Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 15, 2026

1. Overview

thinksn is designed to minimize data collection. We collect only the information necessary to operate the service, generate semantic networks for you, and provide optional account access. We do not sell your data and we do not run behavioral advertising on the site.

Where your question is generic and contains no personal information, the question text and its resulting network may be added to thinksn's public library so other visitors can discover and learn from it — see section 4. Personal information about you (your account, email, User ID, IP address, session identifier) is never published.

2. Who We Are & How to Reach Us

thinksn is currently operated as an independent project, not yet incorporated. For all privacy, data, and contact matters, write to support@thinksn.com or use our Contact page. This policy will be updated to reflect the operating entity once the service is incorporated.

3. Information We Collect

• Authentication Data: If you choose to sign in, we collect your email address solely to deliver passwordless login links. If you register a Passkey, we store the associated public credential data required for authentication.
• Query & Network Data: We store the queries you submit and the resulting semantic networks, associated with an anonymous session identifier or your authenticated User ID, so that you can revisit your own networks and so that links you choose to share continue to work. Where your query is generic and contains no personal information, the query text and its network may additionally be added to our public library (see section 4); the published copy is detached from your identity.
• Technical Data: When you load the site, our hosting provider and security tools necessarily process limited technical information — such as your IP address, browser type, and device category — to deliver the page, prevent abuse, and keep the service running.

4. The Public Library

thinksn maintains a public library of generic questions and the networks they produce, so that visitors can discover prior reasoning, link to it, and use it as a starting point for their own exploration. The library is a core part of how thinksn provides value.

• What is published: the text of your question and the AI-generated network that resulted from it. Nothing else.
• What is never published: your email, account, User ID, session identifier, IP address, or any other identifier that could link the published item to you. Published items are anonymous to readers.
• Automated screening: every query is screened by an automated filter designed to detect and exclude content that contains personal information about you or about identifiable third parties, or that names a private living individual. Queries flagged by the filter are not published.
• Review delay: queries that pass the filter are held for at least 24 hours before becoming publicly visible, so accidents can be caught and removed before they reach search engines.
• Opt-out per query: at the moment you submit a query, you can mark it private. Private queries are never added to the public library, regardless of content.
• Takedown: if a network has been published that you believe should not have been — for example, because it inadvertently contains personal information, names a living individual, or you have simply changed your mind — email support@thinksn.com with the URL and we will remove it.
• Legal basis for EEA/UK users: we publish on the basis of legitimate interests in maintaining a useful public knowledge resource, with the safeguards above as balancing measures. You may object to this processing at any time using the per-query opt-out, the takedown channel, or by contacting us.
• Persistence: published items remain in the public library indefinitely until removed by takedown.

5. Third-Party Services We Use

We rely on a small number of third-party services to operate. Each has its own privacy practices, and your interactions with them are governed by their policies:

• Google Analytics — used to understand aggregate site usage. Analytics only loads if you accept analytics cookies in our consent banner. We use IP anonymization and disable advertising features.
• Google reCAPTCHA Enterprise — used to protect the service from bots and abuse. Loading reCAPTCHA shares limited technical information with Google. This is treated as a strictly necessary security service.
• Monetag (sponsored links) — when you click a clearly labeled sponsored link, you are redirected through Monetag, which may set cookies on its own domain and process information about that click for attribution and advertiser reporting. Monetag scripts do not run on thinksn pages — the tracking begins only at the moment of click.
• Hosting & infrastructure providers — used to serve the site and store your data. These providers process technical information (such as your IP address) solely to deliver the service.
• Large language model providers — used to generate the networks themselves. Your query text is sent to a language model API for processing. Where your query is non-personal (the great majority on thinksn), this transfer carries no privacy impact for you personally. We do not send your account email, User ID, or other identifiers to these providers.

6. Cookies & Consent

We use two categories of browser storage:

• Strictly necessary — items like your authentication token (JWT) and session state. These are required for the service to work and do not require consent.
• Analytics — Google Analytics cookies, loaded only after you accept analytics via our consent banner. You can withdraw consent at any time using the banner or the "Revoke Consent" control on this page.

