Privacy Policy
This policy covers two things: the website at thetelepathycenter.com, and The Field: Telepathy & ESP, our app for iPhone and Android. Each section says which one it’s about.
Last updated: 9 October 2026
What we’re trying to do here
We run consciousness research, and research needs records. That pulls in one direction. The people who make those records are entitled to know what’s kept about them and to take it back. That pulls in the other. This policy is where we say how we hold both.
We don’t sell your data. We don’t share it with advertising networks or data brokers. There’s no tracking pixel on this site and no advertising identifier in the app.
The Field, our app
Everything in this section is about the app. The website sections further down don’t apply to it, because the app talks to different servers.
What your account holds
You sign up and sign in with it. We use it to send your sign-in codes and the mail your account needs, such as a password reset. A later update to the app will ask whether you’d like occasional letters from The Telepathy Center. Until you say yes there, we send your account none, and every letter has a one-tap unsubscribe. Your email is kept apart from your practice results and research records.
Stored as a hash. We can’t read it and we can’t tell you what it was.
Optional. If you choose one, it may be shown with your picture to people you practice with in shared rooms. It doesn’t have to be your real name.
Optional, and one of a set of images we provide. There’s no photo upload, and that’s deliberate.
Optional when you sign up, and never shown to anyone. The parts of the app for 18 and over, such as practicing with others, ask for it at their door if you haven’t given it yet. You can also add it in Your Field.
Once it’s saved it can’t be changed, because a date you could change is a door you could reopen. Correcting a wrong one means deleting the account and starting again.
Only on the early accounts that were made with a name instead of an email address. They’re stored as hashes, and each one works a single time.
What the app keeps on our servers
What each instrument did: the cards or symbols involved, what you answered, when each answer came, the result, and the sound you practiced with. They’re kept so Your record can show them back to you.
Your journal, kept under your account so it follows you to a new phone.
The three questions you answered when you first arrived.
All of it goes when your account goes.
What stays on your phone
Your Breath, Ground and Voice practice, and the places you hold in a window, are kept on your phone and never sent to us. When you hold a place, your phone schedules the reminder itself. There’s no server pushing notifications to you, and no device token is sent anywhere.
Practicing with others
Two Minds pairs you with another person for a run of cards. It’s for 18 and over. Your partner sees the run itself, and your username and picture may be shown in shared rooms if you’ve chosen them. There are no messages between you, and your partner never sees your email or your date of birth.
No AI reads what you do
This version of the app sends nothing you write or do to an AI model. If a later version does, it will ask you first, on the screen itself, and this policy will name the company before it happens.
The microphone, and what it doesn’t do
You can speak a note instead of typing it. The app requires your phone to do the recognition itself, and checks that it can before the microphone opens. Where a phone can’t, the feature is switched off rather than sending your voice to a server.
The Voice room listens for the pitch of your voice so it can tune with you. It keeps the number and lets the sound go. A Voice practice is saved on your phone only if you choose that. Neither feature records audio, and no sound is kept or sent anywhere.
Space weather comes from NOAA
The app reads the planetary K index and related figures from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, a United States government service, so it can show the conditions a session ran under. Your phone makes that request directly, so NOAA sees an IP address. Nothing about you or your account is sent with it.
Crash reports
The app uses Sentry to report crashes and errors so we can fix them. Sending personal information with a report is switched off. What Sentry receives is the fault itself, your phone’s model and operating system version, the app version, and the last few steps the app took before it. Nothing that identifies you.
The Community door opens our website
The Community door opens our practitioner page in a browser inside the app. That page is part of our website, so the website sections below apply to it, including the one on messages and applications.
Research, and what survives deletion
New contributions to the research are paused for now, while we launch, so nothing you do in the app is being added to it. When they reopen, contributing will again be optional, asked for separately, and open only to people 18 and over who have given their date of birth.
If you consented, your sessions were filed under a research pseudonym, and it’s the pseudonym that appears in the record. The link between the pseudonym and your account is cut when you delete the account, so what stays carries no name or email.
Sessions already counted into the research aggregate stay counted after you delete your account. The aggregate keeps numbers, never names. This is deliberate: a record people could prune by deleting their misses wouldn’t be evidence of anything.
Consent applies from the moment you give it. It doesn’t reach back for sessions already run, and withdrawing it doesn’t reach back for sessions already sealed.
If you agreed earlier, you can withdraw at any time in Your Field. Sessions from then on stay yours alone.
