Last Updated: June 3, 2026
ThePhilosopher.AI is an experimental philosophical research platform. This Policy explains how we collect, use, retain, and disclose information when you use the platform, including Private Library and AI-assisted research features.
We use information to:
Private Library and Vault content is stored in a per-user-isolated library and is not shown to other users. It is not added to the public corpus and is not used to train models that serve other users.
Private author/persona doppelgangers use prompt orchestration and retrieval over works available in your own Private Library. They are private reading companion features, not model fine-tuning, pretraining, or model-weight training.
Private Library retrieval is scoped to the uploading user. Cross-user source resolution may use bibliographic metadata to say that no full text is available in the current user's library, but it must not reveal who uploaded a work or whether a bibliographic match came from another user's private library.
Some features may send prompts, excerpts, embeddings, metadata, or generated outputs to AI or infrastructure providers so the feature can work. We will not knowingly route Private Library or Vault content to a provider whose then-current terms allow that provider to use submitted content to train or improve general models without our explicit opt-in.
If we later offer a separate user-owned-work model-training feature, that feature will use only materials the user separately submits or marks as eligible for that purpose after a separate opt-in and rights attestation. Private Library and Vault materials are not automatically training data.
Providers may retain limited data for security, abuse monitoring, legal compliance, support, reliability, or other operational purposes under their API or enterprise terms. We review providers for training use, retention, deletion, confidentiality, and security posture before routing private uploaded content through them.
We do not sell your personal information or private uploaded content.
We may disclose information only in limited circumstances:
We may use signup IP region, active/session IP region, declared country, billing country if available, user role, and account status to determine whether a feature is available in your jurisdiction. We retain region and attestation audit data where needed to demonstrate rights, access, compliance, and security decisions.
We retain information for as long as needed to provide the platform, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce Terms, preserve audit trails, and support research operations.
If you revoke a Private Library or Vault attestation, affected content is immediately disabled from retrieval and AI processing, retained in inaccessible soft-delete for 7-14 days for correction or reconnection, then deleted from active systems. Backup copies expire on normal backup rotation. Legal, security, abuse-prevention, billing, and audit records may be retained as required or permitted by law.
If content is disabled because of a copyright notice, restoration or deletion follows the applicable notice, counter-notice, claimant-withdrawal, or legal-resolution process.
Depending on your jurisdiction and account status, you may request to:
We use technical and organizational measures designed to protect information, including access controls, per-user data isolation, audit logs, and encryption where appropriate. No electronic system is perfectly secure, and the platform remains experimental.
The platform is not intended for children. You must be at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher, to use ThePhilosopher.AI.
We may update this Policy as the platform evolves. Material changes may be communicated through platform notices or renewed consent flows.
For questions about this Policy or your data, contact the platform team through the contact page. Copyright notices should use the Copyright/DMCA page at /legal/copyright.