Privacy Policy
Mythoscope works by looking closely at your taste to map your psyche — which means we take what we see, and what we keep, seriously. Here's exactly what we collect, why, who else touches it, and the control you keep over all of it. Plain language first, details beneath.
1. What we collect
In plain languageYour email and a display name to run your account; the Polarities and readings you create; and basic usage data so the instrument keeps working.
- Account data: email address, display name, and profile slug.
- Authentication: one-time magic-link tokens and session cookies (no passwords).
- Your content: your Polarities (loves, hates, dreams, and other inputs) and the Readings generated from them.
- Activity: reading history and Lumens transactions.
- Usage data: page views, generation frequency, and feature usage, for reliability and improvement.
2. How we use it
In plain languageTo sign you in, generate your readings, keep the service running, and — only if you opt in — to improve the instrument with anonymized readings.
We use your information to: authenticate you; create and display your Readings; operate, secure, and maintain the Service; manage your Lumens; and understand and improve how Mythoscope performs. We use your Readings to refine the instrument only if you opt in to internal use, and only in anonymized form with your name and identifying details removed.
3. Your Polarities & readings
In plain languageThese are the heart of what you trust us with. Generating a reading means sending your Polarities to our AI provider to produce it. Who can see them is up to you — see §4.
To generate a Reading, your Polarities and related context are sent to our reading-generation provider (see §8) and returned to you. We store your Polarities and Readings so you can revisit them in your Vault. Who can see them, and how to change it, is set out in §4. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use your identifiable readings for advertising.
4. Sharing & visibility
In plain languageThe public sees nothing of yours unless you opt in, reading by reading. Your friends on Mythoscope can see your new readings unless you make one private. Your friends can also see your Polarities (your loves and hates); you can hide them anytime in your profile. A friend can compare a reading with you while your Compare setting is on — it starts on, and you can switch it off in your profile. A Compare stays private to the two of you, and publishing one to a Garden takes both of your yeses.
- Public/publication: nothing is published publicly without your explicit, per-reading opt-in and your approval of an anonymized descriptor. You can withdraw any shared reading immediately, anytime.
- Readings: new readings are shared with your friends on Mythoscope by default. Every reading has a sharing control; switch it to private and only you can see it. You can also share a single reading with a specific person. Readings created before this default took effect keep the setting they had.
- Polarities: your connections can see your Polarities by default, however you joined. You can hide them anytime in your profile. Your connections can request a Compare.
- Compare Souls: your profile setting “Let friends compare their reading with yours” starts on; while it is on, a friend can compare a reading with you without a separate request, and you can switch it off at any time. A Compare is private to the two people in it unless it is shared, and it is only published to a Garden with both parties’ consent. Each of you decides whether to show it in your own Garden, and taking yours down leaves the other person’s untouched.
- What we never share: your name, email, friend code, full polarity list, or which readings belong to the same person — except as you explicitly direct.
5. Cookies & analytics
In plain languageWe use a few necessary cookies to keep you signed in, and analytics to see how the instrument is used. Where the law requires, you'll get a cookie choice.
We use essential cookies for authentication and sessions, and Google Analytics (GA4) to understand usage. Where required (e.g., for visitors in the EU/UK), we present a cookie-consent choice before loading non-essential analytics. You can also control cookies through your browser.
6. Retention & deletion
In plain languageYou can delete your account anytime. We hold a 30-day recovery window, then erase it. Want a copy of your data? Ask us.
You can delete your account and request deletion of your data at any time. Deleted data enters a 30-day recovery window (in case you change your mind), after which it is permanently removed from active systems. Backups are cycled out on a rolling basis. To request a copy of your data, email us (see §10) and we'll provide an export.
7. Your rights
In plain languageYou can see, correct, delete, take, and object to how your data is used — and because Mythoscope profiles psychological traits, those rights matter here.
Depending on where you live, you have rights to access, correct, delete, and receive a copy of your personal data, and to object to profiling. Mythoscope analyzes preferences to produce a psychological profile, which is “profiling” under laws including the GDPR; we rely on your consent and our legitimate interest in operating the instrument, and you may withdraw consent or object at any time. EU/UK and California residents have additional rights (including, for California, the right to know, delete, correct, and opt out of “sharing”). To exercise any right, contact us at §10.
8. Third parties
In plain languageA short list of trusted services help Mythoscope run. Here's who they are and what they touch.
- Anthropic (Claude API) — generates your Readings from your Polarities. Your inputs are processed to return your reading; per Anthropic's commercial API terms, API inputs are not used to train their models (we document this and will update if it changes).
- ElevenLabs — text-to-speech voice for the read-aloud of your reading.
- Cloudflare — hosting and database (D1); SOC 2 Type II certified.
- Google Analytics (GA4) — usage analytics (see §5).
- Substack — if you subscribe to the Mythoscope publication, your email is handled by Substack under its own terms and a separate consent.
We share data with these providers only as needed to run the Service, under their data-processing terms. We do not sell your data.
9. Children
In plain languageMythoscope is for adults. It's not for anyone under 18.
Mythoscope is intended for users 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has used the Service, contact us and we'll remove the account and data.
10. Contact
In plain languagePrivacy questions or requests? Write to us.
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