decline both
Nothing you came for is withheld. You can still sign in, buy ChronoSophia, download it, take the full Mirrorborn assessment, get your complete profile, and keep your history across assessments.
This matters legally as well as ethically. Consent that is a condition of service is not consent — it is a toll. If saying no cost you the product, the yes would be worthless as evidence and void as permission.
What we do with your answers either way
To give you a profile at all, your written answers have to be processed: a language model tags them against a fixed taxonomy, and deterministic code assigns the stations. That processing is the service you asked for, and it happens whether or not you agree to research.
Two honest details about it:
- That processing happens on our infrastructure, not your machine. This is the opposite of ChronoSophia, which is local-first. We keep the distinction sharp rather than letting one reputation cover both.
- Your answers go to a third-party AI model provider for tagging. Named in the Privacy Statement.
If you do say yes to research
- Your answers inform aggregate patterns and improvements to the instrument.
- Nothing published or shared identifies you. Findings are about patterns across people, never about a person.
- You can withdraw at any time. Withdrawal stops future use, and you can delete your data outright.
- If this work is ever published, the methodology and the taxonomy are published with it — the same standard the Sentinel Security Protocol already holds itself to.
What we will not do, in any configuration
- Sell your data, or share it with advertisers. There is no arrangement under which this happens.
- Use third-party trackers or advertising networks.
- Publish anything that identifies an individual.
- Treat a decline as a reason to degrade your experience.
- Change any of this quietly. New collection needs fresh consent; a new version of a policy does not grant it by itself.
Changing your mind
Both permissions live in your account and can be switched at any time. Withdrawing is one click and takes effect immediately — the same number of clicks as granting it, on the same screen, with no retention flow in between.
If anything on this page is unclear, that is a defect and we want to hear about it — tell us and it gets rewritten. A consent you did not understand is not one we want.