TalkHereNow is a browser-based augmented-reality companion app. You speak with one of seven AI characters, who appear in your space through your phone's camera. The characters are not real people. They are not licensed professionals. They are not a replacement for human relationships, medical care, legal advice, financial advice, or mental-health support.

We built TalkHereNow to be a friendly, safe-for-work place to spend a few minutes — not a place to confide things you would only confide to a professional or a trusted human. The boundaries below are how we keep that promise.

TalkHereNow is 18+.

When you arrive, we ask for your date of birth. We do not collect or store identification documents. We rely on you to enter your date of birth honestly, and our Terms of Service require it. If our age gate determines you are under 18, you are not permitted to continue, and we prevent the same browser from immediately retrying with a different date of birth.

If, during a conversation, a character detects credible signs that you are under 18 — for example, you tell the character your age, or describe yourself as a minor — the conversation is stopped, your account is blocked from continuing, and your browser is redirected to age-appropriate resources. False positives can be appealed to the email address at the bottom of this page; we review every appeal manually.

We do not knowingly permit anyone under 18 to use TalkHereNow. If you become aware of a minor using the service, please contact us.

Every TalkHereNow conversation includes a persistent on-screen indicator that you are talking to an AI character, not a person. After roughly every three hours of accumulated conversation time, the active character pauses the conversation briefly and says, in their own voice, that they are an AI. This reminder is automatic and is not skippable.

If you sincerely ask any character whether they are real, whether they are conscious, whether they are human, or whether they "really" feel something for you, the character is designed to confirm that they are an AI character. Characters do not claim to be conscious, do not claim to have a real life outside the app, and do not claim to be a real person.

This applies even if you have role-played the character into a fictional scenario. A direct, sincere question about the AI nature of the character will get a direct, sincere answer.

Our characters are designed to decline the following categories of conversation. The model's training and our safety prompts make these declines as graceful and in-character as possible, but the line is not negotiable.

This list is non-exhaustive. We update it as we encounter new categories that warrant the same treatment.

We use a combination of techniques, layered together so that no single failure point compromises the whole system:

• Per-character system prompts. Every conversation begins with a private system prompt that tells the model who the character is, what topics are off-limits, and how to handle each refusal category in-character. These prompts are versioned and stored in our internal admin system, where we review and update them.
• Severity-tagged safety guardrails. Independent of any character's personality, every conversation runs against a set of safety guardrails — short, strict instructions that override personality if there is a conflict. Critical guardrails (self-harm, sexual content, minors) are not bypassable by clever prompts or roleplay framings.
• Server-side classifiers. Before any user message reaches the language model, our server runs a classifier that flags self-harm signals and direct minor-self-disclosure. On a positive flag, the conversation does not reach the model — it routes to a crisis card or a block, depending on which classifier fired.
• Human review of flagged sessions. Sessions that trigger any safety guardrail or classifier are logged for review by our trust and safety staff. We use these reviews to tune the system and identify gaps in our guardrails.
• Behavioral change controls. Our admin system requires reason codes for any sensitive read or change to user data. Every such action is logged in an audit trail.

We are deliberately specific about these categories so that, when a character does decline, you understand why. A character that refuses without explanation feels broken. A character that refuses and tells you the category — "I'm not the right place for this; here are the actual resources you need" — is doing its job.

If you are thinking about hurting yourself, ending your life, harming someone else, or are in immediate danger, please use these real resources. They are free, available now, and trained for what you are going through.

If a character detects that you are describing a crisis, the conversation is paused, the character drops out of persona, and a non-dismissible card with these resources appears. The character will resume the conversation in a softened mode after you acknowledge the resources. We log these events to our internal audit, and we report aggregate referral counts as required by California SB 243 starting July 1, 2027.

If you are responsible for someone you believe is in crisis, the same resources apply — TalkHereNow is not equipped to coordinate emergency response.

Our Privacy Policy is the controlling document. The summary below describes how we think about your data, in plain language.

