You Told URIEL Everything. Here's Where It Goes.

This article is available in English. Spanish and Arabic translations will follow after legal review.

Most companies bury this in a privacy policy nobody reads. We're not doing that.

Here's the thing. URIEL asks you for more than almost any software ever will: your faith, your upbringing, what's keeping you up at night. It has to. You cannot be coached well by something that doesn't know you.

But you should never hand over that much of yourself without knowing exactly where it goes and who touches it.

Dr. Young describes the moment people meet URIEL: "Damn, this thing really sees me." And the truth is, it's just responding to data sets. The seeing is real, and it is built entirely from what you chose to share. That's why this page exists.

So this is the plain version, and where something isn't finished, we say so. It sits alongside our formal Privacy Policy: that one's the legal document, this one's the human one.

Where your data lives and how it's protected

Everything you share lives in a managed, access-controlled database, with the deep-memory embeddings held right beside the text they came from. Uploaded documents live in separate managed file storage.

Both are encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS. That encryption happens at the infrastructure level, by the platforms that run it. We don't layer our own cryptography on top of it.

Every query the application makes is scoped to the person signed in. One user's data isn't reachable from another user's account, enforced at the query level rather than just hidden in the interface. The tools URIEL itself uses to look things up carry the same restriction, and none of them accepts an identity from the AI: who you are always comes from your login, never from the model.

The other services that hold pieces of your account

Each of these does one job, and nothing more. A hosting platform runs the app and routes the AI calls. A managed database holds your records. Object storage holds your uploads. If you upload a document, a document-parsing service reads its full content to turn scans and PDFs into text URIEL can use. If you hand URIEL a link, a page-fetching service retrieves it. A payment processor takes payment, and your card details never touch our servers. An email service sends your account email. A job queue runs our background work. And if you connect a social profile, a crawling service fetches its public posts for us.

Our analytics and error-reporting tool is the one that touches your identity: it receives your email address and name so a crash can be traced back to an account. It never receives session content, and session recording is switched off. It also only runs if you allow analytics cookies; decline them, or change your mind later in settings, and nothing more is sent.

Every one of these services is under a formal agreement with us, and the complete named list lives in our Privacy Policy, where the law requires it. This page is about what each one touches.

What you control

• Skip it. Optional questions can be left blank, and "Prefer not to say" is a real answer where it's offered.

• Change your mind. Every onboarding answer is editable from your profile, and the optional sensitive ones can be cleared outright. Saving rebuilds the coaching profile URIEL works from, so the change actually reaches how it talks to you. The deep-memory copy refreshes as part of that, though if the refresh fails, the old passages can linger until your next save.

• Delete a session. Removing a session takes its transcript, its record, its recap and its deep-memory passages with it. Read the caveat below before you rely on that.

• Disconnect a social profile. Social Connections only ever reads a public profile you typed in yourself. Disconnect it and the connection, the imported snapshot, the posts and their embeddings go.

• Privacy Shield. Always on. Your conversation veils itself when you switch tabs or click away, resists in-tab screen capture, and copying is blocked inside the transcript. The limit is real: no web page can block an OS screenshot, a screen recorder, or a phone camera pointed at your screen. It's the strongest honest deterrent a browser allows, not a lock.

• Download all of it. "Download your data" in settings gives you a JSON file: your account record, full chat history, document list, coaching profile with all raw answers and the analyses built from them, plus every session, summary, goal, notebook note and social connection.

• Delete your account. This cascades through your coaching data: profile, answers, sessions, summaries, notebook, goals, social connections, embeddings. Your uploaded documents are purged from file storage, your billing record is purged from the payment processor and any subscription is cancelled at the same time.

Deleting a single session does not remove the notebook notes that session produced. Those are stored separately, on purpose, so that what URIEL has learned about you survives you tidying up your history, and some of them keep a line you actually said. If you want a session gone in every sense, closing your account is the only thing that clears the notebook too. We'd rather you hear that from us than discover it.

And your export leaves things out rather than let you assume the file is everything: the number-vectors behind deep memory, the chunked text deep memory reads from, and the original uploaded files, which you already have. It also doesn't contain your billing records, which live with the payment processor, or the technical login records of your account. Everything human-readable that URIEL knows about you is in there.

How long we keep things: until you delete them

Straight answer: until you delete them.

There's no automatic clock. Nothing expires on its own. Your sessions from your first week will still be there in your second year unless you delete them or close your account. That's a deliberate trade: URIEL's memory is the product, and memory with an expiry date is a worse coach.

Documented retention periods are on our roadmap. We won't imply a schedule we haven't built yet; when they land, we'll update this page, not before.

Questions we expect you to ask

Is what I tell URIEL used to train AI models? We use paid APIs, not consumer chat products, and paid terms are a different world from free ones. But we won't print "never" until legal has verified every signed agreement, and that review isn't finished. When it is, the answer will be here in plain words.

If I delete a session, is it really gone? The transcript, the record, the recap and the deep-memory passages: yes. The private-notebook notes it produced: no, those stay until you delete your account.

What happens if I just stop showing up? Nothing expires. Your data waits, unchanged, until you delete it or close the account. Walking away doesn't erase anything, and we don't want you assuming it does.

Does using my voice change anything? One thing: your audio passes through a dedicated speech-to-text system before URIEL reads it. Typing skips that step entirely, because there's no audio to transcribe.

Your data is yours to take or delete from your settings, without asking anyone. But if something here doesn't sit right, or you want the parts the export leaves out, write to us at inquiries@youngethicalintelligence.com and a person will answer you.

A tall tree has deep roots. Trust works the same way: it doesn't come from what a company says about itself, it comes from what holds when you dig. We'd rather you trust us because you checked than because we asked.