You can use Aligned’s learning workspace without creating an account. Private notes, saved readings, and drafts stay on your device. Optional community features send the information you choose to share to our community service. We do not sell your personal information or use it for targeted advertising.
1. Who we are and what this covers
Aligned: AI Safety Community (“Aligned,” “we,” “us”) is operated by Zero Billion, Inc. This policy explains how we handle information in the Aligned iOS app, its community services, and the Aligned web app and support website. It does not cover other Zero Billion products or external websites.
Effective and last updated: September 22, 2026. Some development and TestFlight builds provide only the private workspace. Account and shared community processing described below applies when those services are available and you choose to use them.
2. Information we handle
Your private workspace
Reading notes, bookmarks, followed reading sources, learning progress, selected interests, local profile preferences, and unpublished drafts are stored on your device. Offline posts and project drafts remain local until you explicitly submit them to an available community service. Aligned does not upload this private workspace to our servers or automatically synchronize it between devices.
In the web app, saved items, reading notes, followed researchers, and guide progress use browser local storage. You can erase these through Your profile → Clear saved workspace. No advertising cookies or analytics are used. Your device or computer backup may include local app data according to your Apple backup settings. Those backups are controlled by you and Apple, not by Aligned.
On-device study assistant
On compatible devices with iOS 26 or later and Apple Intelligence enabled, you can ask an on-device language model about a selected reading. Aligned supplies that reading and your question to Apple’s Foundation Models framework on your device. Aligned does not send these questions or responses to its servers or a third-party model API, and does not save the conversation. Private notes, profiles, drafts, and community posts are not included in the model prompt. Apple separately controls system model downloads and any operating-system diagnostics under your device settings. You can use the readings and guides without using this feature.
Narrated learning material
Lessons include clearly labeled AI narration and research conversations created with NotebookLM. Audio and transcripts are included in the iOS app and delivered by Cloudflare when requested in the web app. In the iOS app, listening progress stays on your device. The web player streams audio from this website. Playback does not contact Google, OpenAI, or another AI provider, and does not send your listening activity or personal information to them. The voices are synthetic presenters, not recordings or imitations of the researchers.
Optional accounts and profiles
If you create a community profile, Supabase creates an anonymous authentication account for this device. No email, password, or social account is required. The provider processes an account identifier, session and refresh credentials, sign-in requests, and security information. Session credentials are stored in the iOS Keychain in the native app, and in local storage in the web browser. A browser profile is separate from an iOS profile. Clearing browser storage or using another browser loses access to that profile; it does not delete the server account. This release has no email recovery or profile transfer: keep access to this device to manage the profile. A profile on another device is a new account. We store the profile fields you provide, such as your public name, what you do, biography, AI safety interests, skills, website, and availability. Public profile fields are visible to other people using the community.
College applications and campus chapters
If you submit the college interest form, we collect your name, email address, institution, field and stage of study, selected tracks, interest in paid or community work, relevant experience, availability, and chapter interest. You may also provide age, gender, country or region, portfolio links, compensation expectations, and chapter plans. Age and gender are optional. Answers stay in the current browser tab until you submit; the form does not create a public community profile.
Submitted applications are private to authorized Aligned operators in our Supabase service. We use them to review interests, identify relevant opportunities, plan campus chapters, and contact you at the email address you provide. We retain them while considering your application and related opportunities, or until you request deletion, subject to any necessary legal retention. To update or delete an application, email support@zerobillion.ai with your application reference. Deleting a separate community profile does not delete an application submitted through this form.
To limit spam, we record submission times and a keyed hash of the request IP address when available. The application table does not store the raw IP address; hosting providers may still process network information to deliver and protect the service. Applications are not visible to other applicants or community members.
Community contributions
We store the posts, articles, links, replies, projects, and useful votes you submit, together with your account identifier, timestamps, and moderation status. Published contributions are visible to community readers. Submissions awaiting review are available to you and authorized moderators. Do not include information you want to keep confidential in public contributions.
Applications, reports, and blocks
Project applications contain the details you submit and any acceptance or decline decision. They are accessible to the applicant and project owner, and to authorized operators when necessary to maintain the service. Reports contain the reported content reference, your description, account identifier, and timestamp; they are available to you and authorized moderators. Your block list is associated with your account when community services are enabled and is not published as a public profile field.
Support and technical information
If you email us, we receive your email address, message, attachments you choose to send, and our correspondence. When you connect to community services or this website, hosting providers may process technical information such as IP address, request time, browser or device information, response status, and security or error logs needed to deliver and protect the service.
