Commitment to User Privacy and Conversational Safety

At EmberGF (embergf.com), we operate as an independent editorial research publication dedicated to evaluating AI companion platforms, uncensored conversational models, virtual intimacy agents, and character generative technologies. Given the deeply sensitive nature of human-to-AI interaction, conversational roleplay, and emotional attachment dynamics, protecting reader privacy and advocating for data sovereignty across the generative AI ecosystem is our central commitment.

This Privacy Policy provides full transparency regarding how EmberGF collects, processes, stores, and protects technical data when you visit our publication, inspect our memory benchmarks, read our uncensored platform teardowns, or use our account-exit guides. We adhere strictly to principles of data minimization, privacy-by-design, and zero-monetization of visitor identities.

Data We Collect and Technical Processing

EmberGF is built to be browsed freely and anonymously. We do not operate customer account databases, paid reader paywalls, or gated newsletter forms on this website. You are never required to provide your name, billing details, or identity credentials to read our evaluations.

1. Infrastructure Server Telemetry

When your browser requests pages, stylesheets, or visual assets from EmberGF, standard web server requests generate minimal operational access logs. These records contain:

  • The Internet Protocol (IP) address from which the connection originated (anonymized at our edge CDN layer).
  • Timestamp, request protocol (HTTP/2, HTTP/3), and requested resource URI.
  • HTTP response status code, referrer headers, and transfer payload sizes.
  • Browser User-Agent strings used to ensure correct stylesheet media-query application.

These server logs are used exclusively for DDoS protection, infrastructure security monitoring, edge cache optimization, and rate-limiting abusive scrapers. They are never joined with advertising profiles or shared with data aggregators.

2. Cookieless Ecosystem Analytics

To measure readership interest across editorial categories (such as conversational memory tests, voice synthesis latency, and billing transparency investigations), EmberGF uses an internally hosted, cookieless analytics solution hosted at a.amfoxy.com. Our analytics engine:

  • Does not store tracking cookies or persistent identifiers on your terminal device.
  • Does not track your identity across external third-party websites or networks.
  • Aggregates metrics purely at the anonymized level (country of origin, browser family, viewport dimensions, referral domain, and page view sequences).
  • Does not construct psychological or behavioral consumer profiles.

Commercial Transparency and Outbound Referral Links

EmberGF maintains strict editorial independence. Our reviews, ratings, privacy scores, and benchmark rankings are never sold to companion developers or altered in exchange for financial sponsorship. To fund server operations, technical laboratory hardware, and independent testing subscriptions, we utilize affiliate referral partnerships.

Throughout our reviews and platform guides, readers encounter outbound links formatted through our centralized referral redirect structure (/go/{platform-slug}/). When you choose to click one of these outbound links:

  • A 302/307 redirect forwards your browser to the respective platform provider (such as Candy AI, DreamCompanion, Kindroid, or others).
  • Our system sets a short-lived, functional session cookie purely to maintain consistent referral routing and prevent broken destination hops during your session.
  • No personal data, private notes, or browsing histories are transmitted from EmberGF to the destination provider.
  • Once you arrive on an external provider website, their independent Privacy Policy and Terms of Service govern any account registration or subscription activities you perform.

Evaluation of AI Companion Security & Data Governance

As part of our journalistic mandate, EmberGF regularly audits third-party AI companion services for memory privacy, chat logging policies, account deletion integrity, and model retention practices. However, readers must note:

  • EmberGF evaluates third-party services from an independent consumer advocacy perspective; we do not own, control, or host the external AI models or companion chat servers reviewed.
  • We strongly advise all users of conversational AI to avoid transmitting real-world personal identification, financial credentials, corporate trade secrets, or sensitive health data to any cloud-hosted AI companion service.
  • Readers should always inspect the data retention toggles, zero-retention flags, and account export features documented in our individual platform safety guides before engaging in private conversations on external platforms.

Cookies and Storage Technologies

EmberGF avoids invasive tracking cookies entirely. Storage technologies on this domain are strictly limited to:

  • Functional Local Storage: Storing client-side interface state (such as preferred reading modes or language selector states).
  • Routing Session Cookies: Temporary, pseudonymous session cookies required for affiliate load-balancing and dynamic link rotation via /go/ hops.
  • Edge Cache Headers: Standard cache headers facilitating lightning-fast delivery via Cloudflare edge points of presence.

Your Rights Under GDPR, UK GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA

Readers located within the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, California, and other jurisdictions with comprehensive privacy legislation hold specific statutory rights regarding their data:

  • Right to Information & Transparency: You have the right to understand how data is processed by our publication.
  • Right to Erasure & Objection: You may request the deletion of any server log entries or email correspondence containing your information.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We do not restrict website access, alter content quality, or penalize visitors who exercise their data privacy prerogatives.

Because we do not maintain registered user accounts or identifiable personal dossiers, inquiries regarding access logs must include the relevant timestamp and IP address to locate technical server records.

Contact & Editorial Compliance

For questions regarding this Privacy Policy, editorial standards, or data protection inquiries, please contact our team: