Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Amukin Design & Advisory ("Amukin," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and protects information when you use Parley (the "Service"), available at parley.amukin.com.

1. Who We Are

Parley is operated by Amukin Design & Advisory. If you have questions about this policy or your data, contact us at contact@amukin.com.

2. Information We Collect

• Account information: when you sign up, we collect your email address and, if you sign in with Google, your name and profile information from your Google account, via Firebase Authentication.
• Content you provide: anything you type or upload into a Room, including messages, Room names and descriptions, notes you save, and documents generated within a Room, is stored so the Service can function, e.g. so you can come back to a conversation later.
• API credentials (BYOK, optional): On the free and Credit plans no key of your own is needed. If you choose to, Parley also lets you connect your own API keys for AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, Qwen, SEA-LION, Cohere, PLaMo, or Upstage). These keys are encrypted before they are stored, using envelope encryption via Google Cloud KMS, and only the Service's runtime system (not Amukin staff) can decrypt them, solely to make API calls to the corresponding provider on your behalf.
• Billing information: if you subscribe to a paid plan, billing is handled by Stripe. We do not store your card number; we retain only your plan tier and subscription status.
• Technical and log data: we keep operational logs (e.g. error messages, timestamps, Room/participant identifiers) to diagnose and fix problems. These logs are not designed to capture your full conversation content.
• Cookies and analytics: we use a functional cookie to remember your language preference, and Google Analytics to understand how the site is used. Google Analytics sets its own cookies and records structural events only: that a page was viewed, that an account was created, that a Room was created and how many models were in it, that a message was sent and how many models it addressed. It never receives the content of your messages, your Room names, your documents, or your questions, and we do not send it an identifier that links these events back to your account. We do not use advertising cookies and we do not sell or share this data with advertisers. You can opt out entirely with Google's browser add-on, or by blocking analytics in your browser; neither affects how Parley works.
• Today's dilemma: the daily question at /today can be answered without an account. When you vote, we add one to that day's total for the option you chose, and that is all we store: the vote is not kept with an account, an IP address, or any other identifier. Which option you picked and the days you answered are kept only in your own browser, so the page can show your choice and your streak when you come back; clearing the site's data in your browser removes them. Google Analytics records that a vote was cast, for which of Parley's dilemmas and which of its two options. To limit abuse, the server counts requests per IP address in memory for up to an hour and does not save them. The dilemmas are written by Parley and are never taken from anyone's conversations.
• Trying a consultation without an account: the box on the home page answers one question without an account. What you type is sent to our server and on to the AI providers described in section 4, only to produce the four replies shown to you. We do not save the question or the replies, we do not log their text, and they are not linked to an account or any other identifier. Your question is kept in your own browser so that it is there after you sign up, and clearing your browser's site data removes it. To limit cost and abuse we keep a daily count of how many such tries were made, and the server counts requests per IP address in memory for up to a day without saving them. Google Analytics records that a question was sent and answered, never its text. This feature is for adults aged 18 and over.

3. How We Use Information

We use the information above to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain the Service
• Authenticate you and secure your account
• Process payments and manage subscriptions
• Relay your requests to AI providers, using either Parley's own provider account (free and Credit plans) or an API key you connected (BYOK)
• Diagnose bugs and improve reliability
• Communicate with you about the Service (e.g. account or billing notices)

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use your conversation content to train any AI model of our own.

Consultation memory. When you talk something over in Consult, Parley automatically keeps a short list of facts about your situation from what you write (for example, "lives alone in Osaka" or "has two children"), so the AIs answering you do not have to ask again next time. Only your own messages are used, never the AIs' guesses about you. Information about health, sex or sexuality, religion, politics, crime, and amounts of money is not kept unless you explicitly ask Parley to remember it in that conversation, and identification numbers, card or account numbers, and passwords are never kept, even if you ask. A low-cost AI model (Google Gemini, on Parley's paid account) reads your recent messages to pick out these facts. The list is sent only to the AI providers answering your consultations, as part of the instructions they receive. You can see every item, delete any of them, or turn memory off (which deletes the whole list) at any time under "What we remember" in the app. The list is deleted together with your account.

Follow-up email after a consultation. After a consultation, one of the characters may ask in the chat whether it can email you the next day to ask how things went. The email is sent only if you say yes, to your account's email address. Your yes also covers your later consultations: after each one, the character says in the chat that it will email you, and one email is sent the next day. You can skip any one of them in the chat before it is sent, and every email has a link that stops all of them at once. With your yes, the email may include one short line that names what the consultation was about. A low-cost AI model (Google Gemini, on Parley's paid account) drafts that line from your own messages, and it is shown to you in the chat before you answer; what is sent is the line you were shown. No line is drafted for consultations that touch health, sex or sexuality, religion, politics, crime, or money, and those emails do not say what the consultation was about. The line never appears in the email's subject. The email is delivered by our email provider (section 5). The line is kept with the consultation and is deleted together with it or with your account.

4. Sharing With Third-Party AI Providers

When you send a message to an AI Participant in a Room, Parley relays that message, along with relevant conversation history, to the corresponding AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, Qwen, SEA-LION, Cohere, PLaMo, or Upstage) using either Parley's own provider account or, if you connected one, your own API key. That provider then processes your message under its own terms and privacy policy, which govern how it retains and uses that data. Parley has no control over, and is not responsible for, how a third-party AI provider handles data once it receives your request. We encourage you to review each provider's own privacy policy before connecting it.

5. Other Service Providers

We use the following subprocessors to operate Parley:

• Google Cloud Platform / Firebase (hosting, database, authentication, encryption key management)
• Stripe (payment processing)
• Resend (delivery of the emails we send you)

6. Data Storage and Security

Your data is stored on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. API credentials are encrypted at rest using envelope encryption (Google Cloud KMS) before being written to our database; the ability to decrypt them is restricted to the Service's own runtime and not available to Amukin staff directly. We use industry-standard access controls to limit who and what can reach your data.

7. Data Retention and Deletion

We retain your account and Room data for as long as your account is active. You can delete a Room at any time from within the app. You can permanently delete your account from the Account page; doing so immediately and permanently deletes your Rooms (including all messages, notes, and documents within them), your consultation memory, your connected API keys, and your account itself, and immediately cancels any active paid subscription so you are not billed again. Deletion is irreversible; we cannot recover this data once it's deleted.

8. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your personal information, or to object to or restrict certain processing. You can exercise most of these rights directly within the app (editing your profile, deleting Rooms, deleting your account). For anything else, contact us at contact@amukin.com. If you are in Japan, these rights are provided consistent with the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI).

9. International Data Transfers

Amukin is based in Japan, and our infrastructure providers (Google Cloud, Stripe, and the AI providers you connect) may process and store data outside Japan. By using the Service, you consent to this transfer.

10. Children's Privacy

Parley is not directed at, and is not intended for use by, anyone under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, notify you within the app.

12. Contact

Amukin Design & Advisory
Email: contact@amukin.com