Legal · Adults 18+
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how NSFW AI Chat collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information about visitors to our website located at https://nsfw-ai-chat.org/. We are committed to collecting the minimum amount of personal information required to operate the website, to being transparent about how that information is used, and to giving you control over your data through the rights described in this policy.
This website is an editorial publication that compares AI companion applications for adults. We do not operate, host, or control any AI companion chatbot, and we do not have access to your conversations, photos, or account data on any third-party platform reviewed on this site. When you click a link to one of those platforms, you leave our environment and enter the provider's environment, where the provider's own privacy policy applies. This Privacy Policy covers only the data we collect directly on this website.
1. Who is responsible for your data
The entity responsible for your personal data under this Privacy Policy is the NSFW AI Chat editorial entity, referred to throughout this policy as "we," "us," or "our." We are the data controller of the personal information collected on this website, which means that we determine the purposes and means of the processing of your personal data. Our contact details are listed in Section 17.
We do not currently have a formally appointed Data Protection Officer, but we have designated an internal contact within the editorial team who is responsible for data-protection matters. That contact handles requests under the GDPR, the CCPA, and other applicable privacy laws, and can be reached through the contact channels described in Section 17. We respond to privacy inquiries within the timeframes required by applicable law, typically thirty days.
If you access this website from outside the United States, please be aware that your personal information will be processed in the United States and possibly in other jurisdictions in which we or our service providers operate. The transfer of personal information outside your home jurisdiction may be subject to different legal protections, and Section 12 describes the basis on which such transfers take place.
2. What we collect
We collect a limited amount of personal information, and we collect it only when you choose to interact with the website in a way that requires us to process it. We do not require registration to read our editorial content, and we do not collect personal information from readers who simply visit the site and read articles. The categories of information we may collect are described below.
2.1 Information you provide directly
If you contact us, submit a correction, request permission to reuse our content, or subscribe to a newsletter, we collect the information that you provide in that interaction. This typically includes your name or pseudonym, your email address, and the content of your message. If you submit a correction, we may also collect the URL of the article you are correcting and the source that supports your correction. You are not required to provide this information, but if you do not provide it, we may be unable to respond to your inquiry.
2.2 Information collected automatically
When you visit the website, our servers and our analytics and advertising partners automatically collect certain technical information about your visit. This includes your IP address (truncated for analytics purposes where supported), your approximate geographic location derived from the IP address, the type and version of your browser, the operating system of your device, the referring URL, the pages you visit, the time and duration of your visit, and other standard request information transmitted by browsers and devices. This information is collected from your browser or device automatically and does not require any action on your part.
2.3 Information from cookies and similar technologies
We and our partners use cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as web beacons and pixel tags, to collect information about your visits and to operate, measure, and improve the website. Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. The specific cookies we use, their purposes, and their retention periods are described in our Cookies Policy. You can manage cookies through your browser settings.
2.4 Information we do not collect
Because we do not operate any AI companion chatbot, we do not collect your conversations, your photos, your voice recordings, your AI companion personas, or any other content that you generate on third-party platforms. We also do not collect payment-card information on this website, because all payments for third-party subscriptions are processed on the providers' own websites, which have their own payment-processing systems and their own privacy policies. We do not collect biometric data, health data, or precise geolocation data.
3. Why we collect it
We process personal information for specific, limited, and lawful purposes. The primary purposes for which we process personal information are described below. We do not process your personal information for any purpose that is incompatible with these purposes.
3.1 To operate and maintain the website
We process technical information about your visit to operate, secure, and maintain the website. This includes serving pages, routing requests, diagnosing technical problems, defending against automated abuse, and ensuring that the website displays correctly on your device. This processing is necessary to provide you with the service you have requested when you visit the website.
3.2 To measure and improve editorial content
We process aggregated and pseudonymized analytics information to understand which articles are read, which sections are most useful, where readers arrive from, and how the website is used overall. This information helps us decide what to cover, how to structure our coverage, and where to invest editorial resources. We do not use analytics to identify individual readers or to build individual profiles.
3.3 To respond to inquiries and corrections
We process the information you provide in inquiries, corrections, and permission requests to respond to your inquiry and, where applicable, to investigate and publish corrections. This processing is necessary to perform the contract of correspondence that you initiate when you contact us and to comply with our editorial obligations.
3.4 To operate our affiliate program
When you click an affiliate link on our website, we and our affiliate partners process information about the click, including the referring page and a tracking identifier, to attribute any subsequent purchase to our website for commission purposes. This processing is based on our legitimate interest in operating the commercial model that funds our editorial coverage, as described in Section 7.
3.5 To display relevant advertising (where applicable)
If we display advertising on the website, we and our advertising partners may process information about your visit to display ads that are more relevant to your interests. The legal basis for this processing and your ability to opt out are described in Sections 4 and 9.
3.6 To comply with legal obligations
We may process personal information to comply with our legal obligations, including responding to lawful requests from public authorities, defending against legal claims, and complying with applicable tax, accounting, and record-keeping requirements. This processing is necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
4. Legal basis for processing (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with a GDPR-equivalent regime, we process your personal information under one or more of the following legal bases. We rely on each basis only for the processing activities to which it is most appropriate, and we will inform you of the specific basis on which we rely when we collect your data.
