Privacy Policy

Aethen is an AI-powered emotional companion designed to support emotional reflection, mood check-ins, gentle routines and small daily prompts intended to encourage reconnection with everyday life.

Contact: [insert contact email]

Depending on how you use Aethen, we may collect:

• email address, if you join the waitlist or create an account
• onboarding responses, such as emotional preferences and selected needs
• mood check-ins and selected emotional states
• messages you choose to send in AI conversations
• usage and interaction data
• device, browser and technical performance information
• safety-related interaction data when necessary to detect misuse or harmful situations

Because Aethen is emotional in nature, some information you choose to share may relate to your emotional or mental state.

Please avoid sharing information you do not want processed by the service.

Aethen is not intended to collect or process medical records, clinical diagnoses or healthcare documentation.

We may use your information to:

• provide and personalize the Aethen experience
• improve conversations, features and emotional safety systems
• manage onboarding, waitlists or user accounts
• detect misuse, harmful behavior or safety risks
• improve system performance and reliability
• comply with legal obligations

Where GDPR applies, we process personal data based on one or more of the following:

• your consent
• performance of a requested service
• legitimate interests, such as improving and securing the platform
• compliance with legal obligations

Aethen uses artificial intelligence systems to generate responses and personalize experiences.

Messages and interactions may be processed by trusted AI infrastructure providers in order to generate responses and improve functionality.

Aethen does not use AI to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, therapy or emergency intervention.

We may share data only with trusted service providers necessary to operate Aethen, including:

• hosting providers
• analytics providers
• email service providers
• database and infrastructure providers
• AI service providers
• security and moderation systems

These providers must process data according to appropriate privacy and security safeguards.

We do not sell your personal data.

Some providers may process data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

Where applicable, appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent legal protections should be used.

We keep personal data only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is legally required.

Users may request deletion of their personal data where applicable.

If you are located in the EU/EEA, you may have the right to:

• access your personal data
• correct inaccurate data
• request deletion
• restrict processing
• object to processing
• withdraw consent
• request data portability
• lodge a complaint with a data protection authority

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect personal data and improve platform security.

However, no digital service or online transmission can ever be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Aethen is not intended for children under 18 without appropriate parental or legal guardian consent and supervision.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

The latest version will always be available within the app or website.

For privacy-related questions, requests or concerns, contact: [insert contact email]