Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Academic Decoder is operated by Academic Decoder Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17442654), with its registered office at 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom ("we", "us", "our"). We provide the Test Navigator and Result Decoder tools through this website. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, how we use it, and the choices and rights available to you.

2. Information we collect

• Account information: your email address and password (stored securely by our platform provider, never in plain text), used to create and secure your account.
• Statistical values you enter: the numbers you type into the Result Decoder (means, standard deviations, sample sizes, test statistics, p-values, and similar figures) so we can generate your results paragraph and, if you choose, save it to your account. These are numeric statistical values — we do not ask for or knowingly collect personal data about your research participants.
• Saved sessions: if you use Save Session, we store the write-up and the values behind it against your account so you can return to it later.
• Payment information: when you purchase access, payment is handled directly by our payment processor. We do not receive or store your card details.

3. How we use your information

We use your information to: provide and maintain your account and access; generate and save the results you ask for; process payment for the Result Decoder; respond to support requests; and keep the service secure and working correctly. We do not sell your information, and we do not use your statistical inputs for anything other than generating the output you requested.

4. Lawful bases for processing

We process account and purchase information where necessary to provide the service you have requested and to perform our contract with you. We process certain security, service-reliability, and support information where necessary for our legitimate interests in operating and protecting Academic Decoder. Where consent is legally required for a particular activity, we will ask for it separately from this policy.

5. Who we share information with

We use third-party providers to run the service, and your information is processed by them only as needed to deliver it to you:

• Base44, our application hosting and account-management platform, which stores your account and saved-session data.
• Our payment processor, which handles checkout and payment for the Result Decoder. We do not see or store your full card details.

Base44 stores app data in the United States by default. Where personal data is transferred from the UK to the United States, Base44 states that it relies on recognised international-transfer safeguards, including the Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, where applicable. Base44 also requires relevant vendors and sub-processors that receive personal data to be subject to data-processing agreements. Further information is available in Base44's Data Processing Agreement and sub-processor list.

We do not share your information with advertisers.

6. Cookies, local storage and analytics

Academic Decoder uses browser storage technologies to provide essential account functionality and to understand how the service is used.

Essential storage

Our platform provider, Base44, stores authentication information in your browser's local storage. This is used to keep you signed in and provide account functionality that you request. Authentication sessions may remain active for up to 90 days.

This storage is considered necessary for the operation of account and login functionality and is not used for advertising.

Analytics

Academic Decoder also uses Base44's built-in traffic and analytics functionality to help us understand how the service is used and improve its performance and usability.

Analytics information may include:

• session and user identifiers;
• pages or URLs visited;
• country;
• device type;
• operating system;
• session duration; and
• technical usage events, including events used to measure active visitors.

Base44 has informed us that analytics event data is retained for up to 60 days. Analytics history available to us through our current Base44 dashboard is retained for up to 30 days.

Academic Decoder does not currently use Base44's session-recording functionality.

Where consent is required for analytics storage or access technologies, we will ask for your choice through our consent controls. You can reject optional analytics without preventing the use of essential account functionality.

Certain operational events, such as account login events and automated crawler traffic, may be processed separately from optional analytics and may continue regardless of your analytics consent choice where required for the operation, security or technical administration of the service.

We are obtaining further technical information from Base44 regarding the specific browser-storage identifiers used by its platform and will update this notice where necessary.

7. How long we keep your information

We keep your account and saved-session information for as long as your account is active. You can request deletion of your account at any time by emailing us at support@academicdecoder.com. If you ask us to delete your account or saved-session personal data, it will be removed from active use and may remain recoverable through Base44's Recently Deleted system for up to 30 days. Residual copies may then remain in Base44's automatic backups for a further period and are automatically overwritten and deleted. Based on Base44's current retention practices, deleted data may remain on its infrastructure for up to approximately 120 days in total. We may retain certain records for longer where required for legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or fraud-prevention purposes, such as payment and purchase-consent records. Account deletion is handled through support on request — we do not currently offer a self-service delete-account feature.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export the personal information we hold about you, and to object to or restrict certain uses of it. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at the email below. If you're in the UK and remain unhappy with how we've handled your information after contacting us, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

9. Children's privacy

Academic Decoder is intended for use by students at university level and is not directed at children.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. If we make significant changes, we'll take reasonable steps to let you know.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy or your information? Email support@academicdecoder.com.