Trust
PsyCloud is a research platform that handles study designs, participant sessions, telemetry, assets, recruitment metadata, and analysis exports. These pages document the alpha data posture so researchers can decide what is appropriate to collect, what should remain outside PsyCloud, and what requires local institutional review.
Alpha transparency
These pages describe the product and self-hosting posture in the current codebase. Formal institution-specific privacy notices, consent language, data processing agreements, and IRB materials remain the researcher's responsibility.
Data Governance ->
What PsyCloud stores, how data moves, and what is retained.
Privacy ->
Participant and researcher privacy notes for hosted studies.
Terms ->
Alpha usage boundaries and researcher responsibilities.
Quick rules
- Do not collect direct identifiers unless your protocol explicitly requires them.
- Put consent language, institutional contacts, compensation terms, and withdrawal procedures in your study materials.
- Treat production participant collection as hosted-backend work: real secrets, explicit CORS, managed storage, backups, and recruitment sandbox testing.
- Keep raw exports and snapshots in your institution-approved storage once downloaded.
- Use Session Replay for debugging provenance, not for collecting extra participant information beyond the study protocol.