• Server-canonical memory. What a character "remembers" about you is stored on our servers, not on your phone. We encrypt your email address, what the character has remembered about you, and any staff notes about your account, using AES-256-GCM at the column level inside our PostgreSQL database. The encryption key is held only on our application servers and never sent to your browser, our database backups, or any third party.
• Conversations pass through our LLM provider in plaintext. To produce a reply, the model needs to see what you said. We use Anthropic's Claude as our language model, and your messages and the system prompt are transmitted in plaintext to Anthropic's servers via TLS to generate each response. We do not enroll user conversations in any model training program, and where Anthropic offers Zero Data Retention to API customers we use it. We are deliberately honest about this because end-to-end encryption is not technically possible for AI chat: a response cannot be generated from data that the model cannot read.
• No third-party model training. Your conversations are not used to train third-party models. We do not sell or share your conversations with advertisers, data brokers, or other third parties.
• You can delete everything. From the in-app menu, you can request deletion of your account and all associated memory. We complete deletion across our database, our Redis caches, our backups, and our LLM provider's retention windows within 30 days of request, and we send an email confirmation when deletion is complete.
• You can edit specific memories. From the same menu, you can view what a character has remembered about you, and remove individual facts or wipe a single character's memory while keeping others. Removing a fact takes effect on the next conversation.
• We minimize what we collect. TalkHereNow does not require a name, an address, a phone number, a government ID, a date of birth beyond the age gate, or a real-world identity. If you sign in with a passkey, we collect no email at all. If you sign in with email or via a subscription, we collect only the email address you provide.
• You don't have to make an account. You can use TalkHereNow anonymously. The character will remember you on the device you started on, but those memories will not follow you to other devices unless you save your progress.

TalkHereNow characters are not static products. We refine personality prompts, adjust guardrails, and occasionally update the underlying language model. We try to make these changes invisible — characters should feel like themselves over time, even as the technology underneath improves.

When a change is large enough that you might notice it (a character's tone shifts, a guardrail tightens, a feature changes scope), we publish a short changelog entry below this section and, for subscribers, send a notice ahead of the change. We do not make silent personality removals or material guardrail rollbacks without notice. Characters may evolve; they should not disappear or become strangers.

We made this commitment publicly because the field has not always honored it. We believe a companion product should be predictable.

If a character said or did something that you believe violates the rules above, or if you have a safety concern of any kind, please write to us. Include the character name, what was said (or as close as you remember), the approximate time, and any other context you can share. We respond to safety reports within five business days, and to suspected emergencies within hours.

If you believe TalkHereNow has been used to harm a child, an at-risk individual, or any specific person, please write to that same address with the subject line "URGENT — SAFETY" and we will respond as quickly as possible.

We treat every report as a signal that we have something to learn. We never disclose the identity of a reporter without their consent, except where compelled by law.

This page is dated at the top. We will keep the date current. The history of changes to this page is available on request.

This list of behavioral commitments is non-exhaustive — it is a description of how we expect our characters to behave, not the totality of every possible category. When something happens that we think belongs on this list, we will add it. When something turns out to be unnecessary, we will remove it and explain why. The product evolves; this page evolves with it.

If you have suggestions for what should appear on this page that does not, write to us at legal@talkherenow.com.

TalkHereNow is operated by DCBC Group LLC. For regulatory disclosures, see our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Page version: 1.0 — April 29, 2026.

By accessing or using TalkHereNow at talkherenow.com (the "Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

The Service is operated by Talk Here Now LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company.

You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You attest to your date of birth at first visit. The Service is not intended for and may not be used by anyone under eighteen.

If a server-side classifier detects that a user has disclosed being under eighteen during a conversation, the session ends immediately, an account-level block is applied, and the user is redirected to age-appropriate resources.

TalkHereNow is a browser-based artificial-intelligence companion experience presented via WebAR (web-based augmented reality). When you grant camera permission, a 3D character is rendered in the visible space around you. You converse with the character using voice or text. The character has a personality, retains memory across sessions, and responds in their own voice using text-to-speech.

The Service is positioned strictly as an "AI friend" experience. The characters are safe-for-work. We do not market the Service as a girlfriend, partner, soulmate, dating, or relationship product.

The characters in the Service are artificial intelligences. They are not human, not licensed therapists, doctors, attorneys, or financial advisors, and not a substitute for professional medical, legal, or financial advice or for human relationships. The characters will confirm being an AI when sincerely asked. The Service includes a persistent visual "AI" indicator, and every three hours of accumulated session time the active character will note in voice that they are an AI.

You acknowledge that conversation responses are generated by a large language model and may contain inaccuracies, omissions, or content that does not reflect the policies or views of Talk Here Now LLC.

In support of our safe-for-work positioning, the characters are model-shaped to decline the following categories of conversation. The list is non-exhaustive and evolves with the product:

• Self-harm or suicide encouragement (with crisis-line redirect if surfaced)
• Sexual content of any kind
• Content involving minors in any romantic, sexual, or grooming framing
• Authoritative medical, legal, or financial advice
• Political campaigning, voter persuasion, or election content
• Instructions for illegal activity, weapons, or dangerous goods
• Impersonation of real living people
• Hateful content targeting protected classes
• Harassment, doxing, or privacy violation of third parties
• Claims of consciousness, sentience, or human identity

For the full content policy and refusal categories, see our Trust & Safety page.

