The discovery belongs to you.

Your conversations (your words and ALYGN's replies), the Anchors, wisdom and expressions created from them, and the preferences you choose.

Your sign-in details (Google sign-in, or your email address and the one-time codes sent to it) are handled by Clerk, the sign-in service provided through Emergent. ALYGN never stores passwords or sign-in codes.

A little activity information for the beta: the date you were last active, and how many sessions and Anchors you have. No excerpts of your conversations are ever used for this.

You. Every conversation is tied to your account and the server refuses anyone else — including other testers and the administrator.

The administrator sees only: your invitation status and email, your last activity date, counts of sessions and Anchors, feedback you choose to send, and any session you explicitly share.

Sharing is one session at a time. You choose 7 days, 30 days, or until you withdraw; the server ends access automatically at the chosen time, even if you never sign in again. Withdrawing stops further access immediately, but can't undo anything the administrator already read or copied while it was shared.

Feedback never includes your conversations or Anchors — only the answer you tap and the words you type.

To reply, your messages and the conversation so far are sent to Anthropic's Claude model through Emergent's AI service. These providers process the text to generate a response and may keep it for a limited time under their own policies (for example for abuse monitoring).

When ALYGN checks a scripture reference, only the reference (such as “Psalm 23:1”) is sent to public services — bible-api.com, alquran.cloud or sefaria.org — never your words.

If you tap the microphone, your recording is sent from your device to ALYGN's server and on to OpenAI's Whisper speech model through Emergent's AI service, only to turn it into text. ALYGN does not save the audio: it is held in memory while it is being written out and then discarded, and it is never written to logs. OpenAI states that audio sent to its transcription service is not used to train its models and is not kept for abuse monitoring; Emergent, which passes the request on, handles it under its own policies.

The words appear in your message box for you to read, correct or delete. Nothing is sent to the conversation until you press send. ALYGN keeps only how many seconds of voice you used each day (for the daily voice allowance), not what you said.

Traffic between your device and ALYGN is encrypted (HTTPS). Every request is checked against your signed-in account on the server.

Stored conversations, Anchors, shared copies and feedback text are encrypted by the application (AES-256-GCM) before they reach the database. The key is kept as a separately managed secret, never in the database or your browser. Nightly database backups are encrypted again with a second, separately kept key and stored outside the app's hosting environment.

This is not end-to-end encryption. To reply, the ALYGN server must decrypt your conversation in memory and send it to the AI provider, so the running application — and anyone able to operate it or its hosting — could in principle access it. Account details (your email), dates and counts are stored unencrypted so access can be checked. We don't promise absolute confidentiality.

ALYGN is a reflection companion, not a medical, counselling or crisis service. If you are in danger, please contact local emergency services.

Your data is kept until you delete it or the beta ends.

If your beta access is ended, your conversations and Anchors are not deleted automatically and are not shown to anyone — including the administrator or a new tester. They are erased when you ask, or at the latest 30 days after your place in the beta is given to someone else.

Delete one conversation anytime: open it, then the shield menu → “Delete this conversation”. It is removed immediately, along with any share of it.

Delete everything below: all conversations, Anchors, shares and feedback are removed immediately and your beta access is closed.

Limits: nightly encrypted backups are kept in storage that cannot erase individual files, so an encrypted copy of deleted data can remain inside earlier backups. Backups are used for recovery only within 14 days (90 days for a backup taken before an app update), and can never be opened without their separately kept key; the AI provider may keep text for a limited period under its own policy; your sign-in account remains with Clerk until the administrator removes it; and if you shared a session, the administrator may already have read it before you withdrew it.