Privacy & Ethics Agreement

1. Our Ethics Native commitment

Stimuly is being developed as an Ethics Native company. Respect for people, informed choice, safety, privacy, fairness, and accountability must be part of the product’s architecture.

1. Collect only information reasonably needed to operate, secure, evaluate, and improve the beta.
2. Use information only for clearly stated purposes.
3. Keep optional visibility features private by default.
4. Never sell participant information or use it for targeted advertising.
5. Never use beta information to train artificial intelligence or machine learning systems.
6. Give participants meaningful access, correction, visibility, and deletion choices.
7. Avoid manipulative designs, hidden choices, or retaliation against people who raise concerns.
8. Explain material changes before applying them to previously collected information.
9. Prefer participant dignity, safety, and autonomy when those values conflict with convenience.

2. Who may participate

The Stimuly beta is private, limited to certain people, offered only in the United States, and intended only for adults who are at least 18.

Stimuly does not require a license or other identity documents. Each participant must truthfully confirm that they are at least 18 and located in the United States.

3. The nature of the beta

The beta begins October 31, 2026 and is expected to operate for at least several weeks. It may continue while Stimuly develops toward an official launch.

Features may change, fail, become unavailable, or be reset. Stimuly will provide reasonable notice when a planned change materially affects participants or their information. Participation is voluntary, unpaid, and may be ended at any time without penalty.

4. Wellness and safety boundary

Stimuly is a visual wellness platform. It is not a medical device, diagnostic service, treatment, crisis service, or substitute for professional medical care.

Bright light, color changes, motion, flashing, or prolonged screen use may cause discomfort, headaches, migraine symptoms, eye strain, dizziness, nausea, disorientation, or seizures in people with photosensitivity. Stop immediately if an experience causes discomfort.

Stimuly does not request diagnoses, medications, medical histories, or treatment information. Participants should not include this information in usernames, profiles, or Connect messages.

5. Information Stimuly collects

1. Email address, username, account creation date, and a protected representation of the password.
2. Login sessions, password reset records, and limited security information that may include an IP address.
3. Tone selections, recent custom tone history, favorite tone, display preferences, saved color codes, and presets.
4. Game activity, scores, difficulty, mode, duration, and related tone selections.
5. Connect message content, category, safety status, chosen display identity, and account association.
6. Software, bug, or crash details that a participant voluntarily submits.

Some saved codes and preferences remain only in the participant’s browser. Choosing Anonymous for a Connect message hides the username from the displayed message but does not disconnect it from the account.

6. How Stimuly uses information

1. Create and operate accounts.
2. Authenticate participants and maintain security.
3. Provide password resets and support.
4. Operate tone, preference, profile, game, and leaderboard features.
5. Respond to feedback, software issues, questions, and safety concerns.
6. Improve accessibility, usability, reliability, and safety.
7. Evaluate beta performance through internal aggregated information or information stripped of identifying details.
8. Contact participants about the beta, their accounts, safety, privacy, security, or material changes.
9. Prevent abuse and enforce reasonable participation rules.

Beta information will not be used for later marketing without a separate voluntary choice. It will not be used to train artificial intelligence or machine learning systems.

7. No sale, advertising, or unrelated sharing

Stimuly does not sell or rent participant information and does not use it for targeted advertising. Limited information may be processed by providers strictly necessary to host, secure, or deliver Stimuly and its operational email.

Information may also be disclosed when a participant deliberately makes it public, specifically requests disclosure, or when disclosure is reasonably necessary for fraud, security, immediate safety, or a valid legal requirement.

Stimuly will not publicly quote identifiable feedback, testimonials, messages, or safety reports without separate permission.

8. Retention and deletion

1. Login sessions expire after 30 days.
2. Password reset links expire after 60 minutes and may be used only once.
3. Custom tone history stored on the server is retained for no more than 30 days.
4. Browser information remains until the participant deletes it or clears browser storage.
5. Account, profile, preference, and game information is retained while the account remains active.
6. Resolved Connect messages are deleted after 90 days. Every Connect message is deleted after 12 months unless documented safety, security, or legal needs require limited continued retention.
7. Inactive accounts are reviewed after 12 months so unnecessary information can be deleted or stripped of identifying details.

Participants may delete their accounts through account controls or request deletion through either operations email address. Stimuly will make reasonable efforts to remove associated operational email copies within 30 days unless temporary retention is required.

9. Participant choices and rights

Participants may contact either operations email address to:

1. Ask what information Stimuly has about them.
2. Correct inaccurate account or profile information.
3. Request account and information deletion.
4. Report a privacy, safety, accessibility, or security concern.
5. Withdraw from the beta.
6. Ask for an explanation of a material data practice.

Stimuly will not retaliate against a participant for making a privacy request, offering good faith criticism, or reporting a safety concern. Public profile and leaderboard choices remain separate and off by default.

10. Confidentiality and security

Stimuly treats nonpublic account information, private messages, and safety reports as confidential. Access is limited to people who reasonably need it to operate, secure, support, or improve the beta. Passwords are salted and hashed. Production sessions are designed to use secure cookies and encrypted HTTPS connections.

No system can guarantee perfect security. If a security incident materially affects participant information, Stimuly will investigate, take reasonable corrective action, and provide appropriate or legally required notice without unreasonable delay.

11. Fair participation and suspension

Stimuly may suspend access when reasonably necessary to protect people or the service, including for harassment, threats, fraud, deliberate interference, unauthorized access attempts, or repeated inappropriate use of Connect.

Suspension will not be used to silence good faith criticism, unfavorable feedback, accessibility concerns, privacy requests, or safety reports. When practical and safe, Stimuly will explain the reason and allow the participant to request review.

12. Feedback and participant material

Participants keep ownership of original material they submit. By voluntarily submitting product feedback, a participant permits Stimuly to use its substance internally to evaluate and improve the product.

This permission does not allow Stimuly to publicly identify the participant, publish a testimonial, or use the feedback in advertising without separate permission.

13. Changes and accountability

Each agreement version includes an effective date and version number. Material changes will be explained before taking effect and may require a new acknowledgment or choice.

Previously collected information will not be silently used for a materially incompatible purpose that was not disclosed when the information was collected.

14. Experimental service limitation

Stimuly is an experimental beta and may contain errors or interruptions. Participants accept the ordinary technical uncertainty of testing an unfinished product.

Nothing in this agreement removes privacy, consumer protection, or other rights that cannot lawfully be waived. Nothing excuses Stimuly from using reasonable care or honoring its stated commitments.