Privacy & ownership

Plain-language summary. Version 1.

Your story belongs to you

You own your recordings, transcripts, stories and voice samples. We store and organize them so you can keep them; we do not claim ownership of your life story.

What we collect

• Account details: your name, email address and password (stored encrypted).
• Interview content: the audio of your answers, the transcripts made from them, any corrections you make, and the stories and facts organized from them.
• Voice samples, only if you give separate permission for a voice profile.
• Billing records: what you bought and when. Card details are handled by our payment processor and never stored by us.

Who can see it

• Only you, after signing in. There are no public profiles. Our staff do not access interview content as part of normal support.
• To provide the service we use processors for transcription, question generation, speech and payments. They act on our instructions and may not use your content to train their models.
• We never sell your memories or personal information.

Your AI and your content

• An AI asks the interview questions, transcribes your answers and organizes them into stories, people and lessons.
• From your answers it builds a personality profile — how you talk, what you value, your humor and how you give advice — so it can answer questions as you would. You can review and correct what it learns.
• Your stories, personality profile and voice are not used to train general AI models.

Your family

• Only people you invite can talk with your AI, through the family app at app.stillheretotalk.com. You choose who, and whether their access starts now or later.
• You can name one or more custodians — for example your spouse, a grown child or your lawyer. Custodians can invite and remove family members, decide when "later" access begins, add other custodians and transfer the role, so your profile can be looked after across generations.
• Memories you mark "never share" are kept out of family conversations, and custodians cannot unlock them.
• Your family is always told that they are talking with an AI built from your words and voice.

Your controls

• Correct any transcript. The original recording and every version are kept.
• Download your complete archive at any time in open formats, including your personality profile and cloned voice.
• Withdraw voice permission at any time; we stop using your samples for voice preparation.
• Ask us to delete your hosted copy. We confirm by email before deleting.

Security

Recordings are stored privately and are only delivered to your signed-in account. Connections are encrypted in transit.

Contact

Questions about privacy: chefjoshguate@gmail.com.