PSY Data Society · Inner Atlas Platform

Effective date: 06/03/26

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This policy describes how we handle community-contributed data. It is not medical or legal advice, and it does not encourage any unlawful activity.

A Community-First Commitment to Ethical Knowledge Sharing

At PSY Data Society and through the Inner Atlas platform, we believe the future of mental health innovation should not be controlled by a small group of institutions, corporations, or gatekeepers.

Knowledge gained through lived experience, structured observation, facilitation, and research belongs to humanity as a collective resource — especially when it has the potential to reduce suffering, improve mental health outcomes, and help individuals reclaim their lives.

Our mission is to ethically collect, protect, organize, and share meaningful data related to plant-based medicines, psychedelic-assisted therapies, and other emerging wellness modalities in a way that prioritizes human dignity, privacy and informed consent, community trust, scientific integrity, transparency, accessibility of knowledge, and long-term public benefit.

We also honor the Indigenous peoples and traditional lineages who have stewarded many of these plant medicines for generations. We are committed to acknowledging those origins and to approaches that emphasize respect, reciprocity, and benefit to the communities from which this knowledge emerged.

This policy outlines how we collect data, how we protect contributors, how information may be used and shared, your rights as a contributor, and how the broader community benefits from the insights generated through this collective effort.

1. Our Core Beliefs

Data should serve humanity. Health-related knowledge should improve access, safety, understanding, and outcomes for the broader community.

Participants are contributors, not products. People who share their experiences through Inner Atlas are active contributors to a growing body of collective understanding — not "data points."

Transparency builds trust. Trust requires honesty about what data is collected, how it is used, who has access, and how findings are shared.

Open knowledge accelerates healing. When responsibly anonymized data and findings are shared ethically, communities, facilitators, clinicians, researchers, advocates, and policymakers can learn faster and improve outcomes.

Ethical stewardship matters. We support broad access to knowledge while safeguarding sensitive information and ensuring data cannot reasonably be traced back to individual participants.

2. How Data Is Collected

Participation is always voluntary and based on informed consent.

Data may be collected through the Inner Atlas platform, partner organizations, research collaborators, facilitators and care teams, community-based observational initiatives, voluntary surveys and journaling experiences, wellness tracking tools, and structured intake and follow-up assessments.

Collected information may include self-reported experiences, mood and wellness assessments, protocol information, timing and frequency data, preparation and integration practices, environmental and support factors, non-identifiable demographic trends, longitudinal wellness observations, and outcome-based reflections.

Eligibility. Contributors must be 18 years of age or older.

Sensitive data. Some of this information — including mental health and substance-related data — is especially sensitive. We treat it with heightened care and the protections described below.

3. Anonymous and Ethical Data Practices

De-identification standards. We minimize personally identifiable information wherever possible. Our systems are designed to separate identity-related information from observational data, limit unnecessary personal data collection, apply anonymization and de-identification methods, restrict internal access to sensitive information, and reduce the likelihood that participant identities could be reconstructed.

Data security. We protect data using encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access controls, and regular review of our safeguards. In the event of a data breach affecting personal information, we will notify affected contributors and relevant authorities as required by applicable law.

Data retention. We retain identifiable information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, after which it is deleted or further anonymized. Fully anonymized, aggregated data may be retained indefinitely for research and public-benefit purposes, as it can no longer be linked to an individual.

Consent and transparency. Before participating, contributors are told what information is collected, why, how it may be used, how it may be shared (including the licensing described in Section 6), and how findings may be published. Consent language is written in clear, human-readable terms rather than dense legal jargon.

Ethical collaboration standards. Partner organizations involved in data collection are expected to uphold ethical participant treatment, informed consent, privacy standards, and responsible stewardship aligned with this policy.

4. How Data May Be Used

Collected data may be used to identify trends and patterns, improve wellness and facilitation protocols, support harm-reduction efforts, inform educational materials, guide advocacy initiatives, support public awareness campaigns, assist academic and scientific research, advance understanding of mental health and alternative therapies, explore long-term wellness outcomes, and improve accessibility and safety practices.

Data may also contribute to white papers, public reports, educational resources, policy discussions, research collaborations, community dashboards, scientific publications, and grant- or funding-supported public-benefit research.