Where the app’s data is held
On servers we run on Amazon Web Services in Ohio, in the United States. Sign-in codes and the mail your account needs go out through Amazon’s email service. If you get our letters, your email address is also held by Kit.com, operated by Sender Co., which sends them. The account service and the research service are both ours. NOAA and Sentry are the only outside services the app reaches, and each is named above with what it gets.
Deleting your account
In the app, open Your Field and tap Delete my account. You’ll be asked to confirm.
Deleting removes the account itself: your email address, your password, your username, your picture, your date of birth, your Field Notes, your Seed answers, and every practice record kept under it. Records on your phone go immediately. Records on our servers are removed within the hour by a job that runs whether or not anything else succeeded. What remains is described in the research note above.
Don’t have the app any more? Use our account deletion page. We’ll write to the address you give us to confirm it’s you, and then delete the account the same way.
The website
Everything below is about thetelepathycenter.com. It describes different companies from the app section, because the website and the app are built on different stacks.
Reading the site
You can read every public page without an account and without telling us anything. Our host, Netlify, keeps standard request logs, meaning an IP address, a user agent and a timestamp, for security and to keep the site running. We don’t use them for advertising or profiling. Some pages load open-source code from jsDelivr, a public code host, which sees your IP address the way any web host does.
The Field on the web
The Field also runs in a browser, at thetelepathycenter.com/field. A web account is separate from an app account. You make one with a username and a password, and an email address if you want one. Without an email, the recovery codes you’re shown once are the only way back in. Your account and its sessions are held in Supabase, which hosts the website’s database. Contributing sessions to the research is a separate yes, as it is in the app.
You can also run a session without an account, in which case an anonymous identifier is kept on your own device. Nothing in the web Field is sent to an AI model.
Payments
Nothing on the website takes a payment today. When something does, payment will be handled entirely by Stripe. We’ll never see, store or transmit your card number, and what reaches us from Stripe is your name, your email address, and confirmation that you paid.
Waitlists and email updates
Your email address, and your name if you give it, are held by Kit.com, operated by Sender Co., and used to send you the updates you asked for. Every email carries an unsubscribe link.
Messages and applications
The contact form and practitioner applications go through Netlify Forms and reach us by email, which is hosted by Google Workspace. We use what you send only to answer you, and we delete it whenever you ask. An application isn’t tied to any account in The Field, so deleting your app account doesn’t remove it; just ask.
How long we keep things
Everything listed for your account, in the app or on the web, is kept until you delete the account, and then it goes as described above.
Kept under its pseudonym, for the reason given above.
As long as we need them to answer you, or sooner if you ask.
30 days.
90 days, at Sentry.
Until you unsubscribe.
What we never collect
- Your precise location. The app and the site read a timezone, and nothing finer.
- Your contacts, your photo library, or your health data.
- Any recording of your voice.
- Any advertising identifier, on either platform.
- Your browsing anywhere outside our own site and app.
- Anything from an advertising or tracking network, because we use none.
Your rights
Wherever you are, you can ask us to:
- Show you the personal data we hold about you.
- Correct anything that’s wrong or incomplete.
- Send you a copy in a portable format. In the app, Export my record in Your Field gives you your practice record straight away.
- Delete it. In the app this is the button described above and needs no request. For anything else, write to us.
- Stop the marketing email, through the unsubscribe link or by asking.
- Object to or restrict what we do with it.
- Complain to your data protection authority, if your country has one.
Write to hello@thetelepathycenter.com or use the contact form. We answer within 30 days.
Age, and children
You must be 13 or older to use The Field. Some parts, practicing with others and the research, are for 18 and over, and ask for your date of birth at their door. Our server checks that date rather than taking the app’s word on trust. If you believe a child under 13 holds an account, write to us and we’ll remove it.
Cookies
The website uses local storage and cookies for the site to work, and for nothing else. No third-party tracking cookies, no advertising networks, no analytics that profile individuals, no social media pixels. The app sets no cookies. The Community page opens our website inside the app, and this note applies there.
Where your data goes
Our own servers are in the United States. The companies named in this policy operate internationally and may process data outside your country, each under its own safeguards. If you use our site or our app from outside the United States, your data will be handled there.
Changes to this policy
When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Where a change matters we’ll say so on the site rather than leave you to find it. In the app, anything that needs your yes, such as the research, has its own consent screen, and a change to what it covers means you’re asked again.
Contact
The Telepathy Center, Inc.
Privacy questions and data requests: hello@thetelepathycenter.com
Anything else: our support page or the contact form.