Optional
Contributing is a choice.Using Balance doesn't depend on it.
The app works the same whether or not you contribute. Contribution is off until you turn it on, and you can turn it off again whenever you like.
The project
A shared data project,owned by the people in it.
If you want, your phone can send pseudonymous, de-identified daily signals to a project that belongs to everyone who contributes. Nothing personal, nothing sold, and you can erase it all.
What leaves the phone, if you contribute
- Sleep timing and duration
- Movement, as daily totals
- Daily rhythm: when days start and end
- Phone use, as aggregates
- Mood and energy check-ins
- Voice features such as pace and pitch
What never does
- Voice recordings
- Journal text
- Contacts
- Location traces
- Your name, email or phone number
- Which apps you use, or what you type
Who it belongs to
The project belongs to the contributors.Manifold builds and runs it.
The data is never sold and never used for advertising. Manifold does the engineering and keeps it running; it does not make money from what you contribute.
What gets built
Models built to be given back.One for each person, in the end.
Contributed signals are used only to build models that come back to the contributors, inside the app. The long-term aim is a model for each person, fitted to your own pattern, rather than a population average.
Later
Others may join,on the contributors' terms.
Researchers or hospitals may one day ask to work with the project. If they do, it will be on terms the contributors set, not the other way round.
Leaving
Stop at any time.Erasure is real.
Stop contributing and erase everything from the app. The server deletes everything under your pseudonymous id and answers with a receipt that counts what it removed. How we handle personal data is in the privacy policy.
You turn contribution on from inside the app, whenever you're ready. Get the app first; the choice comes later, or never.
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