Privacy policy
We're very committed to keeping your private information safe. We're not legal experts, but we've put together what we hope is a clear and concise description of exactly what kind of information we collect about you, why we store it, and who can see it. Please let us know if you'd like to know more about any aspect of this policy.
Email Address
We ask for your email address primarily so that other users can invite you to their workspaces by your email address, and not just your username. Attaching email addresses to accounts also makes it much easier to get in touch with you if something is wrong with your account. We might also occasionally get in touch with a select group of users to ask about their experience using Thinkature to help us improve our service.
The only time your email address is displayed is in a workspace you have been invited to before you have accepted the invitation. After that, your username is how you will be identified on the site.
And, of course, we will make sure your email address never gets in the hands of people who want to spam you.
Username
The name you select is how you'll be identified throughout the site. Your username will be shown to anybody you interact with via Thinkature (but not to the general public), so if you don't want people seeing your real name, pick an appropriate alias.
Workspace Contents
Workspace contents are visible only to people who are invited to that workspace. This applies also to Thinkature employees - we will not look at the contents of your workspace unless explicitly asked.
That said, we might get in touch with individual users to ask to see how they're using Thinkature. We're quite interested in how people are using Thinkature and taking a look at specific workspaces would be really helpful for us. Again, we will absolutely positively always ask first. We understand that workspace contents are the most sensitive part of Thinkature and we won't betray your trust by looking at them without your permission.
You should also be aware that we store the complete history of every workspace, much like wikis do. This includes all operations and chat messages. This means that workspace contents are never truly lost. If something happens and you need to retrieve a past state of the workspace let us know and we can work something out. This also means that if there's something particularly sensitive in a workspace and you want to make sure it's wiped off our servers, let us know and we can arrange that too. We'll be making features available eventually that take advantage of this architecture, but for now it's mostly hidden.
Workspace Names
Workspace names are shown only to the person who created the workspace and those who are invited to it. There's no way to browse around the site to see what random people are working on right now.
We (the Thinkature developers) do look at workspace names, though. We do this mainly because it's important to use to understand the ways in which people use Thinkature, and a big part of that is easily determined by looking at the workspace name. We also need to see workspace names to troubleshoot problems from time to time.
Workspace Invitation Lists
Workspace invitation lists are visible only to people invited to a particular workspace. We (the Thinkature developers) do look at invitation information from time to time to understand how Thinkature spreads among groups and to resolve technical problems.
We will never provide this information to other companies or individuals.
Usage Information
We also collect some other information about usage patterns. Specifically, we store data about which workspaces each person has visited and when they visited them. We also track generic usage statistics on our website, though that data is not correlated to any uniquely identifying information.
Cookies
We use cookies (small text files on your computer that get sent to our servers whenever you request a page) to keep track of whether or not you're logged in. We don't store any information about what you do with Thinkature in the cookies. Cookies contain your username and email address, the date the cookie expires, and a hexadecimal string used for authentication.