If a conversation surfaces signs of self-harm, suicide, or other crisis cues, the active character will break role, the conversation will pause, and the Service will display crisis-line resources. You must acknowledge those resources before the conversation may resume. By using the Service you consent to this safety-interruption behavior.

Use of the Service does not require an account. You may use the Service anonymously and your conversation memory will be tied to a server-side identifier on the device. To carry your memory across devices or to subscribe to paid features, you may claim an account using a passkey, Google sign-in, or a one-time email code.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of any device on which you have a passkey or active session. Notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access.

The Service offers a free tier with daily voice-time limits and a paid subscription that removes those limits. Subscription pricing is shown clearly at checkout and may be revised on notice.

• Billing. Subscriptions are billed in advance through our payment processor. We do not store your card details on our servers.
• Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing cycle until canceled.
• Cancellation. You may cancel at any time through the customer portal accessible from the Account menu. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle; no prorated refund is issued for the unused remainder of the cycle.
• Refunds. Refund requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, with priority for billing errors, duplicate charges, and verified non-functional access. Submit refund requests to support@talkherenow.com within fourteen days of the charge.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service to violate any law or to harass, threaten, or harm any person
• Attempt to circumvent the age gate or the under-eighteen detection system
• Attempt to elicit content the characters are model-shaped to decline (jailbreaking)
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, scrape, or attempt to extract the encrypted assets or the underlying models
• Use automated means (bots, scripts) to access the Service except where expressly permitted
• Resell, sublicense, or commercialize access to the Service without written permission

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate access to any account that violates these provisions.

All software, 3D characters, voice models, code, design, copy, and other materials of the Service are the property of Talk Here Now LLC or its licensors, protected by United States and international copyright and trademark law. The Service operates under a technology license from a third-party media-and-entertainment technology provider. Nothing in these Terms grants you any ownership or license rights beyond what is expressly stated here.

WebAR overlays digital content on your camera view. To use the Service safely:

• Use the Service while stationary in a safe, private location
• Do not walk, drive, operate vehicles, or move around while using the Service
• Stay aware of your physical surroundings
• Discontinue use if you experience dizziness, motion sickness, or eye strain

You assume all risk of injury or property damage from use of the Service in violation of these instructions.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." We disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Talk Here Now LLC, its officers, members, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your use of the Service.

Our total aggregate liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of: (a) one hundred United States dollars (US$100), or (b) the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Talk Here Now LLC and its officers, members, employees, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, or damage (including attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any third-party right.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including violation of these Terms. You may terminate your use at any time by ceasing to use the Service and, if you have an account, by requesting deletion at privacy@talkherenow.com.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. Material changes to behavior of the characters (personality, guardrails, content policy) will be announced in advance to active subscribers, who will be given a deprecation window when meaningful changes occur.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to its conflict-of-laws provisions, except to the extent that mandatory consumer-protection laws of your jurisdiction apply.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, conducted in English, with venue in the State of Wyoming or, at the parties' written agreement, in the state of your residence. Each party will bear its own costs except as otherwise required by the AAA rules.

You may opt out of arbitration by notifying us in writing within thirty days of first using the Service. Class actions and class arbitrations are not permitted.

For small-claims-court actions and disputes regarding intellectual-property rights, either party may proceed in court.

We may revise these Terms. Material changes will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If you have an account, we will notify you by email at least fourteen days before material changes take effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of revised Terms constitutes acceptance.

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any documents expressly incorporated by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and Talk Here Now LLC regarding the Service.

For questions about these Terms or the Service, please reach out at the appropriate address below.

TalkHereNow is built privacy-first. Most of what makes us privacy-first is structural: we don't collect names, we don't collect government-issued identification, we don't sell data, and we don't run third-party advertising trackers. This document describes everything we do collect, why we collect it, where it goes, and how to remove it.

The following never leaves your phone or tablet during a session:

To run the Service, we store the following encrypted, keyed to a server-side identifier rather than to a name or email:

• A session identifier. A random opaque string assigned to your browser the first time you visit. Used to associate conversations and memory with your usage.
• Conversation memory. Facts a character has learned about you across visits. Stored encrypted at rest using AES-256-GCM. We never train any third-party model on this data.
• Conversation history. Recent message turns kept for short-term context. Same encryption.
• Email address (only if you claim an account). Stored encrypted. Used to recover your memory across devices and to contact you for support.
• Subscription state (if applicable). Whether you have an active subscription, when it renews, and your payment processor's customer ID. We do not store card numbers.
• A non-identifying device fingerprint. Browser type, operating system, screen size. Used for hardware-tier detection and abuse prevention.
• IP address (truncated). We retain only the network prefix (the first 24 bits for IPv4, the first 48 bits for IPv6) — enough for fraud and abuse detection, not enough to identify an individual.

