Session times
Start, end, duration, event times, waiting windows, and no-response periods.
Invitation App / Deep dive 03
Kept Results
& Evidence
What the app preserves for an honest session record, what stays on the user’s device, what may be submitted, and what Paranormal Invites™ never takes.
Privacy before research
The app records the session.
It does not search the phone.
The Invitation App may use the camera, microphone, and built-in sensors during a session the user chooses to run. That does not give Paranormal Invites™ permission to collect unrelated information from the device.
The app does not take precise GPS coordinates. It does not pull contacts, text messages, call history, passwords, browsing activity, unrelated photos, or unrelated files. Coarse city or regional information is optional only when the participant chooses to provide it for research comparison.
PLAIN-LANGUAGE PROMISE
We receive only the permitted session package after the user deliberately presses the green Download to Paranormal Invites Database button.
01 / USER CHOICE
How information moves—or does not move
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A session is created locally
The participant starts a session and permits only the device features needed for the selected app mode.
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The app builds the local record
Session events, evidence, available context, notes, and silent periods are kept together on the device.
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The participant reviews it
The user can examine the completed session and decide whether it should contribute to the Paranormal Invites™ research collection.
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Nothing uploads by itself
Ending a session does not secretly transfer phone contents or unrelated personal information.
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The green button gives permission
Only after the user deliberately presses the database button is the permitted session package submitted.
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The submission is marked
A received state helps prevent the same session from being unintentionally submitted more than once.
02 / WHAT MAY BE KEPT IN A SESSION
Evidence with context
The session package
The exact contents depend on the modes used and what the participant permits. These are research records—not a copy of the person’s phone.
Room baseline
The selected room profile and the normal conditions observed before testing.
Mode results
Words, question events, phonetic fragments, and mode-specific outcomes.
User captures
SLS stills, session recordings, or other evidence the user intentionally creates within the app.
Available sensor context
Relevant motion, magnetic, or microphone-level context recorded for the session.
Available radio state
Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, and NFC state where Android permits detection.
App context
The prototype build, mode state, and versioned research rules needed to interpret output.
Participant notes
Observations, possible contamination, session labels, and details the user chooses to add.
03 / WHAT WE DO NOT TAKE
The line is clear
A research app is not permission to inspect a phone.
Paranormal Invites™ limits the research collection to the intentionally submitted session record.
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Precise GPS coordinates
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Contacts or address book
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Text messages or call history
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Passwords or login information
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Browsing or search history
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Unrelated photos or videos
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Unrelated documents or files
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Automatic background submissions
04 / WHY NEGATIVE RESULTS STAY
No response belongs in the evidence
No output produced
is still a result.
It shows ordinary behavior
A session can produce no word or phonetic sound while still recording sensor changes below the response threshold. Those readings help establish what the app normally does under different conditions.
It protects against cherry-picking
Keeping only dramatic sessions would make activity appear more common than the full record supports.
It strengthens comparisons
No-output sessions preserve the sensor pattern, location type, room, radio state, duration, and environmental context so they can be compared with sessions that did produce a response.
A negative adds positive value
Below-threshold activity may reveal repeatable sensor patterns even when no output appears. Keeping it helps improve the app and guides better controlled follow-up.
TRANSPARENT TO PARTICIPANTS
What is recorded, what may be submitted, when permission is given, and what the research record contains.
PROPRIETARY & SECURE