Privacy notice for the founding alpha

What this notice covers

This notice covers information submitted when applying for founding access and conversation candidates sent through a private invitation. Human Current is led by Lydía Kims and Rúnar Óskarsson. Private intake is not the future public publication service; publication requires a separate exact preview and explicit request before it opens.

What we collect and why

We collect your name, email address, preferred contribution mode, topic interests and any optional note you provide. We use this information only to evaluate interest in the founding alpha, plan relevant cohorts, contact you about access and improve the early product.

This application does not ask for an AI conversation and does not give Human Current permission to publish one. Please do not include private conversation text, secrets or sensitive information in the optional note.

An accepted contributor may later receive an expiring, revocable private link. That form collects provider and user-supplied model information, approximate date, proposed headline, category, preferred public identity, the original pasted exchange and a cleaned candidate. It also records the version and time of the contributor's private-submission confirmations. The link authorizes private intake only and cannot publish content.

Storage, sharing and retention

Application data is stored in a managed PostgreSQL database in Frankfurt, Germany, and processed by service providers needed to operate the site. We do not sell application data. We keep it for up to 12 months after submission, unless you ask us to delete it sooner or we must retain limited records for a legal or security reason.

Invitation secrets are not stored; only one-way token hashes are retained. Original and cleaned conversation text is encrypted separately using authenticated encryption before database storage and is decrypted only after an authorized founder explicitly opens a private review. Scanner records keep finding types and counts, not the matched private values.

For accepted contributors we use Resend to send a personal invitation. That provider processes the recipient address, first name and expiring invitation link to deliver the message. We do not enable email open or click tracking. A recipient's mail provider may independently scan or rewrite links. An invitation never grants permission for a public post.

The encrypted original import is scheduled for deletion after 90 days. The cleaned candidate and its review record are retained for up to 12 months unless deleted sooner, withdrawn, or narrowly retained for a documented legal or security reason. A candidate that reaches its deadline is deleted rather than silently published.

Site measurement

We use limited first-party measurement to understand page visits, calls to action, application starts and completed applications. The site records a randomly generated session value as a one-way hash, the page path, referring website domain and campaign labels included in links. It does not use an advertising identifier, cross-site tracking pixel or third-party analytics cookie, and it honours a browser's Do Not Track setting.

These aggregate measurements help us compare outreach and improve the alpha experience. Raw measurement events are retained for no longer than 90 days. We do not sell them or use them to build advertising profiles.

Your choices

You may ask to access, correct or delete your application, or withdraw from founding-access contact. Email privacy@humancurrent.ai. Withdrawing does not affect processing that already occurred before your request.

Changes

If this notice changes materially, we will update the effective date and use the contact information you supplied when notice is appropriate.