What we collect, and what we don't.

1. Who we are

• Data controller: Noble Cortex Inc., 2108 N St #6192, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA.
• Contact: hello@cognere.ai
• Privacy questions: hello@cognere.ai with "Privacy" in the subject line.
• EU/UK representative: email hello@cognere.ai with "EU/UK representative" in the subject line.

2. What this site is

Cognere is a small studio that publishes a website, a philosophy page, a list of products in the network, and occasional written notes. There is no sign-up, no app, no purchase, no subscription on this site.

3. Information we collect

3.1 When you write to us

When you email us, we receive your name (if you provide one), your email address, and the contents of your message.

3.2 When you visit the site

Our servers automatically receive: IP address; browser type and version; operating system; device type; language; pages visited, time spent, referring URL; server error metadata if a page fails to render.

3.3 What we do not collect

• Account credentials (there is no sign-up).
• Payment information (there is no commerce).
• Phone numbers, postal addresses, or government identifiers.
• Health, biometric, or precise geolocation data.
• Information from children under 16 (see §10).

We do not run advertising, retargeting, or behavioral tracking.

4. How we use it (and our legal basis)

• Respond to inquiries: answer questions you email to us. Legitimate interest; pre-contractual steps if you are evaluating a service.
• Operate and secure the site: detect and prevent abuse, debug errors, maintain availability. Legitimate interest.
• Comply with law: respond to legally binding requests, defend legal claims. Legal obligation; legitimate interest.

We do not run web analytics on cognere.ai (see §8), and we do not perform automated decision-making or profiling based on data collected on this site.

5. How we share it

We do not sell or rent personal information. We share it only as described here.

5.1 Service providers

• Hetzner Cloud GmbH (Germany): site hosting.
• Our email provider: delivers our reply when you write to us.

5.2 Legal disclosures

We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is required to comply with a legal obligation, court order, or lawful government request; to enforce our Terms; to protect the rights, property, or safety of Noble Cortex, our users, or the public; or to investigate abuse.

5.3 No SMS

Cognere does not send SMS messages and does not collect mobile opt-in data.

6. International data transfers

Cognere is hosted in Germany (Hetzner Cloud, EEA jurisdiction). Noble Cortex Inc. is incorporated in the United States, so when we read your email or respond to your inquiry the information may be accessed from the US. For transfers from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland to the US, we rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the recipient is self-certified, or on Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.

7. How long we keep it

• Email inquiries: 2 years from last contact, then deleted.
• Server logs: 30 days.

8. Cookies and similar technologies

The public pages of cognere.ai set no cookies. We use no analytics, advertising, fingerprinting, social-media pixels, or cross-site tracking of any kind. Because we set no non-essential cookies, we do not show a cookie consent banner.

The only cookies anywhere in the system belong to our content-management login at /admin, used solely by our own editors and never by site visitors: a strictly necessary session cookie and a CSRF token, set only after an editor signs in.

We honor the Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track browser signals. Because we run no tracking, there is nothing for them to disable.

9. Your privacy rights

To exercise any of the rights below, email hello@cognere.ai with "Privacy Request" in the subject line. We will verify your identity in proportion to the sensitivity of your request and respond within the time required by applicable law (one month under GDPR, 45 days under California law).

9.1 European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, object to processing (including direct marketing, which we stop on request without exception), portability, and withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent. You may also lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority.

9.2 California (CCPA as amended by CPRA)

You have the right to Know, Delete, Correct, Opt out of sale or sharing (Cognere does not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising), Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information (we do not collect Sensitive Personal Information on this site), and to be free from discrimination for exercising any CCPA right.

9.3 Other US states

We extend Access, Correction, Deletion, and Opt-Out rights to all US residents regardless of state of residence.

10. Children's privacy

Cognere is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16 (under 13 for purposes of the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act). If you believe we have collected information from a child, write to hello@cognere.ai and we will delete it promptly.

11. Products in the Cognere network

• DealParley.ai: see its own privacy policy.

For the parent company's policy on noblecortex.ai, see the Noble Cortex privacy policy.

12. Security

We use TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, encrypted disk volumes for database storage, role-based administrative access with audit logging, and backup procedures tested periodically. No system is fully secure. If you believe an incident has affected your information, write to hello@cognere.ai.

13. Data breach notification

If we determine that a security incident has compromised personal information about you, we will notify the relevant supervisory authority within the time required by applicable law (within 72 hours under GDPR where feasible), and we will notify you directly without undue delay where the incident is likely to result in a high risk to your rights and freedoms.

14. Changes to this policy

Material changes will be announced at least 30 days before they take effect, with a notice on the site. Non-material changes will be reflected by updating the "Last Updated" date above.

15. How to contact us

• General and privacy questions: hello@cognere.ai
• Postal mail: Noble Cortex Inc., Attn: Cognere Privacy, 2108 N St #6192, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA