Privacy Policy for Habitat AI

Sometimes we'll need to get acquainted, such as when you:

• Create an account with Habitat AI
• Set up your personalized habitat preferences
• Contact our support team (they're lovely people, by the way)
• Enable location-based features for your local habitat recommendations

We collect this information thoughtfully and store it securely – think of it as keeping your data in a well-organized, locked filing cabinet, not scattered on a messy desk.

Habitat AI does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. Period. Your data won't end up in some sketchy data bazaar.

These service providers only receive the technical information necessary to perform their specific functions, and they're contractually obligated to protect your data.

Other than these essential service providers, we don't share your information with other organizations, partners, or that guy who keeps asking.

If you opt-in to our community features, some basic profile information may be visible to other Habitat AI users within the app.

We use analytics and monitoring tools to understand how Habitat AI is performing and how we can make it better. This includes:

• App crashes (we hope there aren't any, but we're realistic)
• Feature usage patterns
• General geographic regions (country/state level, not your exact couch coordinates)
• Device information (phone model, OS version – the boring technical stuff)

These statistics help us improve the app but don't track your individual personal details. Our third-party service providers process this data according to their respective privacy policies and data protection standards.

You Own Your Content: Any documents, PDFs, notes, or other content you upload to Habitat AI remains yours. We don't claim ownership of your materials.

License to Process Your Content: However, to provide our services (summaries, flashcards, recommendations, collaboration features), you grant Habitat AI a non-exclusive, worldwide, revocable license to:

• Host, store, and cache your uploaded content
• Process and analyze content with AI to generate summaries, flashcards, and insights
• Transform and display your content within the app features you use
• Maintain and improve service quality (debugging, performance tuning)

Third-Party Content: When you request processing of web pages, arXiv papers, blog posts, or other online content, you're responsible for ensuring you have permission to process that material. Our summaries are tools to help you understand content, not substitutes for accessing the original works or respecting their licenses.

Habitat AI uses artificial intelligence (both our own systems and third-party AI providers) to analyze your content and generate summaries, flashcards, and recommendations.

What This Means:

• Your uploaded content is processed by AI models to extract key information and generate insights
• We may use third-party AI service providers (who act as data processors under strict agreements)
• AI outputs may contain errors, incomplete interpretations, or inaccuracies
• We may use automated systems to detect abuse (e.g., systematic uploading of pirated content) and throttle or block such use

We respect intellectual property rights and comply with applicable copyright laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United States.

If you believe content in Habitat AI infringes your copyright:

1. Send a written notice to our designated copyright agent at: chimp@habitatai.app
2. Include in your notice:
   • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed
   • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it
   • Your contact information (address, telephone number, email)
   • A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material is not authorized
   • A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner
   • Your physical or electronic signature

What Happens Next:

• We will promptly investigate valid copyright notices
• If we determine content is infringing, we will remove or disable access to it
• We will notify the user who uploaded or requested the content
• Users who repeatedly infringe copyright may have their accounts suspended or terminated

We keep different types of data for different periods, always balancing service quality with your privacy:

• Uploaded Documents: Stored as long as your account is active or until you delete them
• Generated Summaries & Flashcards: Retained as long as the source document remains or until you delete them
• Web-Fetched Content: Cached temporarily (typically 30-90 days) unless saved to your library
• Account Information: Retained while your account is active and for a short period after deletion as required by law
• Analytics & Technical Logs: Typically retained for 12-24 months for service improvement and security

When You Delete Content or Your Account:

• Deleted items are immediately removed from active systems and your view
• Content may persist in encrypted backups for up to 90 days (backups are not used for AI training or active features)
• Some anonymized analytics data may be retained longer for service improvement
• We may retain certain records as required by law (e.g., for accounting, dispute resolution)

Your Data Rights: Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, port, or restrict processing of your personal data. Contact us at crew@habitatai.app to exercise these rights.

No Professional Advice: Habitat AI provides AI-powered summarization and learning tools. Our service does not provide legal, financial, medical, academic, or other professional advice. Any summaries, insights, or recommendations are for informational and educational purposes only.

No Endorsement: The availability of a summary or processing of content does not constitute our endorsement, verification, or guarantee of accuracy of the underlying materials.

Limitation of Liability: To the extent permitted by law, Habitat AI is not liable for losses arising from reliance on summaries instead of original source materials, or from errors or omissions in AI-generated content. You agree to verify important information and consult original sources.

Intended Use: Habitat AI is designed for use with your own content, openly licensed materials (like arXiv), internal documents you're authorized to process, and publicly accessible web content where you have legitimate reason to create summaries for personal learning or research.