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Last updated: April 5, 2026

Who We Are

This website is operated by BENPIRE GmbH, Switzerland.

Contact: info@benpire.com

What Data We Collect and Why

Waitlist sign-up (email address)

When you submit your email address to join our waitlist, we store it solely to notify you when our service becomes available. We do not use it for marketing or share it with third parties.

Legal basis (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)): your consent at the time of submission
Retention: until the waitlist is dissolved or you request deletion

Usage analytics (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. This service collects data such as your IP address, browser type, and pages visited, and may set cookies on your device. Google may transfer this data to servers in the United States.

Legal basis (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)): our legitimate interest in improving the website
You can opt out via Google's opt-out tool

Conversation & Interaction Data

Chat messages and session content

When you use our AI companion service, we collect and store the content of your conversations, including text messages you send and responses generated on your behalf, as well as session metadata such as your chosen companion, virtual world state, inventory, in-game actions, and interaction history (collectively, "Interaction Data"). This data is necessary to operate the service and to maintain continuity between sessions.

Legal basis (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)): performance of the service contract with you
Legal basis (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)): your explicit consent provided at account creation and acceptance of these terms
Retention: for the duration of your account, plus up to 36 months thereafter, unless you request earlier deletion

Use of Interaction Data for AI Development

We use aggregated and pseudonymised Interaction Data — including conversation transcripts, session histories, world states, and in-game choices — to research, develop, improve, evaluate, and train the artificial intelligence systems that power this service. This includes, without limitation: fine-tuning language models, improving response quality and character consistency, developing new companion personalities, building evaluation benchmarks, and conducting internal analytics and safety research.

By using the service and accepting these terms, you grant BENPIRE GmbH a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, process, adapt, and analyse your Interaction Data for these AI development purposes. We may share pseudonymised or aggregated Interaction Data with trusted third-party AI research partners or model providers under confidentiality obligations.

We will not sell identifiable personal data to third parties. Data used for AI training is pseudonymised prior to any external sharing — direct identifiers such as names and email addresses are removed or replaced before such data leaves our systems.

Legal basis (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)): our legitimate interest in developing, securing, and improving our AI systems and service
Legal basis (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)): your consent at account creation
You may object to this processing at any time by contacting us at info@benpire.com — objection will not affect the lawfulness of prior processing

Third-Party Service Providers

To operate the service, we engage the following third-party processors who may receive or process personal data on our behalf:

Google Firebase / Firestore — session storage, authentication, and database services. Data may be stored on Google servers in the EEA or United States (Standard Contractual Clauses apply).
OpenRouter / third-party language model providers — conversation prompts and responses are routed through OpenRouter and may be processed by underlying large-language-model providers (e.g. Google Gemini, xAI Grok). These providers operate under their own data-processing terms.
Replicate — AI image generation and audio synthesis. Content prompts and generated assets are processed on Replicate infrastructure.
Google Analytics — website usage analytics as described above.

Each of these providers acts as a data processor under a data-processing agreement or equivalent safeguards. We do not authorise them to use your data for their own independent purposes beyond those described in their respective terms.

International Data Transfers

BENPIRE GmbH is incorporated in Switzerland. Some of the service providers listed above may process data outside Switzerland or the EEA. Where such transfers occur, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) or Switzerland's equivalent adequacy mechanisms to ensure an adequate level of protection.

Your Rights

Under GDPR and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP), you have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data at any time. To exercise these rights, contact us at info@benpire.com.

Cookies

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Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy occasionally. The date at the top of this page will always reflect the latest version.

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