Privacy
Last updated 2026-10-02
The short version
This site collects nothing about you. No cookies, no analytics, no tracking, no accounts, no forms on the site, and nothing kept in your browser's storage. The only things we ever hold about you are what you choose to send: the early access form and email.
Who we are
Collapse Index Labs, run by Alex Kwon. Questions about this page go to ask@collapseindex.org.
Visiting the site
The site is static pages. The home page demo plays HOBO's recorded decisions, bundled with the page: it doesn't call a model, and nothing you do on it is stored or sent anywhere.
To show the pages, your browser talks to a few other companies, which see your IP address and browser details the way any website does:
- Hosting: Vercel serves the site and may keep standard request logs.
- Fonts: the main pages use fonts already on your device. The archived HOBO Mini page and one prototype load Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com).
- Video: the home page's video shows a picture stored on this site, and only loads YouTube's no-cookie player (youtube-nocookie.com) when you press play.
Links to other sites (GitHub, arXiv and others) follow those sites' own policies once you click them.
The early access form
Early access sign-up is a Google Form, so Google hosts it and its privacy policy applies there. It asks for your email, your organization, your role, how you heard about HOBO and what you'd use it for.
- What we use it for: to write to you about early access, and to see who HOBO is useful to.
- What we don't do: add you to a mailing list, sell your answers, or share them with anyone else.
- How long we keep it: until early access ends, or until you ask us to delete it, whichever is first.
If you email us
If you write to ask@collapseindex.org, we use your address only to reply. We don't add you to a mailing list or share it. Ask and we'll delete your messages.
HOBO
- Private installs run on your own hardware. What you send HOBO stays with you, and an install sends us nothing unless you choose to.
- The HOBO API isn't open yet. It will need some data, at least an account and usage records. This page will say exactly what, how long it's kept and who can see it, before sign-in goes live.
Your choices
Ask us what we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it, at ask@collapseindex.org. We'll do it and tell you when it's done.
Children
This site isn't aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from them. If you think a child has sent us something, tell us and we'll delete it.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. Anything that changes how we use what you've already sent us, we'll tell you about first.