Policies and ethics

1. Safety notice

ZenFlow Lab is a research community. It is not a medical, counselling or emergency service, and nothing on this site is medical advice. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, please contact your local emergency services right away, or find a free helpline in your country at findahelpline.com.

2. Research ethics and participant protection

• Taking part is always voluntary, and every study explains its purpose before you begin.
• Our experiments are for adults (18 and over).
• Participation is anonymous: no names, email addresses or accounts.
• You may stop at any time without giving a reason.
• We run only minimal-risk studies. Any study involving health information, vulnerable groups or more than minimal risk will begin only after independent ethics review.
• Results are reported only in aggregate, so no individual can be identified.
• Before any experiment opens, we will obtain review — or a formal exemption decision — from an institutional review board (IRB) where the law requires it, including Korea's Bioethics and Safety Act.

3. Privacy

Controller: ZenFlow, Republic of Korea. Privacy officer and contact: contact@zenflow.company.

This website sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device and uses no analytics, advertising or tracking tools.

What we process and why: (a) Technical access data — such as IP address, browser type and time of access — is processed by our host, Cloudflare, to deliver and secure the site; legal basis: our legitimate interest in operating a safe website (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). We keep no access logs of our own. (b) Experiment answers, once experiments open, are collected only with your consent, without names, email addresses or IP addresses. (c) If you email us, we use your address and message only to reply.

Service providers and international transfers: Cloudflare, Inc. (USA) hosts the site; emails to contact@zenflow.company are forwarded by ImprovMX and stored in Google's email service. These providers may process data outside your country under their data processing terms and safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses. Google Translate is contacted only if you choose a language from the "More languages" menu; Google's privacy policy then applies.

Retention: anonymous experiment answers are kept as research data; emails are deleted within one year after the matter is closed; data held by Cloudflare follows Cloudflare's policy. Data that is no longer needed is permanently deleted.

We do not sell personal information, use it for marketing or profiling, or make automated decisions about you. Our pages are not directed at children under 14, and our experiments are for adults only.

Your rights: under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Korea's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability, object to processing, and withdraw consent at any time. Because experiment answers are stored without identifiers, we may not be able to link them to you. You may also complain to a supervisory authority — in Korea, the Personal Information Protection Commission (Privacy Infringement Report Center, 118); in the EU, your local data protection authority.

Changes to this policy are published here with their effective date.

4. Open access and licenses

• Research notes and other texts: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); the ZenFlow names and logos are not licensed.
• Code, when released: MIT License.
• Audio: the source and license of each file are listed with it.
• Data: released only in anonymized, aggregated form.

5. Publication standards

• Every note shows its status: Preliminary (machine analysis or a small sample), Reviewed (checked by people other than the authors) or Peer-reviewed (published in a peer-reviewed journal).
• Every note states its methods and its limitations.
• Corrections are dated and listed on the note they correct.
• AI tools help with analysis, writing and translation. People at ZenFlow Lab are responsible for all content. The English version is the reference text.

6. Community guidelines

• Be respectful and kind.
• Share your own experiences; do not give medical advice to others.
• Protect privacy: do not post personal information about yourself or others.
• No promotion or spam.
• We may remove content that breaks these guidelines.

7. Terms of use

• Using this site is free. Its content is for research and general information only and is not medical, legal or other professional advice.
• Content is provided "as is" and preliminary findings may change. To the extent permitted by law, ZenFlow is not liable for loss or damage arising from use of this site.
• Our texts are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The names "ZenFlow" and "ZenFlow Lab" and any logos are not covered by that license. Third-party material keeps its own license.
• Translations — whether ours or machine translations — may contain errors; the English version prevails.
• We are not responsible for the content of external websites we link to.
• These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, without limiting any mandatory consumer protections in your country. Changes are published here with their effective date.

8. Contact

contact@zenflow.company