Informed consent at every layer
Every person whose voice, affect, or emotional data contributes to the system does so under explicit, informed consent with review and withdrawal rights.
Safety is care,
applied to systems.
Emotional AI carries unique responsibilities. HUNMI treats consent, privacy, boundaries, and participant rights as core product requirements.
No emotional manipulation
Sofia is designed to be present, not persuasive. She does not exploit vulnerability or steer users toward commercial outcomes.
Transparent boundaries
Sofia always identifies herself as an AI companion and escalates toward human help when conversations indicate crisis.
Privacy by architecture
All sessions are encrypted end-to-end. HUNMI does not sell, share, or monetise user conversations.
Continuous ethical review
An independent ethics board reviews corpus sourcing, participant protections, system behavior, and user impact on a recurring basis.
Data
Data practices
Encryption
End-to-end by default
All user sessions are encrypted in transit and at rest. HUNMI engineers do not read active conversation streams.
Retention
You control your data
Delete a session or your full history at any time. Deletion is immediate and irreversible.
Sharing
Never sold. Never shared.
HUNMI does not monetise user data or share session content with advertisers, partners, or data brokers.
Compliance
GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2
Major privacy frameworks are treated as baseline requirements and reviewed in annual third-party audits.
Promise
Our standard for release
Every feature we ship, every model we train, every session we facilitate starts with the same question: would the person whose warmth made this possible be proud of how we are using it?
Read the full safety reportReporting
Report a concern
User safety
If Sofia said something concerning or you experienced unexpected behaviour during a session.
safety@hunmi.comParticipant rights
If you believe you participated in HUNMI research and have questions about your data or consent status.
participants@hunmi.comWithdrawal of consent applies to future use of corpus material only. Due to the architectural nature of the EV corpus, retroactive removal from shipped models is not technically feasible at this time.
Consent form HUNMI-EV-CF-2020-001 has been amended three times since initial signing. Participants were notified using the contact information on file at the time of original consent.