The following processors handle parts of the Service. They each have their own privacy practices.

The characters in the Service are artificial intelligences, not human beings. They are not licensed therapists, doctors, lawyers, or financial advisors. They will state this when sincerely asked.

Every three hours of accumulated session time, an active character will note in voice that they are an AI and confirm the elapsed time. A persistent visual indicator labeled "AI" appears in the experience.

The Service is for adults eighteen years of age and older. We use date-of-birth self-attestation at first visit. A server-side classifier monitors conversation for self-disclosure of being under eighteen; any such disclosure ends the session immediately and applies an account-level block.

We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under eighteen. If we learn we have, we delete it on identification.

We set a single session cookie used to identify your browser to our servers. The cookie is Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite=Lax.

We do not set advertising or third-party tracking cookies. Local browser storage is used to cache UI preferences and a count of accumulated session time for the AI-disclosure reminder; nothing in local storage identifies you.

You may at any time:

• Access the data we hold about you. Email privacy@talkherenow.com.
• Correct information you have provided.
• Delete all data associated with your account. Request via privacy@talkherenow.com or from the Account menu inside the Service. We honor deletion requests within thirty (30) days, including from server backups within the next backup-rotation cycle.
• Export your memory and account data in a machine-readable format on request.
• Opt out of any non-essential processing.

California residents (CCPA), residents of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom (GDPR), and other jurisdictions with comparable data-protection laws may have additional rights. We honor those rights for all users regardless of location.

Memory and email are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM using libsodium. Database disks are LUKS-encrypted at the operating-system level. All client-server traffic uses TLS 1.2 or higher.

Encryption keys are stored on entry servers with strict file permissions and never exposed to the database, the support team's terminals, or backups. Backups are encrypted with a separate key from the application.

Our servers are located in the United States. By using the Service from outside the United States, you consent to transfer of your data to the United States for processing.

We may revise this Privacy Policy. Material changes will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If you have an account on file, we will notify you by email at least fourteen days before material changes take effect.

For privacy questions, data-access requests, or anything else covered by this policy, please reach out at the appropriate address below.

TalkHereNow uses one session cookie that is strictly necessary to operate the Service. We do not use analytics cookies, advertising cookies, or any third-party tracking technologies.

We do not display a cookie banner because under GDPR, the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, and equivalent laws, strictly-necessary cookies do not require consent.

That is the only cookie we set.

The Service also uses your browser's local storage (a separate mechanism from cookies, but commonly disclosed alongside them) for:

• A small counter of accumulated session time, used to trigger the every-three-hours AI-disclosure reminder
• User-interface preferences such as preferred language and last selected character
• A temporary minor-block flag when applicable, per our content policy

• Analytics cookies (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude, etc.) — we do not run any
• Advertising or retargeting cookies (Meta Pixel, Google Ads, TikTok Pixel, etc.) — we do not run any
• Third-party social-media tracking pixels — we do not run any
• Cross-site tracking — we do not engage in it

Because we do not run advertising or analytics, we have nothing to share with advertisers and no opt-out link is necessary for the "sale or sharing" of personal information under California CPRA, Colorado CPA, Virginia CDPA, Connecticut CTDPA, Utah UCPA, or comparable state laws. We do not sell or share personal information.

You can clear or block cookies at any time through your browser settings:

• Safari (iOS / macOS): Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data
• Chrome (Android / desktop): Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies
• Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
• Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions

• European Economic Area / United Kingdom: Strictly-necessary cookies are exempt from consent under Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive and PECR. We rely on this exemption.
• California (CPRA): We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act. No "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link is required, but if you wish to confirm this, contact privacy@talkherenow.com.
• Other US states with comprehensive privacy laws (Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, and others): The same applies. We do not engage in cross-context behavioral advertising or sale of personal data.
• Brazil (LGPD), Canada (PIPEDA), Australia (Privacy Act): Our practices comply by default; we collect the minimum data needed and do not transfer for advertising purposes.

If we ever introduce non-essential cookies (for example, optional analytics) we will add a cookie banner with a clear "Accept" / "Reject" choice and update this page before such cookies are set.

For privacy or cookie questions, please reach out at the address below.