We do not set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies on thinksn.

7. How We Use This Information

• To generate, display, and store the semantic networks you create.
• To maintain the public library of non-personal questions and networks, after automated screening, review delay, and per-query opt-out (see section 4).
• To provide secure, passwordless authentication.
• To maintain service reliability, security, and prevent abuse.
• To understand aggregate, non-identifying usage of the site (only with your consent).

8. Sponsored Links & External Sites

thinksn may display clearly labeled sponsored or recommended links, served through our advertising partner Monetag (see section 5). We do not run third-party advertising scripts on thinksn pages, and we do not set advertising cookies on this domain.

• Sponsored links are clearly labeled.
• When you click one, you leave thinksn and the destination site (and Monetag) handle the rest under their own privacy practices.
• We do not share your account email or query content with advertisers.

9. Data Storage & International Transfers

Our servers and databases are currently located in the United States. By using thinksn, you acknowledge that your information may be processed and stored in the U.S., subject to applicable safeguards. If you are located in the EEA or United Kingdom, transfers rely on standard contractual safeguards provided by our hosting and infrastructure partners.

10. Sharing, Retention & The 30-Day Rule

• Account Data: Email addresses and Passkey credentials are retained until you delete your account.
• Library Data: Networks stored in your personal library are retained as long as they remain associated with your active account.
• How sharecodes work: When you share a network via a sharecode, anyone who redeems that code receives an independent copy of the network into their own library (or, if they are not signed in, into their anonymous session). Sharers and recipients do not see each other's identity, and we do not surface that link to either party.
• Onward sharing: Recipients may keep, modify, or re-share their copy. Each redemption creates another independent copy. Sharecodes themselves are permanent.
• Natural Expiration (the 30-Day Rule): Any network — your own, a copy you redeemed from someone else, or an anonymous session network — that has not been accessed by anyone for 30 consecutive days is automatically and permanently deleted from our servers. The 30-day clock runs independently for each copy.
• Effect of account deletion on shared copies: Because redeemed copies are independent records, deleting your account does not delete copies that other users have already saved into their libraries. Those copies remain with their respective holders and are subject to the 30-Day Rule like any other network.
• Public library items are governed separately by section 4. They are not subject to the 30-Day Rule and remain until removed by takedown.

11. Your Rights

Regardless of your location, you have the right to access, export, correct, or delete your personal data.

• You may manage or delete networks from your dashboard.
• You may mark any query private at submission to prevent publication.
• You may request takedown of any item in the public library by emailing support@thinksn.com with the URL.
• You may request a full data export or account deletion via support@thinksn.com.
• EEA/UK users: you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection under the GDPR/UK GDPR, including the right to object to publication in the public library under legitimate interests. You may lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority (in the UK, the ICO).
• California users: we do not sell or share your personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA, and we do not use personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. You retain the right to know, access, delete, and correct your personal information.

12. Children's Privacy

thinksn is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact support@thinksn.com and we will delete it.

13. Account & Data Deletion

When you delete your account:

• Your email address and authentication credentials are removed from our active systems immediately. Residual copies in encrypted backups are overwritten within 30 days as part of our normal backup rotation.
• The link between your identity and your generated networks is severed.
• Networks previously in your library enter a "disassociated" state. These networks remain accessible via their unique links only until they hit the 30-day inactivity threshold, at which point they are permanently deleted.
• Items already published in the public library remain in the library (they were already detached from your identity). You may request individual takedown at any time via support@thinksn.com.

Note: To exercise data rights tied to your User ID, you must be logged in. For assistance, contact support@thinksn.com.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be announced via a notice on the site, and where appropriate by email to registered users, before they take effect. The "Effective Date" at the top of this page reflects the date of the current version.

15. Contact

For any privacy question, data request, or takedown of a published network or shared network, email support@thinksn.com or use our Contact page.