4.1 Consent
We rely on your consent for processing activities that involve non-essential cookies, personalized advertising, and other tracking that is not strictly necessary to operate the website. You can withdraw your consent at any time by adjusting your browser settings to block or limit the relevant cookies. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before the withdrawal.
4.2 Performance of a contract
We rely on the performance of a contract for processing activities that are necessary to provide you with the service you have requested. For example, when you contact us, we process the information you provide in order to respond to your inquiry, and that processing is necessary to perform the implicit contract of correspondence.
4.3 Legitimate interests
We rely on our legitimate interests for processing activities such as operating and securing the website, measuring and improving editorial content, and operating our affiliate program. Before relying on legitimate interests, we conduct a balancing test to ensure that our interests are not overridden by your rights and interests. We do not rely on legitimate interests for processing that is likely to cause you significant detriment.
4.4 Legal obligation
We rely on legal obligations for processing activities such as responding to lawful requests from public authorities and complying with applicable tax, accounting, and record-keeping requirements. The specific legal obligation applicable to each processing activity is identified at the time of processing.
7. Affiliate partners
Some of the outbound links on this website are affiliate links. When you click an affiliate link, a tracking identifier is set in your browser that allows the affiliate network or the linked provider to attribute any subsequent purchase you make on the provider's website to our website, so that we can receive a commission. The tracking identifier typically takes the form of a cookie set on your device and a tracking parameter appended to the destination URL.
The information shared through affiliate tracking is limited to click-attribution data: the referring page on our website, the time of the click, the affiliate identifier, and, where the linked provider's privacy policy permits, the fact of a subsequent purchase. We do not share your name, your email address, or any other personal information that you may have provided to us through inquiries or newsletter subscription. The linked provider's privacy policy governs any personal information you provide to that provider directly.
The specific affiliate partners we work with vary by platform reviewed and may change over time. The affiliate networks and providers we currently work with include the operators of the platforms reviewed on this site and the affiliate networks that represent them. The retention period for affiliate-tracking cookies varies by network and is described in our Cookies Policy. You can disable affiliate-tracking cookies through your browser settings.
8. Analytics and measurement
We use analytics services to understand how the website is used and to improve our editorial coverage. Analytics services collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the duration of your visit, the referring URL, your approximate geographic location, and certain technical information about your device and browser. The information is typically pseudonymized through the use of an analytics identifier stored in a cookie on your device.
We configure our analytics services to truncate IP addresses before storage where supported, to limit the retention of detailed data to a fixed period, and to disable any features that we do not need for editorial measurement. We do not use analytics to identify individual readers, to build individual profiles, or to combine analytics data with personal information that you have provided to us through other channels, except where necessary to respond to your inquiry or to investigate a correction.
The specific analytics providers we work with may change from time to time. Each provider processes analytics data on its own infrastructure and under its own privacy policy, which is available on the provider's website. We have configured our analytics providers to process data on our behalf where supported, and we have signed data-processing agreements with each provider that offers such agreements.
9. Advertising
If we display advertising on the website, we may use third-party advertising partners to serve and measure ads. These partners may set their own cookies and process information about your visit to display ads that are more relevant to your interests and to measure the performance of those ads. Personalized advertising is based on your consent where required by applicable law, and you can withdraw your consent at any time through your browser settings.
Our advertising partners may participate in industry self-regulatory programs that allow you to opt out of interest-based advertising from participating companies. We provide links to the opt-out pages of these programs in our Cookies Policy. Opting out of interest-based advertising does not mean that you will see fewer ads; it means that the ads you see will be less relevant to your interests.
We do not currently share personal information with advertising partners for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising as defined under the CCPA. If we begin to do so, we will update this Privacy Policy to describe the practice, the categories of personal information shared, the categories of partners with whom we share, and your right to opt out under the CCPA and similar state laws.
10. Data retention
We retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. The specific retention periods applicable to each category of personal information are described below.
10.1 Inquiry and correction submissions
We retain inquiry and correction submissions for a period of two years from the date of receipt, after which they are deleted from our active systems. If a submission results in a published correction, we retain the submission indefinitely as part of the editorial record of that correction, in pseudonymized form where feasible. If a submission contains information that we are required to retain for longer periods under applicable law, we retain that information for the period required by law.
10.2 Newsletter subscriptions
We retain newsletter subscription information for as long as your subscription is active. When you unsubscribe, we delete your email address from our active newsletter system within thirty days. We retain aggregate, pseudonymized records of subscription activity for an additional period of up to twenty-four months for analytics purposes, after which they are deleted.
10.3 Analytics data
We retain detailed analytics data for a period of fourteen months, after which it is automatically deleted or aggregated into longer-period summaries that do not identify individual visitors. Aggregate summaries may be retained indefinitely for trend analysis. The retention period for analytics cookies set on your device is described in our Cookies Policy.
10.4 Server logs
We retain server logs containing technical information about your visit for a period of ninety days for security and operational purposes, after which they are automatically deleted. Server logs associated with a specific security incident or legal matter may be retained for a longer period until the incident or matter is resolved.
