SYS:LEGAL · PRIVACY_POLICY
PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy describes how Voices of History Foundation (“Voices of History,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects information in connection with DebateHero, available at debatehero.com and related subdomains. By creating an account you acknowledge this Policy and agree to the Terms of Service.
1. What We Collect
Your email address, and — if you sign in with Google — the name and profile picture Google shares with us. We assign your account a role (pending, approved, admin) to control access, and we record the date, time, and version of your acceptance of our Terms of Service and this Policy.
Your conversations and debates with the figures: the messages you write or speak, the topics you pick, the transcripts, scores, judgments, and summaries those sessions produce, and any suggestions or feedback you submit.
When you use a voice feature (dictation, voice chat, or a live voice session), audio from your microphone is captured and processed in real time to transcribe your words and run the conversation. We store the resulting text transcripts as part of your session history. We do not use your voice to create voice clones, voiceprints, or biometric identifiers of any kind. When you share a debate, an AI-synthesized voice reading of your words (a stock voice, not yours) may be stored with the share until you revoke it.
Some features can be tried without signing up. A temporary anonymous account is created so the session works; it carries no name or email and is subject to this Policy like any other account data.
Product analytics via PostHog: pages visited, clicks, features used, and errors in your browser. This includes public pages such as shared cameo pages (/cameo) and cameo render pages (/cameo-render), so opening a cameo link someone sent you is recorded too. PostHog also records session replays: a reconstruction of what happened on the screen, with all on-screen text and all form inputs masked, together with your browser's console log. Error reports from your browser and from our servers also go to PostHog, with sign-in credentials and access keys removed before they leave. Our hosting providers also keep standard technical logs (IP address, browser type, device information) for security and reliability.
When you are signed in, including in a guest session, your analytics are linked to a PostHog profile that holds your account ID, your email address (guest sessions have none), your role, your plan, and whether you are a member of our staff. Signed-out visitors get no profile.
Each time a figure answers, we send PostHog a record of that AI call: the system prompt (the figure's instructions and the session context), your messages, and the model's reply, with the model name, token counts, and timing, linked to your account ID. We use it to find and fix bad replies and to track cost and speed.
Our servers send PostHog counts and timings, such as how long a reply took. These are totals with no personal data and no account or session identifiers.
Pages under /embed and /control, whose web address contains an access key.
We do not buy data about you from data brokers, and we do not collect data from your device beyond what is described here.
2. How We Use It
To run the product: generate the figures' responses, judge and score debates, transcribe and speak voice turns, keep your session history, and let you resume where you left off.
To improve the platform: conversation data may be used to make the figures, judging, and product better. To secure it: we use logs and rate limits to prevent abuse, fraud, and attacks. To communicate: transactional email about your account (sign-in links, account notices).
To comply with law, enforce our Terms of Service, and protect the rights, safety, and property of our users, the public, and ourselves. We do not sell your personal data, we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not run ads.
3. AI Processing
The figures are powered by large language models. The content of your sessions — your messages, your spoken words (as real-time audio and as transcripts), and session context — is forwarded to our AI service providers to generate responses, scoring, and speech: Anthropic and OpenAI for language generation and evaluation, Deepgram for speech-to-text, ElevenLabs and Fish Audio for text-to-speech, and Perplexity or OpenAI for optional topic research. These providers process your content to provide the service under their own data-processing terms. A copy of each AI call, including your messages and the figure's reply, also goes to PostHog (see “Conversation analytics” in Section 1).
Everything a figure says is machine-generated. It is not the words, views, or endorsement of any real person, living or dead, and it may be wrong. Treat it accordingly — and don't put sensitive personal information (health, financial, government identifiers) into a debate. The product does not need it and is not designed to receive it.
4. Who Touches Your Data
Authentication and database hosting.
Application hosting, delivery, and request logs.
Generates the figures' responses.
Evaluation, scoring, and auxiliary generation.
Speech-to-text for voice input.
Text-to-speech when voice is on.
Real-time audio infrastructure for live voice sessions.
Optional topic-research search for debate briefs.
Product analytics, session replay, conversation analytics, and application metrics, as described in Section 1. Your browser sends this data through our own domain, and we remove your cookies and sign-in credentials from those requests before they leave our servers.
Transactional email (sign-in and account notices).
That's the full list as of the effective date above. Each provider processes data only to provide its service to us. No data brokers, no ad networks.
7. Retention & Deletion
We keep your account and session data while your account is active, because your history is part of the product. Server and security logs are retained for shorter operational periods. To delete your account and its data, or to request a copy of it, use the account-deletion option in Settings or email support@debatehero.com. We act on verified requests within 30 days, subject to any legal obligation to retain specific records, and residual copies may persist in backups for a limited period thereafter.
8. Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to the data we handle: encryption in transit, HTTP-only session cookies, role-based access controls, row-level security on the database, and scrubbing of message bodies from error reports. No system is perfectly secure and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. Children
DebateHero is for users 13 and older. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13; if you believe we have, contact us at support@debatehero.com and we will delete it.
10. Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your personal information, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to complain to a supervisory authority. Because we do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, there is nothing to opt out of under laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act; we honor the access, deletion, and correction rights those laws provide. To exercise any right, email support@debatehero.com; we will verify your request, respond within the time required by applicable law, and never discriminate against you for exercising your rights.
11. International Users
The service is operated from the United States and your information is processed on servers that may be located in the United States or other countries, whose data-protection laws may differ from your home jurisdiction's. By using the service you understand your information will be transferred to and processed in those jurisdictions as described in this Policy.
12. Changes & Contact
We'll update this page when our practices change and bump the effective date at the top; for material changes we'll ask you to re-accept before continuing to use the product. Questions go to support@debatehero.com.
Voices of History Foundation · See also the Terms of Service.