Privacy Policy
Decoders is a platform where makers share app prototypes and testers give feedback. This policy explains what we collect when you use the Decoders web app during the beta, why, how long we keep it, who processes it, and the choices you have.
1. Who runs Decoders
Decoders is run by one individual, Gijun Lee, who lives in the Republic of Korea. Decoders is not yet a registered business. Contact: dlrlwns0704@gmail.com.
2. Who can use the beta
- You must be 14 or older and live in the United States. We ask you to confirm this when you sign up; we do not collect your date of birth.
- If you are 14 to 17, by signing up you confirm that a parent or legal guardian has allowed you to use Decoders. A parent or guardian can ask us to close a teen's account at any time by emailing us.
- We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 13, we delete the account and its data. If we learn that a participant is under 14, we close the account and delete its data.
3. What we collect, why, and for how long
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Email address, display name (a nickname is fine), language setting, and — if you use "Continue with Google" — the account identifier Google gives us | Your account, sign-in links, in-app and email notifications you keep on | Until you delete your account or ask us to delete it. Beta accounts are deleted after the beta data cleanup (planned December 20, 2026) unless you tell us you want to keep your account for the open beta; we will ask by email before then. |
| Your consent choices (what you agreed to, the policy version, and when) | Showing you what you agreed to; proving that we asked | Same as your account |
| Your content: feedback text and comments, your ratings as a maker, prototype names, links, descriptions, cover images, version history and changelogs | Delivering feedback to makers, showing it in the app, AI summaries (section 6), research about whether feedback leads to changes | Until you delete it or your account. Research copies are anonymized by the beta data cleanup date. |
| Usage records inside the app: which prototypes you opened and for how long, which cards you saw in the feed, saves, likes, follows, interests you choose, notification settings, credit history | Running the app, recommendations, and measuring whether testers return after a new version | Raw records are pseudonymized for research and deleted by the beta data cleanup date; feed impression records are deleted after 30 days |
| Server logs: IP address, browser type (user agent), requested address, time; application error logs (these do not contain your full email address) | Keeping the service running and secure (for example, request limits) | 30 days |
| Web push subscription (only if you turn push notifications on) | Sending notifications to your device | Until you turn it off, or it expires |
- We do not collect phone numbers, postal addresses, dates of birth, payment information, or government ID numbers. The beta is free and we never ask for payment details.
- Surveys are run in separate Google Forms. Each form has its own short notice about what it collects.
- Please do not put personal information (yours or anyone else's) in feedback text, comments, or changelogs. Other people who can see the prototype can read them.
4. What other people can see
- Anyone with a link to your profile sees your display name, your public prototypes, your maker activity (versions, fixed issues, comments), follower and following counts, and the month you joined.
- People who can see a prototype (anyone for a public test; invited people for a private test) see the feedback and comments you leave there, with your display name.
- Your email address, saves and collections, interests, tester profile, and credit history are shown only to you.
5. No selling, no advertising, no third-party tracking
- We do not sell or share your personal information, and we do not use it for targeted advertising.
- The app contains no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts. The only third-party request the app makes from your browser is to load fonts from Google Fonts; when it does, Google receives your IP address and browser information under Google's privacy policy.
- Do Not Track: we do not track you across other websites, so a browser "Do Not Track" signal does not change how the app behaves — there is no tracking to turn off.
6. Service providers and where your data is processed
Your information is stored and processed in the United States by the providers below. The operator accesses it from the Republic of Korea.
| Provider | Country | What | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services, Inc. | United States | Everything the app stores (section 3) | Hosting the app and its database |
| Google LLC | United States and other Google locations | Sign-in data if you use "Continue with Google"; your email address and the content of emails we send you (we send email through Gmail); font requests (section 5); survey answers you submit in Google Forms | Sign-in, sending email, fonts, surveys |
| Anthropic, PBC | United States | See section 7 | AI grouping and summaries of feedback |
| Discord Inc. (optional) | United States | Your Discord username and messages, only if you join our Discord server | Announcements and support |
7. AI processing of feedback
Decoders uses an AI model (Anthropic's Claude API) to score feedback for usefulness, suggest a label, group similar feedback, and write summaries that makers see. Agreeing to this processing is required to use the beta, because the summaries are part of how the product works.
- What is sent: feedback text, ratings, and the prototype's name, description, version name and changelog.
- What is not sent: your name, email address, or account identifiers. Testers appear only as sequence labels such as "Tester 3".
- Masking: before sending, we replace text that looks like an email address or phone number with "[email]" or "[phone]". This is pattern-based and will not catch every piece of personal information, so please do not include any in what you write.
- AI results can be wrong. They are labeled as AI-generated in the app.
- Retention by Anthropic: under Anthropic's API data policy as we understood it on October 17, 2026, inputs and outputs are deleted within 30 days by default and may be kept longer if flagged for a usage-policy violation or where required by law. Please check Anthropic's current policy for details.
8. Emails we send
- Account and service emails: sign-in links, notifications you keep on (for example, when a prototype you gave feedback on releases a new version — at most one email per prototype per day — you can turn these off in Settings → Notification settings or with the link at the bottom of each email), beta schedule notices, and the exit survey. These are part of running the beta.
- We do not send promotional email during the beta. If we ever send a promotional email later (such as a launch announcement), it will include an unsubscribe link and we will honor unsubscribe requests within 10 business days.
9. Credits
- Credits are in-app points. They have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for money, gift cards, or goods, and cannot be sold or transferred.
- Credits are never conditioned on positive feedback or on posting reviews. Makers rate feedback for usefulness, not sentiment. Honest, critical feedback is welcome.
10. Your choices: access, correction, deletion, withdrawal
- You can change your display name, language, interests, and notification settings in the app at any time.
- To see, correct, or delete your data, or to withdraw from the beta, email dlrlwns0704@gmail.com from the address on your account with "delete my data" or "withdraw". You do not need to give a reason. We act within 7 days and confirm by email. We may ask you to confirm the request from your registered email address.
- When an account is deleted, we remove the account, sign-in records, profile, interests, push subscriptions, and notifications. Feedback text is replaced with "[deleted]" and detached from your identity so that makers' issue history stays consistent. AI summaries and analyses that included your feedback are removed; a maker can generate them again, and the new result will not include your text.
- Because AI processing is required for the beta, withdrawing that consent means ending your participation; we then stop sending your feedback to AI. Data already sent follows Anthropic's policy above.
- Numbers already included in anonymous statistics cannot be separated out, because they no longer identify you.
- Withdrawing has no penalty.
11. Security
Connections to the app use HTTPS. Sign-in links and session tokens are stored only as hashes. Access to the server and database is limited to the operator. No method is perfectly secure; if a security incident affects your information, we will notify you by email.
12. Changes to this policy
This is version 1.1, effective November 2, 2026 (version 1.1 lowered the minimum age from 18 to 14). If we make material changes, we will email you and show a notice in the app, and we will ask for your consent again where it is needed. Earlier versions stay available on request.
13. Language and contact
- If this English text and a Korean version ever differ, the English text applies to participants outside Korea.
- Questions: dlrlwns0704@gmail.com.