Privacy policy

Who runs this site

My Memory Check is a free research and education project, built as a student science fair project and operated from British Columbia, Canada. It is not currently run by a company and it runs no advertising. If that changes, this policy will be updated. You can reach the operator at contact@mymemorycheck.ca.

The memory check

The check is scored in your browser. When you reach your result, we save your answers to our database: your ratings of everyday changes, the score from each task (including any optional tasks you take), and the result.

• We save scores, not the words you typed — for example, how many animals you named, not which ones.
• Your clock drawing is not sent to us.
• Nothing we save is linked to your name, address, IP address, or any account, unless you choose to share more (see Details you choose to share).
• If you choose to keep a record of your result on this device, that copy stays in your browser.

The AURORA analysis tool

The separate AURORA tool, for people who already have clinical test results, sends those values to our server so the model can process them.

• We save the values you enter, together with the result.
• We do not store your name, date of birth, address, IP address, or any other identifying detail, because we never ask for them.
• If you upload an MRI scan, it is passed to the model for analysis and not retained afterwards.

How we use what we keep

We use the answers and results we keep from the memory check and the AURORA tool:

• to improve the accuracy and usefulness of AURORA;
• to improve the site, including how easy it is to use;
• for research into memory and thinking; and
• to understand how the site is used.

We may share this information with research collaborators, always without anything that identifies you. If this project is ever continued by another organisation, the information would pass to it under the terms of this policy. We keep it for as long as it is useful for these purposes.

Details you choose to share

Under your memory check result there is an optional card that asks for a few more details: your age range, your sex, your years of education, whether to remember this device, and an email address if you'd like to hear about future research studies. Nothing on that card is kept unless you fill it in and choose “Share these details”. Choosing “No thanks” keeps nothing extra.

• What you share is kept with that check's answers and used for the purposes above.
• Your email address is only used to contact you about research. It is never shared outside the project.
• “Remember this device” keeps a random code in your browser's storage, so checks you take on it later are linked to this one. It is not a tracking cookie and is not used anywhere else on the site.
• You can withdraw at any time: choose “Forget this device” under a later result, which deletes the details linked to the device, or write to contact@mymemorycheck.ca with the email address you gave and we will delete what is linked to it.

The question-and-answer assistant

This is the part to be careful with. When you type a question to the assistant, your message is sent to a third-party AI provider — currently Google (Gemini), Groq, or OpenRouter — which generates the reply. We do not store your conversation, but we cannot control what those companies do with it, and their free service tiers may use submitted content to improve their own systems.

Please do not type personal health information, your name, or any other detail you would not want a third party to hold into the assistant. Ask general questions instead.

How the site is used

We count how many assessments have been run, and we record the country a request came from, which our hosting provider supplies. When you take the memory check, we also record how it went: which parts you reached, how long each part took, whether you used a phone, tablet, or computer, your browser's language setting, whether large text was on, whether you printed your result or drew the clock, and whether you arrived from a search engine, a social media site, another link, or by typing the address (but not which page you came from).

None of this is linked to you. We do not store IP addresses and we do not use advertising or tracking cookies. To count visits to each page, we use Vercel Web Analytics, which records the page, the referring site, the country, and the type of browser and device — without cookies and without following you from one site to another.

Companies that help run the site

• Vercel — hosting. Sees network requests as any web host does.
• Supabase — the database holding the answers, results, and counts described above.
• Hugging Face — runs the AURORA model itself.
• Google, Groq, OpenRouter — generate assistant replies, as described above.

Children

This site is intended for adults. It is not designed for or directed at children.

Your privacy rights

Canadian privacy law — British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act, and PIPEDA federally — gives people rights to see, correct, and withdraw consent for personal information an organisation holds about them. We have no accounts and ask for no names, so the answers and results we keep cannot be traced back to you, which also means we cannot find one person's answers among them. If you shared an email address or had a device remembered, we can find what is linked to those: see Details you choose to share for how to see or delete it.

If you believe we hold something about you regardless, or you want to raise a privacy concern, write to contact@mymemorycheck.ca. You may also contact the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, or the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Where your information is processed

Our database is in Canada. Some of the companies listed above process requests on servers outside Canada, including in the United States and Europe — this includes assistant messages and the answers you submit to the memory check and the AURORA tool. Information processed there is subject to the laws of those countries.

Changes to this policy

If how the site handles data changes, this page is updated at the same time. The date at the top tells you when it last changed.