Privacy notice · August 24, 2026

Your assessment is not an advertising profile.

Operator Instinct collects the information needed to process a purchase, deliver a private report, improve the instrument, and respond to team inquiries. We do not sell personal information.

Individual purchase

Payment and access information

What we collect

Your purchase email, Stripe checkout and customer identifiers, payment status, amount, currency, and access issuance timestamps.

Why

To confirm the $12 purchase, issue assessment access, provide support, prevent duplicate delivery, and maintain transaction records.

Card details

Stripe processes payment. Material Shift does not receive or store your full card number.

Separation

The assessment uses an opaque participant identifier derived from the purchase. The scoring record does not need your email address to calculate your result.

Assessment and report

Evidence used to create your result

What may be recorded

Paired choices, uncertainty responses, response timing, session status, instrument version, result payloads, quality flags, and optional feedback.

Why

To score your assessment, render your private Operator Atlas, restore access, detect technical problems, and improve wording, scoring, accessibility, reliability, fairness, and validation.

Scoring protection

Scoring keys stay server-side. Public browser files do not contain the answer-to-instinct map.

Marketing boundary

Raw assessment answers are not sent to advertising platforms or used to build an advertising profile.

Teams of 10+

Team inquiries and group programs

Inquiry information

We collect the name, work email, organization, group size, and message supplied through the inquiry form so we can respond.

Participant boundary

Individual reports remain private by default. An organization receives aggregate cohort information unless a different arrangement is explicitly disclosed and appropriately consented to.

No hidden ranking

We do not provide raw answers, a named employee leaderboard, or an undisclosed hiring recommendation.

Storage and control

How information is handled

Providers

We use service providers for hosting, private application storage, payment processing, and operational delivery. They process information for those services under their own contractual and security obligations.

Retention

Transaction records are retained as needed for accounting, fraud prevention, support, and legal obligations. Assessment records may be retained for report delivery and consented research unless deletion is requested or a program states a shorter period.

Requests

You may request access, correction, or deletion by contacting Material Shift through the team inquiry form and identifying the purchase email. Some transaction records may need to be retained where required by law.

Changes

This notice may be updated as the product and research program mature. The date above identifies the current version.