Last updated: May 18, 2026
Operator: Paul O'Neill, an individual residing in Ontario, Canada, carrying on business under the registered trade name "Ask His Friends"
This Service is designed to help you reflect spiritually. Because of that, we treat everything you share as sensitive personal information.
We are a small-scale operation in active beta. Our security practices are evolving. We will update this Privacy Policy as the Service matures.
This Privacy Policy explains how Ask His Friends (the "Service") collects, uses, stores, and protects personal information when you use askhisfriends.com.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. You will be asked to consent to its terms during account creation.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services that may be linked from the Service.
The Service is designed for spiritual reflection and faith-based dialogue. As a result, the information you share may reveal:
Under Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA), this is considered sensitive personal information and is subject to heightened protection requirements.
We treat all conversational content as sensitive by default and apply enhanced safeguards, consent, and access controls accordingly.
In this Privacy Policy, "conversational content" means any messages, prompts, responses, and related metadata that form part of your interactions with the Service, whether submitted by you or generated by the Service in response to you.
We use information to:
We do not use your conversational content for advertising, marketing, or commercial profiling.
Before you use the Service, you will be asked to provide express consent to:
Consent is obtained through an affirmative action during account creation, separate from the action that creates your account itself.
The consent process described at askhisfriends.com/consent is an implementation of the requirements set out in this Privacy Policy and may not reduce the level of consent required under this Policy. The implementation may be updated as the Service evolves; any change will continue to meet PIPEDA's express-consent standard for sensitive personal information.
You may withdraw consent at any time, subject to operational and legal limitations. Withdrawal of consent will result in account closure and deletion of your conversational content in accordance with Section 10.
We do not use private conversational content (the messages, prompts, and responses that form your normal interactions with the Service) to train, fine-tune, or otherwise develop underlying AI models.
This commitment applies to both the prompts you submit and the responses generated by the Service.
We may use content you explicitly submit as feedback — through feedback forms, flagged improvement submissions, or similar mechanisms — to improve Service performance, refine responses, and enhance safety and quality.
Feedback is voluntary, separate from your private conversations, and clearly distinguished at the point of submission.
The Service uses third-party AI infrastructure providers to generate responses to your prompts. These providers:
A current list of our sub-processors — including AI infrastructure providers, hosting providers, and authentication services — is available at askhisfriends.com/subprocessors. We will provide notice of material changes to this list before they take effect.
We require our sub-processors to provide contractual safeguards for personal information consistent with PIPEDA requirements.
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information for any commercial purpose.
We share information only with sub-processors as listed in Section 7, and only as necessary to operate the Service. All sub-processors operate under contractual restrictions limiting them to processing data on our behalf for service-related purposes.
We may also disclose information where required by law, such as in response to a valid court order or other lawful demand.
If we become aware of a credible risk to the life or safety of you or another person — for example, an indication of imminent self-harm, or of an intention to harm someone else — we may disclose information to emergency services, a crisis or medical responder, or law enforcement, without your consent and without prior notice to you, where we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to help protect a life.
In such a case, the information disclosed may include the relevant conversational content and any identifying or locating details we hold or that you have provided (such as a name, location, or contact information). We will limit any such disclosure to what is reasonably necessary for responders to act.
This is consistent with Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA), which permits the disclosure of personal information without consent in an emergency that threatens the life, health, or security of an individual. We expect these situations to be rare, and we treat them as a duty of care — not a routine practice.
To operate the Service, your information — including conversational content — is transmitted to AI infrastructure providers located primarily in the United States.
When data is processed outside Canada, it may be subject to the laws of those jurisdictions, including lawful access by foreign authorities under laws such as the U.S. CLOUD Act, regardless of contractual safeguards we put in place.
By using the Service, you provide express consent to this cross-border transfer with knowledge of these limitations.
We retain information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy:
Retention beyond these periods will only occur where required by law, safety obligations, or active abuse investigation, and will be limited in duration to what is strictly necessary.
You may request deletion of your account and associated personal data at any time, subject to legal retention requirements.
We use safeguards proportional to the sensitivity of the data we hold, including:
As a small-scale operation in active beta, our security practices continue to evolve. We will update this Privacy Policy as our safeguards mature, and we will not promise protections we have not implemented.
No system can guarantee absolute security. We encourage you to be thoughtful about what you share with the Service.
In rare cases, content may be reviewed by authorized personnel for:
Some content may first be evaluated by automated systems before limited human review where necessary.
Human review is restricted to a need-to-know basis and is subject to confidentiality obligations.
If a privacy breach creates a real risk of significant harm to affected individuals, we will:
Under Canadian privacy law, you have the right to:
We will respond to verified requests without unreasonable delay, and in any case within 30 days.
If you reside in Quebec, additional requirements under Quebec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Law 25) may apply to your information. We will respect those requirements where applicable.
We use only essential cookies required for:
We do not use tracking cookies for advertising or commercial profiling.
The Service is intended for users aged 18 and older.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18. If we become aware that a user is under 18, we will close the account and delete associated data where reasonably possible.
We rely on user-provided date of birth at account creation. If we receive credible information that an account holder is under 18, we may close the account and delete associated data regardless of the date of birth originally provided.
The individual accountable for our compliance with privacy law is Paul O'Neill.
Privacy inquiries, access requests, deletion requests, and complaints may be directed to:
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
Questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to [email protected] or through the contact methods provided on askhisfriends.com.
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