Information we do not request
Aligned does not request access to your contacts, precise location, camera, microphone, photo library, health records, or payment card details. It does not include advertising or analytics SDKs. The app does not process project payments, maintain a wallet, or hold contributor funds.
3. How and why we use information
We use account and contribution information to authenticate you, display your profile and chosen contributions, support discussion and project applications, operate moderation and blocking, respond to support requests, and maintain security. We may use necessary records to investigate abuse, resolve disputes, and comply with legal obligations.
Where a legal basis is required, we rely on performing the service you request, our legitimate interests in maintaining a secure and constructive community, compliance with legal obligations, and consent where applicable. You may withdraw consent for a consent-based use without affecting processing that occurred before withdrawal.
We do not send your private notes or community posts to an AI model, use them to train our models, or make automated decisions about you with legal or similarly significant effects. Reading summaries are part of the app’s editorial content. Joining an external research or data project is a separate choice governed by that project’s stated terms.
5. Website cookies and local storage
This static website does not include advertising pixels, analytics scripts, contact forms, or optional tracking cookies. Cloudflare may process technical requests and use necessary security mechanisms to serve the site and prevent abuse. Email support opens your own email application; no message is sent merely by visiting the support page.
6. Retention and account deletion
Local workspace data stays on your device until you erase it or remove the app. To erase it, open Your profile avatar → Settings → Erase local workspace while signed out. Device profiles have no sign-out control because there is no email recovery. To end participation and remove the profile, use Delete account & data. A device without a community profile can erase its local workspace separately.
When signed in, use Your profile avatar → Settings → Delete account & data. In the web app, open Your profile → Delete community profile. After you confirm and the request succeeds, we remove your authentication account and its associated profiles, contributions, votes, projects, applications, reports, and blocks from the active community database, and clear this device’s workspace. Deleting a project also removes applications attached to it. Deleting the app alone does not delete a community account.
Account information is retained while your account remains active unless you delete it or we remove it for service or moderation reasons. Support correspondence is kept as needed to resolve the request and maintain necessary records. Technical logs and operational backups follow the provider’s configured retention schedule; deleted records may remain in restricted backups until those backups expire. We do not use retained backups for ordinary community display. Records needed to meet a legal obligation or resolve an active dispute may be retained for that specific purpose.
We cannot erase copies another person independently made, external project records, or Apple/device backups you control. If you cannot access the app or need help with deletion, email support@zerobillion.ai with “Aligned privacy request.” We may ask for proportionate information to verify that the account is yours. Never send a password or sign-in code.
7. Security and international processing
Aligned uses encrypted connections for community requests and stores session credentials in the iOS Keychain. Database access rules limit access to private records, and moderation tools require authorized access. No storage or transmission method provides an absolute security guarantee.
Zero Billion, Inc. is based in the United States. Our providers may process information in the United States and other countries where they operate. Where required for a transfer, we rely on appropriate legal safeguards, such as applicable contractual protections. Contact us for information about the safeguards relevant to your data.
8. Your choices and privacy rights
You can use the local learning workspace without an account, choose which profile details to provide, keep drafts private, decline to apply to projects, block participants, and delete your account. Following an external writer saves a reading source; it does not contact or notify that writer.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access or receive a copy of your information, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to certain uses, receive it in a portable format, withdraw consent, and complain to your local data protection authority. Certain US state laws may also provide rights to appeal a decision about a privacy request and to use an authorized agent. We do not discriminate against you for exercising applicable rights.
To make a request or appeal, contact support@zerobillion.ai. We will respond within the time required by applicable law and explain any legal limitation on a request. Because we do not sell or share personal information for targeted advertising, there is no such sale or sharing to opt out of.
9. Children and young people
Aligned is intended for a general audience interested in AI safety and is not directed to children under 13. Community accounts require at least age 13, or the higher minimum age for independent consent where you live. We do not knowingly collect community account information from children below that minimum. If you believe a child has provided it, contact us so we can investigate and delete it. Paid projects may require users to be adults and meet the project owner’s eligibility rules.
10. Changes to this policy
We will update this page and its effective date when our practices change. For material changes, we will provide additional notice through the app or another appropriate channel where required. New uses requiring consent will not begin without that consent.
11. Contact the operator
Zero Billion, Inc.
Aligned: AI Safety Community
support@zerobillion.ai
For privacy, account deletion, accessibility, or content concerns, put “Aligned” in the subject so we can route your request.