Privacy Policy
Last updated September 2026
This describes what Consense (“we,” “us”) collects when you use the web app or mobile app, why, and who it's shared with. It's written to describe exactly what the product does: no boilerplate about data we don't actually collect.
What we collect
- Account info: if you sign in, your email address, via our authentication provider (Clerk). If you don't sign in, we assign an anonymous session identifier instead; no email or identity is attached to it.
- Your questions and the resulting answers: what you ask, which mode and models you used, and the verdict generated, so your history and shared links work.
- Images and documents you attach to a question (Pro only): stored privately to generate that verdict, then automatically deleted a few days later — see “How long we keep it” below. We don't build any history or gallery of files you've uploaded. Documents (PDF, DOCX, text) are never sent to a model provider as a file: we extract the plain text server-side and fold it into the question, so a job offer or proposal you attach is text in a prompt, not a file handed to a third party.
- Outcome feedback: if you tell us how a decision turned out (“worked out / mixed / didn't”), we store that against the run. This is optional and only used to improve confidence calibration.
- Basic usage events: things like when a session starts, which mode gets used, or whether a verdict was shared. Tied to your account or anonymous session id, used only to understand product usage, never sold, never shared with advertisers.
- Newsletter email: if you subscribe to the weekly decision breakdown, your email address, stored with our email provider (Resend) until you unsubscribe.
- Subscription status: which tier you're on and whether it's active. We do not receive or store your card number or payment details; those go directly to Stripe, or to Apple/Google via RevenueCat on mobile.
Who your data is shared with, and why
Consense's entire product is built on sending your question to multiple AI models and synthesizing their answers, which necessarily means your question text — and any image you attach, or the text extracted from any document you attach — is sent to whichever providers are on the panel for that request:
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and/or DeepSeek: to generate each model's answer.
- Clerk: authentication, if you sign in.
- Stripe: payment processing for web subscriptions.
- RevenueCat, Apple, and Google: payment processing for mobile subscriptions.
- Resend: sends our newsletter, if you subscribe.
- Neon: our database host, where the data described above is stored.
- Vercel: hosts the application itself, and stores any images/documents you attach (Vercel Blob).
None of these providers receive more than what they need to do their specific job. Model providers see your question text, not your email or account identity. We do not sell your data to anyone, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not use your questions, images, or documents to train our own models. Model providers process your question through their standard API, which runs under their own API-specific terms (typically excluded from training by default) rather than their consumer product terms — see each provider's API terms if you want the specifics.
Sharing a verdict publicly
Every verdict is private by default — visible only to you (or, for an anonymous session, only in that browser). It becomes a public, shareable page only when you explicitly choose to share it; nothing you ask is made public on its own.
Cookies
We use one strictly-necessary session cookie: either your anonymous session id or Clerk's own sign-in session cookie. There are no third-party advertising or tracking cookies.
How long we keep it, and deleting your data
We keep your data for as long as your account is active. Deleting your account (from the app, or by contacting us) removes your data from our database. If you never signed in, clearing your cookies ends that anonymous session; nothing further to delete, since nothing was tied to an identity.
Images and documents you attach to a question are the one exception: they're deleted automatically within 2 days regardless of account status, since we don't use them for anything past generating that one verdict.
Children
Consense isn't intended for, and shouldn't be used by, anyone under 13.
Changes to this policy
If this changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Continued use after a change means you accept the update.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data: privacy@consense.pro