Privacy

We store the thoughts and notes you write, your account information (name, email, profile photo from GitHub), and the AI-generated outputs Cognit produces from your writing — concept tags, sparks, clusters, and saved patterns.

Nothing else. We don't track your browsing, sell advertising, or build profiles beyond what's needed to run the product.

We do not train AI models on your notes. We do not sell your data to third parties. We do not use your writing for advertising. We do not read your thoughts except to run the AI features you explicitly trigger.

When you write a thought, Cognit sends it to Anthropic's API to run concept detection. This means your text is processed by Anthropic's systems. Anthropic's API terms prohibit using API data for model training without explicit opt-in. We do not opt in.

Your thoughts are sent only when the AI pipeline runs — not continuously, not in real time while you type.

Your data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and encrypted at rest in our database (Neon). We do not currently have end-to-end encryption, which means Cognit can technically access your data. We don't — but we understand that some users require stronger guarantees. We plan to add end-to-end encryption in a future version.

You own your data. You can delete your entire account — all thoughts, notes, AI outputs, patterns, and account information — permanently and immediately.

This is irreversible. There is no 30-day grace period. When you delete, it's gone.