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Privacy

Effective May 20, 2026

Cord is built around a simple promise: what you tell Cord stays with you unless you choose to share it. This page explains how we hold up that promise in detail — what we collect, what we don't, who has access, and how to take your data back.

Who runs Cord

Cord AI is operated by Cord AI, an independent company. You can reach us at info@cordai.dev for any privacy question, including data access and deletion requests.

What we collect when you use Cord

  • Account basics. Your name, email, and (optionally) phone number, sign-up role, and organization name. Provided by you at sign-up or via your authentication provider.
  • Profile context. Title, location, chapter, and any custom fields a community leader fills in about you.
  • Your conversations with Cord. The questions and reflections you send to Ask Cord and the responses Cord generates back. Stored against your account so the assistant has memory across sessions.
  • Community activity. Event RSVPs, thread posts, direct messages with other members, and post-event pulse replies.
  • Calendar data, when connected. If you connect Google or Outlook, Cord reads your upcoming events to show alongside community gatherings (read-through), and writes Cord events you RSVP to back into your calendar.
  • Notifications. Web push subscription tokens, FCM/APNs tokens (when running in the mobile app), and your phone number for WhatsApp if you opt in.
  • Diagnostic logs. Standard server logs (request paths, timestamps, IP, user agent) kept for 30 days for debugging and abuse detection.

What we explicitly do NOT do

  • We do not surface the content of your private Cord conversations to your community leader, employer, or anyone else inside your organization.
  • We do not sell your data to anyone. Ever.
  • We do not use your personal conversations to train AI models.
  • We do not place advertising tracking pixels or third-party ad cookies on Cord.

Who else sees pieces of your data

Cord uses a small set of well-known subprocessors to deliver the service. They each see only the slice of data they need:

  • Vercel — application hosting (US-based)
  • Neon — Postgres database (US-based)
  • Clerk — sign-in / account auth (US-based)
  • Anthropic — powers Ask Cord (US-based). Conversation content is sent to Anthropic to generate replies. Anthropic does not train on this content.
  • Stripe — payment processing if you subscribe (US-based). Cord never sees your card number.
  • Resend — transactional email delivery
  • Twilio — WhatsApp message delivery if you opt in
  • Google / Microsoft — only if you connect a calendar, only for the calendar data
  • Firebase / Apple APNs — push notification delivery on Android and iOS

We do not sign data-sharing agreements with anyone outside this list.

How long we keep your data

  • Account data and conversations: kept while your account is active. Deleted within 30 days of you asking us to delete your account.
  • Server logs: 30 days, then automatically rotated out.
  • Payment records: kept as long as legally required for tax and accounting purposes (typically 7 years), held by Stripe.

Your rights

You can, at any time:

  • Ask for a copy of all data we hold about you.
  • Correct anything that's wrong.
  • Delete your account — which deletes your conversations, profile, and community activity.
  • Opt out of WhatsApp echoes and push notifications from inside the app.
  • Disconnect calendar integrations — which severs further read or write access immediately.

Email info@cordai.dev for any of the above. We aim to respond within 7 days.

Children

Cord is not designed for and not directed at children under 16. If you believe a child has signed up, email us and we will delete the account.

Changes to this policy

If we make a material change to how we handle your data, we'll email everyone with a Cord account at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Non-material updates (clarifications, typo fixes) will be reflected with a new effective date at the top of this page.