Privacy Policy

• Your conversations, reports, boards, memories and uploads are stored so you can come back to them. They are private to you unless you share a link, or choose to share one question and answer with Specula's reviewers when you give feedback.
• To answer you, your messages and uploads are processed by the AI and research services Specula is built on, listed below.
• Specula does not use your conversations or uploads to train AI models unless you turn that on for your reviewed feedback (off by default), does not sell your data, and has no advertising or analytics tracking.
• AI output can be wrong. Don't submit passwords, payment details or other highly sensitive information.
• You can export your data, delete conversations, manage memory, or delete your account at any time in Settings.

Specula is operated by an individual, not a registered company. The operator's name and contact address have not been published in this draft yet; they will be added here before Specula's public launch.

The operator decides how Specula processes personal data and is responsible for it (the “controller”).

As a guest, your research is stored against the random guest identifier on your device. If you sign in on that device, it moves to your account; otherwise it is deleted after 30 days without use (see section 6).

• To provide the service you asked for — research, answers, reports, Xavi, Vision, saving your work, memory and sharing. This is necessary to provide Specula to you under the Terms of Use.
• To keep Specula safe and fair — sign-in security, age checks, usage allowances, preventing abuse and automated misuse, and checking content for safety. These are Specula's legitimate interests in running a secure service.
• To check the valuation model — comparing logged valuations with real transfer fees. This is a legitimate interest in keeping valuations honest; the records are anonymised when you delete your account.
• To evaluate and improve answer quality from your feedback — reviewers check the feedback you choose to give (and the question and answer only if you shared them with it), to find and fix recurring mistakes and to measure models against each other. This is a legitimate interest in giving accurate answers; giving feedback is always optional.
• To train or evaluate Specula's models with your reviewed feedback — only if you turn this on in Settings → Privacy & data (it is off by default). This relies on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

Apart from that optional switch, Specula does not rely on consent for these, and does not use your data for advertising, profiling for marketing, or selling to anyone.

Specula is built on the following services, which process data on its behalf to provide the features below:

Specula also looks up public information on YouTube (to check videos), Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (player photos). Your browser loads some images directly from those services and site icons from Google, which means they see your IP address; Specula sets no cookies for them. YouTube videos and Sofascore widgets load only when you click them.

Training. Specula does not use your conversations, memories or uploads to train or fine-tune AI models. The one exception is your choice: with “Use my reviewed feedback to improve Specula's models” turned on in Settings, feedback you give that reviewers accept, and the questions and answers you shared with it, may be included in datasets used to train or evaluate Specula's models, with your name and contact details left out and personal details removed. Uploads and Vision media are never included. Turning it off, retracting feedback or deleting the conversation takes it out of every later dataset; a model already trained on it can't unlearn it, but it is left out when the model is next trained. How each provider may use the data it processes for Specula is governed by its own terms for business customers.

Untrusted content. Web pages, search results, posts and files can contain text written to manipulate an AI. Specula treats them as information, never as instructions: it does not let them steer your private details out of Specula or change your memory.

These providers may process data in countries other than yours, including the United States. Data is sent to them over encrypted connections.

• See and export a copy of your data — profile and settings, memories, conversations with their messages (and the ones you withdrew), reports, learning progress, your Xavi notebook, the links you created (without their passwords), your agreements to the Terms, and a list of your files and Vision uploads — as a file: Settings → Privacy & data → Export your data.
• Correct your profile in Settings, and your memories in Settings → Memory (or ask Specula in your own words).
• Delete a conversation from History, all research in Settings → Privacy & data, memories in Settings → Memory, or your whole account in Settings → Account → Delete account.
• Turn memory off in Settings → Memory.
• Remove feedback you gave from the answer it is about, and turn model training on or off for your reviewed feedback in Settings → Privacy & data.

Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your data, to receive it in a portable format, and to complain to your data protection authority. Contact the operator to use any of these rights.

Files are kept in private storage and opened only through short-lived signed links after Specula checks you may see them. Connections are encrypted, access is checked on the server for every request, and secrets never reach your browser or the AI. No online service can promise perfect security; if a breach affected your data, we would tell you as the law requires.

Specula is only for adults aged 18 and over. People who say they are under 18 are not let in.

Specula uses only cookies and browser storage that it needs to work, plus preferences you set. The Cookie Policy lists them.

When this policy changes in a way that matters, Specula shows the new version and asks you to confirm it before your next message.

The contact address for questions and data requests will be published here before Specula's public launch. Until then, signed-in users can export or delete their data themselves in Settings.