Which document matters most for a companion product?

The privacy policy, by a distance. A conversation log in this category is the most sensitive artefact a consumer service holds, and the vendors that publish a retention period for it are a minority. Everything else is recoverable if you leave: message caps, model choice, voice. A log is not.

What does memory mean in the paperwork rather than the marketing?

Storage. A product that remembers is a product that keeps your conversations somewhere and reinjects a summary of them, which means the memory feature and the retention clause describe the same thing from two directions. A vendor selling the first while staying silent on the second has told you something.

Are message limits usually published?

More often than video limits, and still not always in countable form. Where a plan advertises unlimited messages, look for the rate limit in the terms — it exists, because inference costs money, and it is normally expressed as a fair-use clause rather than a number.

What about data used for training?

This is the clause worth reading twice. Some vendors state plainly that conversations are excluded from training; some state the opposite; most write a sentence that can be read either way. Where it is ambiguous, assume inclusion, because an operator intending exclusion has a strong commercial reason to say so clearly.

What happens to the conversations?

This is the largest slice of demand in the category and the one where the decisive document is not the pricing page. It is the privacy policy, and most people buying a companion have never opened it.

Category checkNo product was usedRevised 2026-10-19

The question

Companion products are bought for continuity: a character that is the same character next week. Continuity is storage, storage is a retention policy, and a retention policy is a document almost nobody reads before entering several months of personal conversation into a service they found through a search result.

What we checked

Privacy policy

How long are prompts and generations kept, and can they be deleted?

Satisfied by

A retention period in days or months, a deletion route that removes rather than flags, and a plain statement about training use.

Usually found

No period at all, deletion described as account closure, and training use addressed in a sentence that could mean either thing.

At stake

Prompts in this category are the most sensitive record a consumer service can hold. Indefinite retention turns one breach into a permanent problem.
Terms of service

Who holds rights in what the tool produces?

Satisfied by

An explicit grant of output rights to the user, and a narrow, stated licence back to the vendor for operating the service.

Usually found

Silence about the user's rights and a broad perpetual licence to the vendor covering promotion and model training.

At stake

Publishing anything made with the tool depends entirely on this paragraph, and it is never on the pricing page.
Pricing page

Are the limits stated in units a buyer can count?

Satisfied by

Clip length in seconds, resolution in pixels, generations per day as a number, queue priority described in words that mean something.

Usually found

A credit balance with no stated conversion, and the word unlimited somewhere above a fair-use clause that contradicts it.

At stake

This is the difference between a subscription that finishes work and one that runs out on a Tuesday.
Checkout and cancellation

What appears on the statement, and how does a subscription end?

Satisfied by

The billing descriptor published before payment, renewal terms stated in the flow, and cancellation available from inside the account.

Usually found

An undisclosed descriptor, a trial that upgrades to annual, and cancellation by email to an address answered in business days.

At stake

Subscription disputes are the most common complaint in adult services, and every one of them was decided at checkout.

Every period anybody states

Six of them across the whole file, from three vendors. The rest of the category answers this question with a sentence about keeping data for as long as is reasonably necessary, which is not an answer to it.

7 days of inactivity

Chat history on the free tier · CrushOn AI, pricing page

1 year

Account data after last activity · Candy AI, privacy notice

3 years

Account data after closure · Candy AI, privacy notice

up to 7 years

Records of rule violations · Nastia AI, privacy policy

10 years

Financial records, under tax law · Candy AI, privacy notice

while the account is open

Chats, images and videos · Nastia AI, privacy policy

Read on 20 October 2026. The other four vendors in the file state no period at all: their documents keep data for as long as is reasonably necessary, which is not a period.

Memory and retention are one thing described twice

A product that advertises persistent memory is telling you it stores conversations and reinjects a summary of them at the start of each session. The marketing page calls that a feature; the privacy policy has to call it retention. When the two pages disagree in tone — an enthusiastic feature, a silent policy — the silence is the accurate part.

Each left-hand claim has a right-hand consequence. A policy that addresses none of them is not a policy.
What the product page says	What the policy must therefore address
Remembers across sessions	How long logs are kept and in what form
Characters you create are yours	Whether the definition can be exported, and who else may use it
Private and discreet	Whether staff can read conversations, and under what conditions
Improves over time	Whether your conversations train the model

Verdict

Judge a companion on its privacy policy

In every other category the pricing page carries the decisive information. Here it does not. A vendor that publishes a retention period, a real deletion route and a plain statement on training use has made three commitments that cost it something, and that is a better signal about the operation than any demo conversation. Where all three are absent, assume indefinite retention and price the subscription accordingly.

Paid placement

SpicyAI — Discover AI characters with unique personalities. Chat, share stories, or create a companion of your own — with text, voice, images, and video.

Contradicted elsewhere Pricing page. The only vendor read here that publishes its limits and its prices without a sign-in: $6.99 a week, $9.90 a month, $59.88 for twelve months, with 100 images and 10 videos a month on Premium. The same page then states the free allowance twice, as five chat turns on the plan card and ten turns per character in the table, and the Premium allowance twice, as unlimited on the card and 1,000 turns in total in the table.

Published Terms of service. Effective 2 December 2025, with the operator named and a contact address in the document. The user owns what they generate, and the licence running back is perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable and transferable — and extends beyond operating the service to promotion and advertising.

Published Privacy policy. No retention period: the policy gives the factors it weighs instead, which is the same answer six of the eight catalogued vendors give. Chats and user content are used to train the models and are monitored for compliance, and the policy says so plainly rather than burying it.

Contradicted elsewhere Content policy. The community guidelines are the strongest of any vendor read here: eighteen and over, no character presented as younger than that and no aged-up rewrite of one, no sexualised depictions of real people without consent, human and automated review. The public tag list then carries jk, a Japanese abbreviation that denotes exactly the age bracket those guidelines rule out.

Published Checkout and cancellation. Card only, with other methods described as coming. Cancellation any time, with access running to the end of the billing cycle and no further charge — stated on the page where the subscription is sold rather than in a separate document.

Contradicted elsewhere Support channel. A support address is published, which several vendors here do not manage. Two of them, in fact: the terms give one address and the community guidelines give the same mailbox at a different domain.

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Questions

Which document matters most for a companion product?: The privacy policy, by a distance. A conversation log in this category is the most sensitive artefact a consumer service holds, and the vendors that publish a retention period for it are a minority. Everything else is recoverable if you leave: message caps, model choice, voice. A log is not.
What does memory mean in the paperwork rather than the marketing?: Storage. A product that remembers is a product that keeps your conversations somewhere and reinjects a summary of them, which means the memory feature and the retention clause describe the same thing from two directions. A vendor selling the first while staying silent on the second has told you something.
Are message limits usually published?: More often than video limits, and still not always in countable form. Where a plan advertises unlimited messages, look for the rate limit in the terms — it exists, because inference costs money, and it is normally expressed as a fair-use clause rather than a number.
What about data used for training?: This is the clause worth reading twice. Some vendors state plainly that conversations are excluded from training; some state the opposite; most write a sentence that can be read either way. Where it is ambiguous, assume inclusion, because an operator intending exclusion has a strong commercial reason to say so clearly.