10.5 Affiliate-tracking data
The retention period for affiliate-tracking cookies set on your device is described in our Cookies Policy. Server-side affiliate-click records are retained for a period of twenty-four months to support reconciliation and dispute resolution with our affiliate partners, after which they are deleted or aggregated.
11. Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include encryption of data in transit using industry-standard TLS, access controls that limit access to personal information to authorized personnel who need it to perform their duties, regular security reviews of our systems and service providers, and incident-response procedures for suspected security breaches.
No method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information. If we become aware of a security breach that is likely to result in a risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify you and the relevant supervisory authority in accordance with applicable law, typically within seventy-two hours of becoming aware of the breach.
If you have reason to believe that your personal information has been compromised in connection with this website, please contact us through the channels described in Section 17 so that we can investigate and take appropriate steps.
12. International transfers
Our primary operations are based in the United States, and personal information collected on this website is processed and stored in the United States. Some of our service providers, including analytics providers and content-delivery networks, may process personal information in other jurisdictions as part of their global infrastructure. If you access this website from outside the United States, your personal information will be transferred to the United States and possibly to other jurisdictions.
For residents of jurisdictions with restrictions on cross-border data transfers, such as the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, we ensure that such transfers are protected by appropriate safeguards. These safeguards may include the European Commission's adequacy decisions for the destination country, the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, or other transfer mechanisms recognized under applicable law. We will provide a copy of the relevant safeguards on request where we are required to do so.
If you have questions about the international transfer of your personal information, please contact us through the channels described in Section 17.
13. Your privacy rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information. The rights described below are available to residents of jurisdictions whose laws provide them, and we will respond to qualifying requests in accordance with applicable law. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the channels described in Section 17.
13.1 Rights under the GDPR
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have the following rights under the GDPR: the right to access your personal information; the right to rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal information; the right to erase your personal information in certain circumstances; the right to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances; the right to object to the processing of your personal information based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing; the right to data portability; and the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing that took place before the withdrawal.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority if you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes applicable law. We encourage you to contact us first so that we can attempt to resolve your concern, but you are not required to do so before contacting your authority.
13.2 Rights under the CCPA and similar US state laws
If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights under the CCPA: the right to know what personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources, the purposes for which it was collected, and the categories of third parties with whom we have shared it; the right to request deletion of your personal information; the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information; and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights.
Residents of other US states may have similar rights under their state's privacy laws. We do not sell personal information as defined under the CCPA, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. To submit a request under the CCPA or a similar state law, please contact us through the channels described in Section 17 and identify the right you wish to exercise. We will verify your identity before responding to a request as required by applicable law.
13.3 Other jurisdictions
Residents of other jurisdictions may have privacy rights under their local law, including rights of access, rectification, erasure, and objection. We will respond to qualifying requests from residents of other jurisdictions in accordance with applicable law and with the principles described in this Privacy Policy.
14. Children's privacy
This website is intended exclusively for adults who are at least eighteen (18) years of age, or the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence, whichever is higher. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If you become aware that a minor has provided personal information to us through a newsletter subscription or any other channel, please contact us so that we can promptly delete the information.
Because the website does not require registration to read content, a minor who visits the website will trigger only the same automatic technical information collection as any other visitor. If you wish to prevent a minor in your care from accessing the website, we recommend that you use parental-control tools available in your device or operating system to block access to adult content.
15. Sensitive information
We ask that you not provide sensitive personal information to us through any channel. Sensitive personal information includes, but is not limited to, health information, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, genetic data, biometric data, sexual orientation, and information about your use of any specific AI companion platform. We do not need and do not want this information to respond to your inquiry, and providing it may limit our ability to act on your message.
If you do provide sensitive personal information despite this request, we will treat it in accordance with applicable law. We will not use it for any purpose beyond responding to your inquiry, we will not share it with any third party except as required by law, and we will delete it as soon as the inquiry is resolved.
16. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal obligations, or operational requirements. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, post a notice on the home page or notify registered users by email. Your continued use of the website after any update constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
What counts as a material change is determined in good faith by us, but generally includes changes to the categories of information we collect, the purposes for which we process information, the categories of recipients with whom we share information, the retention periods, and the legal bases for processing. Minor clarifications, grammatical corrections, and reformatting are not material changes and will not be separately flagged.
You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed of any updates. We recommend that you bookmark this page and check the "Last updated" date before relying on any specific provision. If you do not agree with an updated version of this Privacy Policy, you must discontinue use of the website.
17. Contact and complaints
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about our handling of your personal information, if you wish to exercise any of the rights described in Section 13, or if you wish to file a complaint about our privacy practices, please contact us through the channels listed on our website.
We aim to respond to privacy inquiries within thirty days, though response times may be longer during our quarterly review cycle. If your inquiry is urgent, please indicate the urgency in your message.
If we are unable to resolve your concern to your satisfaction, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority or, in the United States, with the relevant state attorney general. We encourage you to contact us first so that we can attempt to address your concern, but you are not required to do so before contacting an authority.
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