How we handle revenue. PSY Data Society is a public-benefit steward. We do not sell access to identifiable personal data. Anonymized, aggregated data is shared at no cost with aligned researchers and nonprofits, and may be licensed to qualified organizations — including for private or commercial research — under strict data-use agreements (see Section 6). Any revenue generated through licensing is reinvested into PSY Data Society's public-benefit mission. We will never share identifiable data with insurers, employers, advertisers, or law enforcement except where strictly required by law.

5. Community Access to Findings

We believe contributors and the broader public should benefit from the knowledge generated through collective participation. PSY Data Society intends to provide public-facing summaries of findings, community trend reports, educational insights, aggregated wellness observations, visualized datasets and dashboards where appropriate, and open educational content based on community learnings.

Whenever feasible, we share findings in formats accessible to everyday individuals, veterans and first responders, facilitators, researchers, clinicians, advocates, and policymakers. Our goal is to make meaningful information understandable and usable — not hidden behind academic or institutional barriers.

6. Access to Summarized and Unsummarized Data

Summarized data. Aggregated findings may be publicly shared through reports, dashboards, presentations, articles, research collaborations, and educational materials to help the community understand trends, outcomes, and emerging insights. To protect privacy, we apply aggregation thresholds and suppress results drawn from groups too small to safely report.

Unsummarized / row-level data. In some cases, appropriately anonymized row-level datasets may be made available to qualified researchers, academic institutions, advocacy groups, nonprofit collaborators, community initiatives aligned with our mission, or licensed organizations conducting private or commercial research.

All access to row-level data — whether free or licensed — is governed by the same protections:

• access is reviewed and approved by our data-access review body;

• recipients sign a data-use agreement prohibiting re-identification, redistribution, and onward sale;

• only de-identified data is released — never identifiable records;

• decisions are guided by ethical considerations, participant protection, scientific integrity, and alignment with public-benefit objectives.

We are committed to preventing exploitative or unethical uses of community-contributed data while avoiding unnecessary gatekeeping of knowledge.

7. Research and Advocacy Use

Research and advocacy partners may use community data to study mental health outcomes, improve treatment understanding, explore safety considerations, support public-policy reform, advocate for accessibility, and contribute to broader scientific understanding. Wherever possible we encourage open collaboration, transparent methodologies, reproducible findings, and community-benefit models.

We believe advocacy informed by real-world observational data can create more compassionate, evidence-informed approaches to mental health and wellness policy.

8. Ownership and Stewardship

We draw a clear line between experience and dataset. Contributors own their own experiences and the personal information they share. PSY Data Society holds and maintains the resulting aggregated, anonymized dataset as its steward, and is the party authorized to manage and license access to it under the terms of this policy.

We do not view ourselves as the owner of human healing experiences. We are stewards of a growing body of collective knowledge entrusted to us by individuals and communities seeking better outcomes. Our responsibility is to protect that trust, preserve ethical standards, ensure transparency, and make meaningful insights accessible to the broader world. We believe no single organization should become the gatekeeper of knowledge capable of improving human well-being.

9. Your Rights and Choices

Your participation is voluntary, and you remain in control of your personal information. At any time, you may:

• Withdraw your consent and stop contributing data;

• Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you;

• Request corrections to inaccurate information;

• Request deletion of your identifiable data.

To make any of these requests, contact us at [email/contact]. We will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law. Please note that once data has been fully anonymized and aggregated, it can no longer be linked to you and therefore cannot be individually withdrawn or deleted.

10. Commitment to Continuous Improvement

As technology, ethics, regulations, and community expectations evolve, this policy may also evolve. We are committed to ongoing ethical review, community feedback, transparent governance, and continuous improvement of our data-stewardship practices. Material changes will be posted here with an updated effective date. Trust is earned through consistent action, accountability, and openness — not policy statements alone.

11. Closing Statement

Healing knowledge has historically been fragmented, inaccessible, or controlled by systems that do not always prioritize collective human well-being. We believe there is another path — where individuals can contribute safely, communities can learn together, researchers and advocates can collaborate openly, transparency replaces gatekeeping, and data becomes a tool for collective healing rather than private control.

That is the future we are working to build through Inner Atlas and PSY Data Society.