Privacy Policy

• •Account data you provide (email, name if given).
• •Survey responses and self-assessment data.
• •Optional demographic information you choose to share.
• •Derived profile data (e.g., Ikigai scores, macro-area distributions).
• •Essential technical data for security and sessions.
• •Pseudonymized audit logs (admin logs may include IP for security).
• •Aggregated, anonymous statistics used exclusively to improve the experience.

For operational and security purposes, authorized administrators may access limited information about user-generated flashcard decks. This includes the deck name, number of cards, and an internal user identifier. The content of individual cards is not visible unless required for abuse prevention or safety checks. This access is strictly limited to platform maintenance, troubleshooting, and enforcing community guidelines, in line with the GDPR principle of data minimization.

Your survey responses are used to generate your Ikigai Profile, visual insights, and personalized guidance. From these responses we also derive aggregated profile signals (such as macro-area distributions) that help power advanced, anonymized features. Optional demographic fields are never used for advertising or third-party profiling.

IkigaiApp includes an Advanced Analysis feature that provides personalized examples of skills and career paths based on similarity with other users’ profiles. This feature works by comparing aggregated and derived profile signals (such as macro-area distributions and skill categories) across users who have completed the survey and reached a minimum Ikigai score threshold. Results are shown only in anonymized and non-identifiable form. We never display names, contact details, user IDs, or any direct identifiers. Technical safeguards are applied to reduce the risk of re-identification, including minimum group sizes and abstraction of rare combinations.

• •To generate your personalized Ikigai Profile, insights, and visualizations.
• •To provide anonymized, similarity-based examples and suggestions in the Advanced Analysis feature.
• •To contextualize guidance using optional demographic fields.
• •To operate, secure, and improve the platform.
• •To maintain limited security logs (deleted after 90 days).
• •To communicate essential account updates.

• •Contract: to provide the requested features and services.
• •Legitimate interests: to improve personalization and platform quality through anonymized and aggregated analysis.
• •Consent: for optional demographic fields.
• •Consent: for future optional features that may require it.

• •Vercel Inc. (EU/US) - Front-end hosting.
• •Railway Corp. (US) - Backend/API hosting.
• •MongoDB Atlas (EU/US) - Database and encrypted storage.
• •Resend Inc. (US) - Transactional email delivery.
• •Namecheap Inc. (US) - DNS and domain email services.
• •OpenAI (EU/US) - AI processing used only to generate narrative Ikigai Profile content from a limited subset of survey data.
• •All providers process only the minimum data required under GDPR-compliant agreements. No advertising or third-party analytics are used.

We retain your data while your account is active. Derived and aggregated data is kept only as long as necessary to provide the service. Audit logs are deleted after 90 days. Upon account deletion, data is erased or irreversibly anonymized.

We do not sell your personal data. We share data only with trusted processors strictly necessary to operate the service. Advanced Analysis results are generated using anonymized and aggregated profile data and are never shared in identifiable form with other users.

IkigaiApp uses AI to transform some of your survey responses and taxonomy-based tags into narrative descriptions (your Ikigai Profile), strengths, areas of growth, and practical suggestions. Only the minimum necessary information is sent to the AI provider: we do not share your email, password, or payment data. The AI provider acts as a data processor and does not use your data to train its models beyond what is necessary to provide the service. You can choose not to use IkigaiApp if you prefer not to have your data processed by AI, and you can request deletion of your data at any time.

• •Access, rectify, or erase your data.
• •Download your data in JSON or CSV format.
• •Object to or restrict certain processing, including community-based matching.
• •Account deletion with irreversible anonymization.
• •File a complaint with a supervisory authority.

To exercise your rights: data-rights@ikigaiapp.life